From the East

Brethren,

Mother’s Day was celebrated with great success through the combined efforts of all the Officers and Members of our Lodge. The most noted effort was the well-coordinated and executed plan by the Junior Warden – Brother Bernie Gapuz and our Brother Secretary - Worshipful Brother Tony McGill. A job well done and my hat’s off for the two of you.

The world over, people celebrate Father’s Day to thank their fathers and pay tribute to them. Although historians have recorded that there was a tradition to celebrate Father’s Day thousands of years ago, its first inception in the United States took place in Ms Sonora Louise Smart Dodd’s mind when she heard a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909. She was 27 years old then when she begun to recognize the hardships that her father had gone through while bringing up his six children alone. Ms Sonora questioned that if there is a day to recognize mothers the there should also be a day to honor fathers. American people were not so receptive of her idea at the time but she never stop pursuing her dream by her sincere campaign lobbying for the cause of Father’s Day. The first sign of her success began when Spokane, Washington celebrated its first Father’s Day on June 19, 1910. She wanted to have the first celebration during her father’s birthday on June 5. Due to lack of enough time for preparation, it was moved on the third Sunday in the month of June. The noble idea of celebrating Father’s Day became popular in the United States that President Woodrow Wilson approved the Father’s Day festival of 1916. Although President Calvin Coolidge was also supportive of the idea, it was President Lyndon B. Johnson who signed a Presidential Proclamation in 1966 declaring the third Sunday of June as observance of the Father’s Day and President Richard Nixon established and cemented the observance in 1972.

Today, many countries adopted this idea and celebrated it in various ways. Some celebrate the event by going out for a picnic or playing their father’s favorite sport. Some express their love with thoughtful gifts with a bouquet of his favorite flowers. The whole and sole purpose of Father’s Day is to show affection and tell fathers how much they are loved. In commemorating this Father’s Day event, Black Mountain Lodge No. 845 will have a Father’s Day celebration during the Stated Dinner on June 10, 2008, Tuesday 6:00 p.m. at the Scottish Rite Center. It will be a sit-down dinner catered by Ranch Catering and it only costs $12.00 per person. All members of the Lodge are sincerely encouraged to celebrate this event with their wives and children. Brethren from other Lodges are also cordially invited to join us.

By Worshipful Master Fil C. Garcia

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