Grand Lodge Officers Among Cycle-Ride Greeters

Victor Frederick, P.M., Mount Pickering Lodge No. 446, Upper Uwchland, departed the Scottish Rite Cathedral of the Valley of Reading on his motorcycle shortly after 9 a.m. on Thursday, June 12. One month and two hours later, on Saturday, July 12, several hundred people, including the R.W. Grand Lodge Officers and the Scottish Rite Deputy for Pennsylvania greeted him at Seven Springs where he ended his successful fund-raising trip. He had traveled 12,200 miles, covered 49 states including Alaska, burned 339 gallons of gas, and skirted three tornados.

Those figures are impressive; but even more impressive are the more than $25,000 in contributions that the "Ride for Dyslexia" generated for the 32š Masonic Learning Centers for Children of the Scottish Rite, N.M.J. Grand Lodge Officers pictured as they welcomed Bro. Frederick are (l-r): Donald L. Albert, R.W.G.S.; Bro. Frederick; William Slater II, R.W.D.G.M.; Marvin A. Cunningham, Sr., R.W.G.M.; Ronald A. Aungst, Sr., R.W.S.G.W.; and C. DeForrest Trexler, Deputy for Pennsylvania, A.A.S.R.

Bro. Frederick is the founder and first President of the Hiram's Scottish Riders, a motorcycle club of Blue Lodge Masons organized last year in the Scottish Rite Valley of Reading. Members of Hiram's Riders accompanied him for the first leg of his trip and joined him again for the final segment.