Editor of The Pennsylvania Freemason Retiring

With this issue of The Pennsylvania Freemason, Blaine F. Fabian, P.M., announces his retirement as Editor. D. William Roberts, D.D.G.M., who recently announced plans to retire as Editor of The Rite News of the Scottish Rite Valley of Pittsburgh, will become the Editor of The Pennsylvania Freemason.

Bro. Roberts was Worshipful Master of Avalon Lodge No. 657, Pittsburgh, in 1983, served Grand Lodge as Grand Junior Deacon in 1992 and 1993, served on the Committee on Masonic Homes from 1993 to 1999, and has been a D.D.G.M. since 1999. After serving in the U.S. Army - 16 months in Korea - he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism from Duquesne University. Through an active career in promotion, public relations and journalism that included working for Universal Pictures, The New York Theatre Guild, the Pittsburgh Symphony Society, and Gulf Oil Corp., where he was the Project Director for the extensively traveled "Pennsylvania '76 Bicentennial Promotional Concert Tour." When he retired in 1996, he was the Managing Editor for two weekly community tabloids in the Pittsburgh Area.

Bro. Fabian, who was Worshipful Master of Ephrata Lodge No. 665 in 1965, helped in the production of the Freemason in the late 1960's and early l970's when it was produced by the Masonic Culture Committee. He has been involved with the current publication since 1990. The Freemason was first published in November 1954 and Pennsylvania was added to its masthead on the issue of July 1962. The publication will mark its 50th anniversary next year.