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Resident Volunteer Spotlight: Raymond Simpson
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If you need directions around the Elizabethtown campus or want to organize a shuffleboard tournament in the residential living area, Ray Simpson is the man to see. A resident in Elizabethtown since March 2002, Bro. Simpson volunteers as a new resident guide, is serving as chairman of the Recreation Committee in residential living, spends a few days a month at the Visitors Center in the Freemasons Cultural Center, helps to display flags in the Village Green area on the appropriate holidays and assists with Channel 18. Before moving to the Masonic Village, Bro. Simpson volunteered as a tour guide and part-time curator for the Cincinnati Fire Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bro. Simpson, originally from Johnsonburg, Pa., where he is a 54-year member of James W. Brown Lodge No. 675, is a World War II Naval Veteran and worked in the field of fire and rescue services for 38 years. He served as an instructor at West Virginia University and continued his career with the Fire Standards Commission in Florida. In 1970, he joined the staff at the University of Maryland-Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, which is responsible for training all fire, rescue and emergency services units in Maryland. He retired from the university in 1988.
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