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News Bulletin ______________ .jpg) At the Biennial Session of the Supreme Council in Washington, DC, the morning of August 22, 2011, Ill. H. Jack Yost, 33° was formally introduced to the world as being one of 33 Sovereign Grand Inspectors General in the Southern Jurisdictions Supreme Council. West Virginia is proud to receive Illustrious Brother Yost as the leader of Scottish Rite Masonry in West Virginia and our Active representative on the Supreme Council. Illustrious Brother Yost, 33° SGIG joins Illustrious Brother C B Hall, 33° SGIG (emeritus) as honored West Virginians in the Supreme Council family. Illustrious H. Jack Yost, 33°, Sovereign Grand
Inspector General in West Virginia, has just announced that Vicar John R.
Unger, II, 32° KCCH, Majority Leader of the West Virginia State Senate has
accepted the appointment to be Orient Chaplain for the Scottish Rite in West
Virginia.
John is a Pastor in the Lutheran Church and serving as
Vicar of the historic Civil War church St. John’s Lutheran Church in Harpers
Ferry, West Virginia.
He has worked extensively in Refugee work in Hong Kong
as well as helping to provide relief to Kurdish refugees in Southern Turkey
and Northern Iraq working with orphanages, children’s hospitals, senior care
homes and homes for the mentally disabled.
John served with Mother Teresa in Calcutta for more than a year.
While in Hong Kong, he also assisted as an advisor to various
governmental agencies prior to the change of government.
John serves the Chaplaincy Service at Jefferson
Memorial Hospital in Ranson, and City Hospital in Martinsburg, WV.
Vicar Unger holds Degrees in Liberal Arts/Biology, Philosophy, Politics and Economics and currently enrolled in the Master of Divinity Program at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D. C..
He and his wife Cara reside in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
We welcome Brother Unger as part of the Scottish Rite
Leadership Team in West Virginia. GET READY FOR A FUN FAMILY YEAR WITH THE SCOTTISH RITE CHECK OUR EVENTS CALENDAR FOR PICNICS AND PIG ROASTS AND COVERED DISH DINNERS AND OTHER FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENTS SEE YOU THERE OUR NEXT STATE-WIDE SCOTTISH RITE CONFERENCE WILL BE IN CHARLESTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012 The Next Supreme Council Leadership Conferences are scheduled for March 9-10, 2012 in San Diego, March 23-24, 2012 in St. Louis and April 20-21, 2012 in Baltimore. Charleston's next Reunion will be Saturday, April 14, 2012 at the Scottish Rite Temple APRIL 9, 2011 40 NEW 32° SCOTTISH RITE MASONS WERE MADE October 29, 2011 27 NEW 32° SCOTTISH RITE MASONS WERE MADE TOTALLY IN 2011 66 NEW 32° SCOTTISH RITE MASONS WERE MADE, DOUBLE THE 2010 AMOUNT START GETTING YOUR FRIENDS READY FOR MORE NEW SCOTTISH RITE MASONS AT OUR SPRING REUNION IN APRIL  May 21, 2011:
The Pocahontas County Scottish Rite Club in the Orient of West
Virginia presents a Flagpole and American Flag to the Marlinton/Edray Senior
Citizens Center. Scottish Rite
members pictured above are Brothers Merle Kerr, 32° KCCH, Ill. Jim Van
Reenan, 33°, Bob Wilson, 32°, Jim Smith, 32° KCCH, Paul Bailey, 32°, Sam
Felton, 32°, Lewis Beale, 32° and Joey Judy, 32° KCCH.
The Pocahontas Club prides itself on advancing
Patriotism in the local area.
They have presented several Flags and Flagpoles to Schools and Librarys.
Additionally the Club maintains the Supreme Councils Patriotism
textbooks in all the local Schools.
Their latest activity was to present the Supreme
Council’s Flag DVD and book about the Flag to each School Principal at a
recent Board of Education meeting.
One of the most active of 12 Scottish Rite Clubs in the
Orient, they do things the RITE way.
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and the guarantee of equal rights to all people everywhere our ultimate goal
-Scottish Rite Creed