Max Homa makes cut at Shriners Open

Max Homa makes cut at Shriners Open

Ben Lane

Concert CD Sales- Support Shriners Hospitals

Musician Announces Concert CD Sales  Will Support Shriners Hospitals

 Musician Kid Rock has made a significant commitment to supporting Shriners Hospitals
for Children! At each of his shows during this upcoming concert tour, Kid Rock will have
Shrine volunteers selling his new CD for $10 – and will donate ALL of the money and his artist
royalty to charity.
 Kid Rock proposes to guarantee a donation of $1,000 per night to Shriners Hospitals for
Children, provided that Shriners field an adequate number of volunteers to conduct the sales at
each venue. Shrine temples located in the various cities where concerts will be held are being
contacted and are being asked to provide approximately 20 volunteers at each show.  The success of this fund-raiser relies totally on the presence and volume of volunteers. There are 31
dates on Kid Rock’s tour, which represents a minimum commitment of $31,000 to Shriners
Hospitals for Children.
 Those involved with this project are confident that this program will generate enough
revenue for Kid Rock to donate funds not only to Shriners Hospitals, but also to his other favorite charities, especially Wounded Warriors.

Gene Autrey at SHC, Erie, PA

Phoenixmasonry Masonic Museum and Library - USA

Illustrious Brother Gene Autrey visits the Children at the Shriners Hospital in Erie, PA circa 1957

Leonard Slye "The King of the Cowboys"

http://masonicheritage.org/exhibits/rogers.htm

Roy Rogers, "The King of the Cowboys"

Roy Rogers was born Leonard Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 5, 1911. After a successful career in radio, film and television with a devoted following, he was dubbed by Republic Studios in 1943 as “The King of the Cowboys”. He defined what every boy and girl imagined a cowboy should be: the white Stetson with its silver hatband, hand-tooled boots and his majestic steed Trigger gave him the airs of an armored American knight of the prairies and rugged mountains.  He fought for the good guy-- a straight-shooter that never lied or swore, and stood proudly next to his sweetheart, Dale Evans, the “Queen of the West”.  His numerous albums, movies and TV shows endeared him to a generation of children, who admired him and who wanted to imitate him. As evidence of this devotion, in 1950 there were more than two thousand Roy Rogers fan clubs internationally. This fact was not lost on Bro. Roy, and he filled his role with dignity and aplomb.

He gave us standards to live by that helped teach us the difference between right and wrong. 
His willingness to stand up for the things he believed in inspired us. And his religious faith and his concern for the less fortunate helped mold our character. Roy lived his life off camera with the same decency and humility that he projected on television and on the silver screen. He was the hero who never let us down. Despite all the success that came to him, Roy never seemed to lose his way. And he never forgot that his fans were the ones who made it possible for a poor boy from Ohio to attain a level of success greater than anything he could ever have imagined. His decency and strength of character come from a simpler time in America. Yet it was anything but an easy time.

Laurence Zwisohn, Happy Trails: The Life of Roy Rogers

Brother Rogers was made a Mason in Hollywood Lodge No. 355 in Los Angeles on April 15, 1946 and was raised as a Master Mason on June 27 the same year.  Roy’s love of children and his personal experience with their sometimes unfortunate circumstances endeared him to the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (A.A.O.N.M.S., or colloquially, “The Shrine”), which he joined in 1950 in Al Malaikah Shrine Temple alongside the famous clown, Red Skelton, and actor William Powell, Jr. 

Roy also held membership in the Los Angeles Scottish Rite beginning in 1950, being knighted a Knight Commander Court of Honour in 1975 and coroneted a 33rd Degree Inspector General Honorary in 1979. He later transferred his membership to Long Beach Scottish Rite in 1988.  He was also a Companion of the Royal Arch, a Royal and Select Master (Cryptic Rite) and a Knight Templar (1983).

Through assistance by the George Washington Masonic Memorial, Roy Rogers Jr. (aka Dusty) was put into contact with the Henry Wilson Coil Library and Museum of Freemasonry.  The Roy Rogers Museum in Missouri had closed and these precious artifacts illustrating his Masonic career needed a home.  Thus, in early 2010, we acquired his belongings.  Not only are his personal Masonic effects included in the collections, but also items of earlier Masonic histories belonging to others that were gifted to him.

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Famous Masons

Brother Little Jimmy Dickens

James Cecil Dickens was born December 19, 1920 in Bolt, West Virginia. He is better known as "Little Jimmy Dickens" and is an American country music singer famous for his humorous novelty songs, his small size, 4'11", and his rhinestone-studded outfits. 

He has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry for 64 years and is a member of the County Music Hall of Fame. Dickens began his musical career in the late 1930s, performing on a local radio station while attending West Virginia University.

 He soon quit school to pursue a full-time music career, and travelled the country performing on various local radio stations under the name "Jimmy the Kid." The mid-1940s found Dickens working as a solo act for large stations in the Midwest. He moved from WING in Dayton, Ohio, to WLW in Cincinnati, and until 1948 he worked for WKNX in Saginaw, Michigan. 

At the latter station he met country giant Roy Acuff (also a Mason), who invited him to make a guest appearance on the Grand Ole Opry when Roy Acuff introduced him to Art Satherly at Columbia Records and officials from the Grand Ole Opry. Dickens signed with Columbia in September and joined the Opry in August. Around this time he began using the nickname, Little Jimmy Dickens, inspired by his short stature. Dickens recorded many novelty songs for Columbia, including "Country Boy," "A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed" and "I'm Little But I'm Loud." His song "Take an Old Cold Tater (And Wait)" inspired Hank Williams to nickname him "Tater". 

Later, telling Jimmy he needed a hit, Williams penned "Hey Good Lookin'" specifically for Dickens in only 20 minutes while on a Grand Ole Opry tour bus. A week later Williams cut the song himself, jokingly telling him, "That song's too good for you!"

In 1950, he formed the Country Boys with musicians Jabbo Arrington, Grady Martin, Bob Moore and Thumbs Carllile. It was during this time that he discovered future Hall of Famer Marty Robbins at a Phoenix, Arizona television station while on tour with Grand Ole Opry road show.

 In 1957, Dickens left the Grand Ole Opry to tour with the Philip Morris Country Music Show. In 1962, Dickens released "The Violet and the Rose," his first top ten single in 12 years. 

During 1964, he became the first country artist to circle the globe while on tour, and also made numerous TV appearances including The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. In 1965 he released his biggest hit, "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" reaching No. 1 on the country chart and No. 15 fifteen on the pop chart. In the late 1960s, he left Columbia for Decca Records, before moving again to United Artists in 1971. That same year he married his wife, Mona, and in 1975, he returned to the Grand Ole Opry. 

In 1983, Dickens was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He joined producers Randall Franks and Alan Autry for the In the Heat of the Night cast CD “Christmas Time’s A Comin’” performing "Jingle Bells" with the cast on the CD released on Sonlite and MGM/UA for one of the most popular Christmas releases of 1991 and 1992 with Southern retailers.

 Recently, Dickens has made appearances in a number of music videos by fellow country musician and West Virginia native Brad Paisley (also a Mason). He has also been featured on several of Paisley's albums in bonus comedy tracks along with other Opry mainstays such as George Jones and Bill Anderson. They are collectively referred to as the Kung-Pao Buckaroos. With the passing of Hank Locklin in March 2009, Dickens became the oldest living member of the Grand Ole Opry at the age of 90. He still makes regular appearances as a host at the Opry, often with the self-deprecating joke that he is also known as "Willie Nelson after taxes".

Brother Little Jimmy Dickens belongs to Hiram Lodge #4, Franklin, Tennessee and in fact he signed Brother Brad Paisley’s petition and sponsored him into his Lodge!