1. What Every New Mason Should Know A guide to Mentoring MWB Neil Neddermeyer www.cinosam.net

2. History The Craft before 1717 1717 and the age of enlightenment Freemasonry in the New World Masonry in Minnesota World-wide Masonry today

3. Masonic Cancer Center www.mnmasoniccharities.org MMC Annual Fundraising GALA Matching Funds Grants for Lodges to support charitable activities

4. Appendant Bodies Scottish Rite Shrine York Rite Eastern Star

5. Masonic Organizations for our Youth DeMolay Jobs Daughters Rainbow for Girls

6. Governing Organization Lodge Leadership The Grand Lodge

7. 1st Degree The Entered Apprentice degree Youth The 24 inch gauge and common gavel

8. 2nd Degree The Fellow Craft Degree Manhood Plumb, Level, and Square

9. 3rd Degree The Master Mason Degree Old Age Trowel

10. Attending Lodge Meetings? Lodge dress Have dues card ready Wear an apron Giving the pass Attitude of prayer Gavel raps Give sign to Master when speaking Crossing the East

11. Membership Benefits Brotherly Love -Social support and friendship Relief- Both financial and personal help for you and your family when it is truly in need. Truth- Expansion of the mind through the study of ritual and philosophy

12. What is Secret? Ritual Passwords GMW GHS of distress

13. Meeting Other Masons Socially Greeting Masons who are strangers Visiting other Lodges Instant trust and credibility

14. Congratulations MWB Neil Neddermeyer