{"id":13531,"date":"2021-02-10T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freemason.org\/?p=13531"},"modified":"2022-02-22T12:04:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T20:04:51","slug":"leaders-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freemason.org\/leaders-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders Wanted","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In a year crying out for leadership, California Masons stepped up.<\/p>

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The following is part of the Masons of California 2021 Fraternity Report. Download the entire report as a PDF here<\/a>, or view all stories here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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For many, life in the COVID era has begun to feel familiar, if not exactly comfortable. And yet to look back over the past two years, it can be astonishing to be reminded just how unusual this all is. Beyond the loss of life and the significant intrusion into so many lives\u2014job losses, questions of childcare and schooling, and so on\u2014the pandemic has exposed and even magnified the divisions within our communities. Financial, social, and political divides that have long existed feel inescapable today. COVID-19 didn\u2019t create those issues, but it shone a light on them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The past year has cried out for leadership. With so many of the institutions that we rely on stressed to their breaking point, it\u2019s been largely left to individuals to help bridge the gaps. One of the most heartening aspects of the pandemic has been seeing the people, groups, and communities that rallied to find ways to help, whether big or small. Donating and delivering supplies to the homebound. Arranging rides for seniors to receive their vaccine shots. Mentoring kids though this unsettling time. Donating money.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

For centuries, Masons have preached this kind of servant leadership. It\u2019s why up and down California, individual Masons and Masonic lodges were among the first and the most enthusiastic volunteers in the fight against COVID-19<\/a>. Now, nearly two years into the pandemic, our communities\u2019 needs have changed. But the need for people willing to sacrifice their time, energy, and dollars has not. Masons have always been seen as leaders, and this year, they again proved themselves worthy of that lofty reputation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The stories of Masons going above and beyond are many<\/a>, as are the ways they\u2019ve found to be of service. Here, we salute three members whose actions are both notable in and of themselves and, in many ways, emblematic of the brand of leadership found throughout our Masonic lodges.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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It can sound clich\u00e9, but for Fred Wolf, it\u2019s still absolutely true: Our children are our future. It\u2019s why he\u2019s devoted so much of his time to supporting them, particularly students in underserved communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

In 2016, Wolf, the lodge secretary for Coachella Valley No. 476<\/b><\/a>, helped his lodge launch the Benjamin Franklin Excellence Award, given annually to outstanding local students and school faculty. The award isn\u2019t strictly based on academics; rather, it honors those committed to bettering themselves according to the Masonic principles of temperance, fortitude, prudence, and justice. The response to the award was overwhelming, with officials from every school in the district jumping at the chance to nominate their students and staff for the award. \u201cThey didn\u2019t really care about monetary prizes,\u201d Wolf says. \u201cThey were just glad to be recognized.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Word about the lodge award reached school district officials, and Wolf was subsequently invited to join the board of the Riverside County Office of Education Foundation and to serve as a community ambassador for the county superintendent of schools. Together with Pete Serbantes, another Mason from Evergreen No. 259 <\/b><\/a>who also serves on the foundation board, the pair were able to bring the Raising A Reader<\/a> literacy program into the county\u2019s schools, many of which qualify as among the state\u2019s more underresourced. (Countywide, nearly 60 percent of Riverside students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.) The education department was so impressed with the program that it spent more than $30,000 of its own money to expand RAR\u2019s footprint in the county.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Wolf isn\u2019t alone as a champion of the program. Statewide, Masons\u2019 support has helped Raising A Reader expand into 739 classrooms across 180 of the lowest-performing schools in the state. Since 2011, the California Masonic Foundation<\/a> has donated more than $3.5 million to the program, making it Raising A Reader\u2019s single largest donor. The Foundation also distributed more than $643,620 in scholarships for deserving students in 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

This fall, Wolf was nominated to chair the fraternity\u2019s Public Education Advisory Committee in the Inland Empire, where he will bring his energy and creativity to the group. Beyond his work with the local schools, Wolf is also involved in several other efforts to support young people. He\u2019s an advisor for the nonprofit Gents Alliance<\/a>, which provides mentoring and helps disadvantaged high school students qualify for college scholarships. He also helped bring the first-ever computer lab to the Palm Springs Youth Center and remains involved with the organization, and for many years he\u2019s taught boxing and mixed martial arts classes for young people. Wolf says his involvement in Masonry has helped connect him to people and causes he relates to\u2014and vice versa. \u201cFor lots of these groups, they realize that as a Mason, I bring a lot to the table,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Coachella Valley No. 476 has come to reflect that commitment to community service, as well. Now, the lodge is looking to expand the Benjamin Franklin Excellence Awards and find outside funding for a related scholarship. It also participates in a host of other local outreach and educational initiatives. That, Wolf says, has given the lodge a distinctive personality that its members are proud to contribute to. \u201cIt gives our members a reason to come to lodge. When they see the good things we\u2019re doing in our community\u2014our charity and leadership through servitude\u2014it makes them want to give back and come to lodge,\u201d he says. \u201cPlus, we have a lot of fun doing it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Creston Whiting-Casey can remember the exact moment that he connected the dots between two of his life\u2019s passions. It was his third year as a volunteer youth baseball coach in the South Sacramento George Sim League, which is associated with the Junior Giants<\/a> baseball program, a co-ed and noncompetitive summer program geared toward under-resourced players and families. Most kids didn\u2019t own their own cleats or bats, let alone a baseball glove. \u201cI\u2019d have to explain every year, This isn\u2019t a jeans sport,\u201d he jokes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Whiting-Casey arrived after practice one day to a storage facility to pick up a shipment of donated baseball mitts. That\u2019s when he noticed for the first time the square-and-compass emblem branded into the leather mitts. \u201cI never knew the connection between Masons4Mitts<\/a> and Junior Giants,\u201d he says. \u201cBut at that point, I was like, \u2018Oh wow, this is a legitimate program.\u2019 I know what a game-changer it is to have those mitts and what a great benefit it is to let the kids keep them at the end of the year.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Since then, Whiting-Casey has been one of Masons4Mitts\u2019 biggest fans. With Junior Giants sidelined for 2020 and with only some leagues back up and running for 2021<\/a>, he took over co-captain duties for the Sacramento-area fundraising team. \u201cIt was exciting because it gave me an opportunity, even though I wasn\u2019t able to coach, to still contribute to the league,\u201d he says. Whiting-Casey dove into the role with relish. \u201cWe were fundraising monsters,\u201d he says of his team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Together with co-captain Mauro Lara, Whiting-Casey arranged Zoom calls with local lodges to pass the hat for the program, and coaxed others into providing dollar-matching fundraising incentives. The pair launched an email campaign and personal-outreach plan. They made their pitch at Officer Schools of Instruction. In the last two weeks of the campaign alone, his team was able to bring in more than $1,000 in last-minute donations. They even pursuaded lodge master Jared Yoshiki and Lara\u2014both displaced Dodgers fans living in Giants country\u2014to donate $500 in honor of their team\u2019s World Series win the season prior.<\/p>

In all, the team increased donations to Masons4Mitts by 88 percent over 2020, nearly back to pre-pandemic levels. Statewide, since 2010, Masons have donated more than $1.5 million to Masons4Mitts, benefitting the community funds of the San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, L.A. Angels, and San Diego Padres. In most cases, the Masons are the largest single donor to those programs.<\/p>

For all the creativity and elbow grease Whiting-Casey and company put into the effort, it was his personal connection to Junior Giants that served as his greatest selling point. Through his experience coaching 11- to 14-year-olds\u2014most of whom belong to low-income households\u2014he was able to put a face to the dollars he was raising. \u201cMost of these kids don\u2019t even know how to grip a baseball,\u201d he says. \u201cBut the whole point is that it\u2019s not just baseball. It\u2019s an educational program.\u201d Indeed, the program is modeled on four \u201cbases\u201d of character development: confidence, integrity, leadership, and teamwork. Each week, practice includes time for team discussions on topics well outside the game, from bullying to nutrition. \u201cIt gives the kids an opportunity to talk about things they don\u2019t talk about with their parents,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd that\u2019s where Masons can really plug into the program, I think. It\u2019s not just the mitt. It\u2019s about so much more than that.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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It wasn’t the first time in recent memory that wildfire had visited the Kern River Valley. Six years ago, the Erskin Fire tore through, destroying 237 homes, including those of five members of the local lodge. Charlie Malear, lodge secretary, was one of them.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

This August, a similar scenario was unfolding. The French Fire, which began in the mountains northeast of Bakersfield, was threatening Kernville. A half-dozen members of\u00a0Kern River Valley No. 827<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>were under evacuation orders, including master Tom McKinney.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

This time, the lodge sprung into action. McKinney directed the lodge\u2019s phone committee to reach out to every member and widow of the lodge, as well as members of the Eastern Star chapter that share the building, forming a network to provide spare rooms to those who\u2019d been evacuated, as well as meals and other supplies. Lodge ambassadors directed members and widows to Camille Salinas, the local point person for Masonic Outreach Services. But Malear, who is the inspector for District 526, wanted to make sure that all of the lodge\u2019s resources were being put to use, including the building itself. \u201cIt gets up to 110 degrees here in the summer,\u201d Malear says. \u201cAnd most of the time, our lodge hall is vacant.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

He wasn\u2019t the only one thinking along those lines. Malear and another member each brought their travel trailers to the lodge\u2019s parking lot to offer to those who\u2019d been evacuated. Lodge treasurer Jeffrey Swartz brough several cots to the lodge. Others picked up food, coffee, and supplies. That night, a team of firefighters who\u2019d been battling the blaze pulled up and asked to camp at the lodge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

That was just the beginning. Malear soon arranged to have a crew of 20 firefighters take over the lodge hall\u2014not exactly a four-star accommodation, but a massive improvement over sleeping outside in 100- degree heat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

About a week later, the fire was nearly contained, and those who\u2019d been evacuated were able to return home. No members lost their homes. Plus, Malear says, the lodge got a crash course in offering itself as a resource; in fact, fire officials struck an agreement to use the lodge as their headquarters for any future wildfires in the area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Malear credits Past Grand Master Russ Charvonia and the members of the Masonic Emergency Response Team for helping him navigate relevant approvals and paperwork, as well as Camille Salinas and MOS, who stayed in close contact throughout, ready to provide extra resources.\u201c We were lucky to have many of these things, like the phone committee, in place,\u201d Malear says. \u201cBut we all need to be more prepared. This is California. We have fires, earthquakes. These things happen.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Lighting the Way<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 With a Little Help From His Friends<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 Leaders Wanted<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0
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