Tonight started off with a visit to the Cabiri meeting. The Cabiri is a group made up of Past Potentates. It is different than any unit or club in that it is chartered at a National level and the locals request to be part of the National. In the meeting, the sad news of the passing today of Marcia Walls was announced. She was the wife of 1992 Potentate Gene Walls. We also talked about what was happening at Antioch and what the Past Potentates could do to support Antioch and the Divan.
After this meeting was the Antioch Unit Directors/Club Association meeting where the new officers were installed with Mick Lile installed as President. I was especially excited this evening with the challenge thrown down by Middletown Shrine club for all clubs and units to exceed their 2012 membership goals. Middletown is working right now on 7 petitions and may soon be requesting a short form ceremonial so they can get the members in and get them working in Middletown Shrine club. They also announced they were pledging to use club funds to help promote the membership efforts this year. If you couldn't be excited to be a Shriner and motivated to help Antioch be the best Shrine in Shrinedom after hearing their President Jeff Chandler speak this evening, you were either asleep or not in attendance.
I also received a neat call this evening from a new petitioner. He is the one I mentioned which came down last Friday for a couple of minutes to turn in his petition. It seems as though instead of staying 5 minutes, he stayed all evening Friday and went home and told his wife about the the upcoming "Evening in Paris" event this coming Saturday. He was calling me to get two tickets to the event this coming Saturday. Nobles...I think we are doing something right! And if you need tickets for the Evening in Paris event, please let me know by Wednesday evening as I will call in with the final numbers on Thursday.
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