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| As an honorary member on the Grand Lodge Education Committee, I have been given the opportunity to develop and present an officer’s manual that will be distributed to all Lodges for use by the officers. |
| Today, I will share with you a portion of the first “draft” of this manual. This first manual is titled “You” as Tyler of your lodge – and covers the basic information needed by the new Tyler, as well as a “look ahead” to the Steward’s duties and charges. Here is a look at the cover for this handbook: |
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| The following information will be found in the first few pages of this manual: |
| In the year of the Great Architect 2003, it was the vision of your Grand Lodge Education Committee, to provide every officer in the lodge, a guide to their officer specific duties for the ensuing year. |
| This booklet has been created to teach you the duties associated with the chair you now occupy. Most of the duties contained within these pages, with the exception of “The Code Duties”, are of a generic nature and may be different in your lodge. |
| As you progress through the line, your duties and responsibilities will change. Ultimately, the further you advance, the more responsibility you will inherit. |
| Different lodges may vary with officer specific duties. In travelling around, you may notice differences in officer’s duties from one lodge to the next. |
| These duties are intended to prepare you for the next step until you are, with the blessing of your lodge brothers, elected as Master of your lodge. |
| Your attention to detail and the performance of your duties will reflect upon you as an officer and upon your lodge as well. It is important that you take pride in your duties and perform them to the best of your ability. |
| Use this guide as it is intended, as a tool to help make you the best officer you can be. |
| 1) Reg. 52-3 The duties of a Freemason are as follows: 2) To obey the moral law, 3) To obey the laws and edicts of the Grand Lodge, 4) To be neither an atheist or skeptic, 5) To be a good man and true, 6) To live in peace and to practice charity, 7) To be a member of a regular lodge, 8) To perform faithfully the duties as such member, or as an officer 9) To pay his dues thereto promptly, 10) To obey the civil law, 11) To notify the Secretary of his lodge immediately of any change in his mailing address, A) 77-16 Change of Address 12) To pay due respect and obedience to the various Grand Lodge officers and lodge officers according to their respective rank and station, 13) To obey the by-laws of his lodge, and to attend its communications 14) To observe those lessons and duties inculcated in the several lectures and charges of the three Symbolic degrees of Freemasonry, and 15) To keep and perform the several obligations of those degrees. Taken from “The Code; Constitution and Regulations; Grand Lodge of North Carolina. |
| This manual will also include pages of a planning calendar, diagrams for prop placement in the Three Degrees, a page for Lodge officer addresses, as well as other pertinent information that may be of use to the new officer. |
| This is only the first draft, and may be completely different by the time we are ready for publication. It is our intention to provide needed information for incoming new officers, to enable them to better serve their Lodge. |
