News + Public Announcements

Past Grand Master Robert Edward Billings passed away on January 21, 2011 at the age of 93, at Greentree Health and Rehabilitation Center, Clintonville.  He served the Masons of Wisconsin as Grand Master in 1975. He was born in  Clintonville, Wisconsin, September 14, 1917 the son of Guy and Jennie (Carr) Billings. He married Jane Elizabeth Kelly his wife of 63 years in October 1941. She preceded him in death in 2004. Bro. Billings graduated from the Clintonville public school

Your Grand Lodge officers met in Madison the weekend of October 8-10 as reported elsewhere in this issue of our Wisconsin Masonic Journal. The highlight of the weekend was the Unity dinner where many of the Wisconsin Masonic bodies’ Grand Officers came together to socialize and learn more about each other’s organizations. There were members from Eastern Star, Amaranth, Job’s Daughters, Rainbow for Girls, DeMolay, Commandery, and the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin.  All appendant bodies were invited and I hope

Video address by Lee Sherman Dreyfus – former Governor of Wisconsin.  Hosted by Freemasons Lodge #363, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and recorded in 2003 at the Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Milwaukee. [cincopa AQCAtTKt2397]

It has been a very exciting and rewarding beginning to our 2010-11 Wisconsin Grand Lodge year.   I was very pleased with the material content and quality the summer issue of this Wisconsin Masonic Journal.  I hope you were as well.  I hope that many of you went to the electronic version of the WI Masonic Journal.  In the Electronic version you may find something about your Lodge. If you have any concern about our paper, please send a message to