2011

Worshipful Michael Duane Johnstone

Initiated: 7/26/2005, Passed: 10/4/2005, Raised: 11/21/2005 Member, Khedive Shrine: 2007 Member, Norfolk Valley Scottish Rite: 2007 Life Member in Perpetuity: 2007 Life Member, Norfolk Scottish Rite: 2008 Recipient, William Hollowell Pierce Mason of the Year Award: 2008 Completed Grand Lodge Masonic Leadership Program Course I, II, III: 2008, Course IV:2009 More Member, Order of the Eastern Star Kempsville Chapter No. 173: 2009 Member in Perpetuity, National Sojourner Hampton Roads Chapter No. 6: 2010 Recipient, National Sojourners Bridge of Light Award: 2010, 2011 Valley Fellow, Norfolk Scottish Rite: 2010 Invested Knights Commander Court of Honor, Scottish Rite Masons: 2011 Recipient, James Noah Hillman Award: 2011 Recipient, Grand Master's Award of Excellence: 2011 Recipient, Seymour Jonas Levy Award: 2011 Recipient, Get Fired Up! Award, Member Category: 2011 Hero of '76, Yorktown Camp of Heroes of '76: 2011 Affiliated, Newport News Scottish Rite: 2013 Member in Perpetuity, National Sojourners Past Masters Chapter No. 997: 2014 Master of Consistory, Norfolk Scottish Rite: 2015 President, Hampton Roads Chapter No. 6: 2014, 2015, 2016 Camp Commander, Yorktown Camp of Heroes of '76: 2016, 2016 Honorary Member of the Order of Demolay 2016 Appointed Promoter of Fraternal Relations, Bethel 42: 2017 Member Royal Arch Princess Anne Chapter No. 1607: 2017 Appointed Acting Committee Chairman for Membership Committee National Sojourners 2017 Treasurer, Scooter Patrol: 2018 District Masonic Home Ambassador: 2017, 2018 Tidewater Region MAHOVA Committeeman: 2018 Royal Order of Barrow Wheeler, National Sojourners: 2018 Appointed Committee Chairman for Membership Committee National Sojourners 2018 Member is Perpetuity National Sojourners Old Dominion Chapter No. 364: 2019 Appointed Regional Representative National Sojourners: 2019-2022 Member in Perpetuity National Sojourners 1776 Militia Chapter No. 560: 2019 Member in Perpetuity National Sojourners Patuxent Chapter No. 522: 2019 Elected Alternate District Deputy Grand Master Nominee of Dist. 56 for 2021: 2019 Member in Perpetuity National Sojourners Clarence H. Cohen Chapter No.162: 2019 Affiliated, Bannack Historic Lodge No. 3-7-77, Montana: 2020 Grand Lodge Committee on Masonic Home Ambassadors: 2020 Elected Scooter Patrol 1st Lieutenant 2020 Dual Membership: Virginia Research Lodge No. 1777: 2021 Elected Scooter Patrol Captain 2021 Dual Membership Payton Randolph Research Lodge No. 1774 Appointed Promoter of Fraternal Relations, Bethel 37: 2019-2021 Appointed Associate Bethel Guardian, Bethel 37: 2021-2022 Appointed Grand Junior Custodian, Grand Guardian Council: 2021-2022, 2022-2023 Elected Commander of the Council of Kadosh, Norfolk Scottish Rite Valley: 2022 Appointed Area Representative South Area National Sojourners: 2022 Appointed Promoter of Fraternal Relations Bethel 37, 2022 Elected Worthy Patron Kempsville Chapter No. 173 OES, 2022-2023 Elected National Sojourners Committee of 33: 2017, 2018, re-election due 2024 Appointed to be a Member of the Nominating Committee National Sojourners 2022 and 2023 Treasurer, Virginia Research Lodge: 2023 - present Neptune Forest 141 Tall Cedars of Lebanon of North America Elected Grand Tall: 2023 - present C. B. Vance Council Number 58 Allied Masonic Degrees Grand Council Allied Masonic Degrees of the United States of America initiated 12/2022 and elected Junior Deacon: 2023 High Priest, Princess Anne Royal Arch Chapter 1607, Capitular Year 2024-2025

Installation of Officers - December 18, 2010

Photo courtesy of Right Worshipful Emmett "Buddy" Pate
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Bill Peterson - Senior Warden Bill Nelligar - Treasurer Michael Johnstone - Worshipful Master John Preddy - Junior Deacon Scott Foxwell - Chaplain Robert Johns - Musician

Jerry Hallal - Junior Warden Bob Stanek - Secretary Steve Ridgeway (proxy for Terry Bledsoe) - Senior Deacon Dave Borntrager (proxy for Greg Muir) - Marshal Thomas Beverly - Tiler

Worshipful Master's Pins

Honoring the New Potentate - January 11, 2011

Illustrious Don Meyer receiving his Potentate's Fez from Worshipful Michael Johnstone

Khedive Hillbillies in attendance

Photos courtesy of Right Worshipful Emmett "Buddy" Pate
Khedive Divan

Worshipful Bill Rawson's Portrait Presentation - January 11, 2011

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1. Worshipful Michael Johnstone
2. Worshipful Bill Rawson
3. Brother Jerry Hallal

Brother Joe Smith's 107th Birthday Celebration - January 14, 2011

Photo courtesy of Worshipful Bob Stanek
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Right Worshipful Roger Cort Worshipful Frank Creasy Worshipful Bill Nelligar Brother Joe Smith

Brother Joe Salt Worshipful Bob Stanek Brother Hank Foiles

800th Master Mason - January 18, 2011

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1. Worshipful Bill Nolan
2. Brother Matt Pilgrim
3. Right Worshipful Harry Holland
4. Worshipful Michael Johnstone

Scottish Rite Night, March 8, 2011

Photo courtesy of Right Worshipful Emmett "Buddy" Pate
Kempsville Lodge was honored to have Worshipful and Illustrious Ronald A. Seale, 33°, the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America, as the guest speaker for its March Stated Communication.
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1. Right Worshipful Wayne Sawyer Flora, Grand Senior Deacon
2. Worshipful and Illustrious Ronald A. Seale, 33°, Sovereign Grand Commander, AASR
3. Worshipful Michael Johnstone
4. Most Worshipful James Dean Cole, Grand Master - 2001
5. Most Worshipful Clifford Alan Parker, Grand Master - 2002
6. Most Worshipful William Lee Holliday, Grand Master - 2000

Photo courtesy of Right Worshipful Emmett "Buddy" Pate
Souvenir replica of the Scottish Rite House of the Temple presented to Worshipful Michael Johnstone by Worshipful and Illustrious Ronald A. Seale, 33°, Sovereign Grand Commander, AASR

Past Masters Night - March 29, 2011

Photo courtesy of Worshipful Bill Nolan
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Roger Cort - 2007 Tom McGowan - 1983 Bill Nelligar - 2003 Bob Lockwood - 1984 (Oceanview No. 335) Ejnar Jorgensen - 1979 Bill Knowles - 1982 Bill Nolan - 1994 Bobby Spruill - 1991 Ray Connard - 2002 Monte Howell - 1978 Tommy Haste - 1970 Adam Green - 2008

Ray Hall - 1988 Bob Stanek - 1996 Don Meyer - 1992 Shawn Garfield - 2006 Jimmie Wilder - 1986 Ralph Ward - 1987 Mike Lombardo - 1974 Bill Rawson - 2010 David Weast - 1992 (Claude H. Morrison Lodge No. 747, California) Joe Thornton - 1984

Virginia Beach Technical and Career Center Scholarships

Letter of appreciation

Marquee at Virginia Beach Technical and Career Center on the day of the scholarship presentations.

Past Masters Night - September 27, 2011

Photo courtesy of Right Worshipful Emmett "Buddy" Pate
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Mike Lombardo - 1974 Don Robinson - 2000 Emmett "Buddy" Pate - 2005 Bobby Spruill - 1991 Ray Hall - 1988 Ralph Ward - 1987 Shawn Garfield - 2006 Bill Knowles - 1982

Jim Gardner - 1989 Tom McGowan - 1983 Don Meyer - 1992 Bob Stanek - 1996 Bill Nolan - 1994 Adam Green - 2008 Bill Rawson - 2010 Roger Cort - 2007

Table Lodge - October 29, 2011

Photo courtesy of Worshipful Michael Johnstone
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1. Most Worshipful Edmund Cohen - Grand Master, 2008
2. Worshipful Michael Johnstone
3. Most Worshipful Donald Maynard Robey - Grand Master, 1987

Annual Stated Communication - December 13, 2011

Worshipful Michael Johnstone presents Certificates of Appreciation to the 2011 Officers

Right Worshipful Wayne S. Flora, Grand Senior Warden of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, being received in the East.

Worshipful Chip Winston receiving the District Travelling Gavel on behalf of the Brethren of Willis. V. Fentress Lodge No. 296

Photos courtesy of Right Worshipful Emmett "Buddy" Pate
It wouldn't be December at Kempsville Lodge if these socks didn't make an appearance.

Worshipful Mike Lombardo's 90th Birthday - December 17, 2011

Worshipful Mike Lombardo celebrates his 90th Birthaday during the 2012 Installation of Officers Reception.
Photo courtesy of Right Worshipful Emmett "Buddy" Pate

Mason of the Year - December 17, 2011

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Brother Dennis Eaton receiving the Mason of the Year Award during the 2012 Installation of Officers event.

That's a Knife

A gift to Worshipful Michael Johnstone from Brother Scott Vaughan as thanks for coaching him through his catechisms.

Lodge Of Sorrow

• Darryl Raymond Moyers - 01/06/2011
• John Angus Farrer - 01/12/2011
• Selby Ray Ballance - 01/30/2011
• Julius C. Anongus - 02/16/2011
• Elbert Louis Lane, Jr. - 03/17/2011
• William Andrew McPherson, Jr. - 03/31/2011
• W∴ Robert Melvin Ohman - 04/23/2011
• W∴ Lee Kelberg - 04/25/2011
• William Stephenson Erekson - 06/04/2011
• R∴W∴ Richard Alfred Davis, Jr. - 06/13/2011
• Winfred A. Beamon - 08/16/2011
• Iris Wilford Midgett, Sr. - 12/13/2011

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