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Grand Chancellor D. Mark Mead |
Grand Chancellor’s GoalsMEMBERSHIP As far back as I can remember, membership has been one of each Grand Chancellor’s top goals. I hope each of you will do everything in your power to recruit new members and keep them actively involved in your lodge. The Supreme Chancellor has developed several strategies to help us recruit new members. Working with my Membership Committee, I promise to do my best to implement them. I hope each of you will too. CHARITIES Our Grand Lodge and our subordinate lodges have done an outstanding job in raising money for charities. Each year we proudly donate tens of thousands of dollars to Cystic Fibrosis, Camp Holiday Trails, and Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters. Our new Supreme Chancellor has selected the American Cancer Society to be the Supreme Chancellor’s Charity. I feel confident that the Grand Lodge of Virginia will give its full support to this worthy charity as well. I would like some input from each of you as to whether we, as a Grand Lodge, want to continue to support the former Supreme Lodge charities. COMMUNICATION This is vital to Order. I want to continue to have our Grand Lodge newsletter published three times a year. I encourage each lodge to contribute something to each and every issue. I want to maintain our website and keep it updated several times a year. I plan to send out email notices and communications about Grand Lodge events. I ask each Chancellor Commander to appoint an individual to report happenings at their Lodge to the local paper. (This individual should also be the contact person for the publisher of the Grand Lodge newsletter.) I also plan to scheduled teleconferences with my officers. GRAND LODGE COMMITTEES Each committee has an important job to do. In this book I have summarized what I believe the responsibility of each committee.. I would like a report presented at the next convention from the chairman of each committee telling what has been accomplished that year. VISITATION I believe that one of the best ways to get firsthand knowledge about the Grand Domain of Virginia is to visit each of the subordinate lodges. I strongly encourage all of my officers (as well as PGCs in leadership positions) to attend as many of my official visits as they possibly can. COOPERATION I pledge my support to all the organizations that make up the “Pythian family” in Virginia (the Sisters, Junior Order, Sunshine Girls, Dokkies, and Nomads). Working together we can accomplish so much more than any group can do alone. I also want to promote cooperation between subordinate lodges in scheduling and fundraising efforts. FRIENDSHIP I would like to encourage events that promote fellowship between Pythians. I support events such as the Family Picnic and Golf Days which promote interaction and fellowship between members of different lodges. VOLUNTEERISM This is part of the Supreme Chancellor’s program. It is an excellent way to live up to our principle of Benevolence and make our communities more aware of what the Knights of Pythias stand for. I have added a Grand Lodge Committee to handle this program BYLAWS I hope to insure that all members of the Grand Lodge have access to an up-to-date copy of our Grand Lodge Statutes. I want to encourage all my officers to become familiar with these. |
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