Scimitar Shrine
Potentate's Message
It has been a busy March and April for Scimitar. Several of us went to CSSA Business meeting in Bettendorf, Iowa and met old friends and made new ones.
We were also in the North Little Rock/Little Rock St.Patty’s day parade. We had a get together at the Shrine center afterward.
In April, I attended the Arab Ball in Topeka, Kansas and presented the Potentate with a framed Arkansas Traveler certificate.
Ill. Sir Dennis “Catfish” Stevens held a Clown Class on the 25th with great interest. Scimitar is staying active and our Clown Unit and Parade Units are on the rise again.
On April 8th, your Divan Traveled to Sahara Shrine Center and had dinner with the Grand Master of Arkansas, Thomas Lampirez, and his officers. We discussed the future of relationships between Shriners and Masonry to which the Grand Master declared he will be making Shriners an affiliate body of Masonry with no stipulations. This will take us from a civil body to an affiliated body like Eastern Star, where we are again allowed to recruit and discuss Shriners within a masonic stated meeting.
On Apri,23rd, Grand Master Thomas Lampirez wrote an edit declaring Scimitar and Sahara Shriners an affiliate body of Masonry and we will continue to look forward through the windshield and not in the rear view mirror.
I would like to Thank everyone who has worked throughout the years to keep a working relationship between the two organizations as we can take a breath of fresh air knowing we can grow with the proper working tools.
We will be having a Grand Masters Reception at the Shrine Center on June 13 at 11 am, and everyone is welcome. Krista and I look forward to Imperial Session and hope you will join us September 25-27 in Little Rock at the Potentates Ball.
Fraternally, Chris Underwood
What we are about
Shriners International is a Fraternity which teaches ethics and morality. We welcome men of every color, creed, religion, sect, and opinion, but each candidate for Shriners International must be willing to profess his belief in a Supreme Being. No atheist can become a Shriner. The essential purpose of Shriners International is the further development of the individual Shriner as an honest, ethical, moral, sincere, caring, and charitable man, learning more about his own potential as a human being and developing his intellectual and spiritual character.