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Fort Myers Beach Lodge No. 362, F & A M Home Page

WE MEET ON THE FIRST AND THIRD THURSDAYS OF THE MONTH AT 730PM with a DINNER BEFOREHAND AT 630PM.

This page is always under construction!! Please bear with us!!

NOTE: This website is now the unofficial lodge page and deals with photos and historical information. THE LODGE NOW HAS A NEW SITE with more storage capacity so that we can post pdf files. It is pretty much complete, but always under construction. It's URL is www.fmb362.com, and if you CLICK HERE, you will be taken to our NEW page.

You will find a library of past Trestleboards on our NEW site - just as they have been sent out in FULL COLOR.

Click here for this month's Trestleboard Meeting and events information. Updated on January 23, 2009.

Location Maps and meeting data for Blue Lodges in District 28 & 29.

WELCOME TO THE FORT MYERS BEACH LODGE UNOFFICIAL HISTORY AND PICTURE HOME PAGE!

We meet at 17625 Pine Ridge Road, Fort Myers Beach, Florida.

Picture of our lodge

VISITORS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME

NOTE: To ALL Members: Your officers are always in the process of planning lodge activities. We contemplate: Pot Luck Dinners with speakers - WIVES WELCOME, Special Lodge Programs, Maybe a picnic, etc.

We are working on a special meeting once a month where we will open in the Entered Apprentice Degree for work and instruction to hold a special program specially designed for our Entered Apprentices and Fellow Crafts, accompanied by a festive board dinner.

We are proud of the fact that this Lodge is now one of the best lodges in the State with an enthusiastic and growing membership!

PLEASE contact us if there's something you are interested in that you think we should do!!! We are interested in YOU, our valued Brothers!!!

SPECIAL MASONIC ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT

Jim Hogg, PDDGM, has started conducting a special session once a month in the lodge. It is a "Masonic Enlightenment" project where the substance and meaning of the three craft degrees and their symbolism are discussed and taught. In February, the discussion covered Cuban Freemasonry and the Chamber of Reflection as used at the beginning of the Entered Apprentice Degree in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite version of the three craft, or symbolic degrees. SEE FOR DATES: Trestleboard Meeting and events information link above

MAP on how to get to our Lodge NOTE: I CANNOT put maps on this page because they are copyrighted by the mapmakers. Thus, you will find NO MAP IMAGES here. To get a map for any address above, you will need to go to Yahoo and click on "maps". Then, you will have to enter the address for the lodge above and find your own map. Otherwise, I have violated the copyright laws.

Jerry Hubbart, DDGM with our Lodge Officers.

Picture of our dining room

This photo was taken in 1985. From left to right: Earl Jutte, Bob Berczik, Dick Upham, Bill Dozier, Jim Hogg (as Master of the Lodge), Jim Michael. Back row: Bill Mazur.

Picture of our spacious lodgeroom.

This appears to be a picture of the very first officer's line when the lodge was chartered in 1967. Marshall Wilkins appears in the center (wearing hat) and it looks like Chet Townsend is on his immediate right (with the Past master's apron).

This is a picture of Jim Michael, our former Treasurer & Past Master.

This looks like the ground breaking for our first building at the corner of San Carlos Blvd & Summerlin Road, before Summerlin was even planned. There is a McDonald's on that corner today. Ralph Shaffer, in center holding shovel, was Master. To his immediate right is Louis A. Meyer, who was Secretary. On the far left is Jacob F. Woods, known as "Jake," who ultimately became Master and did a lot of work for the lodge. I cannot identify the rest of them yet.

PAST MASTERS OF THE LODGE

Pictures of our Past Masters. Some are old and faded and I just couldn't clean them up that well, so....I put them here anyway.