Founders Dinners Share the Light
Grand Master Ronald L. Winnett has requested that each Masonic District hold a special dinner in January to honor the founders of the Grand Lodge of Ohio. January was chosen because it was on January 4, 5, 7 and 8, 1808 that the delegates met in Chillicothe to form the Grand Lodge of Ohio.
Each District has planned its own special evening, which will include an address by the Grand Master, either in person or on DVD. Information on the Founders Dinner in each District can be obtained from the Lodge secretaries. The schedule is available here.
Commemorative tin lanterns have been handcrafted for each District and were presented to the District Deputies at Grand Lodge in October. The lanterns will be presented at the Founders Dinner to the oldest Lodge in each District.
It will be the task of the oldest Lodge to pass on the Lantern and symbolically the fraternal flame of Freemasonry to the next oldest Lodge in the District and so on until the lanterns have passed through all the Lodges in each District. The newest Lodge in each District will bring the lanterns to the Grand Lodge Session in 2008.
By passing the lanterns from Lodge to Lodge, each has an opportunity to participate in the Bicentennial celebration and in reenacting the spread of Freemasonry throughout Ohio.