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Fifty Years for Bill Fifty Years for Mike

W. Bro. William Rowan, (better known as Bill), received his ‘Fifty Years
in Mark Masonry’ certificate from RWBro. John Morgan, Provincial Grand
Master for Somerset at Eldon Lodge, Clevedon on Thursday 5 February
th
2015.
Bill was Initiated into Craft Masonry in Lodge Tollcross, No. 1194, Glasgow
in February 1964, & Raised in March the same year.
There are no separate Mark Lodges in Scotland, so consequently Bill was
Advanced into Mark Masonry in his mother lodge Tollcross on 10 June
th
1964.
In 1981 bill moved to England & joined Eldon Lodge of Mark Master Masons,
No. 807 during 1982, becoming Worshipful Master in 2002.
In May of this year he received promotion to Past Provincial Grand Junior
Warden at the annual meeting of Provincial Mark Grand Lodge held at its
usual venue the Webbington Hotel.
The picture shows bill with our PGM, John Morgan. Michael Edward Skyrme’s Father and Grandfather
were Masons. He remembers being outside
Buckingham Palace after the German surrender
shouting with the crowd pressing against the
railings, “We want the King”!
He attended Weston Grammar School and left in
1951.
He was then employed at GYDARS an
Engineering Technical Drawing Office situated
in the Boulevard. They specialised in the design
of Aircraft Carrier deck lifts with all the safety
factors required whilst moving through up to 16
deck levels. Also to the requirements needed to
convert a commercial aircraft into a troop carrier
when needed.
This gave Mike a sound grounding for his move
to the Bristol Airojet factory at Banwell where he
Fifty Years for Denis continued from page 4 eventually became a Project Engineer.
Mike’s Father opened the first Care Home in
Somerset at Weston-super-Mare in November
1946, Mike left Airojet in 1966 and joined his
father in the business He continued to run it for
the next 42 years.
Mike joined the Else Lodge in 1965. He was W.
Master in 1971. Mike was promoted to Grand
Lodge in 1983 as PAGDC & in 1996 was again
promoted to PGSD. He served Else for many years
as Secretary and more recently was both Treasurer
and Almoner together until his retired in 2011.
He was made an Honorary Member of the Lodge
in 2012......Copy/pic, Ed

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