W. Bro.
James S. Fisher PPSGD
In 1935 W. Bro. James S. Fisher became the first member of Glandore to
receive Provincial Grand Lodge Honors when he was invested Senior Grand
Deacon.
R. W. Bro. J. Stafford O’ Neill PPJGW
Described as one of this centuries greatest ritualists, R. W. Bro. J.
Stafford O’ Neill occupied the chair in Glandore in 1932 and the minutes
record that in September 1933 he conferred the first Degree on F. N.
McTier. In 1938 R. W. Bro. O’Neill was appointed to represent the Lodge at
the committee of inspection and in 1945 he was appointed Provincial Junior
Grand Warden. In 1949, the Lodges silver jubilee year, Stafford became a
Grand Lodge of Ireland Inspector and in 1954, Chairman of the Inspection
Committee for Antrim and in the same year he was appointed to the grand
Lodge of Ireland as representative to the Grand Lodge of North Carolina.
Finally in 1959 he became Assistant Secretary of the Committee of
Inspection for the province of Antrim.
V. W.
Bro. Cecil Adrain PPSGW
Initiated in Glandore Lodge on 20th May 1948 V. W. Bro. Adrain was
peerless in his dedication to Freemasonry. He became W. Master of Glandore
in 1971. Having already served as assistant secretary since 1964, Cecil
became Secretary of the Lodge in 1973. He had a passion and a real talent
for degree work and many of our current Brethren received one or all of
their degrees from this skilled workman. In 1980 Brother Adrain was
installed Provincial Senior Grand Warden. V. W. Bro. Adrian resigned as
secretary in 1987.
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