GREAT SMOKIES ASSEMBLY

OF YORK RITE MASONS

Maggie Valley, North Carolina

July 9, 10, 11, 2023

PROGRAM

SUNDAY, JULY 9, 2023

10:30 AM: You are welcome to attend the

Church Service at the

First Baptist Church of Maggie Valley.

3:00 – 5:00 PM – Registration and Cookout

Maggie Valley Community Pavilion

3987 Soco Road, Maggie Valley, NC

MONDAY, JULY 10, 2023

Haywood Community College
Student Center Auditorium
185 Freelander Drive
Clyde, NC 28271

9:00 AM – Summer Assembly convenes.

Moderator: Russell E. Bridges, PMIGM

Introductions: David Cashion, PMIGM

Welcome
Kevan Frazier, Grand Master
Grand Lodge of North Carolina, A.F. & A.M

Clifton Truman Daniels
Oldest grandson of President Harry S. Truman, Honorary Chairman
of the Truman Library Institute, Secretary of the Harry S. Truman
Scholarship Foundation, writer & lecturer on the Truman presidency,
currently portraying his grandfather in the stage show Give ‘Em Hell Harry.

15 Minute Recess

12:00 Noon – Adjourn

LUNCH ON YOUR OWN

MONDAY AFTERNOON

A NORTH CAROLINA MASONIC SHRINE The Masonic Shrine, or Marker, is located at an altitude of 4,522 feet at Black Camp Gap in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 17 miles from Waynesville, Haywood County, North Carolina. It can be reached by way of Highway U.S. 19 by turning on the Blue Ridge Parkway at Soco Gap and going to Wolf Laurel Gap, then following Heintooga Road. The Parkway passes within a few yards of the marker which is accessible over a paved path from the parking area.

3:00 PM – Masonic Marker Address

W. Berry Rigdon, Past Grand Master Grand
Lodge of North Carolina, A.F. & A. M.
Past Grand High Priest

7:00 PM – BANQUET & ENTERTAINMENT

The Banquet Dinner & Entertainment will be
at Maggie Valley Club & Resort,
1819 Country Club Drive,
Maggie Valley, NC 27851

TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2023

9:00 AM – Summer Assembly Reconvenes

Joseph S. Crociata, PGM of the
Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons of the District of Colombia,
ME Past Great Chief Grand Council of
Knight Masons USA

Remarks by North Carolina Grand Presiding Officers

AIMS AND CONCERNS OF:
General Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, International
General Grand Council, Cryptic Masons, International
Grand Encampment, Knights Templar, of the U.S.A.

Summation

NOON – ADJOURN SUMMER ASSEMBLY
Summer Assembly Committee
David Cashion – Chairman
Berry Rigdon, Russell Bridges,
Brian Rau, Gene Canter,
Michael Smith, Ted Inman,
Hugh K. Terrell, Emeritus
Allen Surratt, Grand Sec. – Rec.