East Egg Hunt
Liverpool-Syracuse Annual Kids Day Easter Egg Hunt
Same Time Same Place
Prizes – Hoffman Hotdogs – Drinks – Popcorn
All Free!
April 11th The Saturday before Easter
Mark your calendars
Second Degree – CANCEL
Liverpool Syracuse #501 will be canceling Sunday 3/15/2020 practice and Monday 3/16/2020 2nd degree and stated communication due to some illness.
There is no need to expose our members to illness of any kind at this time of uncertainty.
Precaution is the best plan.
The next stated communication is scheduled for April 6th and as for now the plan is to have the 2nd degree at this time.
Liverpool Syracuse #501 Master gives Grand Honors to two past Masters.
On Monday Nov 4 2019 the Master of Liverpool Syracuse No.501 brought W.’.Ben Lees to the east to give recognition for his forty years of dedication to the craft. He also presented a Past Master Apron to W.’.Jorge Luis Romeu recognizing his accomplishments during his year as Master.
Overview of Electoral Polls and their Statistical Problems
Open to the Public
Announcement of Presentation on November 20 2019
The Electoral Season always brings up the vote intention from polls (or surveys) that candidates, pundits and journalists use (and even misuse) to assess who is ahead in each political contest. We often hear or read that “candidate X is ahead, with 47% of vote intention, to only 45% for his opponent”. Such statement is statistically incomplete and incorrect. In addition, there are other technical complications.
For example, many people use cell instead of land phones, which are mostly unlisted. Hence, these people are difficult to reach by surveys. Others, use answering machines and caller Id devices as screening mechanisms, to identify callers before deciding to take their call. This curtails access to many potential survey subjects, which can seriously invalidate (or bias) the sample and its results.
Such problems have resulted in some polls grossly overstating or understating the status of the candidates. Recent cases include the US 2016 presidential election and the British referendum on Brexit The current presentation will discuss surveys and their problems in layman’s terms.
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Note: Dr. Jorge Luis Romeu is a professional statistician with 45+ years of experience in teaching, research and consulting. He retired Emeritus from SUNY Cortland, worked as Senior Engineer, for IIT Research Institute, in the Reliability Analysis Center, Rome Lab, and was, for 16 years, a Research Professor, at Syracuse University. He currently teaches part time graduate statistics courses at SU.
Grand Historian Apron Presentation
On August 25th our own Lodge Secretary and Historian R.’. W.’. Gary L. Heinmiller was presented his apron as the Grand Historian of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York.Congratulations!
WORD Article – September 2018
Hello, Brethren. I am greatly honored to have been elected Worshipful Master of our Lodge. I plan to give my best effort and ability to this endeavor. I want to thank WM Doug Russell, under whom I learned many useful things about being a Master. And I want to start by sharing with all of you three main themes that I would like to develop in our Lodge during this year.
First, the Lodge is an Oasis of Peace and Fellowship.
We are all Brothers and should meet, act and part as such. Attending the Lodge is something to look forward to—not a punishment. An environment of respect and collegiality is necessary if we want to achieve it. Bickering should be left at the door. We will have inexpensive meals either before or after sessions. Officers will take turns preparing them. Your Master will cook for our first Lodge meeting, the Official Visit, which will be on September 17. Hopefully, such activities will help increase Lodge attendance.
Secondly, Lodge sessions will end by 10 p.m. at latest.
Many Brothers have problems with our sessions ending later, as we have to wake up early to go to work, or our significant others do. Arriving home late is not conducive to creating a home-support atmosphere. This hurts Lodge attendance and perhaps leads to leaving the Lodge. This is especially crucial during Degree work. Degrees will end by 10:30 at the latest. We have already changed our By-Laws to start earlier on Degree nights and make this possible.
Thirdly, we come to Lodge to do Masonry.
Hence, every session will include some form of instruction: a program or a short presentation or reading.
And to enable the participation of our newly Initiated Brothers, the Lodge will be lowered to the First, and then Second Degree as these Brothers progress in Masonry. This year we will have only one round of Degrees, two months apart, starting in December. Such an interval between Degrees allows our new Brothers the time to assimilate and learn the concepts and the information received in the Degrees.
On October 1, to honor our Veterans and Sojourners, we will have an open meeting with a catered dinner. Our Keynote Speaker will be RW John Fuller.
I want to end by inviting all our Lodge Brothers to contact me with their ideas, suggestions, criticisms, etc. And come to Lodge, join a committee and participate actively in our work.
Jorge Romeu