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Adhering to NYS reopening guidelines and the NYS Grand Lodge directive on social distancing and facemasks, Syracuse Liverpool Lodge No.501 successfully elected and installed their officers on Monday, Aug 3rd 2020. The five elected officers installed are
W∴ Robert D. Bowles – Master
Brother Rainer D. Grimme – Senior Warden
Brother James D. Colditz Jr. – Junior Warden
R∴W∴ Ralph I. Haney Jr. – Treasurer
R∴W∴ Gary L. Heinmiller – Secretary
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Our new brothers will be receiving their Fellowcraft Degree on April 6th.
Don’t forget our yearly kids day Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday April 11th. It’s free and fun, more to follow.
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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
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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.
In Memoriam
Date of Passing:
Friday, November 1, 2019Albert R. Sahm November 1, 2019 Albert R. Sahm, 93, of Liverpool, passed away peacefully with his family by his side on Friday. Albert was born August 27, 1926 to Estella and Roy Sahm in New Bremen, and grew up on Dewberry Drive in Rochester. He served as a yeoman in the Navy during WWII, and was stationed in Hawaii. Albert and Anne lived in both Rochester and Syracuse briefly before settling in Liverpool to raise their family. Al worked at General Electric as an engineer, but held many jobs throughout his life including television repairman, bus driver, salesman, grocery manager, and realtor, in addition to serving as Mayor of Liverpool. He was predeceased by his wife of 57 years, Anne Costello Sahm; his brother Ralph Sahm and brother-in-law Dan Tucker; his children-in-law Cindy Gordon-Sahm and Francisco Lespier. He is survived by his six children: Raymond Sahm, Mary Anne (Daniel) Brigandi and Kathleen (Van) Hepfner, Margaret (Gene) Caiello, Elizabeth Lespier and Jeanine (Chuck) Fieldson, nine grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren, his sister Ruth Tucker and sister-in-law Lois Sahm. There will be no calling hours. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, November 9, 2019 at 9:30 am in Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 425 Beechwood Ave., Liverpool. The Rite of Committal and burial will be private in Onondaga County Veteran’s Memorial Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Immaculate Heart of Mary Church.
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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.
