Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 07:38:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Drew Bittner <drewbitt at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: rehash of mundanes VS fans
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

My grandfather was a Shriner and my grandmother
belonged to Eastern Star, but I don't know if my
granddad was a Mason...

--- dicconf <dicconf at radix.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, N Lynch wrote:
>
> >   They [Shriners] are usually older men
> > who have an established identity rather than the
> > everything lumped together as SF cons are.
>
> I understand that you don't just go out and join the
> Ancient Order of
> Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; you sort of graduate
> into it by passing
> through the Free and Accepted Masons, which requires
> a few years of
> community activity at the very least.
>
> -- Dick Eney
>

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