Sungari
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SUNGARI LODGE (CHINA)
Location: Harbin, Manchuria
Chartered By: Herbert W. Dean
Charter Date: 03/13/1929 tbd
Precedence Date: 05/29/1928
Current Status: surrendered charter 1939
NOTES
REPORT ON DISPENSATION, DECEMBER 1928
From Proceedings, Page 1928-348, December Quarterly Communication, Grand Master Simpson's Address:
"In accordance with the recommendation of the District Grand Master dispensation has been issued for Sungari Lodge in Harbin, North Manchuria. The field in this city seems to be promising, and there is every evidence so far as we can now see that the new Lodge will have a successful future."
PAST MASTERS
- Henry J. Neville, 1928, 1929
- Edward J. Surman, 1930, 1931
- Iver O. Mungjerd, 1932
- Reginald C. Goodman, 1933, 1939
- Raymond R. Kabalkin, 1934, 1937
- Thorkild O. Ibsen, 1935, 1938
- Walter Hopiak, 1936
- IN RECESS SINCE 1940
REFERENCES IN GRAND LODGE PROCEEDINGS
VISITS BY GRAND MASTER
BY-LAW CHANGES
OTHER
- 1936 (Mentioned in Grand Secretary's report, 1936-268)
EVENTS
REPORT, MARCH 1932
From New England Craftsman, Vol. XXVII, No. 7, March 1932, Page 176:
From far away Harbin, in China, near the center of the Sino-Japanese "war that is not war", comes regularly the notice of meeting of Sungari Lodge (Massachusetts Constitution), and it is refreshing to notice that in spite of the inevitable turmoil with which the members are surrounded, they go calmly about their work, meeting regularly once a month, receiving reports, raising candidates, caring for the welfare of the brethren, all in the regular order.
A significant thing, this. Wherever men of the white race are, Freemasonry functions calmly, conservatively. Illustrating that truth is indeed a mighty thing, that fraternity binds indissolubly men of similar minds, and that there is an oasis in every desert even among the destruction into which men and nations in the madness of their ambitions sometimes seek to plunge themselves.
