T.O. man named master of Masonic Lodge 807

LEADING THE MASONS––Taking the helm of the Masonic Lodge in Thousand Oaks will be (front row, from left): David Lieberthal, senior warden; Peter Jamieson, master; and Rees Padfield, junior warden. Center row: David Honick, chaplain; Michael Wurtzel, senior deacon; Jerry Stein, marshal; and Thomas Waite, junior deacon. Back row: Francisco Soltero, tiler; and Marc Newman, senior steward. Not pictured are Raul Cifuentes, junior steward; David Del Dosso, secretary; and Jerry Michaelson, treasurer.

Peter Jamieson of Thousand Oaks has been elected as master of Conejo Valley Masonic Lodge No. 807.

Jamieson will be installed on Jan. 6 by David Doan, past grand master of Free and Accepted Masons of the state of California. This 46th annual installation will be conducted at the Conejo Valley Masonic Lodge, 2786 Crescent Way in Thousand Oaks.

As master, Jamieson becomes presiding officer and head of the lodge. The title of master instead of president reflects the Masonic tradition of using ceremonies and titles from the stonemasons of the Middle Ages.

When the great cathedrals of Europe were being built, the mason in charge of a building site was referred to as a “master of the work.”

Other officers to be installed during the ceremony are David

Lieberthal, Michael Wurtzel, Thomas Waite, Raul Cifuentes, Frank Soltero and David Del Dosso of Thousand Oaks, and Rees Padfield of Moorpark, Jerry Stein of Oak Park, Jerry Michaelson and David Honick of Westlake Village and Marc Newman of Camarillo.

Freemasonry is considered the world’s oldest, largest and most widely recognized fraternal organization. There are more than 2 million Freemasons in North America alone.

In Conejo Valley’s lodge, among the current line of officers are a teacher, a lawyer, a plumber, a printer, a salesman, a chiropractor, an insurance agent, an engineer and a retired professor.

General information is available at www.freemason.org . For local information, call the Conejo Valley Masonic Lodge at (805) 373-8532 or visit www.calodges.org/no807.