Most Worshipful Brother Glenn Valentine Culp

Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Utah 1962.

Glenn Valentine Culp was elected and installed Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, F. & A. M. of Utah, January 23, 1962. He is the. eighty-seventh Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Utah.

Like many of his predecessors in this high office he is not a native son. He was born in Beloit, Kansas, August 17, 1899, a son of Charles Sherman and Lily Highland Culp.

He received his elementary education in Scottsville, Kansas, and Rocky Ford, Colorado. He was graduated from Rocky Ford High School where he had been active in all athletics and was singles champion in tennis of the Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico League for four years. He was also a basketbaIl letter man at the University of Utah in 1919 and a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity.

On June 15, 1922 he married Delia M. Keele.r of Scottsville, Kansas. They have two daughters, Dorothy C. Ford, who, with her three children, lives in Orange, California; and Martha Irene Tonneson, her husband and four children live in Salt Lake City. Both daughters were active members and officers of Bethel No.1, International Order of Job's Daughters.

Mrs. Delia Culp attended the University of Kansas where she was a member of Mu Phi Epsilon, an honorary National Musical Sorority. She is a Past Matron of Mizpah Chapter No.5, O.E.S. and Past Queen of Lybia Temple No. 32, Daughters of the Nile. Mrs. Culp sang in the Scottish Rite. Choir for forty-eight consecutive Reunions.

For the past forty years Grand Master Culp has been associated in the sheep business, as partner, with his father, now deceased, and his brothers, Hamer S. and Reed C., in the nationally known firm, Culp & Sons Sheep Company. They have offices in Salt Lake City and feed-ing yards and farms in Lamar, Colorado.

Our Grand Master received the Master Mason Degree March 12, 1921 in Progress Lodge No. 22 in Salt Lake City and since that time has taken part in all things Masonic. He was Worshipful Master of Progress Lodge in 1941. He became a member of the. Scottish Rite Bodies in 1922, was Invested a K. C. C. H. in 1947 and elected Inspector General Honorary 33 in 1955. He served as Master of Kadosh of Utah Consistory in 1960. At present he is Assistant Director in charge of conferring the degrees of the Council of Kadosh.

He is a Past High Priest of Utah Chapter, R.A.M. and a member of Utah Council, R. & S. M. and of Utah Commandery, K.T. having received the degrees of the York Rite Bodies in 1943.

Grand Master Culp became a member of EI Kalah Temple of the Shrine in 1924 and soon joined the Patrol of that Body. He was elected Captain of EI Kalah Temple Patrol in 1946 and held that office, until 1956. He was elected Potentate and served the Temple during 1961 and was President of the Western Shrine Association during 1960-1961.

Always interested in the welfare of our youth, he served as Associate Guardian of Bethel No.1, International Order of Job's Daughters for many years. He served one term as Grand Guardian of Utah, Order of Job's Daughters. Although not a DeMolay, he has been hon-ored by the conferring of its highest award, The Legion of Honor for the International Order of DeMolay.

He served two terms as Worthy Patron of Mizpah Chapter No.5, Order of Eastern Star, the first term in 1937 and again in 1944.

At the completion of his term as Grand Master, he will have served Grand Lodge seven years. He was appointed Grand Marshal in 1956, an office he held for three years. He was elected Junior Grand Warden in 1959 and has successively advanced to Grand Master for the year 1962.

He served in the U. S. Army during the closing months of World War I in 1918, and received his military training at Ft. Douglas. He was honorably discharged in December of that year.

He was elected President of the. Salt Lake Rotary Club for the term of 1944-45 and in 1952 was elected District Governor of Rotary International for the Utah, Idaho and Western Wyoming area. He served on Rotary International Committees for the convention in San Francisco and in Paris, France.

He was a member of the Board of Education of the Salt Lake City public schools for eight years, is and has been an active member and supporter of the First Methodist Church of Salt Lake. City since he C:lme to Utah in 1918.

With this background of business, civic, church and Masonic activities, together with his ability of organizing and working with men from all walks of life, we believe he will bring strength to each of the Lodges and to Masonry in general in Utah.

Utah Grand Lodge Proceedings, 1962.

PGM, Glen Valentine Culp died on December 24, 1999 in Salt Lake City, Utah at age 100 years and 4 months.

Utah Grand Lodge Proceedings, 2000, page 108.