Most Worshipful Brother Howard E. Dorst

Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Utah 1966

Howard Earl Dorst, ninety-first Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons in Utah, was installed into that office on February 1, 1966.

Born near Pomeroy, Ohio, September 19, 1904, he later removed with his parents to Iowa, thence to Gardner, Kansas. At Gardner, he received his elementary and high school education, then attended Kansas State University for one year. In 1929, he obtained an A.B. degree, and in 1930, an M.A. degree in entomology, at the University of Kansas. His enrollment for additional studies toward a doctorate have been completed at University of Chicago, Princeton University, and Utah State University.

Brother Dorst and his wife, Martha (Hauserman), to whom he was married on August 1, 1931, have one child. Dr. Ronald A. Dorst, a dentist, is now Resident in Oral Surgery at a hospital in Oakland, California.

In 1929, he came directly from university training to Richfield, Utah, where he served two six-month appointments, when he transferred to Salt Lake City and later to Logan. Since 1936, as a research entomologist, he has been employed by the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Entomology Research Division, on the campus of Utah State University, Logan. His research has dealt with control of insect pests of sugar beets and tomatoes in the Intermountain area. On December 30, 1965, he was granted retirement after more than thirty-six years of professional activity, and now is planning- to carry on as a consultant in entomology.

In 1932, our Grand Master was commissioned a Second Lieutenant. From March 1941 to April 1946, he served as Captain and Major in World War II, and in 1954 was promoted to Colonel in the Medical Service Corps, from which he was retired in 1964.

He has been a member of the Entomological Society of America since 1929, in which he became Chairman-elect of the Pacific Branch in 1965. In June 1967, he will be chairman of the Branch Meeting in Salt Lake City. In 1940, he was President of the Logan Junior Cham-ber of Commerce. In 1959, he served as Grand Patron of the Grand Chapter of Utah, Order of Eastern Star. In 1948, he was president of the Utah Department, Reserve Officers Association. He is a member of the Logan Presbyterian Church, served as Ruling Elder, Trustee, and Deacon, and in 1951 was Moderator of Utah Presbytery, He is also a member of Logan Rotary Club which, in 1960, he served as Director, and has twelve years of perfect attendance. He is a member of Logan Golf and Country Club, where he is holder of a Hole-in One Certificate for 1965.

In scientific societies, Brother Dorst was elected a member of Phi Sigma in 1930, and in 1960 was President of Utah State Chapter of Sigma Xi. His name is listed in Leaders of American Science. He is the author of about seventy-five papers, of which forty are technical articles.

In 1930, he became a Master Mason in Hiram Lodge, No. 12, Richfield, Utah; transferred his membership to Kaibab Lodge No. 25 while living in Salt Lake City; and in 1937, transferred his membership to Harmony Lodge No. 21, Logan. In 1940, he served the latter Lodge as Worshipful Master and, from 1947 to 1951, as Secretary. In the Grand Lodge of Utah, he served in appointive offices from 1957 to 1962; in 1963 was elected Junior Grand Warden, in 1964 Senior Grand Warden, in 1965 Deputy Grand Master.

Other Masonic affiliations of Brother Dorst are: 32 Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, 1934; El Kalah Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, 1935. In the Shrine he was a member of the patrol from 1935 to 1940.

In 1936, he became a member of National Sojourners and of Heroes of 76, and has a life membership in Camp Croft Chapter No. 140 at Spartansburg, South Carolina. In the latter he is a Charter Member and served as secretary in 1941 and 1942.

Utah Grand Lodge Proceedings, 1966.

PGM, Howard Earl Dorst died on December 11, 1999 in Logan, Utah. Utah Grand Lodge Proceedings, 2000, page 107.

Electronically Transcribed as written without corrections to grammar or spelling by Aaron E. Saathoff, P.M., March, 2005.