Most Worshipful Grand Master, Brethren, Ladies and Guests, good evening.
Garth Peterson, a former janitor at Princeton University, once shared this information with Omni magazine: ‘Most of the professors appreciated it when you washed off the blackboard but not Dr. [Albert] Einstein. Every morning he’d burst into tears. Way I see it, I had a job […]

Most Worshipful Grand Master, Brethren, Ladies and Guests, good evening: There are three kinds of people; those who can count and those who can’t.
I hope you can count on me to deliver an entertaining oration when I talk about:
SOUTHERN COMFORT
What do the words Southern Comfort mean to you? Does it portray the feeling of […]

Most Worshipful Grand Master, Brethren, Ladies and Guests, good evening: On this day – two-hundred-thirty years ago – September 8th 1776, the Continental Congress authorized the name “United States” and I hope we will all be united when I talk about:
FREEDOM AND FRATERNITY
I was going to start out by cracking a joke or quote a […]

Most Worshipful Grand Master, Brethren, Ladies and Guests, good afternoon.
Bob Hope once accepted an invitation to address a convention of the American Bar Association. He began his talk by saying, “My being here results from a slight misunderstanding. I thought I was to talk to the American Bra Association.”
I hope we don’t have a misunderstanding […]