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ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2006, A PRESENTATION WAS MADE DURING OUR MONTHLY BUSINESS MEETING TO AWARD PATENTS, LAPEL PINS AND COMMEMORATIVE COINS TO OUR MEMBERS WHO HAVE RECENTLY BEEN HONORED BY RECEIVING THEIR INSPECTORS GENERAL HONORARY 33^RD DEGREE.  THE PRESENTATION WAS MADE BY OUR SECRETARY, JOHN L. ATKINSON, 33°, AND PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE BALLARD SMITH, PGM, 33°.  RECEIVING THE HONORS AND ADORNED IN THEIR NEW “WHITE HATS” WERE ROBERT E. BAZZELL, 33°, JOHN T. DARK, 33°, CHARLES F. JACKSON, 33°, AND JAMES H. PIEPER, 33°.  A WORD OF GRATITUDE WAS GIVEN FOR THE CONTRIBUTIONS THEY HAVE MADE TO THE SCOTTISH RITE AND EACH WAS CHARGED WITH THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY OF CONTINUING THEIR GOOD WORK INTO THE FUTURE.

          AFTERWARDS, JOHN L. ATKINSON, 33°, AND M:W: BALLARD SMITH, PGM, 33°, MADE A SIMILAR PRESENTATION TO HONOR THOSE WHO WERE RECENTLY INVESTITUTED WITH THE RANK AND DECORATION OF A KNIGHT COMMANDER COURT OF HONOUR.  THERE TO RECEIVE THEIR PATENT, LAPEL PIN AND COMMEMORATIVE COIN WERE JOHN W. CHAMBERS, 32° K.C.C.H., DAVID L. CULLIGAN, 32° K.C.C.H., T. PATRICK DICKSON, 32° K.C.C.H., GEORGE B. GRAY, 32° K.C.C.H., FREDERICK J. McANN, 32° K.C.C.H., AND ROBERT S. SALTS, 32° K.C.C.H., EACH WEARING THEIR NEW “RED HATS”.

          PRESENTATIONS FOR THE NIGHT WERE COMPLETED WHEN AN ENDOWED MEMBERSHIP CERTIFICATE WAS GIVEN TO JOHN W. WALKER, 32° K.C.C.H., BY BLUE ARCHER, 33°, ON BEHALF OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SHREVEPORT SCOTTISH RITE.