Masonic Awards & Recognition
Recipients for the Hiram, Golden Veterans, 25-Years, and Mr. Conejo Awards
Hiram
Every year Blue Lodges across the state of California bestow an honor known as the Hiram award upon a single member of their individual Lodge. The award is generally described as the ‘highest honor” which can be presented by a Lodge. This can be somewhat confusing, as being Master of the Lodge is also described as being the ‘highest honor” that a Mason can achieve. Technically, both statements are true.
Read more in What is the Hiram Award.
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Nov. 6, 1979 | Max Stewart |
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Nov. 3, 1981 | Louis Dwight |
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Nov. 2, 1982 | J. Carl Jennings |
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Nov. 8, 1983 | Earnest Wheaton |
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Nov. 6, 1984 | Henry Burnley |
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Nov. 5, 1985 | Jack K. Rector |
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Nov. 25, 1986 | Glenden Hardig |
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Nov. 10, 1987 | Howard “Buster” Smith, PM |
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Jan. 1, 1988 | Roger Garretson, PM |
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Nov. 26, 1991 | Starr Thompson, PM |
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Dec. 8, 1992 | Robert H. Wilson |
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Feb. 22, 1994 | Robert Mason Dague |
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Dec. 12, 1994 | Tom Bolton, PM |
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Dec. 12, 1995 | Floyd Knuth |
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Dec. 13, 1996 | Remo Cuniberti |
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July 26, 1997 | Arthur Weiss, PM |
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Oct. 3, 2000 | Westel Reed, PM |
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Oct. 2, 2001 | Alton Emerson, PM |
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Sept. 3, 2002 | Lynn Wallingford, PM |
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Jan. 20, 2004 | John Argue, PM |
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Oct. 5, 2004 | Jerome Michaelson, PM |
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Nov. 1, 2005 | George Wilding |
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Dec. 5, 2006 | Jerrold Schwartz, PM |
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Dec. 4, 2007 | David Johnson, PM |
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July 1, 2008 | Robert Teplitz |
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Dec. 1, 2009 | Steven Cooley, PM |
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Dec. 7, 2010 | Thomas Raymond Waite, PM |
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Dec. 6, 2011 | David Del Dosso, PM |
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Dec. 4, 2012 | David Honick |
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Dec. 3, 2013 | Rees Padfield, PM |
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Dec. 3, 2014 | Stephen M. Wurtzel |
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Dec. 1, 2015 | David Doan, PGM |
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Dec. 6, 2016 | Christopher Bazacos |
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Dec. 1, 2017 | Scott D. Spiegel, PM |
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Dec. 4, 2018 | Marc A. Newman, PM |
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Dec. 3, 2019 | John "Jack" Vautin |
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Dec. 8, 2020 | Frank Shapiro, PM |
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Oct. 5, 2021 | Bill Aitchison |
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Dec. 6, 2022 | Steven R. Hood, PM |
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Dec. 5, 2023 | Robert Kelly |
Golden Veterans Awardees
The Golden Veterans award in Freemasonry is awarded for being a Mason in good standing for over 50 years.
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Jan. 1, 1978 | Jack K. Rector |
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Nov. 7, 1989 | Eugene J. Bryan |
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Sept. 1, 1992 | Burton F. Bennet |
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March 3, 1994 | Floyd E. Knuth |
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May 29, 1997 | Donald E. Del Dosso |
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Aug. 26, 1998 | Albert G. Bergesen |
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Jan. 1, 1999 | Nathan D. Fellman |
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June 21, 1999 | Max E. Sallisbury |
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Oct. 27, 1999 | Francis E. Munson |
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July 25, 2000 | Joseph A. Mitchell |
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March 6, 2001 | Tom R. Bolton, PM |
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April 3, 2001 | William C. Ferguson |
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Feb. 7, 2002 | Rudolph G. Hendrick, PM |
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June 3, 2003 | Robert C. Teplitz |
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Nov. 12, 2003 | David Honick, PM |
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Nov. 14, 2006 | William P. Ferguson |
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Aug. 30, 2008 | Christopher Bazacos |
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Aug. 7, 2012 | Jerrold Schwartz, PM |
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Sept. 4, 2012 | Thomas Raymond Waite, PM |
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Oct. 2, 2012 | Howard “Buster” Smith, PM |
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Oct. 7, 2014 | Steven E. Ames |
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Nov. 11, 2014 | Gerald M. Weissman |
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Jan. 6, 2015 | Maurice Samson |
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Jan. 29, 2015 | Alton C. Emerson, PM |
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Feb. 3, 2015 | Smith E. Brody |
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March 3, 2015 | David I. Nelson |
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May 5, 2015 | Henry Sahagian |
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July 7, 2015 | Michael D. Rosco |
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July 14, 2015 | Emil R. Mieske |
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Jan. 3, 2016 | Willard W. Ashby |
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June 27, 2017 | Billy D. Thomason |
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Dec. 7, 2017 | Ronald Clohessy |
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Dec. 11, 2017 | Alexander Work |
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Feb. 6, 2018 | Donald L. Williams |
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Feb. 18, 2019 | Stephen M. Wurtzel |
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Dec. 21, 2019 | Starr Thompson, PM |
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May 19, 2020 | John Argue, PM |
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Sept. 29, 2020 | Jerome Michaelson, PM |
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July 6, 2021 | David Del Dosso, PM |
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July 6, 2021 | Martin Spiegel |
25-Year Masons
25-Year Masons are awarded a special pin in recognition of being a Master Mason in good standing for 25-Years.
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Dec. 10, 1981 | Richard McFarland |
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Jan. 28, 1982 | Gerald Weissman |
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Nov. 12, 1983 | Richard Young |
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June 24, 1984 | Kenneth McKenzie |
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Dec. 21, 1984 | Harris Ziff |
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June 14, 1985 | Richard Dyatt |
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June 17, 1985 | Ronald Nystrom |
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July 12, 1987 | Thomas Waite, PM |
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Sept. 22, 1987 | Howard “Buster” Smith, PM |
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April 14, 1989 | Steven Ames |
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Aug. 17, 1990 | Henry Sahagian |
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Dec. 1, 1991 | Willard Ashby |
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June 27, 1992 | Billy D. Thomason |
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Feb. 18, 1994 | Stephen M. Wurtzel |
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May 19, 1995 | John Argue, PM |
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Sept. 29, 1995 | Jerome Michaelson, PM |
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Nov. 25, 1995 | Martin Spiegel |
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April 13, 1996 | Robert Kroll |
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July 15, 1996 | David Del Dosso, PM |
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Oct. 3, 1997 | Jeffrey Alexander |
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Oct. 31, 1997 | Dennis Gillette |
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Nov. 20, 1998 | Martin Fentress, PM |
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April 30, 2000 | Thomas Martin |
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Sept. 16, 2000 | Donald Krampe |
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Nov. 25, 2000 | David Doan, PGM |
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Feb. 3, 2001 | Robert Kelley |
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Feb. 17, 2001 | Edwin Rigsbee |
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July 30, 2001 | David Deyell |
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July 26, 2002 | Kenneth Dalbeck Jr. |
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March 9, 2003 | Thomas Appleton |
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May 7, 2003 | Randall Cloud |
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Sept. 30, 2003 | Jerry Knotts |
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Dec. 18, 2003 | Robert Raupp |
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Aug. 7, 2004 | Russell Wilson |
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April 1, 2005 | William Dorrell |
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April 30, 2005 | William Thornton |
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Oct. 27, 2005 | Jonathan Berke |
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Jan. 27, 2006 | Robert Given |
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Feb. 17, 2006 | William Csellak Jr. |
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Nov. 24, 2006 | Lawrence Schwartz |
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Feb. 14, 2009 | Charles Foster, PM |
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Jan. 22, 2010 | Robert Balitzer |
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Oct. 22, 2010 | Theodore Lidgett |
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Jan. 28, 2011 | Arthur Weiss, PM |
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Nov. 11, 2011 | Robert Wyndham |
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Nov. 18, 2011 | Richard Hernandez, PM |
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Dec. 23, 2011 | Steven Cooley, PM |
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March 15, 2012 | Lawrence Lowman |
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July 24, 2012 | Larry Miller |
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Aug. 17, 2012 | James Falkin |
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June 28, 2014 | Bruce Ewald, PM |
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Nov. 21, 2014 | John Hall |
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Dec. 26, 2014 | James Gardner |
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Oct. 23, 2015 | Arthur Minazolli |
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Nov. 13, 2015 | Gregory Kaapuni |
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March 26, 2016 | David Johnson, PM |
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June 26, 2016 | Geoffrey Sindon |
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Aug. 8, 2016 | Robert Napp, PM |
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Feb. 25, 2017 | Creighton Stephens, PM |
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April 21, 2017 | Arthur Geary, PM |
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Oct. 27, 2017 | Kenneth Graves |
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Nov. 24, 2017 | Westel Reed Jr., PM |
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Dec. 19, 2017 | Michael Diamond |
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Dec. 28, 2018 | Lynn Wallingford, PM |
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June 30, 2019 | Jim Curtis |
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Dec. 26, 2020 | Michael Gann, PM |
Mr. Conejo
The Mr. Conejo Award is given to a Member of Conejo who has served the Lodge well and is in good standing with the Lodge.
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Feb. 4, 2014 | Stephen M. Wurtzel |
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Feb. 3, 2015 | Howard “Buster” Smith, PM |
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Feb. 2, 2016 | Jack Vautin |
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Feb. 7, 2017 | Brandon Lippincott |
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Feb. 6, 2018 | Bill Aitchison |
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Feb. 5, 2019 | Steven Hood |
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Feb. 4, 2020 | Adam Tischler |
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Jan. 5, 2021 | Steven Wolvek, PM |
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Feb. 2, 2021 | Frank Shapiro, PM |
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Jan. 11, 2022 | Lynn Wallingford, PM |
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Jan. 10, 2023 | Steven Cooley, PM |
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Jan. 9, 2024 | Wes Reed, PM |