Fraters,
I trust all of you have been well during this pandemic. Because of this, we will not be meeting in person this year for our annual convivial, we will be having our convivial on January 22 starting at 7:00pm via Zoom, and we are excited to have Piers Vaughn giving a presentation, I met Piers a few years ago and knew him as a great writer, last year he presented a program at the Annual SRICF Convivial in Louisville, KY. He has gracious;y agreed to make a presentation to Ohio College. The following is from amazon;
“Piers A. Vaughan is an author and translator of Masonic and esoteric works, particularly from 18th and 19th Century France. In his translations he hopes to bring important works to the attention of the English-speaking world.
He was born in Brighton, England, and attended Brighton College, Oxford and Cranfield Universities. He was an avid musician, singing in a local church, playing several instruments, conducting and composing; he was also a keen fencer, and enjoyed appearing in local plays. He even appeared as an extra in ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Quadrophenia’!
He has an MA in Psychology, an MBA in Business Studies and an MA in Divinity. He has worked for a number of banks, including Midland, HSBC and Deutsche Bank, living in several countries, moving to the USA in the early 1990s.
His Masonic membership began in England in 1979, and he joined a number of Orders before joining St. John’s Lodge No. 1 in New York. He has traveled extensively across the USA and in many countries abroad giving lectures on a number of topics, ranging from history to talks on the symbols and esotericism of Masonry. An interest in 18th Century French Masonic Ritual led him to translate a number of important treatises and rituals into English.
He is also very involved in a number of Orders outside of Freemasonry, predominantly ones which have an esoteric background, and is also the head of a church descended from the Pre-Nicene Church of Richard, Duc de Palatine.
He is a member of The Authors Guild.”
We hope you can be with us on Friday January 22nd.
Merry Christmas to all!
Gerald G. Pugh, VIII°
Celebrant