Tonganoxie’s Masonic Lodge wins national award
Henri Masonic Lodge No. 190 in Tonganoxie has received the Mark Twain Masonic Awareness Award, making it one of only 17 lodges nationally to win the award this year and the first in Kansas.
The local chapter received the award, which recognizes lodges that have demonstrated exemplary work in constructing a positive Masonic identity within the lodge for the local community, at the Grand Lodge Session on March 18 in Salina.
The Mark Twain Masonic Awareness Awards are presented annually to the lodges that demonstrate exceptional commitment to Freemasonry’s philosophy of self-improvement and enlightenment.
The award is named after Twain, who also was a Freemason.
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- Henri Lodge No. 190 members pictured with their Mark Twain Award are front row, from left, Rich Siecgrist, Jim Denholm, Kent Needham and David Kinzie; back row, from left, Jim Lasher, Mikel Lovin, Jefferson Boor, Smokie Siecgrist and James Nelson. Other members who attended the Grand Lodge Session who were not pictured are Ed Bleam, Bob Schroeder, Ron Harger and Dave Baggett.