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Traveling Gavel Program

2024-2025 Grand Master’s  Statewide Traveling Gavel Current Location

Salt River (180)

Meetings
2nd Thursday, Monthly at 7:30 PM Eastern Time
4th Thursday, Monthly at 7:30 PM Eastern Time

GRAND MASTER’S 2024-2025 STATEWIDE TRAVELING GAVEL PROGRAM

The Grand Master will have a Statewide Traveling Gavel Program. The Traveling Gavel location can be tracked using the locator found on the Grand Lodge of Kentucky website and/or the Grand Lodge of Kentucky Statewide Traveling Gavel Lo- cation Facebook Page (see Appendix D). It is important that you follow the directions contained in the Traveling Gavel case to ensure that its location is kept updated, so all lodges have an opportunity to claim it. One or more Masons may claim the Traveling Gavel at any Masonic meeting. It must be claimed and presented in a tiled or open meeting to count. Make sure to follow the directions and sign the registry contained in the Traveling Gavel case. The Traveling Gavel will be released into circulation at the close of the Grand Lodge Annual Communication on Tuesday, October 22, 2024. Rules for claiming the Gavel will be posted on the Location Facebook page and a copy will be included in the Traveling Gavel case.

Elected or Appointed Grand Lodge Officers and District Deputy Grand Masters are not eligable to retrieve the Grand Master’s Traveling Gavel.

2024-2025 District Traveling Gavel Program

The District Deputy Grand Master is responsible for maintaining and promoting the District Traveling Gavel Program in his respective district. Each district should have a Traveling Gavel, and the District Deputy Grand Master should always know where it is located. It is his responsibility to keep the gavel traveling from lodge to lodge.

The guidelines below are only suggestions on how the District Traveling Gavel Program might work. If your district has a program in place, then continue with it instead. The purpose of this program is to encourage Masonic travel within the district.

The Traveling Gavel must be placed in clear view of all visiting Brothers, and may NOT be claimed until just before the close of the meeting.

Suggestions for claiming the Traveling Gavel

  1. The traveling gavel may be claimed from a lodge on any regular or lawfully called meeting, excluding only Masonic Funeral Rites.
  2. The traveling gavel may be claimed by:
    1. Whichever lodge has the most visitors present.
    2. If there is a tie, the lodge that traveled the farthest will receive the gavel.
    3. The Traveling Gavel will be presented before closing the lodge.
    4. The lodge receiving the gavel will notify the District Deputy.
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