Rastrick Lodge celebrates a 60 year milestone
A Sixty year milestone in Freemasonry was celebrated by W Bro Sydney John Ackroyd PPJGW of the Rastrick Lodge No 4885 when he received his Jubilee certificate from the Deputy Provincial Grand Master VW Bro Jack Pigott at the regular Lodge meeting held on May 5th.
The Deputy Provincial Grand Master, V W Bro Jack Pigott and W Bro Sydney (Syd) Ackroyd enjoy a private joke at the presentation.
W Bro John Burnham, Rastrick Lodge’s Grand Lodge Officer gave the Brethren a detailed account of W Bro Ackroyd’s personal life. Afterwards, the Deputy PGM and W Bro Ackroyd discussed his Masonic career including his initial decision to join Freemasonry in 1948, his reasons for choosing Rastrick Lodge and his initiation on 3rd May 1950 through to his appointment to Provincial Office as PPAGDC in 1973, his subsequent promotion in 1983 to PPJGW and his recent retirement as Treasurer of the Lodge in March of this year (a post he had held for 40 years).
The discussion, sometimes poignant and often humorous gave the Brethren present a detailed insight into both the private and Masonic life of one of Rastrick Lodge’s most well respected ‘Fathers’.