Masonry Corner

Welcome to a new feature that will combine Here’s What Happening in the next issue with tips and thoughts from your editorial staff. We hope that it will contribute to more ideas on becoming more involved in your Lodge and Community. Our hope is to get more Lodges to submit articles on happenings in their community. Jennifer will impart hints on how best to submit photos for publication and suggestions for article length. Mark has vast experience in marketing and will share ideas on promoting your Lodge and its members.

If you missed attending one of the many Town Hall meetings held around the state, you missed some very important fellowship and sharing of ideas, both from the Grand Lodge Officers and from the members in attendance. Among the things I learned was just how involved

Masonic Founding Father. You can learn more about them and view a list of members who have donated a coin by visiting https://www.uprightandtrue. com. A portion of the cost of each coin is donated to our three Youth Groups.

R.W.B. Ed Walker Editor

If you are planning on submitting photos for publication in the magazine, here are some guidelines to follow: Photos should be in focus with a minimum resolution of 1200 x 1800 (6 MB uncompressed). The preferred size is 2500 x 2000 (14 MB uncompressed) or higher, especially for featured articles. Note that taking images from a website does not usually translate to something usable in print. Print resolution is quite high (300 pixels per inch) and website images (72 pixels per inch) can be extremely small in resolution and still look fine when viewed on a computer monitor. If you are taking images from a website with the intent to use them in the publication, please check the specifications on those images and make sure they meet at least the minimum requirement. The following formats are acceptable: JPG (high quality, light compression), TIFF, PNG or Adobe Photoshop for pixel-based images. Vector based artwork can be submitted as EPS, PDF or Adobe Illustrator formats.

If you are submitting an article with images for publication, a word count of approximately 275 is preferred. Please submit articles in Microsoft Word.