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VOL. 32 NO. 8
Phase Two of Your Life?
A Mature News Magazine for Southeastern Wisconsin
Let’s Give A Big Hand To The Shriners Organization
August 2018
INSIDE.... CHECK OUT OUR Assisted and Supportive
Care Directory See Page 14-27
Editorials See Page 4
Caregiving’s Various Steps See Page 10
Events Calendar See Page 28-29
Wounded Warriors’ Softball See Page 30
Past Potentate for the Milwaukee Tripoli Shriners Jim Cleary, in a portrait of him by Wisconsin artist George Pollard. BY JACK PEARSON
In our modern world of high technology, instant mass communications and the Internet, it is strange that many old misconceptions and assumptions, no matter how erroneous they are, still exist. A good example would be the overall perception that many people still have about the Shriners organization. Ask one of your neighbors or someone else that you know for his or her opinion of them and you’ll probably get something to the effect that it is a secret, elitist group, foreign in origin, and possibly opposed in some way to
races other than white. All of which is about as ridiculous as was the old medieval belief that the world was flat. In reality, the Shriners, an outgrowth of Freemasonry, is a highly principled, extremely moralistic society, one which combines fraternal good fellowship and camaraderie with a dedication of service to humanity. It is somewhat similar in that regard to the Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs, which by the way were both formed long after the Shriners had come into being. But most important, the Shriners are deeply involved in charitable work and have
raised millions in their longtime efforts to help crippled and needy children. Here in Wisconsin, residents should be a bit more knowledgeable about the Shriners because of the annual Green Bay Packers NFL Shrine game held every fall since 1950. As noted in the current Packers media guide, “Green Bay plays host to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday, August 16, for the 69th annual Midwest Shrine game, one of the longest of the team’s traditions. Each year the Packers donate a percentage of the gate to the Shriners SHRINERS continued on page 32
Tuskegee Black Pilot See Page 35
Business Directory See Page 39