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F. McElroy Lodge No. 302 in 1960, and progressed through the chairs to Worshipful Master in
1966 – an office that he would again hold 50 years later. During his initial journey to the East, Bill
was active in the officers associations, serving as President of the Tacoma / Pierce County Junior
Warden's Club 1964; Master's & Warden's Association 1966, and Past Master's Association 1983.
Bill’s other Blue Lodge affiliations include plural membership in Frank S. Land Lodge No. 313 in
Des Moines and Glacier Lodge No. 10 in Anchorage, AK, as well as membership in the Southern
California Research Lodge. He is also a Charter Life Member of Pacific Rim Lodge No. 12,
Vladivostok, Siberia, Russia.

Bill has been a constant seeker of Masonic Light. He joined the Tacoma Scottish Rite Bodies in
1966 where he has served as Venerable Master, Wise Master, Commander and Venerable Master
of Kadosh of the Tacoma Consistory. He was elected a Knight Commander Court of Honor in
1973 and Coroneted a Thirty-third Degree Inspector General, Honorary, in 1985. He would be
appointed Personal Representative of the Sovereign Grand Inspector General for the Orient of
Washington, 1990-1992; Deputy of the Supreme Council in 1993; and elected & crowned
Sovereign Grand Inspector General for the Orient of Washington in October 1993. He would
faithfully serve in this capacity for twenty years, the final three as Grand Minister of State.

Bill’s numerous Masonic affiliations also include serving as Recorder, Puget Sound Lodge No. 5,
Royal Ark Mariner; Senior Warden, Pacific Council No. 30, Allied Masonic Degrees; Viceroy, St.
Alban Conclave, Red Cross of Constantine; Chieftain, Thistle Clan, Royal Order of Scotland; and
as a sideline member of Tacoma Chapter No. 4, Royal Arch Masons; Tacoma Council No. 1, Royal
and Select Masters; Ivanhoe Commandery No. 4, Knights Templar; Afifi Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S.,
Prove Guard; Tacoma Court No. 104, Royal Order of Jesters; and Ft. Lewis Chapter No. 89,
National Sojourners, Inc. He is a member of Supreme Magnus College, S.R.I.C.F.; Great Chief's
Council No. 0, Knight Masons; and is a Fellow of the Grand College of Rites of the U.S.A. He
was recently inducted into the Rainier York Rite College No. 54, and honored with the Order of
the Purple Cross of the York Rite Sovereign College.

Bill and Maralyn are charter and twenty-five years members of Pyramid Chapter, Order of Eastern
Star. He served as Worthy Patron with his mother, Mary Figg, for the year 1969-70. In 1985 he
affiliated with Glacier Lodge, No. 10, Anchorage, Alaska.

Appointments in Grand Lodge began in 1966 to Segregation and Reference; 1967, Chairman,
Charters and New Lodges; and the Committee on Arrangements, 1973 and 1978. In 1968, Most
Worshipful Brother Robert L. Gilmore selected Bill to serve as Senior Grand Steward. That
appointment was followed by terms as Grand Historian, 1969-70; Masonic Public Relations
Committee, 1970-71; Grand Lecturer, 1971 and again 1972-73; Deputy of the Grand Master in
District No. 13, 1971-72; Credentials Committee, 1973-74; Chairman, DeMolay Committee,
1974-75; Grand Orator, 1976-77; Grand Marshal, 1977-78 and again 1985-86; Chairman, Finance
Committee, 1981-84; and Deputy Instructor Committee, 1984-85.

Bill was part of the seven-member committee that wrote the Standard Floorwork Guidelines in
1971-73, and was the principal author of the Proficiency in Lodge Management Test during 1972-
75. He was appointed Representative of the Grand Lodge of Florida in 1971 and Representative