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                              Vol Volume XCII No.1 - Summer Issue - Page 3e - Page 12  city, and I have worked with all three State of Wash-
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                                                                           ington budgets.  Unlike the federal government, our
                                                                           State must by law have a balanced budget, so I un-
                                                                           derstand the discipline balanced budgeting requires.
          JUNIOR  Grand   WARDEN                                           We often hear that Grand Lodge is a business.  I
                                                                           don’t happen to believe that, our Grand Lodge is a
     JGW CANDIDA TES                                                       Fraternity.  That said, it is a Fraternity with large busi-
                                                                           ness interests, and it is a Fraternity that must thrive
        F    O    R    U    M                                              within our society at large.
                                                                           I believe that my professional background and expe-
                                                                           rience has prepared me extremely well for the task
                                                                           of leading our Fraternity into a bright and prosperous
                          Question:  How  has  my professional  life       future.
                          prepared me for duties and responsibil-
                          ities  of  serving as the  Grand  Master of      Fraternally,
                          Grand Lodge  of Free and  Accepted Ma-           VWB Cameron Bailey
                          sons of Washington?
                           am currently a Legislative Affairs professional, ad-
                           vocating  for  clients,  including  our  Grand  Lodge,
                         I before the Washington State Legislature.  Prior to
                          this, I worked for the Legislature itself, both with the
                          House of Representatives and the Senate, positions   Question:  How  has my professional  life
                          that I was honored to hold for 17 years.         prepared me for duties and responsibil-
                          In addition to my Legislative work I was honored by   ities of serving  as the Grand Master of
                          the voters with election to the Snohomish City Coun-  Grand Lodge  of Free and  Accepted Ma-
                          cil and have served as Mayor of that City.       sons of Washington?
                          Prior to my work within government I was self-em-  n order to answer this question, you have to ask
                          ployed for many years as a distributer of wholesale   what serving as Grand Master requires. As Grand
                          fruits and vegetables.  That business was a natural  IMaster, I will be responsible for establishing goals,
                          fit for a young man coming off our family farm in the   innovating, motivating, and creating trust within the
                          Snohomish valley.                                Fraternity. A good leader places his officers around
                          I believe that my varied work history has prepared   him and sits everyone up for success. He must work
                          me well for the duties and responsibilities that face   with diversity of opinion, not seeing it as a burden but
                          our Grand Master.                                as opportunity. As the leader, he must see any prob-
                                   Working  with  extremely  diverse  groups                       lem and be the facilita-
                                   of  individuals,  from  every  corner  of  our                  tor to the solution, main-
                                   State,  in  order  to  Craft  legislation  and                  taining  a  calm  positive
                                   budgets that can be supported by the ma-                        attitude. All the while, he
                                   jority is a challenging task, but something                     is mindfully building the
                                   that I have been able to excel at doing.                        next generation of lead-
                                   Just like our State, our Fraternity reflects                    ership.
                                   the  diversity  of  our  citizenry.    A  Lodge                 My  professional  life
                                   within the City of Seattle will necessarily                     has  trained  me  well  in
                                   have a different character than a Lodge                         all  these  aspects  both
                                   located  in  a  small  Eastern  Washington                      through  formal  man-
                                   community.  This diversity is a strength,                       agement  training  and
                                   but it can also be a challenge.  I believe                      through experience and
                                   that  my  professional  experience  will                        responsibilities   span-
                                   serve me well because I can relate well,                        ning  42  years.  Begin-
                          and work well, with people from extremely diverse   ning as a scientific illustrator for Westinghouse, I be-
                          backgrounds holding equally diverse views on the   came Art Director, Supervisor with Boeing and then
                          issues that we as a Grand Lodge face.            Site Manager of Graphic Services for Lockheed Mar-
                          I am very experienced working with a staff, and have   tin with 6 departments spread over 25 miles. Today
                          done so for many years.  In the legislature my office   I am Principle Communications Specialist in charge
                          staff was roughly the same size as our current Grand   of corporate branding and visual communications for
                          Lodge staff, and when I was with the City my staff   WRPS, prime contractor at the Hanford Site. I have
                          was quite large including police and utilities in addi-  had the opportunity to be trained by some of the most
                          tion to general government employees.            successful fortune 500 companies in the country in
                          Through the years I have balanced my home budget,   everything from time management to labor relations
                          the budget for my business, the budget of a small    (Continued in page 13)    Table of Contents
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