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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 of the United Grand
Lodge of England in 1989. He was elected Junior Grand Warden at the 129th Annual Communication in
1986 and progressed successively through the elected line until being installed into the Grand East on June
22, 1989.

Like those who served in the Oriental Chair before him, our Grand Master had a deep concern for

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