San Diego Masons - La Jolla #518

La Jolla Lodge Hiram Awards

The Hiram Award is given a Brother Mason in recognition of service to the fraternity or mankind in general. It is intended for a Brother who, year after year, displays his devotion without receiving special recognition or special honor. Every Lodge has many such members. They are the living cement that binds our fraternity into a Brotherhood. You can find them at labor in kitchens, the coaching rooms, the committees, his church and community helping his fellowman, anywhere a true and steady Hand of assistance is needed. Below is a list of those brothers so honored by this Lodge for their dedicated service to our Lodge, Masonry in general and mankind.

Vike Ovanessoff 2010 La Jolla No. 518
Robert E. Bowman 11/01/1997 La Jolla No. 518
William Byous 10/26/2001 Black Mountain No. 845
Austin Leroy Covey 04/18/1998 La Jolla No. 518
Robert William Fisher 11/14/1983 La Jolla No. 518
George Louis Geanoulis 07/15/2004 Point Loma Lodge No. 620
Robert Duane Haas 09/28/1996 La Jolla No. 518
Robert William Jesse 11/11/2008 La Jolla No. 518
Douglas Wayne Johnston 07/02/2001 John D. Spreckels No. 657
James Robert Lewis 10/25/2005 Vista No. 687
Willard Vincent Markey 12/11/2000 La Jolla No. 518
Teofilo Camacho Reynoso Jr. 10/06/2001 La Jolla No. 518
Wendell Clifford Roberts 04/27/1996 La Jolla No. 518
Gordon E. Simpson 08/08/2005 La Jolla No. 518
Gerald Winstanley 01/01/1991 S.W. Hackett No. 574

Hiram Abif was a Grand Master who was sent to Jerusalem to work on the construction of the Temple of Soloman by the King of Tyre.
He was killed because he refused to reveal the holy secrets with which he was entrusted.

Having been assaulted in the Temple by three assailants he was asked would he reveal the secrets entrusted to him. He replied no, as i cannot reveal the secrets without the other two people who know them present. They killed him and buried him under an acacia. He was found by his followers and may have been buried close to the holy centre of the Temple of Jerusalem.