The Glenlyon Lodge No. 346 S.C.

 \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe family and the Brethren of The Glenlyon Lodge No 346 S.C., endured another great loss with the ascending to the Grand Lodge above of one of its illustrious Brethren, Brother. John Alfred Pickersgill. Brother John was initiated as a member of The Glenlyon Lodge No 346 S.C. on the 10th of August 1983, passed to the Second Degree on the 12th of October 1983 and raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason on the 13th of June 1984. He became Right Worshipul Master on the Lodge on for the administrative year 2009/2010. He was also the First Principal of The Glenlyon Royal Arch Chapter no. 762 in the administrative year 2010/2011.\r\n\r\nIn his private avocation Brother John was an employee of the Coffee Industry Board for seventeen years retiring as General Manager. During his service he oversaw an almost ten fold increase in coffee production as well as significant expansion of the processing capacity of the Coffee Industry Board. He was instrumental in developing a strong and durable relationship between the Jamaican Coffee Industry and the Association of Japanese Importers of Jamaican Coffee, as well as Specialty Coffee Association of America. “Mr Pick” as Brother John is remembered by his colleagues in the coffee industry, was known as the consummate gentleman, decent human being who always had the welfare of his staff as a priority.\r\n\r\nBrother Leon Robertson on behalf of the Brethren of The Glenlyon Lodge, paraphrasing the words of the late Most Worshipful Brother Otto Klotz, Honorary Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada, 1876, paid this tribute to Brother John; “If you see a man who quietly and modestly, moves in the sphere of his life, who with- out blemish fulfills his duty as a man, a subject, a husband and a father, who is pious without hypocrisy, benevolent without ostentation and aids his fellow man without self interest, who heart beats warm for friendship, who serene mind is open for licensed pleasure, who in vicissitudes does not despair, nor in fortune will be presumptuous, and who will be resolute in the hour of danger, you would have found the ideal of a Freemason, “ Our Brother John was such a man”.  “As a Freemason and a member of The Glenlyon Lodge, Brother John built a temple of honour and virtue of unselfish devotion to duty. His was a life of service to our Lodge and Brethren, and verily and truly exemplified the spirit of our fraternity (i.e. to help the needy, succor the distressed and to sup- port everything that is fine and noble. His impact on the younger Brethren of the Lodge was pro- found, and he was held in enviable esteem by all”.\r\n\r\nHe will be dearly missed by all who knew him.\r\n\r\nMay his soul rest in peace.