The Philalethes Society and the Philalethes Journal of Masonic Research and Letters.

Journal
Membership
2012 Annual
  Assembly & Feast

About Us
History
Executive Committee
Editorial Board
Fellows
Honorees



Honorees


The Certificate of Literature Award

John Black Vrooman fps described the Philalethes Society's Certificate of Literature Award as ”a just reward for literary and Masonic endeavor…certified on the basis of worth, human interest and research.“

year author article
1956 James R. Case fps The Hamilton Bi-Centennial
1957 Allen Cabaniss mps Importance of the Fellow Craft's Degree
1958 Ronald E. Heaton fps Notes on a List of Some Conjectured American Freemasons
1959 Roscoe Pound fps What Is Law?
1960 William I. Cummings fps Masonic Background
1961 Allen E. Roberts fps Masonry Under Two Flags
1962 Norman C. Dutt fps The Lewis Mason
1963 Andrew J. White fps Let‘s Take A New Look At Masonic Funerals
1965 Alphonse Cerza fps Recommended Masonic Reading
1966 Ross Hepburn fps Freemasonry in New Zealand
1968 Harold V. B. Voorhis fps Two Theories to Look Into
1970 Franklin J. Anderson fps The Soul of Freemasonry
1971 Eugene S. Hopp fps Defining Freemasonry: Tradition Becomes Practical
1973 Dwight L. Smith fps Of Landmarks and Cuspidors
1974 John Nocas fps Josephus: The Great Jewish Historian
1975 Alex Horne fps Prince Edwin, A.D. 926: Our First "Speculative Mason"
1976 Mervin B. Hogan fps The Confrontation of G.M. Abraham Jonas and John Cook Bennett at Nauvoo
1978 Louis C. King fps How A Cathedral Was Built
1979 Charles Cuthrie fps Rob Morris and The Conservators in Kentucky
1980 John Mauk Hilliard fps The Lodge as Primary Community
1981 Richard H. Sands fps Physicists, The Royal Society, and Freemasonry
1982 Leslie L. Walker, Jr. mps Did Shakespeare Create Masonic Ritual?
1983 Keith Arrington fps Iowa's Masonic Magazines: The Battling Editors
1984 Wallace McLeod fps Why Saint Alban?
1985 Louis L. Williams fps Sir Christopher Wren
1986 Leslie L. Walker, Jr. mps Of Oaths, Vows, and Obligations
1987 Robin L. Carr mps Peter Shaffer‘s Amadeus and Freemasonry; Goethe and the Universal Man
1988 Joseph E. Bennett fps [researching]
1989 Robert C. Barnard mps The Mystery of the Death of Meriwether Lewis
1990 George H.T. French mps [researching]
1991 David Crockett mps The Evolution of Masonic Thought
1992 Melvyn Friendly mps The Masonic Connection With the Oregon Constitution
1993 John M. Boersma mps Brother Mozart
1994 Nelson C. King fps [researching]
1995 Herbert G. Gardiner mps The Glory and Travail of a Bygone Era
1996 Bob Ellenwood mps [researching]
1997 Alain Bernheim mps [researching]
1998 S. Brent Morris fps [researching]
1999 Robert L. Uzzel mps [researching]
2000 William E. Parker mps [researching]
2002 W. Preston Vaughn mps The Masonic Home and School of Texas, 1920–1940
2003 Milo D. Dailey IV mps [researching]
2004 John L. Cooper III fps Freemasonry and Societal Change
2006 Terry L. Tilton fps A Minnesota Tale
2008 Phillip Jack Buta fps The God Conspiracy
2009 Robert G. Davis fps William Preston: Architect of the American Craft Ritual
2010 Thomas D. Worrel mps The Art of Memory and the Spiritual Practice of the Seven Liberal Arts

Distinguished Service Medal Awardees

Keith Arrington fps
Joseph E. Bennett fps
Ron Blaisdell mps
John Boettjer fps
Aubrey Brown, Sr. mps
Preston Burner mps
Alphonse Cerza fps
Richard C. Curtis fps
Harold L. Davidson fps
Errol Feldman mps
Richard E. Fletcher fps
Charles S. Guthrie fps
Forrest D. Haggard fps
Walid Harb mps
Ronald E. Heaton fps
R.T. James mps
Rick Kasparek mps
Ed King fps
Nelson C. King fps
William F. Koeckert fps
Stanley W. Kuciejski mps
Wallace E. McLeod fps
Jerald E. Marsengill fps
S. Brent Morris fps
Allen E. Roberts fps
John J. Robinson fps
Harley Silver mps
Wilmer Stanley mps
Tom Worrell mps