Es Selamu Aleikum

     Greetings Nobles and Ladies:

     Hopefully but the time you read this, Winter, with her chilly blasts, frosts and snow, will be but a memory and Nature will have given up her white robe and changed to the green cloak of Spring.

     Your Divan has made visitations to Cheyenne , Rawlins, and Laramie Peak Shrine Club in Guernsey, Torrington , Casper , and Douglas, and upcoming visitations to Southwest Shrine Club in Evanston , Green River/Rock Springs, Big Piney/Pinedale and Lander with Laramie probably in the fall. We have enjoyed superb hospitality at all of our visitations and we thank you all so much for that.

     During our travels we have noticed that the faithful are imbued with that restlessness which follows the advent of a glorious Spring-time, returning caravans bring joyful tidings of the many unregenerates within our borders, who clamor for admission into our Mystic Shrine.

     I, as your Potentate, have heard the lamentations, and decree that our Faithful Followers shall gather at the oasis in Cheyenne , May 30th-June 2nd, and join our Pilgrimage, where we are told that welcome awaits and fruits aplenty abound.

     I urge the Nobility to go out into the highways and byways and round up these unregenerates and forward their petitions forthwith and on the appointed day to corral them in our oasis. Then let the Nobility, old and new, fraternize as of old, for friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Friendship is the shadow of the evening which strengthens with the setting sun of life. It is the only thing in the world concerning usefulness in which all mankind are agreed.

     We will have on this joyous occasion three Imperial Sirs and their Ladies, Imperial High Priest and Prophet, Imperial Sir George Mitchell and Lady Deanna who will be representing Imperial Potentate Nicholas Thomas. Imperial Oriental Guide, Imperial Sir Mike Severe and Lady Patty, and Imperial Second Ceremonial Master, Imperial Sir John Cinotto and Lady Margaret.

     Get those registrations filled out and sent in so you will not be left out of the fun and fellowship at PNSA. We are expecting a great showing of nobles and ladies from Korein so that we may show our guests from other temples what Wyoming hospitality is all about.

    Please plan to attend and support your Wyoming Shrine Bowl in Casper . The banquet will be on Friday, June 8^th. The parade will be Saturday morning, June 9^th and the game will be that evening at Dick Cheney Field at Natrona County High School . Your Shrine Bowl Board of Directors, led by Executive Director, TJ Claunch has been doing an outstanding job with this endeavor.

     It is indeed an honor and a pleasure to be your Potentate for 2007.

     Yours in the Faith,

     Dick Demoney Potentate

     (Some of the above plagiarized from early 1900’s, and I confess to the same)