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Article: State Masons install new leader; Northboro man named Grand Master.(LOCAL NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- December 30, 2007
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Byline: Patricia J. James
NORTHBORO - The secret's out - and, according to Roger W. Pageau, that's a good thing.
Mr. Pageau, 63, was installed Thursday as the 77th Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts and will preside over 235 lodges and 40,000 Freemasons throughout the state for the next three years.
The Northboro resident said the Masons are often referred to as a secret organization, but that can cause a problem.
"I don't know how this came about," Mr. Pageau said Friday. "People got into their ideas that they couldn't talk to other people about it ... Many men didn't join because their fathers didn't tell them about it. It's ...