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Meet Our Staff

Full Time Staff:
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John L.
Logan John
Logan became Executive Director of the
Foundation on July 1, 2008. John
had a 25-year career as a banker,
including service as a senior commercial
lender and a branch President. He
also served on numerous non-profit
boards in executive positions. He
is active member of many Masonic
organizations, having served as head of
many of them. John has been on the
Board of Directors of the Foundation
since 1994, having served as President
from 2001-2003.
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Linda
Harless
Linda
Harless, who has been with the
Foundation since 1982, keeps track of
all the Foundation's financial
transactions, bank accounts and various
funds. Her long history with the
Foundation and her ability to remember
things that have occurred in the past
make her a very valuable asset.
She has two grown children. She is
the proud grandmother to two
grandchildren, Avery and Carter.
Her spare time is taken up with
gardening and her dog "Scrappy"!
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Ethel
Wagoner
The
Matching Funds Program continues to grow
each year, both in the number of Lodges
participating and in the number of
applications processed. Ethel
Wagoner "works" every Matching Funds
application for completeness and
correctness before making multiple
copies for the Matching Funds Committee
balloting process. In addition to
this program, Ethel, who has been with
the Foundation since 1988, works on
Student of Today, Teacher of Today,
Teacher of the Year and Senior Essay
Contest. In her spare time she
loves to cook and spend time with her
granddaughter Rylea.
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Tommy
Johnston
Tommy
Johnston has been Field Representative
since the closing of the Oklahoma
Masonic Home in August of 2000. He
transferred from the Home where he
served as Administrator from 1995
through the closing. His primary
duties are the continued monitoring of
the former residents who were placed in
other facilities across the State when
the Home closed. He also oversees
the "Promises Matter" program of the
Foundation. Tommy first worked at
the Masonic Home Print Shop in 1969
before moving to the Grand Lodge Office
in 1971. He became Office Manager
of the Oklahoma Masonic Home in 1979.
Tommy is very active in various Guthrie
Masonic organizations as well as the
First Christian Church in Guthrie. He
and his wife, Sharon, live in Edmond and
are enjoying being grandparents to eight
grandchildren, Jakeb, Mikayla, David,
Katelyn, Alex, Taylor, Abigail and
Zachary.
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As Needed:
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Bob Wells
Bob Wells
joined the Charity Foundation in 1983
and wrote the programs that computerized
both the Foundation and the Grand Lodge.
The Grand Lodge system was recognized in
1990 as the "best membership records and
computer system" of any Grand Lodge in
the U.S. Bob is a Past Master of
Britton Lodge and has served as
Associate Grand Guardian of Oklahoma
Job's Daughters.
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Jim
Tresner
The
Masonic Charity Foundation produces an
Annual Report along with brochures and
informational pieces fro Lodges and
others, explaining the workings of the
Foundation's programs or its general
support of educational and charitable
goals. Jim Tresner is the
Foundation's wordsmith. He is a
member of the Blue Friars (the
international association of Masonic
authors), editor of the Oklahoma Mason,
Book review Editor for the Scottish Rite
Journal, and Editor-in-Chief of
"Plumbline", the newsletter of the
Scottish Rite Research Society. |
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