The Legion of Honor Degree
The Legion of Honor is the highest Degree and Honor conferred by the International Supreme Council of the Order of DeMolay. The International Supreme Council of the Order of the Order of DeMolay may confer the DeMolay Legion of Honor (LOH) upon a Senior DeMolay for outstanding leadership in some field of endeavor, service to humanity, or for success in fraternal life, including adult service to the Order of DeMolay. The Honor was created in 1925 and was granted initially in 1926.
The International Supreme Council may confer upon a Freemason, who has performed unusual and meritorious service in behalf of the Order of DeMolay, or who has evidenced by a spirit of cooperation and appreciation for the Order of DeMolay, the Honorary Legion of Honor (HLOH). The Honorary Legion of Honor shall not be given only for service on an Advisory Council of a DeMolay Chapter or a DeMolay Knighthood Priory, or as a Chevalier Court Advisor.
Since amendment of the Statutes of the International Supreme Council in 1985, nominees for the DeMolay Legion of Honor must be at least twenty-five years of age before January 15. Initially when the Legion of Honor Degree was created by the Supreme Council in 1925, the minimum age was twenty years and subsequently it was raised to twenty-one years and later it was raised to twenty-two years. In 1961, the Supreme Council amended its Statutes ti raise the minimum age to twenty-five. From 1968 to 1985, the Statutes prescribed the minimum age as thirty. In 1985, the Statutes were amended again to lower the minimum age back to twenty-five. No one may apply for this distinction, and a nominee or the membership of a DeMolay Chapter, a DeMolay Knighthood Priory, or a DeMolay Legion of Honor Preceptory must have no knowledge of the nomination of a Senior DeMolay or Freemason for the DeMolay Legion of Honor. Failure to observe secrecy concerning the nomination subjects the nominee to the penalty of not being considered.
Nominations for the DeMolay Legion of Honor are made to the Supreme Council by the Executive Officer of Texas. Each Active Member of the International Supreme Council has the right to make one Active Legion of Honor nomination and one Honorary Legion of Honor nomination each year to the Supreme Council in addition to nominations made by the Executive Officer for the Jurisdiction. Nominations approved by the Executive Officer and nominations submitted to the Supreme Council by its Active Members are referred to the Honors and Awards Committee at the Annual Session of the Supreme Council and the recommendations of the committee are voted upon at the Annual Session of the Supreme Council by its Active Members. A unanimous vote of the Supreme Council Active Members is required for election to receive the DeMolay Legion of Honor.
Regalia consists of a gold and blue enameled cross medallion with nine stars suspended from a red cordon for an Active Legionnaire and a white cordon for an Honorary Legionnaire. The cross is mounted on an encircling wreath with crossed swords and surrounded by a coronet above which is a red enameled Teutonic Cross. Initially the insignia of HLOH was an LOH cross suspended by a heavy white ribbon from a gold bar containing nine raised stars. A gold ring with a red Maltese cross for an Active Legionnaire and a white Maltese cross for an Honorary Legionnaire is worn on the little finger of the right hand.
The Officers of Albert Pike Preceptory include the following Legionnaires, all of whom, except the Sergeant-at-Arms, are elected for three-year terms, in years evenly divisible by three. The Sergeant-at-Arms is appointed by the Dean to serve for a three-year term.
Albert Pike Preceptory
Officers
Dean Paul Alexander Canales, Chev., PSC, PSMC, PSIKC, LOH, COH
Vice Dean Douglas John Van Griner, Chev., PSC, PSMC, PSIKC, LOH, COH
Secretary Robert Charles Madison, HLOH
Treasurer Garrett Matthew Ethridge, Chev., LOH, KT, RD
Chaplain Jared Avery May, Chev., LOH, KT, RD
Sergeant-at-Arms Christopher DeJesus, Chev., LOH, KT, RD
PAST DEANS OF ALBERT PIKE PRECEPTORY
DEMOLAY LEGION OF HONOR
Charles Dufner 1933-1972
Reese L. Harrison Jr. 1972-2007
Gerald F. Nowotny 2007-2010
Larry Gene Wallis 2010-2013
James Walker Todd 2013-2016
Stuart Dunlop Shaw 2016-2019
Paul Alexander Canales 2019-2022
PAST DEANS IN ALBERT PIKE PRECEPTORY
DEMOLAY LEGION OF HONOR
Robert William Conrad Houston Preceptory 1979-1980
PAST STATE DEAN OF TEXAS STATE PRECEPTORY
DEMOLAY LEGION OF HONOR
Reese L. Harrison, Jr. 2017-2018
STATE PRECEPTORY TREASURER STATE PRECEPTORY SECRETARIES
Sidney Shaenfield 1993-2004 Kenneth Reddell Rowe Jr. 1993-1996
Paul A. Tolar 2004-2014 Reese L. Harrison Jr. 1996-2000
Paul A. Tolar 2000-2004
ACTIVE LEGIONNAIRES FROM ALBERT PIKE CHAPTER NO. 58
1929 Charles Dufner*
1931 John W. Ackermann Jr. *
1931 M. Abbe Strunk*
1932 David Edward Ritchey*
1932 Alfred Herman Watts**
1933 Thomas Lyman French Jr.*
1933 Frank Ernest Johnson*
1934 Jack Viggo Busbee*
1934 Thomas Barry Johnson Jr.*
1935 Emmet Charlton Velten*
1936 Alfred John Fischer*
1936 Clarence Franklin Moseley*
1939 Oscar August McCracken Jr.*
1940 Romie Mark Dufner*
1940 John Philip Dunsmore*
1941 Harold George Schlierer*
1945 Arthur F. Geisler Jr.*
1959 Ernest C. Reich Jr.*
1960 David Lee (Buddy) Stewart
1961 Reese L. Harrison Jr.
1962 John Henry Achilles*
1963 Sterling Vaughn Bernhard Sr.*
1964 Curtis Noland Strong Jr.
1965 Thomas Henry Boothe Jr.*
1965 Robert George Honts
1966 Phelps E. Littlepage#*
1967 William Charles Young*
1967 Thomas Harvey McDonald*
1968 Maunty Charles Collins
1969 Lee Cornell Bucknum*
1969 Porter Loring Jr. *
1970 William W. Beuhler Jr.
1970 John Wesley (Jack) Cones Jr.*
1971 John Carl Everly*
1971 Bruce Waitz*
1972 Tilford Harry Fletcher*
1972 Robert Harrie Travis*
1973 Archibald Morrison Dullnig*
1974 Albert William Hartman Jr.*
1974 William Gaston Parsons*
1975 Robert William Conrad
1976 James E. Barlow*
1976 Robert Sterling Giles
1976 John Robert Salling*
1976 John Francis Tafolla*
1977 Frederick Leroy Glassford
1977 Robert D. Green
1978 Robert T. Browne
1978 Robert Lee Brusenhan Jr.*
1978 George Kenneth Harcourt*
1978 David Ray Katz*
1978 Louis Alexander LeLaurin Jr.*
1978 Ronald Sherwood Lester
1978 Walter Eugene Loughridge*
1979 Samuel Frederick Biery Jr.
1979 James Walker Todd
1979 Billy Ray Trimmier*
1980 Wilfred Albert Fischer *
1980 George Mann Roper Jr.*
1980 Julius L. (Jack) Spooner*
1981 Otto Haenel Hegemann*
1981 Clarence Graebe Krause*
1981 Terrance Edward McGuire *
1981 Otto Wahrmund Sommers*
1982 John Bernard May*
1982 Jack Whiting McGuire Jr.
1982 Robert Alan Polunsky*
1983 Bryan Anthony Naylor III
1983 Glen Charles Naylor
1983 Richard Gerald Schoenert
1983 Robert Frederick Schoenert
1983 Larry Gene Wallis
1984 Robert Lynn Jett
1984 Milford Nat Jacobs*
1985 Jack Caldwell Hebdon*
1985 William Madison King Jr.*
1986 Willis Tinsley Ellis*
1987 Carl Barrow Huante*
1987 Martin Lee Virgil
1987 Michael Phillip Virgil
1988 George Davis Baumgardner
1988 Karl Arthur Drescher Jr.
1989 Gary Lynn Hammac
1990 Brian Landau Weiner
1991 Larry Alan Bruner
1991 Robert Chris Maier II
1991 Peretz Simon Zeller*
1992 Malcolm Ray Dixon*
1992 Stephen Charles Duncan
1992 Kenneth Harold Fletcher
1993 Oliver Booth Chamberlin III
1995 Ronald Christopher Kinney
1995 Clinton Murray McDonald McKenzie
1996 Robert Weldon Hunt
1996 Kurt Anton Joseph Monier*
1998 Don A Tedder, Jr.
1999 Joseph Dean McCracken, Jr.
1999 James Arthur Rodriguez
2003 Peter Michael Paceleo*
2003 Mark Edward Williams
2004 Pedro Arturo Alanis
2006 Troy Leland McGath
2006 Russell Hyatt Sinco
2007 John Mark Henderson
2008 Douglas John Van Griner
2011 John Richard Dunn
2011 Stephen A. Rossman
2017 Paul Alexander Canales
2018 Charles Edward Maddox
2018 Jared Avery May
2019 David Leon Dacbert
2019 Christopher De la Cruz De Jesus
2020 Robert Christian Scholwinski
HONORARY LEGIONNAIRES FROM ALBERT PIKE CHAPTER NO. 58
1957 William Barton Jack Ball*
1960 J. Floyd Smith*
1961 Roy David Akers*
1961 Roy Edward Dunsmore*
1961 Lincoln Andrew Hershey*
1961 Espiridion Garcia Ruiz*
1962 Ralph Haywood Cameron*
1962 Marvin Alonzo Childers*
1963 Reese L. Harrison Sr.*
1963 Felix L. St. Claire Jr.*
1964 Elliott Pat Lawrence*
1965 Walter Williams McAllister*
1965 Robert Burns O'Connor*
1965 Willard Eastman Simpson*
1967 Carroll Ray Davis*
1968 David Reese Moody*
1969 Harry Davis Rose*
1970 Louis Candy*
1970 Glendon Raymond Schiller*
1971 Charles Wallace Barrow*
1973 Jack Bennett Lee*
1974 Arthur Louis (Kelly) Schwarz*
1975 Sidney Shaenfield*
1977 Richard Carl Boward*
1977 Harry Sinco*
1978 Bryan Anthony Naylor Jr.*
1978 Hubert B. Thompson*
1982 James Edgar McIntire*
1987 Graham Hugh Childress*
1989 John Samuel Henderson**
1991 Dewey W. Stoker*
1994 Harry Glen Cunningham*
1998 Eugene Anthony Meyer, Jr.
2000 Marshall Hunter Dodge*
2000 David Diamond Madorsky*
2003 Elbert Eugene Riggs, Jr.*
2011 Nick Raul Ramos
2018 Robert Charles Madison
2020 William Keith Reynolds
2020 Stephen Drew White
AFFILIATED ACTIVE LEGIONNAIRES
1929 Raymond G. McLean* Reagan Chapter No. 203
1930 Murphy Hugh Burch* Dallas Chapter No. 191
1949 Earl Frederick Frandsen* Honolulu Chapter No. 1265, Hawaii
1960 Blake Nathaniel Lancaster* Lockhart Chapter No. 571
1967 Robert LeRoy Morris* Robert LeBruce Chapter, Washington, D.C.
1968 Gerald Franklin Nowotny Harlandale Chapter No. 2169
1975 Eugene Barrow Green* Beeville Chapter No. 335
1976 Orval Richard Rose* Indianapolis Chapter, Indiana
1976 Garold Dickens Huey Elmer J. Reese Chapter No. 2843
1978 Frank S. Manitzas* San Angelo Chapter No. 550
1978 Samuel Dewey Millsap Jr. Elmer J. Reese Chapter No. 2843
1978 Kenneth Ray Nowotny Harlandale Chapter No. 2169
1979 Richard Alvin Brown* Harlandale Chapter No. 2169
1979 Kenneth Redell Rowe Jr. Islam Chapter, San Francisco, California
1979 Robert P. Van Dyke Davenport Chapter, Iowa
1980 Charles Buckner Fanning Dallas Chapter No. 191
1980 Gary Donald Peterson J. Crow Chapter, Minnesota
1982 James Lee Bruner Hayward Chapter LT No. 2809, Wisconsin
1982 Harry H. Hagerty* Detroit Chapter, Michigan
1982 William Herbert Price* Hope Chapter No. 456, Wichita Falls
1983 Gary Lee Short Elmer J. Reese Chapter No. 2843
1984 Robert Wesley Martin* Clovis Chapter, New Mexico
1986 Charles Leonard Smith South Bend Chapter, Indiana
1986 Everett Edward Williams Elmer J. Reese Chapter No. 2843 and Harlandale Chapter No. 2169
1988 Alexander Edward Blue San Antonio Chapter No. 3591and Albert Pike Chapter No. 58
1988 Stuart Dunlop Shaw San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1988 David Devan Wells San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1989 Robert Louis Martinez San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1990 Charles Gordon Schultz Harlandale Chapter No. 2169
1991 James Richard Brooks* Las Cruces Chapter, New Mexico
1991 Harold William Nasse Jr.* Lake Charles, Alexandria and Shreveport Chapters, Louisiana
1992 Robert Frank Egloff* Milton S. Griswold Chapter, Waukesha, Wisconsin
1992 Joe Olbert Estlack Stephen F. Austin Chapter No. 145
1992 Albert Leon Putnam Sir Jacques Chapter, Saratoga Springs, New York
1992 Jeffrey Amman Sill San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1993 Joseph Reeves Barnett San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1993 Marion Jack Borchers Yoakum Chapter
1993 Jerome Hayes Krupp* Tancred Chapter, Belleville, Illinois
1993 Douglas Ray Miller Randolph Chapter No. 3562
1994 James Greenfield* Temple Chapter No. 269
1995 Floyd Alvin Cailloux* (DeMolay Hall of Fame) Myrtle Chapter, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1995 Frank Samuel Tamsett Jr.* Harlandale Chapter No. 2169
1996 Kent Bradley Crickard** Harlandale Chapter No. 2169
1996 Floyd Richard Weiss Elmer J. Reese Chapter No. 2843
1997 Robert Lee Beck (DeMolay Hall of Fame) Coronado Chapter, Coronado, California
2003 Wayne Russell Duncan Highland Park Chapter, Dallas
2004 Paul F. McCombs James E. Wilson Chapter, Ottumwa, Iowa
2004 James E. Strayer* Dagenhardt Chapter, Bloomington, Illinois
2006 Steven Jesse Castillo San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
2007 John Mark Henderson Odessa Chapter No. 1719
2011 Terry Edward Littlepage Elmer J. Reese Chapter No. 2843
2017 Kenneth Colby Spicer Black Gold Chapter No. 4492
2018 Garrett Matthew Etheridge San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
2019 Donald Roy Carnes Harlandale Chapter No. 2169
AFFILIATED HONORARY LEGIONNAIRES
1961 Allen P. Smith* Harlandale Chapter No. 2169
1964 John C. Isenhower* Elmer J. Reese Chapter No. 2843
1967 Dorris A. Morris Jr. * Elmer J. Reese Chapter No. 2843
1968 John Edward Jack Kelly* Elmer J. Reese Chapter No. 2843
1969 John Paul Jones* Elmer J. Reese Chapter No. 2843
1970 Keith D. Gerstner* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1970 William Henry Glauser* Elmer J. Reese Chapter No. 2843
1970 William Harvey Wallace* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1975 Jack O. Dietz* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1976 Cecil William Bain San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1976 Jeremiah Handy* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1977 Frank Samuel Tamsett* Harry S. Truman Chapter No.2169
1977 James W. Wolfe* Highland Hills Chapter No. 2843
1979 Paul Albert Tolar Heidelberg Chapter, Germany
1980 Stanley G. Furlow* Randolph Chapter No. 3562
1980 Burdit W. (Bill) McCoy* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1982 Joseph M. Clark* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1983 Harold Wilson Murray* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1983 George D. Vann Jr.* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1984 Joe Roy Hollaway* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1985 Edward C. (Bud) Jordan* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1985 Donald P. Garrido Pacific Chapter, Panama
1986 Sidney David Autry* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1988 Earl Dean Carlile* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1988 Jesus Alonso Garza San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1989 Raymond Adam Fuller* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1992 Frank Philip Kauffman* Harlandale Chapter No. 2169
1993 Wayne Alwood Gallion* Randolph Chapter No. 3562
1993 Emmett Clayton George* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
1994 Edgar Charles Vest* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
2000 Bobby Truett Stephens* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
2001 Loren Hayes* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
2002 John Philip Knight-Sheen San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
2004 Steve Robert Molnar* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
2005 Stuart Haston Simms* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
2006 Frank Bryan Hunter* San Antonio Chapter No. 3591
2007 Alfred Edward Machts, Jr. Harry S. Truman Chapter No. 2169
* Deceased ** Resigned # Recommended by Elmer J. Reese Chapter No. 2843
Nota Bene:
Harlandale Chapter No. 2169 was renamed Harry S. Truman Chapter and later merged into San Antonio Chapter No. 3591 in 1983. Elmer J. Reese Chapter No. 2843 was renamed Highland Hills Chapter and later merged into Albert Pike Chapter No. 58 in 1983. Members of the Order at their option may designate their Chapter membership by use of the original name, the name as it was changed, or the name of the merged Chapter.