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This just in: Next year’s Charles A. Sankey Lecture at Brock University will bring Dr. Susan Mitchell Sommers back to the lectern.
I won’t bother typing all the information you see in this graphic, but instead will encourage you to attend, whether in person or by streaming.
I assume this lecture will be similar to what Professor Sommers presented this year at the John Skene Masonic Conference in New Jersey. (I’ll tell ya, if ever you want to feel comically redundant on the Masonic lecture circuit, feel free to insinuate yourself, with your average—at best—research and speaking skills, into a program alongside Professor Sommers and Bro. Bob Cooper. That’s what I did four months ago. Mortifying. I’ll recap the Skene Conference before the end of the month in my continuing “What I Did on My Summer Vacation” blogging.) She rendered quite a biography of James Anderson—you think you know a guy!—linking the mortal, fallible man to a dispassionate understanding of his Constitutions. This was excerpted from her upcoming book on Anderson.
From the publicity:
This annual lecture series is named in honor of RW Bro. Charles A. Sankey (1905-2009) and is part of the partnership between the Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario and Brock University.
This partnership began with the initiative of Heritage Lodge 730 to support and maintain the Masonic collection in the James A. Gibson Library, and continuing with the posting online of the Proceedings of Grand Lodge from 1855 to 2010.
Dr. Sankey served as Chancellor of Brock University from 1969 to 1974. A renowned Masonic scholar, he was active in all the concordant bodies of Masonry including the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite, the Royal Order of Scotland, and Royal Arch Masonry. His extensive collection of rare Masonic books and papers is in the Special Collections of the James Gibson Library at Brock, providing a rich resource for research scholars.
This partnership began with the initiative of Heritage Lodge 730 to support and maintain the Masonic collection in the James A. Gibson Library, and continuing with the posting online of the Proceedings of Grand Lodge from 1855 to 2010.
Dr. Sankey served as Chancellor of Brock University from 1969 to 1974. A renowned Masonic scholar, he was active in all the concordant bodies of Masonry including the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite, the Royal Order of Scotland, and Royal Arch Masonry. His extensive collection of rare Masonic books and papers is in the Special Collections of the James Gibson Library at Brock, providing a rich resource for research scholars.
So, we have three months advance notice to set aside a little time on a Sunday afternoon but, if you miss it, catch it on YouTube later.
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