‘Need help identifying this pin’s origins’

     

There is no prize for the correct answer, but maybe someone can help MW Simon LaPlace track the origins of this pin. He was presented this September 11 commemorative piece several years ago, but does not recall whence it came.

If you know, please contact MW LaPlace (he is E.D. of the MSANA) here.
     

‘LaPlace to head MSANA’

     

Simon R. LaPlace

Connecticut Past Grand Master Simon R. LaPlace will become Executive Secretary of the Masonic Service Association of North America beginning October 1.

LaPlace will succeed George O. Braatz, the Past Grand Master and Past Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Ohio who announced his retirement earlier this year after serving the MSANA for five years as Executive Secretary.

Launched in 1919, the MSANA serves as a clearinghouse of educational publications and demographic data, as well as fulfills philanthropic needs as an organizer of disaster-relief funding in the Masonic fraternity. It also administers its Hospital Visitation Program for the benefit of military veterans across North America.