The Polytechnic Lodge

The Festive Board at the last regular meeting of the Polytechnic Lodge was another first for the lodge. With the technical help of Brother George Bregasi, we were able to beam the toast to absent brethren live to our Brother Wellington Barreto, who recently emigrated back to his home country of Brazil.

This was the first meeting of the lodge since our much loved Brother Wellington permanently moved back to his homeland in São Paulo, Brazil. Wellington’s friendly and smiling face together with his ever willingness to step in and help out at our meetings,were sorely missed by the members of the lodge. It only seemed right and proper to raise a glass to Bro. Wellington at the Festive Board, not in his absence but live by video link. We were all delighted to see Wellington’s face.

Brother Wellington has decided to remain a full subscribing member of the Polytechnic Lodge and hopes to one day return to visit us. We all wait in eagerness for this day to come. The day following the meeting Brother Wellington wrote :- “Good morning brethren,
I am honoured to be part of such a distinct lodge. I was really flattered to see you go through such lengths to make me still feel part of the lodge, even from 6000 miles away.”

Life as well as Freemasonry is full of hellos and goodbyes. True friends don’t say goodbye, they just take extended leaves of absence from each other. Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything. It’s the time we spent together that matters.