Bruce Harmon Hunt Charity Endowment Fund (C.E.F.)
Your gift to the Bruce Harmon Hunt Charity Endowment Fund (C.E.F.) strengthens Zabud Council No.25’s commitment to integrity, charity, and brotherhood. The Grand Council Charity Endowment Fund Committee was established by appointment of Most Illustrious Companion Lawrence R. Albright II, newly installed Grand Master at the 128th Annual Assembly of the Grand Council of Cryptic Masons, April 30, 1993 in Cape Girardeau.Its purpose is endowing a fund to provide income for disbursement by the Grand Master for charitable purposes. Contributions have been annually made to the Cryptic Masons Medical Research Foundation (CMMRF), the International Order of DeMolay, the International Order of Job’s Daughters, the International Order of Rainbow for Girls and other worthy charities as designated by the sitting Grand Master. These funds have annually totaled $1000.00 and come from an impressed account for charity in the Grand Council budget.The first gift in establishing the fund was from Zabud Council No. 25, R. & S.M., Springfield, in honor of its member, Grand Master Lawrence R. Albright II. At the request of MIC Lawrence R. Albright II, the Charity Endowment Fund was made a Memorial to the late MIC Bruce Harmon Hunt. By unanimous consent of the Grand Officers and the ratification of the 133rd Annual Assembly, May 8, 1998, the fund has become a living memorial to a great Missouri Freemason.