ANDREW (Andy) ANDERSON – SENIOR WARDEN
Andrew Anderson is the second in line of the lodge’s elected officers. His friends know him as Andy. He completed his degree work as a Master Mason in July 2002. After becoming a Mason like so many of his generation he learned that his paternal Grandfather was a member of member of Artesia Lodge in California, his maternal Great Grandfather was an Illinois Mason and his paternal Great-Great Grandfather a member in Texas. He was aware that his wife's father is a member of a Montana lodge and her maternal grandfather was active in Portland Oregon Shrine so he had frequently had conversations about Masonry and decided to look for a lodge.
He decided to join Daylight after being invited to attend the lodge’s 2002 Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Principal Players Honors Dinner. The lodge’s involvement in the arts and its unique support of these young musicians coupled with a wife working to be an opera “prima donna,” prompted him to petition for membership that night. He completed his degrees and shortly thereafter he and his wife Carla moved to Champaign, Illinois where she was to study voice in the University of Illinois’ excellent opera program. After a year of study they decided to return to Seattle. He became an appointed officer as Chaplain in the 2003-2004 Masonic year; the next year he advanced to Senior Deacon where he remained for two years as part of the lodge’s long range plan of two year terms. At the June 2006 election of officers he was chosen Junior Warden and the following month was installed into the office by the lodge’s Honorary Past Master, Right Worshipful Gale Kenney, the new Junior Grand Warden.
He is a California native, born just a ten minute drive from Disneyland in Garden Grove. Appropriately enough Daylight’s 1954 Master Don McDonald was one of the artisans who originally help design and build Disneyland and Disneyworld. Andy earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications at Seattle Pacific University and a Master of Education in Student Development Administration at Seattle University where he now works as an Associate Registrar.
He has one serious flaw or at least some of his brethren tend to think of it as a flaw for a Seattleite, he is a die hard fan of the Chicago Bears. However in the words of a famous Mason, Sir W.S. Gilbert, he strives to over come that defect, he continually “mortifies his pride.” Of course with a mezzo soprano for a wife he is a regular opera attendee. He is 100% behind his wife’s efforts to become an “opera diva,” maintaining the house and Molly, their uniquely eye-catching Bassett Hound/German Shepard mix ruler of the house, when Carla (www.carlahilderbrand.com) is off auditioning and preparing for her career on the lyric stage.
In additional to having the responsibility of stepping into the East and acting as Master of the lodge in the absence of the Worshipful Master, his principle duty as Senior Warden is to coordinate the lodge’s yearly community service activity, the Masonic Information Booth and Bandstand at the yearly Fremont Solstice Festival and Street Fair.
