More beautiful than a dream

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Wlaamk Jiaipiial JoA faipphd ftuldjisn . . . HONORARY PRESIDENTS GRAND MASTER OF THE GRAND LODGE OP THE PHILIPPINES SOVEREIGN GRAND WMHANDETL SUPREME COUNCIL. A. A AS.It REPUBLIC OP THE PHILIPPINES OFFICERS CLINTON F. CARLSON. Fr<md«nt VICENTE OROSA. lit VicfPrttidcnt HOWARD R. HICK. 2<ui Vier-Prrtidml •MICHAEL GOLDENBERG. Trranrrr ALFREDO J. PASCUAL. Stcreurr MACARIO C. NAVIA. Auditor BOARD OF DtR££TORS CLINTON F. CARLSON VICENTE OROSA HOWARD R. HICK MICHAEL COLDENIIF.RG ALFREDO J. PASCUAL MACARIO C. NAVIA W. P. SC1IETELIG JOSE C. VELO ALBINO Z. SYCIP MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN A DREAM At the age of three, when life is beauteous and fairy-like to the fancy, Lydia Oracion was admitted August 10, 1940, at the Masonic Ward of the Mary Johnston Hospital. Her chief complaint was swel ling on the right thigh, buttocks and also on the left hand joint above the wrist. The illness started a month before admission as fever was treated as a case of gastroenteritis. The fever did not abate, and the child was taken to a “hilot” who massaged the patient. Since then, Lydia could no longer walk. The dejected parents upon the instance of some Mason.'c friends brought the child to the Masonic Hospital for Crippled Children where she was treated and managed. After nine months of hospitalization and treatment, she began to have high hopes and bright outlook in life. Finally, she was able to manage herself, walk alone, on and on— until she was completely healed arid discharged as fully cured. ‘'ll is more beautiful than a dream I" she said, when she was crowned the Reauty Queen of Lucban, Quezon, in 1955, at the sweet age of 18. From a cripple to a Beauty Queen is only a story which our Masonic Hospital for Crippled Children has in its annals. The Breth ren. silently, with their help and cooperation, have not only enhanced the prestige of Freemasonry but have.contributed somehow to the hap. piness of mankind. February, 1959 281

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1958

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