Taken at the installation of Wor.Bro.Serge Breton
(compliments Of Wor.Bro.Jack Monsanto)





Harmonic Lodge Officers 1950-1951
(Compliments Of Wor.Bro.Jack Monsanto,PDSGW)

Back Row (left to right)
Earl Charles,         JD (Was Chief Of Police)
William Bailey,       Secretary (Attorney, with Maas and Bailey)
Carl Anduze,          Treasurer,(Merchant, father of Dr. Roy Anduze)
Gregers Malling-Holm, SW (V.I.National Bank employee,owned Morning Star Beach and Frenchhman's Reef Hotel property)
Nathaniel O. Wells,   WM (Civil Engineer, worked for Public Works,received OGR later).
Jacob "Jack" Monsanto,IPM (Harbor Pilot, received PDSGW later)
John P. Scott,        JW (School Teacher, owned Scott's Hotel)
Jens Martensen,       SD (Machinist, with West Indian Co.)
Front Row (left to right)
Isaac Pickering,      Tyler (Janitor, V.I. National Bank)
Capt.Engle L.Simmons, OGR,DC (Harbor Master)
Moses D.Sasso,        Chaplain (Merchant)
George Simmonds,      IG (Administrator for St.John)


Harmonic Lodge Past Master, Wor.Bro.E.L.M.Monsanto
(Compliments Of Wor.Bro.Jack Monsanto,PDSGW)

Narrative By Wor.Bro.Jacob "Jack" Monsanto,PDSGW.
"...WM E.L.M.Monsanto, 1913-14 1933-34. Edwin Louis Mendes Monsanto was my father's brother. In September 1917, the register would show attending Lodge that evening were: E.L.M.Monsanto, Jacob Alfred Mendes Monsanto (my father), Samuel Louis Mendes Monsanto (their father,my paternal grandfather), and Helm Boschulte (my maternal grandfather). Jacob and Louis were married to two of the Boschulte girls. The third sister married their other brother , William Wharam Mendes Monsanto, Past Master to the Canal Zone Lodge, I think it was 1925.
His Past Masters jewel weighs about 3 ounces and is of solid gold. That was back when gold was $12.50 an ounce...".


Harmonic Lodge Past Master, Wor.Bro.George P.Robinson
(Compliments Of Wor.Bro.Jack Monsanto,PDSGW)

Wor.Bro.George P.Robinson, PM (1911-13) was married to the aunt (father's sister) of Wor.Bro.Jacob "Jack" Monsanto,PDSGW.

Charles Lindbergh visits St.Thomas in 1928
(Compliments Of Wor.Bro.Jack Monsanto,PDSGW)
Narrative By Wor.Bro.Jacob "Jack" Monsanto,PDSGW.
"The <above> picture is from Eric Simmons, the oldest son of Engle L. Simmons, PM. Charles A. Lindbergh was a Mason. He visited St.Thomas with the "Spirit of St.Louis" when returning to the United States after his Latin American goodwill tour through Central America to Panama, then surveyed the route up the chain of islands back to Miami for Pan American. He landed at Mosquito Bay on January 31, 1928, and spent several days here. The "Spirit of St.Louis" hangs in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. The flags of all the countries he visited are painted on the engine cowl. The U.S. Virgin Islands flag is among them. He <Lindbergh> was made an honorary member of Harmonic....On the left of the picture is Zenda Paiewonsky...next is Engle L.Simmons,PM, then Charles A. Lindbergh, next face unknown, then Dr. Knud Knud-Hansen, PM, then Morris F. DeCastro, PM and Bro. Carl A. Anduze..."

Harmonic Lodge (circa 1912)
(Compliments Of Wor.Bro.Jack Monsanto,PDSGW)

This photograph was taken approximately 88 years ago.
Harmonic Lodge will celebrate its 182nd anniversary in October 2000.


WebMaster's Note:
Special thanks to Wor.Bro.Jacob "Jack" Monsanto for providing us with the electronic images and historic perspective of these photographs. We welcome similar contributions from other brethren who may have access to other pieces of Harmonic's photographic history.