MCSA - MASONIC COMMUNITIES & SERVICES ASSOCIATION

For many years, “the Superintendents,” as most of the executive officers were referred to at the time, met to share problems about their homes and solicit hopeful solutions from their counterparts. They eventually agreed to form a national association of Masonic-related organizations which would meet periodically to exchange views and be of assistance to one another.

They formed the Masonic Homes Executives Association and their first official meeting was in 1931 in Nashville, Tennessee. At that initial meeting, Lucien Connell of Tennessee was elected as the first president of the Masonic Homes Executives Association. In later years Masonic Homes from Canada joined the Association and “of North America” was added to the Association’s title.

Meetings have continued annually with the exception of two years during World War II (1943 & 1945). Over time, the scope of the meetings changed from one of largely fraternal fellowship, to a focus on education, which included continuing education credits to help meet administrators’ expanding licensing requirements.