About Us
Jack Wylie was raised a Master Mason in Jewel P. Lightfoot Lodge on May 30, 1946. Working as a truck driver for Central Freight Lines prevented him from attending lodge on a regular basis.
Around 1967, Jack saw the need for a lodge that would meet on Saturday mornings, thus enabling men who worked nights or traveled during the week, to have the opportunity to attend lodge meetings. He began to research the necessary requirements to be granted a Charter from the Grand Lodge of Texas.
Jack approached Brother Thomas Harold Callan, Vice President and General Manager of Central Freight Lines in Dallas concerning a vacant room over the cafeteria at the Dallas terminal. An agreement was reached that a Masonic Lodge could indeed lease the space for $1.00 per year. This speaks to the generosity of the Callan family, Central Freight Lines and the persuasive demeanor of Brother Wylie.
At that time Jack began recruiting Master Masons in the area who would be willing to affiliate to meet the required number of members in order to charter a new lodge. After gaining permission from lodges within the district, scavenging furniture and other implements that make up the interior of a lodge room and meeting the remaining requirements too numerous to expound on, James V. Callan Da-Lite Lodge #1422 was set to work in June 1968, and received its charter from the Grand Lodge of Texas at its annual communication in December 1968.
Through Brother Wylie’s efforts, men in the freight, airlines, police, fire, professional services and many others who work in the evening hours and/or travel during the work week, now have a lodge to meet as Masons.
Callan Da-Lite Lodge #1422 exists today due to the commitment, dedication and efforts of many individuals, but we will always remember Jack Wylie as the driving force behind Callan Da-Lite Lodge #1422.
Callan Lodge relocated in 1993 to Love field Lodge property at Midway and Capps Drive in Dallas.
About Freemasonry
Freemasonry is a fraternity. Its membership is restricted to men, with no hazing. We exists to take good men and help them to become better men.
We are known as Freemasonry, Masonry or The Craft, and the beginnings of our fraternity are lost to history. Although it is believed to be the oldest surviving fraternal organization in the world, the exact date of its founding is uncertain. Freemasonry can, however, be easily traced to sixteenth century Scotland although the first Masonic governing body was not founded until 1717 in London. The oldest Masonic document, the Regius poem, dates to around 1390 A.D. We know of no Masonry prior to that date. Somewhere between 1390 and 1717 lodges of operative masons began to accept as members men who did not work in the building trade. Eventually whole lodges composed of such persons arose, leading to a transition from lodges being composed of stone masons to lodges being composed of men from other occupations who gathered and shared a ritual replete with allusions to carpentry, architecture, and stone masonry.
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