165th Grand Master of Masons in Virginia

 

 

William Earle Rorer, Jr.
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William Earle Rorer, Jr. was born in Warrenton, Virginia, on January 22, 1947. He was educated in the public schools of Culpepper County and Williamsburg-James City County. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree with a major in Biology and a minor in Chemistry from Emory and Henry College, a Master of Arts Degree in Education Teaching of Sciences from The College of William and Mary, and has completed postgraduate work and research in ecology at the University of Virginia. Brother Rorer taught in the Newport News and Williamsburg-James City County public schools for approximately ten years, before accepting a management position with Anheuser-Busch, Inc. After twenty-five years of service, Brother Rorer retired from Anheuser- Busch, Inc. Brother Rorer also taught as an Adjunct Professor at Thomas Nelson Community College and served the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation as an interpreter, musician, militiaman and craftsman.

 

Right Worshipful Brother Rorer was raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason in Williamsburg Lodge No. 6, on February 22, 1971. He is a Life Member in Perpetuity and served as its Worshipful Master in 1976 and is a Senior Lodge Trustee. He was District Deputy Grand Master of Masonic District 57 in 1981 and was Grand Purveyor in 1982. He served on the Grand Lodge Committee on Arrangements from 1977 until 2005 and was its Chairman in 1994 and 1996 through 2005. He was elected Grand Junior Deacon in 2005 and installed as the 165th Grand Master of Masons in Virginia.  His theme for the upcoming Masonic year is "Forget Not The Duties."

 

He is a member of the Valley of Newport News, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, where he received the Knight Commander Court of Honor in 2007.  He holds membership in Warwick Royal Arch Chapter No. 80; Khedive Shrine Center, A.A.O.N.M.S.; Ed N. Eubank Council No. 75, Allied Masonic Degrees; Langley-Monroe Chapter No. 310, National Sojourners; Pocahontas Chapter No. 103, Order of the Eastern Star; and is a Past President of the Williamsburg Shrine Club. Brother Rorer is a recipient of the John Blair, Jr. Service Medal from the Grand Lodge of Virginia.

 

He is a Charter and Life Member of Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity. He is a Life Member and Past Advisor of the Order of the Arrow, Boy Scouts of America. He has been listed in “Who’s Who in Virginia Freemasonry” and has published two papers in the Virginia Journal of Science.

 

Brother Rorer is married to the former Judith Scruggs, and they have two children, a daughter, Londereé Rorer-Kerrick, and a son, William Earle Rorer, III. He is an active member of Our Saviors Evangelical Lutheran Church.