V∴W∴ JAMES R. MAHER – TREASURER

Lodge Treasurer Jim Maher as Washington State University grad he is a Cougar, a fact the many Lodge member don’t hold against him because he is an outstanding treasurer and financial manager of the Lodge funds.  He may have been born in “Mile High City”, Denver Colorado on December 14, 1962, but he is really a Washingtonian to the core.  He comes from a family with Masonic roots in the Bellingham area, his grandfather having served as Master of Fairhaven Lodge №.  73.   

He took his Masonic degrees in the small Renton Lodge Tyee №. 115 nearly twenty years ago, January 11, 1989.  Still a little wet behind the ears as a Mason he traveled to the British Isles where he visited lodges including the Grand Lodge of Scotland.  Shortly after his return he took a plural membership in Daylight Lodge.  He was one of several members of his mother lodge now called Tyee No. 115, the Wayfarer’s Daylight Lodge who proposed that it become a daytime lodge like Daylight. 

He served two terms as Daylight’s Master, first in 1993-94 and again 1997-98.    In the summer of 1999 the Lodge’s Treasurer VW Don Ward suffered a stroke and died; Maher was appointed to fill the office and has since been reelected yearly.  His expertise as a Chartered Financial Analyst [CFA] has proven to be a valuable asset to the financial well being of Daylight Lodge.  In 2001 his value in this field was also recognized by Grand Lodge level and he was appointed as ad-hoc member of the Masonic Retirement Center Board of Trustees, the following year he became a full member and was also named to the Grand Lodge Finance Committee. He continues to serve on both committees as well as the Long Range Planning Committee.    As a member of the MRC Trustees, he has been an active member of the sub-committee responsible for the re-development of the Center as the Landmark on the Sound.

He is one of seven Daylighters who have held the office of Deputy of the Grand Master; a position he held from 2006 to 2008. In his spare time he is a devoted father to a young daughter who is a officer in the Masonic youth group Rainbow for Girls. Like all such fathers Jim serves on the Kent Rainbow Assembly Advisory Council as Assembly Dad.   He is also active in his local church keeping their finances in shape; he is member of the Board of Trustees of the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras serving along with Daylight’s Honorary Past Master Most Worshipful Sat Tashiro. The Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras has been a major part of Daylight Lodge’s community support for many years.

Email:  treasurer@daylightmasons.org