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2008 Short Papers Competition Judging Panel

The Judging Panel consists of six knowledgeable and experienced Masons drawn from the extensive membership of Internet Lodge. They include members in both the United Kingdom and in other countries.

Vic Dorman  Vic Dorman (Chairman)
Chalfont St Giles United Kingdom
Extensive experience in marketing and copywriting.
Provincial Grand Secretary for Buckinghamshire.
Steve Burgoyne  Steve Burgoyne
Johannesburg South Africa
Initiated into freemasonry 33 years ago. An avid collector and reader of Masonic books and literature. WM of Lyceum Lodge of Research, South Africa's premier research Lodge for 2 different years. 		Richard Van Doren  Richard Van Doren
Massachusetts United States
Forty years of reading, researching and writing about Freemasonry led to being the education officer responsible for curriculum for the 860 lodge officers in New Jersey.
Ab Goedhals  Ab Goedhals
Leiden The Netherlands
Wrote (and ghost-wrote) many articles about various Masonic subjects, mostly on the orthopraxis of (historic) ritual and about the ‘Beyond the Craft’ degrees. 		Larry Porter   Larry Porter
20+ years in Freemasonry. Regular Masonic speaker and lecturer with strong academic interest in Masonic ritual, symbolism and history. Past Master of the Internet Lodge.
Alan Tibbetts   Alan Tibbetts 
Ontario Canada
Over 15 years experience in authoring and delivering short talks to Freemason's Lodges.		  Alan Wyer Alan Wyer 
Birmingham United Kingdom
Craft Mason for 28 yrs. Senior Preceptor of a General L.o.I. Interests: Ancient Rituals, Craft & H.R.A. Symbols & Symbolism.
     

In addition to qualitative assessment, the judges will make a numerical score of various attributes including:-

  • Masonic educational value
  • Spoken readability and intelligibility
  • Clarity of logic and development of theme
  • Novelty and Originality

The judges will produce a short list of papers from which the winners will be selected.

The decisions of the judging panel will be final.


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