lodge facilities and were entertained by the lodge hosts and hostesses. Masonic community activities during World War II included the creation of a national network of U.S.O.-like service clubs by state grand lodges and the Masonic Service Association. The program was developed by Masonic Service Center director Carl H. Claudy and Missouri Past Grand Master, Senator Harry S Truman.There were 90 Army-Navy Masonic Service Centers located in Masonic halls all across the country that provided meals, recreation, transportation, letter-writing material and services, and free long-distance phone calls to military personnel. Jephtha Lodge was one of eleven Masonic Service Centers in New York during World War II and one of only two on Long Island; the other was located in Bethpage Masonic Lodge No. 975 in Farmingdale, New York The Lodge Building The first floor has two retail storefront spaces that have been consistently rented since the building opened in 1905. Rental clients included the Huntington Post Office (1905-1925). Between 1905 and the 1930s, the second floor was rented as office space. It has since been used as a private collation rooms for the membership. The third floor has remained relatively unchanged since 1905, including the lodge room and Masonic museum. Several fraternal organizations have used the third floor lodge room over the years, including the Organization of Triangles, Order of the Eastern Star, Knights Templar, Royal Arch, Prince Hall Freemasons, Knights of Columbus, Odd Fellows and the Loyal Order of Moose. Truth Triangle No. 31 has met in Jephtha Lodge since 1927, the year it was founded, and is one of the oldest active Triangle organizations in New York. Nineteenth Century Masters William H. King (1860-1861,1863) Jesse Carll, Jr. (1862) : Master Shipbuilder Jonas Pearsall (1864–66, 1871) Caleb Bailey Ellsworth (1867–70) : Rector, St. John’s Church, Huntington (1860-1870) Hewlett J. Long (1872) William F. Newcomb (1873, 1875–77) William D. Woodend (1874); Physician, Philadelphia, PA and Huntington, NY Jacob Smith Ritchie (1878–80) Fayette Gould (1881–83): Machinist. Watchmaker. Jeweler. First Photographer of Western Suffolk County (1870). First Forman, Huntington Fire Department. Joseph Irwin (1884–85): Railroad Director. First stockholder of Bank of Huntington. Henry Taff Dollard (1888–90) Douglass Conklin (1886–87, 1899); Officer of Long Island Gas Company. Emmett B. Sid Hawkins (1895–98) References Freemasonry