Masonic Family Corner

My name is Emma, Librarian of Bethel No. 1, Dublin..

For the month of March, we celebrate our organization’s founder Ethel T. Wead Mick…or Mother Mick as we call her. Her birthday was earlier in March. She was born on March 9, 1881 in Iowa.

When Mother Mick was a kid, her mother read Bible stories every night. Often, her mother spoke of the values written in the Book of Job. She would talk of her hopes that her own daughters would become like Job’s daughters that “in all the land were no women found so fair”. Growing up, Mother Mick learned lessons in literature, arts, sciences and attended Creighton Medical College in Omaha, Nebraska.

After marrying a Masonic member and having two daughters, Mother Mick founded the International Order of Job’s Daughters in 1920 in Omaha. There all young women with Masonic relationship would gather in friendship to build character through moral and spiritual development and support each other in developing confidence and leadership skills through service opportunities for the organization and their communities.

We meet the same way now, every other Wednesday. We elect our own officers, decide and plan our own events & fun activities: like the Saint Patrick’s Day parade; Ice Cream Social; Bowling with the DeMolay; and Boomers. We’ve gone to Pier 39 in San Francisco, the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, and had sleepovers.

In 2021, the name changed to Job’s Daughters International having Bethels across the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil and the Philippines.