Melvin Jerome Blanc was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over sixty years. Referred to as "The Man of a Thousand Voices", he is widely regarded as the greatest and mo
Blanc in 1959
The Wabbit Who Came to Supper
The cast of The Jack Benny Program, from left to right: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Mary Livingstone, Jack Benny, Don Wilson, and Mel Blanc
Shriners International, formally known as the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, is an American Masonic society. Founded in 1872 in New York City, it is headquartered in Tampa, F
Mel Blanc
…actor. Blanc was a Freemason as a member of Mid Day Lodge No. 188 in Portland, Oregon. He held membership at the lodge for 58 years. Blanc was also a Shriner. Blanc began smoking at least one pack of cigarettes per day at the age of nine and continued up through 1985, having quit smoking after being diagnosed…
President Coolidge with Shriners in South Dakota, 1927
Walter M. Fleming
William J. Florence
Daughters of the Nile at Shriners Hospital for Children – Canada in Montreal in 1948.