Name: MLPS: The Civility Mosaic, Past Grand Master of California Russ Charvonia
Start: 2023-12-10T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2023-12-10T16:30:00-05:00

**The Marquis de Lafayette Philomath Society Presents:**

**The Civility Mosaic:** How Anyone Can Use the Principles of Freemasonry to Repair Our World w/ California Past Grand Master, Russ Charvonia

**When:** Dec 10, 2023 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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History

Most Worshipful Russ Charvonia is a Past Master of the Channel Islands Lodge No. 214 in Ventura. After serving as Master in 1996, he served eight years as the lodge Treasurer and was presented the Hiram Award in 2002. 

In 2014 -2015, he served as the 149th Grand Master of Masons in California. 

Brother Charvonia has been in the financial services industry since 1980. He earned his Juris Doctor degree in 2003 and is a practicing attorney and founder of Channel Islands Law Group, where he specializes in estate planning. He also has a mediation practice. 

Russ has been active in his community, volunteering his professional services with several non-profit organizations. Russ is active in Temple Beth Torah. He serves on the boards of the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation and Ventura Center for Dispute Settlement. He also volunteers for Channel Islands Restoration where he is helping to restore the Channel Islands back to their native condition. 

His greatest passion is to help to restore civility in society using the Masonic values and teachings. He is doing this by leading the Masonic Family Civility Project and served as Past President of the Worldwide Civility Council, a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring civility to society. 

Russ recently co-wrote: The Civility Mosaic: How Anyone Can Use the Principles of Freemasonry to Repair Our World, with Brother Michael Ashley. 

Brother Charvonia lives in Ventura with his wife of 25 years, Linda, a Past Honored Queen and recipient of the Degree of Royal Purple of Bethel 89, Job’s Daughters International. Russ and Linda have a daughter, Alissa; son and daughter-in-law, Keith and Kendall; and grandsons, Tanner and Hudson. His father-in-law, Most Worshipful Harry L. Maynard, served as the 117th Grand Master of Masons in California and Hawaii in 1982-83.

Russell E. Charvonia, Past Grand Master of California 

MLPS: The Civility Mosaic, Past Grand Master of California Russ Charvonia

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