ELKTON â Robert Phillips has been a member of the Elkton Masons Lodge longer than a lot of its members today have been alive. âIâve been in that since I was 21 years old,â Phillips said, adding thatâs how old a man has to be to join the organization. Phillips is now 99. That means heâs been a Mason for 75 years. To honor him the Elkton Lodge recently named Phillips their Mason of the Year. Phillips said joining the faith-based organization came with rigorous requirements, which he would not divulge. âThe obligations you went through was quite an education,â he said.