The Three Links Odd Cast is an exploration of and discussion about issues in Odd Fellowship for members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. It provides a fun, light-hearted look at the history, traditions, customs, and practices of Odd Fellowship as well as an examination of where the fraternal order is today. NOTE: there will be *NO* discussion of The Unwritten Work or any of the signs, grips, or passwords of Odd Fellowship.
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Sovereign Grand Lodge is over for another year and we did another live recording. This year, we were asking the attendees in Frisco, Texas about whether their jurisdictions were growing or dying, and why they felt that way. We got a wonderfully diverse group of members from all around the US and Canada to tell us about what's going on in their jurisdictions. We heard all kinds of stories, from the…
One of the questions that comes to us frequently is if we have any training materials to help prepare members to step up and serve in an elected office. To that end, we have recorded a series of training episodes to help members feel more comfortable moving up into those roles. The fourth in our series is about serving as Secretary. Since most lodges are small and don't have a separate Financial…
One of the questions that comes to us frequently is if we have any training materials to help prepare members to step up and serve in an elected office. To that end, we have recorded a series of training episodes to help members feel more comfortable moving up into those roles. The third in our series is about serving as Treasurer. These are by no means completely comprehensive; we may have missed…
One of the questions that comes to us frequently is if we have any training materials to help prepare members to step up and serve in an elected office. To that end, we have recorded a series of training episodes to help members feel more comfortable moving up into those roles. The second in our series is about serving as Vice Grand. As the line of officers is progressive, the Vice Grand needs to…
One of the questions that comes to us frequently is if we have any training materials to help prepare members to step up and serve in an elected office. To that end, we have recorded a series of episodes to help members feel more comfortable moving up into those roles. The first in our series is about serving as Noble Grand. These are by no means completely comprehensive; we may have missed…
Season six brought some exciting developments to the Three Links Odd Cast. The biggest one was Meredith Moore joining as co-host and Director of Institutional Research. We expressed our gratitude for Past Co-host Mike Duminiak and his years of hard work on the show. We also reviewed and discussed our various episodes from throughout the season. Some of those highlights included the on-location…
Odd Fellowship is built around the principle of mutual aid, which implies that we should all be of service to one another. Our current Sovereign Grand Master, Tom Calabrese, exemplifies the spirit of a servant leader. Modest and unassuming, he has shown throughout his career in Odd Fellowship that he is always ready to pitch in and help out and that spirit of service has extended to his time as…
Brother Aiden Brink returns to the podcast to share some insight that he has gained about his lodge, degree work, regalia, robes, community involvement, and a host of other topics. Grab your notepads and get ready to take notes because this episode is chock full of great information that will be useful for every lodge, from the smallest kitchen-table lodge to the biggest traditional lodge. Changes…
There are many historical connections between Texas and Tennessee, from country music to Davy Crockett to Willie Nelson to the many brave Tennesseans who helped defend the Alamo. Because of those links, it's appropriate that we follow up two very Texan episodes with one from Tennessee. Recently, Crockett Hall Lodge #59 was re-chartered in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Brother Robert Gentry, who headed…
For nearly 150 years, prior to 2001, the Rebekahs were a strong and vital companion organization to the Odd Fellows. However, once women were allowed to be Odd Fellows and were no longer restricted to just Rebekah membership, numbers for that unit of the Order started to decline precipitously. Director of Institutional Research Meredith Moore attended the Testamonial of IARA President Pam…
Odd Fellowship has a long, proud history in the state of Texas, dating back to Lone Star Lodge No. 1 in Houston, the first lodge chartered outside the United States by the IOOF, in 1845, before Texas joined the union. A big part of that history was San Antonio Lodge No. 11, only a few steps away from the Alamo, the cradle of Texan independence. On April 11th, San Antonio Lodge No. 11 was…