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Originally posted by Draculapkt1906
WOW!!!,
So it seems to me that being part of two "Fraternal" organizations really don't bog you down, you can be active in both and still enjoy life. I am very excited about joinning and everyday it seems as if I learn something new. The more information you guys give me the more and more anxious I get and being on 22 I will be the second youngest person in the lodge...as someone said it is mostly made up of older men.
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It's more the rule rather than the exception that the local lodge is composed mostly of older gentlemen (average age for a Masonic Lodge is about 65), but more and more younger members are joining. One lodge I regularly attend has quite a few younger members; at my mother lodge I was the youngest active member when I was raised (at 34). At the lodge where I am a perpetual member (Will Rogers Lodge #53, AF & AM, Claremore, OK), one past master was only 24 or 25 when he was installed as Worshipful Master. He currently is a deputy grand lecturer in the Grand Lodge of Oklahoma.
What really impresses the older brethren is if you can pick up on the ritual work and lectures quickly. With the help of my instructor, he taught me the Texas work so well that I was able to 'self-examine' myself (asking both the questions and answers) of the ritual of all three degrees, one of the few in my mother lodge that have done so. (It was a pain in the a** but very satisfying.) Three weeks after being raised to Master Mason, I sat in for certification as an instructor in the ritual work and passed. Sure enough, I was quickly put to work on a degree team or two.
Currently, I am the Associate Patron of the local Eastern Star chapter (Plano #703 OES) and if all goes well and I don't screw it up, I hopefully will be elected Worthy Patron (the highest position a man can hold in an OES chapter) next year. I've also started up the officer line in two lodges, but work had forced me to drop out of the line. Eventually I'll get back into the line at one of the lodges.