I'm in an organization called The Oddfellows which gave me a small scholarship for each year of college.
It's pretty much a bunch of old guys about to croak that still try to make a difference. They forgot to recruit young people for about 20 years so it's all dying away now.
Is that the IOOF?
We have one in my home town. Always wondered WTF they were all about.
Also, are they technically secret, or is it that nobody really gives a crap about them?
Yeah, you'd be correct. That's the Independent Order of the Oddfellows. It's old school like the Masons. It's secretive in the fact that you have to have secret codes, and hand signals and stuff to get into any of the buildings, but it all varies by location. So needless to say, I don't even know the codes to get into the lodge that initiated me back home in South Dakota. Some lodges could give a crap about that, some are old school crazy about it. Just depends on the area.
But yes, basically no one really gives a crap about them because they have so many old people that they never do anything in the public anymore.
