What I have been working on currently..

So what I have been doing lately is getting together information I have been gathering about the different ranks and committee positions in the Odd Fellows. From my research I have learned that most lodges have a Noble Grand, Vice-Grand, Recording Secretary, Financial Secretary, and Treasurer. There have been endless amounts of other positions I have found on the internet. I will be taking note of them and during my experience with the IOOF lodge in Waterloo, see what positions are on their committee. I have also been retrieving lots of information off of the Grand Lodge of Illinois IOFF website. Where you can see all the different lodges throughout Illinois, also the motto, creed, and objective of IOOF are specified. The website is actually pretty interesting; I will put the URL at the end of my blog if anyone is interested in checking it out. Another thing I have been doing is getting my interview questions together. I have been looking into what I want to observe and what I actually expect to leave with. The more things we are doing with subcultures during class help me out a lot. The readings and movie we started to watch make me understand this project as a whole a lot better. Before reading the essay on Ralph’s Sports Bar I didn’t even think to study the different types of people within the IOOF, and if I could categorize them. This got me thinking a lot, and its making me understand and analyzing what I need to be doing.

URL to Grand Lodge of Illinois- IOOF website

http://www.ioof-il.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=14&Itemid=34