Aug 21, 2025 | Dedicated Members for Change, Odd Fellows
Dear Dedicated Members for Change, Fifteen years ago I wrote the first DMC Newsletter. I wrote it because I saw the numbers of Odd Fellows diminishing rather dramatically and the numbers of Lodges dropping year after year.  The diminution of members and Lodges was,...
Aug 14, 2025 | Dedicated Members for Change, Odd Fellows
Dear Dedicated Members for Change, I have been an Odd Fellow for 20 years – a relatively short time compared to many of you.  In that time I have sponsored well over 100 new members to join our Order.  As surprising as that may sound, there is one statistic...
Aug 7, 2025 | Dedicated Members for Change, Odd Fellows
Dear Dedicated Members for Change, Does your Lodge have a membership problem?  Does Odd Fellowship, in general, have a declining membership?  These issues would dissipate, if each of us, as Odd Fellows, just followed three simple precepts. Almost everything in Odd...
Jul 31, 2025 | Dedicated Members for Change, Odd Fellows
Dear Dedicated Members for Change, It’s sometimes hard to let go. Parents certainly experience this phenomenon. As children grow older, it’s a fine line that parents tread in protecting the children from the world, while at the same time allowing the...
Jul 24, 2025 | Dedicated Members for Change, Odd Fellows
[Looking for ideas to re-charge your Lodge?  Here is an article that I wrote on August 24, 2015 – ten years ago – when I served as Grand Master of California. The article is even more relevant today.  It offers 100 ideas to revitalize your Lodge. ...
Jul 17, 2025 | Dedicated Members for Change, Odd Fellows
Dear Dedicated Members for Change, Brother Rick Boyles, one of the founders of “Dedicated Members for Change” has weighed in on the scourge of anonymous emails and letters sent out to members and Lodges which insult and disparage other Odd Fellows.   ...
