January 14, 2013

Related by Marriage: "Note: These duties do not bind under sin."

When Mr. Irene was a boy, his Mom taped many of Mr. Irene's childhood mementos in a scrapbook. The scrapbook contains Mr. Irene's first accordian composition, photos of his parakeets, newspapers clippings of Mr. Irene's many science awards, and the autobiographies Mr. Irene wrote for grade-school assignments.

Most of the scrapbook pieces correctly foreshadowed Mr. Irene's adult strengths: music, a love of animals, a knack for biology, and sharp writing skills. One scrapbook item did not:




 

Suburban Chicago, 1966 or 1967. Mr. Irene found a different vocation.

3 comments:

Patrick said...

OMG!!! I never knew something like this existed! I'm mildly creeped out by this revelation.

Irene said...

The booklet is of its era.

Mr. Irene said...

The membership in the Future Priests Club came as a perk of signing up as an altar boy at the Catholic parish school. As long as an ID card was included (unlike the CIA one, linked in the post, that I had to make on my own), I was all in. It was a little like AAA grooming future members by supporting the school traffic patrol boys with cool T-shirts.