Room 215: keep in mind not only a 47 year old partaking but he also had to "overlap" which means that the latest he could have started partaking was the memorial of 1992 as Fred Franz dies in December that year, so that puts him at a 27 year old partaking in 1992!!! I can well imagine the raised eyebrows back then if that took place.
I believe thats why the hesitation to come out with any formal announcement - his appointment does not fit with the prevailing "generation" understanding that the annointed that saw 1914 would overlap with the annointed that would see the end. Unless they state the current members are the offical overlappers.....
I have to staop I am trying to make sense of nonsense.