It’s been a while since the last part of this series.   Some probably thought I had forgotten about these.   It takes some time to get these posts together and, not too surprisingly, my focus here is more on issues from my neck of the woods.

This is the fourth of an ongoing series of articles about patches issued by the lodges of the national officers of the Order of the Arrow. Previous articles can be found at these links.

• Part 1: Lodge of the National Chief
• Part 2: Lodge of the National Vice Chief
• Part 3: Lodge of the Central Region Chief

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This is probably the last post about Wahissa lodge patches for a while. “Wahissa Week” is now ending.

This update is much longer than those for the other chapters. Achowelendam chapter is handily the busiest of Wahissa’s chapters when it comes to patches. The first three of these have been on OAImages for a while now, but are not yet listed in Blue Book.

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This is the third in a recent spate of posts for new chapter issues from Wahissa lodge. Up next is Takachsin chapter with two new issues.

Takachsin’s A3, previously listed, denotes their chapter as “Leader of Happy Places”. This is not what the chapter had wanted. “Happy Place” is the official translation of the lodge name. They translate Takachsin as leader. The chapter wanted to claim their apellation as “Leader of Happy Place”. The new “A4?” corrects this error. Other than that, the designs are identical.

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This beginning to seem like it’s “Wahissa Week” here. I’m not done yet, either. There will be at least one more post of unlisted Wahissa items to come.

Next up is a piece from Minsi chapter issued in 2000 that has evaded documentation and much notice, until now. This is a patch I would expect to befuddle latter day collectors if it were found outside of its area. There is nothing on the patch, either in the form of text or design elements, that mark it as an issue of Wahissa lodge. Add to the confusion that Minsi is also the name of a merged lodge.

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Here’s four ovals from Wahissa lodge’s Eke Otkia chapter that are not yet listed in Blue Book.

One of them is my current frontrunner for the “Most Audacious Use of Pink on a North Carolina Patch” award. That pink is so hot it starts its own heatwave!

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This is another unusual piece from Croatan lodge that seems to have evaded Blue Book and the other various catalogues throughout the years. It’s a diamond shaped patch from Neusiok chapter.

This is one of the more unusual items I’ve seen lately. The design is printed on some sort of light blue sateen-like material. This was then mounted on a backing that feels like card stock, or something similar. A yellow rolled edge border and a thin leather loop were added to finish it off.

This is well beyond the type of material I can personally collect. Would this be described as “printed on composition”?

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For whatever reasons many North Carolina collectors and Blue Book editors have not paid too much attention to lodge delegate neckerchiefs issued for our section conclaves. As I’m not native to here I don’t understand this bias. Many were forgotten. Only in recent years are they being properly documented.

Woody Woodruff and his wife were here earlier this evening and he brought more stuff from his collection for me to scan. Many of the piece are not yet in Blue Book. Among them was this neckerchief issued by Croatan lodge for the 1984 SE-7 Conclave.

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It’s kind of slow here today and I’m just about at the point where I can catch up on some things I’ve been ignoring for some time.   So, I thought I’d share a story with you all that is not directly related to Scouting.

All brothers in the Order of the Arrow have been similarly admonished.     All Christians should have learned what Jesus considered the greatest commandment.     I expect most other religions and philosophies have similar beliefs in this regard, though I cannot cite them.   Consider those admonishments and precepts,  together with current world events,  as you read this story.

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Pete James passed this along to the members of patch-l on the evening of 6/13:

It is with great sadness that I inform you that John R. Wallace Sr. (ed. note: known as “kindanic” on eBay)passed away on June 13th with complications from pneumonia at the age of 75.

John was a former Wood badge instructor for numerous courses, Vigil honor member of our Lodge and a Silver Beaver recipient. He worked staff at numerous National Jamborees and NOAC’s.

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Many people have trouble spelling and pronouncing lodge names.     In some cases the lodge name is even mispronounced when announcing major awards at NOAC, like my lodge’s name was.     Lodge members even stumble over their own lodge’s name.   So, it shouldn’t be surprising that lodges have had their official names misspelled on their own patches.

Joe Taylor recently wrote on patch-l that he collects patches with misspelled lodge names.     He graciously shared his list with me.   I was even able to add  a few recent items to his list.

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