This Occoneechee item has been around for a while now, but never catalogued. From what I have been told, there seems to be some disagreement as to whether this is a lodge issue, which should be added to Blue Book, or not

Thanks again to Greg Grimes for sending me the image of this piece. He reports that this is presented to all of the lodge’s Vigil candidates once they are called out for this honor. After completing their Vigil, the new Vigil brother is presented another copy of this leather with their Vigil name inscribed upon it.

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A couple of months ago, I wrote about a patch from this lodge that I dubbed, with tongue firmly implanted in my cheek, the “One True Fake“.     In that post I told the tale of what I have listed on my site as the Tslagi 163 ZS1? and also made reference to a second private issue, believed to be unique     I will tentatively label this the ZS2? since, even though this was likely made before the “ZS1?”, it was the second of the fakes to see the light of day.

The patch labelled ZS2?, like the ZS1?,  was created by a collector in my lodge.     He had put together a display of Tslagi issues and was lacking a YS1 but was able to find a company that would produce a computer designed flap with a similar design.     It was believed only one of these was made.     The patch I previously described as the ZS1? came about at the same time.     It now seems that more than one of the computer designed copy of the YS1 were created.

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Mike Gosling posted this on patch-l earlier today and has asked folks to spread the news.     I have tried to edit the message he was passing along for spelling,  grammar and formatting.

The Official Song of the Scout Association Celebrating Our Centenary and The Jamboree

Jambo, the official song of the Scout Association, is currently CD of the week in Tesco stores throughout the UK. (week beginning 16th July).

We would like to celebrate our Centenary of Scouting with a top ten single and we need all Scouts, Cubs, Beavers, etc. to get involved this week and join our mission to top the charts and show the world that Scouting has the ‘S’ factor!

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A quick introduction: I’m Dave Scocca, and I’ve volunteered to help keep the site updated on issues from Nentico Lodge #12 in the Baltimore Area Council. I’ve been commenting on this blog for a while, and I maintain a website of patches from Baltimore Area Council including CSPs, activities, and camps.

At the 2007 Lodge Picnic this past weekend, Nentico Lodge issued the first CSP in lodge history. The design resembles the classic white lodge flap, with red lettering and border. The Blue Book information will be:

This item is also listed on my page of Baltimore Area Council CSPs; it will end up classified as the SA-89 if my counting is correct.

While the CSP debuted at the Lodge Picnic, there was no picnic event patch issued this year.

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I’ve been taking a bit of a break from this blog lately.   Patch-wise, things have been slow here lately.   We’re now in the midst of Summer and there’s no major national event to feed the flow of new issues.

The local wildlife has been busy.    Last Wednesday the bird’s nest on my deck became more active when the eggs started to hatch.     I now have three very hungry hatchlings about four feet  from my back door… and a cat that is very interested in getting to know them better.   I can’t really use my deck now until these hatchlings leave the nest.

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July 16, 1915. The first Order of the Arrow induction ceremony was held on this date at Treasure Island.     From that humble beginning comes the Order of the Arrow as we know it today.

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As time passes so does does the knowledge of why a patch was issued.   This has been the case with Skyloo 442/Columbia Pacific Council.

Over the past several months several items have appeared on ebay and in the blue book that suggest that a chapter in Skyloo issued a patch or neckerchief.   As the co-historian of 442 along with Paul Collett, I am going to shed some light on this subject.

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For the first time in the history of 442 (Hyas Chuck, Skyloo and Wauna) a leather patch has been issued.   These were made at the annual LEC picnic and given to whomever wanted one.   My family acquired three since my wife and son attended.   These were branded and hand cut by the outgoing chief and his father.   I suspect that less than 50 have been created so far.   Plans are for another batch sometime in the future.

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A few days ago I put out a call for volunteer contributors to this blog, looking primarily for writers willing to cover new issues from their areas like I try to do with the lodges of SR-7B (Eastern NC) and SR-5 (Western NC, SC, and a sliver of GA).   I am pleased to say that several have taken up this challenge

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This is the sixth of an ongoing series of articles about patches issued by the lodges of the national officers of the Order of the Arrow.

I intend to update these posts over time to add any patches I may have left out as well new items for current and future officers.

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
• Part 4:  Lodge of the Northeast Region Chief
• Part 5:  Lodge of the Southern Region Chief

Finally we turn to the Western Region.     This, too, is a rather short list with flaps for this region’s chief not becoming commonplace until 2000.

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