1952 Area 3A Pow-Wow
Posted in Area 3-A,Area 3-C,Area 3-D,Area 3-E,Section Conclave Patches by Dave Scocca on September 11th, 2008 at 2:00 pm 
1952 Area 3A Slide
The 1952 Area 3A Pow-Wow was hosted by Memeu Lodge #125 and was held at Camp Nisatin (now a part of Hawk Mountain Scout Reservation) near Reading, Pennsylvania.
A red leather neckerchief slide was issued for the event. This is among the scarcest of the old 3A slides.
Two additional lodges were chartered in Area 3A in early 1952. Lodge #470 was chartered in March in Washington, DC, initially without a name or totem (first becoming Amanquemack in 1953 and finally taking the name Amangamek-Wipit in 1955).
Tunkhannock Lodge #476 was also chartered in 1952, in Bethlehem, PA.
This brought to 29 the total number of lodges officially in Area 3A:
- Unami 1
- Nawakwa 3
- Minsi 5
- Susquehannock XI
- Nentico 12
- Wyona 18
- Octoraro 22
- Winingus 30
- Ajapeu 33
- Swatara 39
- Delmont 43
- Pohopoco 44
- Ah-Pace 58
- Monaken 103
- Memeu 125
- Koo Koo Ku Hoo 161
- Acahela 223
- Shenandoah 258
- Shenshawpotoo 276
- Quekolis 316
- Guneukitschik 317
- Wapsu Achtu 343
- Blue Heron 349
- Tiadaghton 384
- Tuckahoe 386
- Powhatan 456
- Kecoughtan 463
- (Amanquemack) 470
- Tunkhannock 476
Even though not all of these lodges were likely in attendance at the 1952 Pow-Wow–at a minimum, Wyona had fallen dormant and was not revived until 1954, and Amanquemack 470 did not induct members until late in the year–it seems clear that Area 3A was becoming too large to gather conveniently. This would be the last year in which all these lodges gathered together; according to the 1957 Area 3C Manual, a vote was made at the 1952 Pow-Wow to split the southern lodges off to form Area 3C. Chanco Lodge #483 was chartered in September in Suffolk VA as a part of Area 3C.
(Sources include the Hawk Mountain Council web page, the online Amangamek-Wipit lodge history and Glenn Chase’s page of Chanco Lodge issues.)
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