John's Soapbox: The companion to OAImages.com. All about OA Patches … with ocassional comments on current events, UNC basketball, or just about anything else I find interesting. Remember any changes to Order of the Arrow policies and programs will be announced through official channels, not here!
Over the past several years I have accumulated an abundance of flaps. This is an opportunity for you. I can now offer lots of ten (10) different and assorted flaps, all mint and no spoofs/fakes, for $40 postpaid to US addresses.
Please, at this time this is a limit of one lot per person. No requests for particular issues or lodges can be honored. My extras are stored in boxes and I will pull them out ten at a time at random.
If interested please send payment via PayPal to me at jpannell@triad.rr.com. Please remember to include your address. Thanks and happy collecting!
Greg Grimes recently sent me this image of two RED bordered 2012 Home of the Region Chief flaps, showing something he noticed about them. Apparently there may be thin and thick letter variations in this issue. To me this is not significant enough to be listed as a variety. It is for cases like this that my site uses the notation, "MVE" (minor variations exist).
I told Greg I would share this image with fellow collectors. What do you think? Chase after this variation or not; that is completely up to you!
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March 5th, 2012
Breast Cancer Patch Checklist
Now that there is a growing list of breast cancer related patches as well as a devoted group of collectors chasing after them, I thought now is a good time to put together a list of those issues. I now know of at least 18 issues from 12 lodges, including a key fob and one chapter issue.
Ahoalan-Nachpikin lodge from Memphis, TN has joined the growing list of lodges (and one chapter) that have issued patches in support of breast cancer research. As with many others, this issue is also a pink monochrome. Thanks to Nick DeMarco for supplying this image.
If you know of any other patches that have been issued for this cause, please either send the images to me or comment on this post below. Thanks.
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February 21st, 2012
2012 NOAC Issues Page Added
I have just added a page to this site showing lodge issues for this Summer's National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC). You may view it here:
Presently on a few issues are shown. If you know of any that should be added, please let me know. This list should grow rapidly as we get closer to NOAC.
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Timuquan Lodge 340 hosted the recent Section S-4 Conference, and commemorated their efforts with new emblems. In March, the first of their host items was released, the “Work Force” flap, available for those meeting a service requirement (S55). Continue Reading »
Catawba lodge recently issued a two part set as a fundraiser for this Summer’s NOAC. Thanks to Larry Banks for sending the images of these pieces.
The set features a mildly unusual design for a lodge from North Carolina: the skyline of New York City. As someone who is originally from New York, it’s difficult not to notice that something is missing from this skyline and remember why.
Posted in Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on April 24th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Ajapeu 33 Breast Cancer Awareness Flap
Ajapeu 33 recently issued three flaps to encourage breast cancer awareness. While this might seem to be an odd reason for an Order of the Arrow lodge to issue a flap they are not the first lodge to do this. In February 2007, I wrote about a flap issued by Japeechen 341 that was sold as a fundraiser for breast cancer research. Thanks to Dennis Hallman for supplying the images for these flaps.
The design is similar to the lodge’s most recent standard flap (S51?). The color of the buck has been changed from shades of brown to pink for breast cancer awareness. This is a similar idea to the pink ribbons that are worn to support this cause. Flaps with three different border colors (red, silver mylar, and gold mylar) were issued.
At this time I know of no other lodges that have issued any patches in support of breast cancer research or awareness.
"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half."
Posted in Florida Lodges by Robert Mathis on April 23rd, 2009 at 4:30 pm
This past weekend, over 1,000 Arrowmen from over the state of Florida and southern Georgia met at Sand Hill Scout Reservation for the annual gathering of the eleven lodges of Section S-4 for the annual Conference*. This year’s Conference was hosted by Timuquan Lodge 340 (West Central Florida Council), at the camp located outside Brooksville. This was the Section’s return to the configuration of 1993-1997, with the eight lodges of peninsular Florida (85, 200, 237, 239, 265, 326, 340, 564) and the three from southern Georgia (229, 353, and 545). Continue Reading »
Nayawin Rar lodge was selling an interesting, if a bit “retro”, jacket patch at last weekend’s SR-7B conclave It is a 7″ round felt patch. The central portion of the design is chenille. The lodge name on the outer ring of the patch is embroidered on the felt.
Since the central portion of this patch is chenille, this item will be listed on this site as “C1?” rather than “J4?” The listing data for this issue are as follows:
"Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe.
This single statement took the scientific world by storm. It completely revolutionized it. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure and the science of math was put back by years."
Klahican lodge issued a single flap for this year’s SR-7B conclave. Of the five lodges in the section that issued patches for this event, Klahican was the only lodge to have just one issue.
The design of the flap illustrates the “Batman” theme the lodge adopted for the conclave. The patch seemed to be freely traded and not restricted in any significant way.
Croatan lodge adopted a Christmas theme for this year’s SR-7B conclave. Two patches — a flap and a rectangular “dangle” — were issued with this theme. I don’t remember the exact quantities made, but I was told there were significantly fewer of the odd-shape than the flap.
The flap pictures a Christmas Eve scene. Across the top of the flap, “ghosted” into the background is written “Christmas at Croatan”. The dangle features Santa Claus bearing a bag of gifts. The phrase “Croatan 2010″ acknowledges this lodge as the host for the 2010 SR-7B conclave. Following recent practice, the initials of the lodge chief are hidden in the designs of both patches.
The listing data for these two issues are as follows:
It should go without saying that my post about this site being sold to a Google/eBay partnership was my annual April Fool's post. I have no plans at this time to give up or sell this web site. Long time readers will know this has become quite the tradition here and I usually start planning the posts several months in advance. The most famous (infamous?) of these was 2008's post concerning the abolishment of lodge names. It still creates difficulty from time to time for those in authority in the OA and BSA due to the inability of some to detect obvious (in my opinion) satire.
This post contains important information regarding the future of this website. Please read carefully.
Many have noticed that I have found it hard to maintain this website for quite some time now. Due to various reasons, some of them beyond my control, updating the price guide regularly has become all but impossible. Things have become a bit less chaotic, but after 15 years this has become a chore. I also know that there will come the day when control of this site will need to be passed to another. With all that in mind, I have been considering various options for the future of OAImages. In the midst of this, a several months ago I was contacted by someone who made me an offer that was too good to resist. After many months of negotiations I am now free to announce that this site has been purchased by a combined partnership of Google and eBay. This will be effective July 1, 2012.
Back in 2010 I announced the formation of Tschipey Achtu lodge as a result of the merger of Ty-Ohni 95 and Ganeodiyo 417. At the time I was told they would use the number 397, which is also their council number. This created a bit of controversy as that number is currently in use by Chilantakoba lodge in Louisiana. I also announced their first flap. Other than a 2010 Jamboree issue no further news from this lodge made it to me.
I was talking with a Roger Ward last night who was at the recent Winter South Carolina Trade-O-Ree. He tells me it has not been quiet in that lodge. The use of 397 was problematic. Many wanted to choose a different number. Some wanted to claim the number zero, but that was not well received given the special place Unami 1 holds in the Order of the Arrow. The Scout Executive, I am told, stepped in and told the lodge they will use the lower number from the two merged lodges.
The lodge is now known as Tschipey Achtu 95. I have updated the site to reflect this current information. Several new issues have also been added.
Some of those who know me personally, know that I have gone over to the "Dark Side" and have started using Apple products. I bought an iMac a couple of months ago and just recently got an iPad. My brother is trying to tell me that my Droid's days are numbered.
I really like my iPad and started day dreaming about an OAImages app for it. I have no idea how to go about writing this and it would take me into an entirely new area from what I know. It's not something that would happen easily or soon. Here's your chance to give feedback. What do you think about an OAImages app? What would you put in it? Do you have any thoughts on how it would be distributed or how much it would cost?
Please feel free to comment. Comments are moderated for those who have not successfully had a comment published on this blog before in order to control spam. I will do my best to approve comments as quickly as possible in order to facilitate a discussion.
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October 4th, 2011
Indian Summer and Summit Corps Patches
I have added special pages on this site for the 2011 Indian Summer and 2011 Summit Corps. I still have a few images to add but most of what I have images for is now on the site. Thanks for Rick Horne for most of these images.
It's kind of odd to come out of hiding to post about a topic like this.
I'm hearing from some brothers that there have been gullible readers to this blog over the years. I would have thought it was obvious from the context of the posts, but the various posts made on this blog throughout the years that have appeared on APRIL FIRST are all satire. None of them are true. Read them and chuckle but please do not complain to your friendly OA National Committee members, Scout Executives, lodge advisers, or official website administrators about the "changes" that are "announced" in them.
Timuquan Lodge 340 S-4 Conference 2009 Host
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This past weekend, over 1,000 Arrowmen from over the state of Florida and southern Georgia met at Sand Hill Scout Reservation for the annual gathering of the eleven lodges of Section S-4 for the annual Conference*. This year’s Conference was hosted by Timuquan Lodge 340 (West Central Florida Council), at the camp located outside Brooksville. This was the Section’s return to the configuration of 1993-1997, with the eight lodges of peninsular Florida (85, 200, 237, 239, 265, 326, 340, 564) and the three from southern Georgia (229, 353, and 545). 
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