Itibapishe Iti Hollo 188 X14?

Larry Banks recently sent me several images from North Carolina lodges that were not yet listed here.     Among them is this   patch from Itibapishe Iti Hollo lodge.     News of issues from this small lodge often does not reach me in a timely manner so it’s not unusual to hear about an item a year or so after it was first issued.

I presume this piece is similar in purpose to the “All Events” issues from Catawba 459 and some of the other pre-registration patches issued by other lodges.     Therefore I have listed it as “X14?” placing it before the 2008 Dixie Fellowship issues.     This means several other issues from this lodge will be renumbered on this site.   If you catalogue your collections based upon the tentative numbers used on this site, please note and make any necessary changes.

The listing data for this patch, and all renumbered items are as follows:

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• Guest Editorial: On Patch Restrictions
  Posted on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 in Patch Collecting – Views: (114)
  Rick Obermeyer taught a training session on “Ethical Patch Distribution” at NOAC earlier this month. The topic of patch restrictions often arises in conversation both at NOAC and elsewhere. It is raised often enough that he included an answer to this question in his handouts. I share this here with his permission.
• Lodge 117: 2009 NOAC Delegate Flap
  Posted on Thursday, August 27th, 2009 in Croatan 117 – Views: (64)
  I recently wrote about a two part set Croatan lodge issued for NOAC.     Greg Grimes now tells me the lodge also issued a restricted flap for its NOAC delegates.     This flap continues the Three Musketeers and “The Power of One” themes.       D’Artagnan is apparently featured here.
• Lodge 87: 2009 NOAC Set
  Posted on Monday, August 24th, 2009 in Bob White 87 – Views: (87)
  Bob White lodge honored a true American hero, unkown to most, on their NOAC set.   In this way they provided an excellent witness to the “Power of One”.     Jimmie Dyess was an Eagle Scout and Scouter from the Georgia-Carolina Council who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War 2.

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The Unknown Lodges (Originally printed in Blue Book –  reprinted with permission of the American Scouting Historical Society)

by Jeff Morley and Bill Topkis

It is hard to imagine the Order of the Arrow of the early 1920’s. The scouting program itself was less than 15 years old and the Boy Scouts of America was only one of several scouting organizations competing for national dominance. In those days, the program was not even called Order of the Arrow. What we now know as the OA began in 1915 as Wimactendienk W. W. and was one of several honor camper societies to form during the first decade of Scouting.

Based upon the few first-hand accounts by members who were active in the 1920’s, minutes of early meetings of the Grand Lodge and the official “History of the Order of the Arrow” by Kenneth Davis, an amazing picture of the order’s early years begins to emerge.

Scout councils began procuring their own camps in the early to mid 1920’s. Before then, it was commonplace for councils to share large camp areas. Three such areas were Treasure Island on the Deleware River near Philadelphia, Lake Kawonanke, and Crystal Lake in New York. Scout encampments from many councils co-existed along the shores of the latter two locations and in the case of Kawonanke Lake, we know that well over thirty different scout councils had campgrounds there at the same time. In circumstances such as these, it is easy to see that if one council utilized a popular honor camper society, it would not be long before the idea would spread to neighboring council camps and such was the case in the early days.

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Atta Kulla Kulla 185 eX2009-2?

Brad Hutto sends word of the latest event issue from Atta Kulla Kulla lodge, issued for the lodge’s cookout.     This is the third of   series of patches issued for the lodge’s 2009 events and the 2009 Dixie Fellowship.     Previous issues were the 2009 Spring Fellowship (eX2009-1?) and 2009 Dixie Fellowship (X21?) patches.   When completed, the set will depict a whippoorwill superimposed upon a compass rose.

Just a very small portion of the whippoorwill is shown at the point of this patch.

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• Stimulus checks lure Floridians to their arrest

August 28, 2009 – How do you catch wanted criminals? Promise to give them a government hand-out.

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1967 Dixie Fellowship Patch

The sixteenth Dixie Fellowship, the 1967 Area 6-B Fellowship, remained in North Carolina with Itibapishe Iti Hollo 188 serving as host lodge.

This was the first Dixie Fellowship held at the brand new Camp John J. Barnhardt.   It was also the first time since the lodge hosted a Dixie Fellowship since the 1954 meeting at Camp Dick Henning.

Riddle and McLean report in their A Golden Legacy:   A 50th Anniversary of the Dixie Fellowship that the meals had to be served from the OA building due to the lack of a dining hall.     They also note this camp was built on the site of the former “black” camp for Central North Carolina Council.     Riddle and McLean do not mention it but I pressume Scouting in this council was intergrated with the construction of the new camp.

The tradition of the fellowship patch showing the totem of the host lodge was essentially maintained.     Blue Book, and therefore my site, has oddly listed the totem of this lodge as a beaver* however an American Indian in full bonnet often appears on this lodge’s patches.     An adaptation of that appears as a central element in this patch.

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• Height and Weight

August 25, 2009

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Croatan 117 S71?

I recently wrote about a two part set Croatan lodge issued for NOAC.     Greg Grimes now tells me the lodge also issued a restricted flap for its NOAC delegates.     This flap continues the Three Musketeers and “The Power of One” themes.       D’Artagnan is apparently featured here.     This issue also continues a recent tradition and incorporates the initials of the current lodge chief into its design.

A few words are needed about the colors used on this patch.

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Santee 116 S29?+X10?

Santee lodge issued its first true two part set for this year’s NOAC.     Their GMY bordered delegate set, pictured, marks the first time this lodge has issued a restricted “delegate” patch for a section or national event.     Thanks to Jason Spangler for providing the scans of these pieces.

The designs of these sets are identical except for the border color.     Both the flap and chevron feature design elements – the SC state profile, the palmetto, the crescent moon, and the Carolina parakeet — traditional to Santee lodge patches.

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Rick Obermeyer taught a training session on “Ethical Patch Distribution” at NOAC earlier this month. The topic of patch restrictions often arises in conversation both at NOAC and elsewhere. It is raised often enough that he included an answer to this question in his handouts. I share this here with his permission.

Q4: How do you feel about restrictions?

A4: That really isn’t in the context of this session, but since we have time, I’ll give you my personal opinions, if you like. I can’t speak on restrictions for everybody. That would be too presumptuous. I can only talk about what works for my own lodge back home. Shall I go ahead?

How my lodge feels about restrictions is based on some premises. The first premise is that we are all brothers in the Order of the Arrow. That is, equal brothers. We all got into the OA the same way, with election by others. If we have Brotherhood membership, that’s because we all individually made a personal promise to accept the challenge to cheerful service that was shown to us during the Ordeal. If we are Vigil, that is a sign given to indicate that others feel that we have done a decent job of keeping that personal promise we made to ourselves at Brotherhood.

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