1967 Dixie Fellowship
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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.
I do not know why Blue Book has asserted the beaver as the totem of this lodge. Perhaps some readers can fill us in on this. There was also a neckerchief, mug, and leather neckerchief slide issued for this event of which I do not have pictures.
Thanks to Jason Spangler (www.santeeswapper.com) for supplying the images for the Area Z and Dixie Fellowship patches used on this blog.
* The lodge’s 2008 bylaws states, “The totem of the Itibapishe Iti Hollo Lodge shall be that of a Creek Indian wearing one feather.” Interestingly enough the lodge’s 2008 by-laws also state that this totem must appear on “the patch”, and that the “official lodge flap” is not to be resold. These terms in quotes are not explicitly defined but apparently have a meaning what the simple words would otherwise mean as the bylaws also allow for “special lodge flaps”.
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Interesting point…188′s totem being a beaver. As many times as I’ve looked at the BB and your site on the 188 page, I’ve never realized the totem was not the Indian Chief as displayed on their patches….
BB still list Occoneechee’s totem as an arrowhead w/ 2 arrows. That totem was changed by the lodge in the 50′s but BB still fails to recognize the change. Wonder why that is??
Makes me wonder how many more incorrect totems are out there that need to be updated???? Maybe there should be a listing of the “original” or past totems and the one that is currently used….
Greg — I wonder if Blue Book was using “original” totems. Given the bias towards big collectors for historical (ie. old and rare) items this seems plausible. Maybe the new editors need to look at this.