Lodge 87: Two More 2009 NOAC Sets
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Bob White 87 S42?+X15?
Brad Hutto sends word of two more sets issued by Bob White lodge for this year’s NOAC. Both these sets honor Jimmie Dyess, Medal of Honor recipient, and are nearly identical to the first set previously covered on this blog.
The chevrons contain a symbol representing part of Mr. Dyess’ life. The Eagle Scout medal is depicted on “X14?”. The Medal of Honor is shown on “X15?”. I am not certain what that is on the “X13?”.
We do not know the purpose of these sets. Can anyone please fill us in here.
The listing data for these issues are as follows:
| Issue | Bdr Color/Type | Bkgd | Name | fdl/BSA | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S41? | BLU | R | M/C | WHT | - | NOAC 2009 |
| S42? | SMY | R | M/C | WHT | - | NOAC 2009 |
| X14? | BLU | R | M/C | - | TRQ | fdl; Home of Jimmie Dyess, The Power of One, Eagle Scout Medal |
| X15? | SMY | R | M/C | - | TRQ | fdl; Home of Jimmie Dyess, The Power of One, Medal of Honor |
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The second nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a recipriversexcluson, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive. Recipriversexclusons now play a vital part in many branches of math, including statistics and accountancy and also form the basic equations used to engineer the Somebody Else's Problem field.
The third and most mysterious piece of nonabsoluteness of all lies in the relationship between the number of items on the bill, the cost of each item, the number of people at the table and what they are each prepared to pay for. (The number of people who have actually brought any money is only a subphenomenon of this field.)"
It appears that the image on the X13? is that of the Carnegie Medal, which Col. Dyess received in 1929 for rescuing swimmers off the coast of Charleston, SC, in 1928. (This information was taken from a Wikipedia article on Dyess)
In keeping with the Power of One theme of NOAC 2009, the Bob White Lodge used as an example, Augusta’s own Jimmie Dyess. He is the only person to have earned the rank of Eagle Scout; to have been awarded the Carnegie Medal for saving two ladies from drowning near Charleston in the 1920′s, and to have received (posthumous) the Medal of Honor during action on Namur Island in the Pacific Theater.
The flap series is the same image of Jimmie Dyess with borders to match the three different awards. The blue border with the Medal of Honor delegate set is from the Medal Of Honor Ribbon. The bronze border with Carnegie Medal trader set is from the bronze of the Carnegie Medal. The silver border with Eagle Medal fund raiser is from the silver of the Eagle Medal.
The reason for the complete lower patch and the larger than normal upper patch is out of respect for Jimmie Dyess, who he was and what he did. The Lodge believed it would be a an act of disrespct to disfigure his face by cropping any portion of it to fit on a “normal” sized pocket flap or to have a decapitated lower piece. The youth felt that it was better to have oversized patches with the increased cost to avoid any sembelance of disrepect to an authentic American hero.