Unali'yi 236 ZS1?

Bradley England sent me this image of a Unali’yi flap he was unable to catalog some time back.   I’m slowly catching up on things that need to be added here.     I suspect   this is a fake of some sort.   It is the design of the S35 Brotherhood flap, but the border is white instead of red.     The flap has the border color of the Ordeal flap, but the design of the Brotherhood flap.

I want to call this a fake but am reluctant to do so.     I know there are several regular visitors here who are well versed in South Carolina OA issues.     What do you all think about this flap?     Comments, please.

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• 1972 Dixie Fellowship
  Posted on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 in Area 6-B – Views: (38)
  Itibapishe Iti Hollo 188 hosted the twentieth Dixie Fellowship, the 1972 Area 6-B Fellowship, at Camp John J. Barnhardt.     This was also the final Area 6-B fellowship.     In 1973 the six region structure would be in place.There has been some disagreement through the years over what the totem of Itibapishe Iti Hollo is.
• On Using Old Photos…
  Posted on Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 in Personal Stuff – Views: (93)
  Homer Dearmin sent me this page from the website for Stephen Graves, a candidate in 2004 for the US Congress in NY’s Fifth Congressional district.Some of the biographical material on the site and photo captions read like they were written by a second rate publicist.
• Thanksgiving Day
  Posted on Thursday, November 26th, 2009 in Personal Stuff – Views: (62)
  Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you all had a great day today!“Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.

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Tsoiotsi Tsogalii 70 eJ2009-4?

Tsoiotsi Tsogalii lodge held its Fall Fellowship a few weeks back.   Though not indicated on the patches, the lodge also celebrated its 15th anniversary this weekend.   In an unusual move the lodge issued two patches for this event.

The first patch was a rectangular patch designated as the “event patch”.   The hawk was designed to be brown, but for some reason I don’t understand it came out in red and some sort of purplish color.     The second item is a six inch tall “jacket patch”.     Youth in the lodge have dubbed this the “chicken patch”.     There was no special significance to this second patch beyond something the lodge leadership chose to create.

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I hope you all had a great day today!

“Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor, and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”

“Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks, for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.”

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Stephen Graves: Eagle Scout

Homer Dearmin sent me this page from the website for Stephen Graves, a candidate in 2004 for the US Congress in NY’s Fifth Congressional district.

Some of the biographical material on the site and photo captions read like they were written by a second rate publicist.         His biography begins:

“Like many people living in New York’s 5^th district, Stephen Graves immigrated to the greatest city in the world from elsewhere. Stephen Graves grew up in Tennessee, lived in Los Angeles and also abroad in Asia and Europe…”

He immigrated to New York from “elsewhere”?     The man grew up in Tennessee, not some foreign country!     That surely did not gain him any support from the district’s immigrant communities.

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1972 Dixie Fellowship Patch

Itibapishe Iti Hollo 188 hosted the twentieth Dixie Fellowship, the 1972 Area 6-B Fellowship, at Camp John J. Barnhardt.     This was also the final Area 6-B fellowship.     In 1973 the six region structure would be in place.

There has been some disagreement through the years over what the totem of Itibapishe Iti Hollo is.     Blue Book names the beaver as the lodge totem, which is not correct at this time according to the lodge’s by laws.     An American Indian chief was commonly shown on the lodge’s patches.       A fancy dancer is the central design element on this patch.

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• Vacation Over…
  Posted on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 in Uncategorized – Views: (12)
  After being very lax with this blog lately, and almost completely ignoring it for the past week, I plan to get back into action tonight and start working on a bunch of posts for the next week. I haven’t gone away!

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After being very lax with this blog lately, and almost completely ignoring it for the past week, I plan to get back into action tonight and start working on a bunch of posts for the next week. I haven’t gone away!

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• A Pittance of Time
  Posted on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 in Current Events – Views: (40)
  On this Veterans Day, and the 91st anniversary of the end of World War, please take a few moment to remember those whose service to this country throughout the years helped to preserve and defend this nation.   It’s just a pittance of time.(video after the jump)On this Veterans Day, there are now just three confirmed surviving Veterans of World War I.
• Longest Serving Lodge Chief
  Posted on Sunday, November 15th, 2009 in Miscellaneous – Views: (26)
  In “modern” times, the Order of the Arrow has a strict policy that its officers must be under 21 for the entirety of their term in office. This includes all offices from the chapter level all the way to the National Chief. It has the effect of restricting the pool of qualified candidates for those offices of greater responsibility.
• Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes, and the Boy Scouts
  Posted on Thursday, November 12th, 2009 in Current Events – Views: (95)
  Wednesday night (11/11/09) Rush Limbaugh was in New York to attend the banquet at the Westchester-Putnam Council.     According to Limbaugh, his good friend, Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of the Fox News Channel, was presented with the council’s “2009 Good Scout Award”.   Limbaugh introduced Ailes.Limbaugh says this about the Boy Scouts:…I was a Boy Scout once, for a year.

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In “modern” times, the Order of the Arrow has a strict policy that its officers must be under 21 for the entirety of their term in office. This includes all offices from the chapter level all the way to the National Chief. It has the effect of restricting the pool of qualified candidates for those offices of greater responsibility. Even so, from time to time, a lodge will have a two term chief. Some section chiefs are re-elected. I have known one three term section chief. In recent years, due to exceptional circumstances, a young man served for more than a full term as a regional officer, though this is normally prohibited by National policy.

This strong tradition of youth leadership at all level was not always the policy of the Order of the Arrow. In earlier years, officers in the Order of the Arrow could be over 21 years of age. In some cases they were *well* past their 21st birthday. Along those lines, Bill Topkis recently asked a trivia question of his friends online:

Who was the longest serving lodge chief?

Of course he knew the answer. Can anyone else take a guess? Until we have had some input, I request that those who were involved in that other conversation withhold the answer for a while.

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