Wahissa 118 R11?

Wahissa lodge broke with their own tradition* this year and issued a patch for its brothers who attended the 2010 SR-7B Conclave. However, there was a wrinkle. Thanks to Homer Dearmin for this image.

These were issued one per person to lodge members who preregistered for the SR-7B conclave.   It has been reported to me that not enough were produced and some later pre-registrants did not receive a patch.   The design is based upon the “hippy” theme the lodge delegation adopted at conclave.

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• Lodge 104: A Nod to Tradition
  Posted on Monday, May 24th, 2010 in Occoneechee 104 – Views: (74)
  “Without our traditions our lives would be as shaky as… as…”Occoneechee lodge issued a new neckerchief at its recent Spring Ordeal.     Following Blue Book custom, since this is a patch sewn onto a neckerchief, it is treated as a “pie” patch (P) rather than neckerchief (N).
• Lodge 104: New Eluwak Chapter Issues
  Posted on Thursday, May 27th, 2010 in Occoneechee 104 – Views: (76)
  There has been a lot of publicity and discussion on the National policy that prohibits lodge flaps for the individual “honors” (Ordeal, Brotherhood and Vigil), also referred to as OBV flaps. Many lodges did not have such flaps and were unaffected by this change.
• Lodge 118: 2010 Events Issues
  Posted on Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 in SR-7B Lodges – Views: (60)
  Thanks to Homer Dearmin for sending me images for several recent issues from Wahissa lodge not previously shown on this site.   Two of them are for events patches from this lodge.The first of these is for the lodge’s March Workday.

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• BSA Joins With Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Program to Inspire Youth Across America

May 21, 2010

• William T. Hornaday Conservation Awards Reunion to be held at 2010 National Jamboree

May 24, 2010

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Dirge For Two Veterans

By Walt Whitman

THE last sunbeam
Lightly falls from the finish’d Sabbath,
On the pavement here, and there beyond it is looking,
Down a new-made double grave.

Lo, the moon ascending,
Up from the east the silvery round moon,
Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon,
Immense and silent moon.

I see a sad procession,
And I hear the sound of coming full-key’d bugles,
All the channels of the city streets they’re flooding,
As with voices and with tears.

I hear the great drums pounding,
And the small drums steady whirring,
And every blow of the great convulsive drums,
Strikes me through and through.

For the son is brought with the father,
(In the foremost ranks of the fierce assault they fell,
Two veterans son and father dropt together,
And the double grave awaits them.)

Now nearer blow the bugles,
And the drums strike more convulsive,
And the daylight o’er the pavement quite has faded,
And the strong dead-march enwraps me.

In the eastern sky up-buoying,
The sorrowful vast phantom moves illumin’d,
(‘Tis some mother’s large transparent face,
In heaven brighter growing.)

O strong dead-march you please me!
O moon immense with your silvery face you soothe me!
O my soldiers twain! O my veterans passing to burial!
What I have I also give you.

The moon gives you light,
And the bugles and the drums give you music,
And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,
My heart gives you love.

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A new OA lodge has been formed in New York.     Previously the councils of Ty-Ohni Lodge #95 (Rochester Area) and Ganeodiyo Lodge #417 (Finger Lakes) merged to form Seneca Waterways Council. I can now announce the new OA lodge is Tschipey Achtu lodge. They will use the number 397, which is also the council number.

Thanks to Craig Leighty for directing me to the official word on the council’s website about this.   I may also have missed this news on Bill Mulrenin’s excellent NY OA blog.

The National Order of the Arrow no longer officially assigns lodge numbers but most lodges still use their traditional numbers.   Collectors also have continued to use lodge numbers since OA lodge names are often difficult to pronounce, and out of a sense of tradition and convenience.   Since this change by National newly formed lodges have followed a variety of practices.   Some, like Pocumtuc lodge, have made it a point to adopt no lodge number although some collectors use a number (83) anyways.   Others like Takoda lodge have, at least in some circles, used a number (146) of historical significance to them.   Still others, like Kittan lodge, have used their council’s number (364) as their own.     364 was also conveniently the lodge number of one of Kittan’s predecessor lodges.

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As previously noted here, here, and here, O-Shot-Caw Lodge 265 has a three-year long theme to their weekend  activity patches, using depictions of National Jamboree designs.   The recent S-4 Conference was an opportunity to get caught up on the more recent creations.   The 2010 Year patch uses the design of the 1985 Jamboree patch.

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Occoneechee 104 Eluwak Chapter X2?

There has been a lot of publicity and discussion on the National policy that prohibits lodge flaps for the individual “honors” (Ordeal, Brotherhood and Vigil), also referred to as OBV flaps.     Many lodges did not have such flaps and were unaffected by this change.   Some lodges that formerly issued OBV flaps have discontinued the practice.     A rare few came up with creative ways to skirt the rule and continue the tradition for at least a little longer.       Did Eluwak Chapter in Occoneechee lodge realize this applied to loge flaps and and not rectangular patches issued by chapters?   Thanks to Greg Grimes for news of these issues and the images.

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Occoneechee 104 Eluwak Chapter X2?

There has been a lot of publicity and discussion on the National policy that prohibits lodge flaps for the individual “honors” (Ordeal, Brotherhood and Vigil), also referred to as OBV flaps. Many lodges did not have such flaps and were unaffected by this change. Some lodges that formerly issued OBV flaps have discontinued the practice. A rare few came up with creative ways to skirt the rule and continue the tradition for at least a little longer. Did Eluwak Chapter in Occoneechee lodge realize this applied to loge flaps and and not rectangular patches issued by chapters? Thanks to Greg Grimes for news of these issues and the images.

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Wahissa 118 X24?

Thanks again to Homer Dearmin for these two images of the 2009 and 2010 Cook Crew patches from Wahissa lodge.     Both patches feature the same basic coffee pot design that the lodge has used for its cook crew patches since at least 1976.

The 2010 issue (X24?, pictured) was also issued to commemorate the BSA’s centennial.   The two basic design elements of the “BSA 2010″ logo and the phrase “100 Years of Scouting” are added to the basic design.     Strictly speaking “100 years of Scouting” should have been celebrated in 2007, but we know the lodge refers only to the BSA on this patch.

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Wahissa 118 eA2010-2?

Thanks to Homer Dearmin for sending me images for several recent issues from Wahissa lodge not previously shown on this site.   Two of them are for events patches from this lodge.

The first of these is for the lodge’s March Workday.   The second (pictured) is for the lodge’s recent Spring Fellowship.     The lodge’s totem on the Spring Fellowship patch is similar in design to the lodge’s S1.     The Workday patch adapts the lodge’s totem from the lodge’s P1.     Homer Dearmin has commented, “…Each of the event patches this year will be ‘throwbacks’ to older Wahissa/Camp Raven Knob/Old Hickory Council issues…”

Both patches are also issues for the BSA’s 100th anniversary.   Note the use of the BSA’s “2010″ logo.

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