A group of Rovers from the Boy Scouts of the Phillipines have produced a tribute to the four Iowa Scouts killed when a tornado destroyed their camp earlier this month.

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There is a new comprehensive website for those who collect camp patches. Earlier today, Bill Topkis announced on patch-l:

Jeff Morley and I would like to announce the launch of our new website;
CampCollection.com . If you share our passion for Camp patches and Camp
honor societies we are sure you will enjoy having a look around.

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Ben Stilwill, this year’s Order of the Arrow National Vice Chief, has started his own blog.     Like Bill Mulrenin and myself, he also uses Word Press as his blogging software.     His blog can be found at:

http://www.benjaminstilwill.com/

He follows the lead of last year’s National Chief, Evan Chaffee, who maintained his own blog  during his year in office.

So far there is only one entry, written a few days ago, where we learn he has decided to pledge Beta Theta Pi at DePauw University.     I wonder how he’ll find balancing school work, pledging activities, and the demands of a national office in the Order of the Arrow.

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Matt Kirkland, aka the Black Eagle Trader,  returned to the blogosphere a couple weeks back after more than a four month absence.     Since then he has posted on his blog, The BlackEagleTrader,  many articles of interest for those who collect the issues of Black Eagle Lodge #482.

Among the topics he has covered  are the difficulties and vagaries of Blue Book listings  for this lodge,  discussion of a couple of rare and newly discovered chapter patches, and a great  collection of Transatlantic Council medals.       Also there is a short piece on the 2006 NOAC flap, a  piece not yet pictured, from this log.

This blog is a good read if you have interest in  the patches of Black Eagle lodge or the  Transatlantic  Council.     It’s  great to see  Matt’s  blogging regularly again.

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Outgoing Order of the Arrow National Chief, Evan P. Chaffee, has been maintaining a blog of his time in office.   It’s semi-personal in nature and covers his numerous travels during his year as National Chief.

Like Oprah, he also maintains his own book club.

Whoever is elected his successor next week has a neat tradition to uphold.

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Just when I was really beginning to think they had fallen off the face of the Earth and disappeared for good,  the guys at ScoutHistory.net have put out a new episode of Cloth Talk, the first since last Spring.    Cloth Talk #30 is now available for downloading either through iTunes or by direct download at http://www.scouthistory.net/blog/. Remember, you do not need to have iTunes installed in order to listen to Cloth Talk. They also have a dialup-friendly version available for those who do not have high speed internet connections.
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Bill Mulrenin is starting a series of post on his blog entitled “Knowledge Is Power”. The purpose is to educate readers by highlighting interesting and high priced items that appear on eBay.

So far there have been three posts in this series. The first two are about recent eBay sales. The third is a personal tale of about an unlisted Oratam pie.

1. Nentico 12 X1
2. Owaneco 313 unlisted Qunnipiac dancers patch
3. Unlisted Oratam 484 pie

More posts to this series will follow over time as Bill finds interesting items to write about.
You can read what Bill had to say at http://www.nyoatrader.com/blog.

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Roy More has started conducting and posting a service of “Legacy Interviews” on his blog.   His first interview was with Mr. Walter Helmreich, a participant at the 1933 World Jamboree.     It is interesting to his his recollections of that event and some of the founders of the Scouting movement.

He also is willing to open up posting to other interested interviewers.     Towards that end he has published a pdf file containing Guidelines for Conducting a Scouting Legacy Interview.     This is a neat idea that I hope can take off.

In recent years, two long time Scouters I thought very highly of passed on and I regret I never was able to sit down and interview them on their Scouting and life experiences.     A lot of historical knowledge  was lost with their passing.

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Thanks to the guys at ScoutHistory.net, Cloth Talk #29 is now available for downloading either through iTunes or by direct download at http://www.scouthistory.net/blog/. Remember, you do not need to have iTunes installed in order to listen to Cloth Talk. They also have a dialup-friendly version available for those who do not have high speed internet connections.
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While spending a few minutes of time looking for OA issues for this Summer’s World Jamboree, I found the World Jamboree Collectors Society blog.     Bill Mulrenin had previously report this on his NY OA trader blog, but I must have missed it.

There is no information on the blog to tell us who the writer is other than “wjcc”, which seems to be an acronym for “World Jamboree Collectors Club”.     There is no signs of either a collectors club or a collectors society.     The blog appears to be new.     Recent posts highlight issues from American councils and lodges.

It will be interesting to see how this blog developes.     If anyone knows who is behind this blog, please let me know.

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