1961 Dixie Fellowship Patch

The tenth Dixie Fellowship, the 1961 Area 6-B Fellowship, was held at Camp Palmetto. Skyuka 270 was the host lodge. Continuing the tradition started in 1953, the Confederate Battle Flag was used in the patch’s design.     Also included is a U.S. flag, possibly intended to be a depiction of the flag that might have been current during the US Civil War.

This UNC fan likes the pretty shade of “Carolina Blue” used on the patch, however I am sure the color choice had little to do with my favorite school.

Thanks to Jason Spangler (www.santeeswapper.com) for supplying the images for the Area Z and Dixie Fellowship patches used on this blog.

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Popularity: 12% [?]

1960 Dixie Fellowship Patch

The ninth Dixie Fellowship, the 1960 Area 6-B Fellowship, was held at Camp Old Indian.   Atta Kulla Kulla 185 was the host lodge. Continuing the tradition started in 1953, the Confederate Battle Flag was used in the patch’s design.

This year’s patch design appears to have been somewhat inspired by the 1959 patch.     The whippoorwill, Atta Kulla Kulla’s totem, is superimposed over a Confederate flag.

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Popularity: 9% [?]

1959 Dixie Fellowship Patch

The eighth Dixie Fellowship, the 1959 Area 6-B Fellowship, was held at Camp Coker. Santee 116 was the host lodge.   Continuing the tradition started in 1953, the Confederate Battle Flag was used in the patch’s design.

The Carolina parakeet, the totem of the host lodge, is superimposed over a Confederate flag.

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Popularity: 9% [?]

1958 Dixie Fellowship Patch

The seventh Dixie Fellowship, the 1958 Area 6-B Fellowship, was held at Camp Steere. Catawba 459 was the host lodge.     This was the second time Catawba hosted at Camp Steere.   Continuing the tradition started in 1953, the Confederate Battle Flag was used in the patch’s design.

In a stroke of originality that could arguable presage the lodge’s use of “Meck” on several of its modern patches, a hornet is shown on this patch.     This was the first time that the hornet, instead of the nest, was used as a symbol for Catawba lodge.

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Popularity: 10% [?]

1957 Dixie Fellowship Patch

The sixth Dixie Fellowship, the 1957 Area 6-B Fellowship, was held at Camp Palmetto. Skyuka 270 was the host lodge. Continuing the tradition started in 1953, the Confederate Battle Flag was used in the patch’s design.

The patch design for this year is very similar in style and color scheme to Skyuka’s annual meeting patches for 1954, 1955, and 1956.       Some today might find the caricature style American Indian used on these patches a bit controversial and offensive.     However, I expect that in the 1950s this would not have been controversial.

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Popularity: 12% [?]

1956 Dixie Fellowship Patch

The fifth Dixie Fellowship, the 1956 Area 6-B Fellowship, was held at Camp Old Indian. Atta Kulla Kulla 185 was the host lodge.   Continuing the tradition started in 1953, the Confederate Battle Flag was used in the patch’s design.

Mac McLean had commented that he thought the 1955 Dixie Fellowship patch may have been designed by a professional Scouter.     The same may have been true with this patch, and for the same reasons.

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Popularity: 11% [?]

1955 Dixie Fellowship

The fourth Dixie Fellowship, the 1955 Area 6-B Fellowship, was held in 1955 at Camp Coker. Santee 116 was the host lodge. Following the tradition started in 1953, the Confederate Battle Flag figured prominently in this patch’s design.

The patch design seems to imply that this section consisted of all of South Carolina, which was not true.     It included three lodges in western North Carolina and only three of South Carolina’s five lodges.

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Popularity: 15% [?]

1954 Dixie Fellowship

The third Dixie Fellowship, the 1954 Area 6-B Fellowship, was held in 1954 at Camp Dick Henning.     Itibapishe Iti Hollo 188, affiliated with the Central North Carolina Council,   was the host lodge.

Following the tradition started in 1953,   the Confederate Battle Flag figured prominently in this patch’s design.

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Popularity: 12% [?]

1953 Dixie Fellowship

The second Dixie Fellowship, the 1953 Area 6-B Fellowship, was held in 1953 at Camp Steere. The newest lodge in the area, Catawba 459, served as host lodge.

This was the first time the Confederate Battle Flag was used in the the design of a Dixie Fellowship patch.     This flag would appear in some fashion, sometimes disguised, on most of the Dixie Fellowship patches into the 21st century.

Thanks to Jason Spangler (www.santeeswapper.com) for supplying the images for the Area Z and Dixie Fellowship patches used on this blog.

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Popularity: 9% [?]

1952 Dixie Fellowship (Area 6-B Conclave) Patch

The third Area 6-B fellowship meeting was held in 1952 at Camp Ho-non-wah with Unali’yi 236 serving as host lodge. This was the first event to be called the “Dixie Fellowship”.

In these days, it was customary to refer to this area’s fellowships by the name of the city where the host lodge’s council was located. Under that custom this would have been called the 1952 “Charleston Fellowship”. However Unali’yi had hosted the 1948 Area Z fellowship, already dubbed the “Charleston Fellowship”. It was felt that was confusing, so the event was called the “Dixie Fellowship” instead. This was originally intended to be used only in this year, but it stuck. The “Dixie Fellowship” was created.

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Popularity: 12% [?]