Archive for January, 2007

Category IconSantee 2006 Events Issues

Posted in SR-5 Lodges, Santee 116 by John E. Pannell on January 30th, 2007 at 2:03 am

This is the newest installment of 2006 lodge events issues from lodges in the Carolinas.  For some lodges I have no information, so unless someone tells me what event patches their lodge has made this past year the update will be very short.

Consider this a not so subtle hint and request: If your lodge events issues are not yet on OAImages.com, please send the information and scans along to me.

I know of the following two event patches issued by Santee lodge in 2006. Continue Reading »



"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
Winston Churchill


Cloth Talk #22: Déjà Vu All Over Again

Posted in Scouting Blogs and Websites by John E. Pannell on January 29th, 2007 at 3:44 pm

Thanks to the guys at ScoutHistory.net Cloth Talk #22 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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"Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man. "
Francis Cardinal Spellman


Happy Anniversary

Posted in OAImages News by John E. Pannell on January 25th, 2007 at 5:34 pm

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At the beginning of the year, I added a new banner to this site consisting of all 10th anniversary patches.   Patches commemorating lodge anniversaries have a long history, starting with the 25th anniversary issue from Unami (L1), intended to be worn as a neckerchief slide, pictured on the left.

If established as an authentic lodge issue, the patch currently listed as the Nentico 12 YX2, from 1942, apparently would be the first anniversary issue issued by a lodge other than Unami. Otherwise that honor would likely fall to the Chappegat 15 L1, a leather patch worn as neckerchief slide, issued for their 25th anniversary in 1948. Continue Reading »



"When you control the ball, you control the score. "
Pele


Why I Add Text To Images

Posted in OAImages News by John E. Pannell on January 23rd, 2007 at 8:00 am

On Cloth Talk #21, Chris Brightwell discussed how to upload images to the Scout History Wiki.   He mentioned that folks should not add any sort of additional text to the patch image.   I can understand the desire for a nice clean, uncorrupted, image on the Wiki.   Watermarks, especially, can be very annoying and distracting.   See Getty Images for an example of what I mean.

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"There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace."
Ronald Reagan


Someone Didn’t Get the Memo

Posted in Scouting, other than collecting by John E. Pannell on January 22nd, 2007 at 4:29 am

Most publications have a style or writers’ guide for their writers and editors.   On a basic level it seeks to standardize spellings, punctuation and grammar.   In more extreme cases such guidelines seek to incite emotional responses or support a political position — suicide bombers versus homicide bombers, insurgents versus terrorists, pro-choice versus pro-abortion.

In recent years the Order of the Arrow, on a national level, has abandoned the use of lodge numbers.  Lodge numbers no longer appear on charters.   Lodges register at national events using their lodge name, council name and council number.   Announcers and newspaper writers at NOAC were very careful to not use historical lodge numbers.   It was as if a memo came down from heaven: Under no circumstances are the lodges’ numbers to be used. Continue Reading »

"Television is where you watch people in your living room that you would not want near your house."
Groucho Marx


Category Icon2007 Conclave Service Flap

Posted in Occoneechee 104, SR-7B Lodges by John E. Pannell on January 21st, 2007 at 7:51 am

104 2007 WorkdayGreg Grimes sent me this scan of a new issue from Occoneechee lodge.

These flaps are earned by lodge brothers who give service at their lodge’s workdays in preparation for the 2007 SR-7B Conclave. The first of these were awarded just recently to those few brothers who attended two workdays. Continue Reading »

"It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."
Aristotle


Category Icon2004-5 Brotherhood Involvement Award

Posted in Eswau Huppeday 560, SR-5 Lodges by John E. Pannell on January 20th, 2007 at 7:40 am

560bro04Courtesy of Jimmy Arthurs, here’s another North Carolina issue that was missed in the most recent Blue Book.   It’s not surprising this was omitted.

This patch was earned by lodge brothers in 2004 and 2005 who completed a lengthy set of requirements.  Only about 2 dozen were earned.  For those diehard collectors of this lodge’s patches, this will be one of the tougher modern issues to acquire. Continue Reading »

"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."
Samuel Beckett


Category IconLLD Fundraiser Jacket Patch

Posted in SR-7B Lodges, Tsoiotsi Tsogalii 70 by John E. Pannell on January 20th, 2007 at 2:12 am

70lld07.jpgTsoiotsi Tsogalii 70 stretches the line between an events patch and a lodge issue with this newest jacket patch.   I am undecided whether we should properly call this one J5 or eJ2007-1.

This 6″ jacket patch depicts Allowat Sakima in the style of a Cherokee “peace chief”.  It was produced with the specific intent of using the proceeds to fund the lodge’s LLD weekend.  Continue Reading »

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
Matt Groening


Category Icon1980 Fifty Miler Trek - Eno River Trail

Posted in SR-7B Lodges, Tali Taktaki 70 by John E. Pannell on January 20th, 2007 at 1:03 am

1980 Fifty MilerThanks to David York for bringing this patch to my attention.

Tali Taktaki 70, and then later Tsoiotsi Tsogalii 70, had a tradition of intermittently sponsoring Fifty Miler Treks during the week after Christmas.   The trek was in 1979 and the last one I know of was in 2003. Continue Reading »

"The destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits--not animals."
Winston Churchill


Special Banner on OAImages Today

Posted in OAImages News by John E. Pannell on January 18th, 2007 at 12:57 am

Here’s a little entertainment for your winter morning.

At the beginning of the year I added a new banner to the site, on a rotating basis, for the site’s 10th anniversary. Like the original site banner, the patches in this 10th anniversary banner all have something in common

Now, just a few minutes ago I added a different banner on all the lodge pages. This one will only appear today.

Our of curiosity, can anyone figure out what the patches in the banner all have in common and why I put the banner there today?  If you’re one of the few I told about this banner, please don’t respond… give others a chance to figure it out first.   The answer can be found with a little bit of creative research.

 

"Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. "
Benjamin Disraeli


Cloth Talk #21: The Merits of Scouting

Posted in Scouting Blogs and Websites by John E. Pannell on January 16th, 2007 at 1:02 am

122 merit badgesThanks to the guys at ScoutHistory.net Cloth Talk #21 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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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
Ronald Reagan


The Power of the Gavel

Posted in Current Events by John E. Pannell on January 15th, 2007 at 4:16 pm

Sorry folks,  this is another non-patch related post.  I find this priceless.  Skip the rest of this post if you don’t want to read such things.

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"There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace."
Ronald Reagan



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