Someone Didn’t Get the Memo
Posted in Scouting News 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 »
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