Archive for May 23, 2007

Chiefly Patches, Part 3: Lodge of the Central Region Chief

Posted in Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on May 23rd, 2007 at 11:04 pm

This is the third of an ongoing series of articles about patches issued by the lodges of the national officers of the Order of the Arrow.   Previous articles can be found at these links.

Patches for the Central Region chief did not consistently appear from the lodges until the late 1990s.   As a general rule only one or two patches were issued by the various lodge’s for the region chiefs.

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