Archive for August 14, 2007

Lodge 459: Matrimonial Patches

Posted in Catawba 459, SR-5 Lodges by John E. Pannell on August 14th, 2007 at 11:00 pm

…Goin’ to the chapel and we’re gonna get married
Goin’ to the chapel and we’re gonna get married
Gee, I really love you and we’re gonna get married
Goin’ to the chapel of love…

Catawba lodge has recently issued two unusual patches.   Their lodge adviser will soon be married.   The lodge has chosen to mark these nuptials with a special flap and pocket batch.   Thanks to Larry Banks for sending me the images of these patches.

While unusual, this is not the first lodge to issue a flap for a member’s wedding.  Ku-Ni-Eh 145 issued a flap, S32, for their adviser’s wedding in 1999.

The flap is also unusual in another respect.  To my knowledge it is the first Order of the Arrow patch to include in the design the Lenape word that is written across the top of the patch.

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