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Posted in Personal Stuff by John E. Pannell on December 31st, 2007 at 4:26 am For your listening pleasure: Auld Lang Syne like you never heard it before.
Those who have no party to attend, choose to spend the night at home, or have to work can play this at midnight. It starts out plainly enough, then all changes about 1 minute into the clip.
Lodge 296: 2007 Fall Fellowship
This is the second of two recent issues from Nayawin Rar lodge sent to me by Greg Grimes. This fellowship is an adaptation of the black and white motif used on several recent flaps from this lodge. They are proof that you can have a nice looking patch without using lots of colors.
Fall Fellowship should have been sometime ago, but I only just heard word of this patch just now. It seems my usual sources of information have let me down on these two latest patches. 
Lodge 296: 2006 Quality Lodge Flap
Greg Grimes sent me word a couple of days ago of two new issues from Nayawin Rar lodge. The first of these was a lodge flap issued for the lodge achieving Quality Lodge status in 2006.
Some might think it odd that that lodge would issue a flap in late 2007 to honor their 2006 quality lodge status. When asked about this, I jokingly responded that the ability to make a quick decision is not a requirement to be a quality lodge.
Posted in Scouting, other than collecting by John E. Pannell on December 29th, 2007 at 12:29 am According to the Official National Order of the Arrow Web Site, the following brothers have been elected region chiefs for the next year.
| Central Region Chief | Tyler Elliott, Tarhe Lodge, Tecumseh Council. Tyler was most recently section chief of C-4B. He attends the University of Cincinnati. |
| Northeast Region Chief | Patrick Rooney, Amagamek Wipit Lodge, National Capital Area Council. Patrick was most recently section chief of NE-4C. He attends George Mason University and is currently pursuing a degree in Government and International Politics. |
| Southern Region Chief | Mason Thomas, Muscogee Lodge, Indian Waters Council. Mason was most recently section chief of SR-5. He attends the University of South Carolina. |
| Western Region Chief | Mark Hendricks, Wa-La-Moot-Kin Lodge, Blue Mountain Council. Mark was most recently section chief of W-1C. |
Additional biographical information is from the various official Order of the Arrow regional and section web sites.
There has been no word yet on any special patches from their respective lodges.
Posted in Current Events by John E. Pannell on December 28th, 2007 at 5:00 am Seven people were injured yesterday (December 27th) when a fight erupted between Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests within the Church of the Nativity in Jerusalem.
The Greek Orthodox priests had erected ladders to clean the ceiling and walls of their part of this church. The ladders encroached onto the part of the church controlled by the Armenians and angry words ensued. A dozen Palestinian police officers were called in to restore order but were to no avail. A fist fight erupted between the two groups of priests. It lasted for about 15 minutes and was captured on camera.
Priests brawl at Bethlehem birthplace of Jesus
I have one word to describe this: Disgusting.
Posted in Scouting, other than collecting by John E. Pannell on December 28th, 2007 at 1:40 am The 2007 OA National Planning meeting is now underway. It has become tradition to elect the new National officers on the first night. So without further ado, according to the official National Order of the Arrow web site, the 2008 National officers of the Order of the Arrow are:
National Chief: Jake Wellman is a member of Yah-Tah-Hey-Si-Kess lodge of Great Southwest Council. He was most recently the section chief of W-5A
National Vice-Chief: Benjamin Stilwill is a member of Gabe-Shi-Win-Gi-Ji-Kens Lodge of Chief Okemos Council. He was most recently the section chief of C-2B.
The region chiefs will be elected after breakfast on December 28th.
There is no word yet on any special patches from these new officers’ lodges.
Posted in Tarheel Basketball by John E. Pannell on December 28th, 2007 at 1:27 am 
I think I will start to pester my friends in Occoneechee lodge about a flap if the Tar Heels win the basketball national championship this year.
Nevada leaves Chapel Hill as the latest victim of the Dean Dome and the Tar Heels. It was a close game most of the first half. Then it seems the Tar Heels remembered Coach Williams’ goal in practice the day after an uninspired victory over Nichols State (to see how many players he could make puke) and turned up the heat. Lead by Ty Lawson, a three point game was a 14 point rout by the break.
Posted in Scouting Blogs and Websites by John E. Pannell on December 27th, 2007 at 6:11 am Matt Kirkland, aka the Black Eagle Trader, returned to the blogosphere a couple weeks back after more than a four month absence. Since then he has posted on his blog, The BlackEagleTrader, many articles of interest for those who collect the issues of Black Eagle Lodge #482.
Among the topics he has covered are the diffculties and vagaries of Blue Book listings for this lodge, discussion of a couple of rare and newly discovered chapter patches, and a great collection of Transatlantic Council medals. Also there is a short piece on the 2006 NOAC flap, a piece not yet pictured, from this log.
This blog is a good read if you have interest in the patches of Black Eagle lodge or the Transatlantic Council. It’s great to see Matt’s blogging regularly again.
Lodge 118: Takachsin 25th Anniversary
Last Saturday, while I was eating pizza at Peppers and cheering for the Tarheels, there was a trade-o-ree in Winston-Salem. Greg Grimes sent me sent me word and images of three new patches from Takachsin chapter of Wahissa lodge.
These were issued for the chapter’s 25th anniversary, under its current name. DuWayne Amen tells us that 25 years ago the council’s districts and the lodge’s chapters changed names but the areas served remained unchanged.
Takachsin chapter has had several patches before but all previous issues were arrowheads. These are their first ovals. Blue book data for these issues are as follows:
Posted in Personal Stuff by John E. Pannell on December 25th, 2007 at 5:00 am Merry Christmas. May your holiday be a happy one. In the midst of all the chaos and bustle of this day, here’s a couple of minutes of serenity and peace to help refocus yourself on the things that really matter.
P.S. No, I’m not really at my computer early on Christmas morning. I’m out of town with family. I actually wrote this two days ago. Thanks to WordPress, it was set to appear on the blog on Christmas morning. Merry Christmas
Posted in Scouting Blogs and Websites by John E. Pannell on December 24th, 2007 at 7:16 am Outgoing Order of the Arrow National Chief, Evan P. Chaffee, has been maintaining a blog of his time in office. It’s semi-personal in nature and covers his numerous travels during his year as National Chief.
Like Oprah, he also maintains his own book club.
Whoever is elected his successor next week has a neat tradition to uphold.
Posted in Tarheel Basketball by John E. Pannell on December 23rd, 2007 at 7:15 am If UNC were to win a National Championship this year, would Occoneechee lodge issue a flap for it?
UNC showed the UCSB Gauchos why they’re the number one team in the country yesterday with a decisive home victory. I guess they wanted to keep this webmaster, saw this game from the nosebleed zone, happy.
Fans stayed in their seats until the last few seconds to see when Carolina would break the century mark… again. The Carolina team, whose three point shooting was poor enough to make me groan whenever they took a shot broke the century make on one of their few successful 3 point goals.