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O-Shot-Caw 265 Irish Jamboree 2008 Wovens

Posted in Florida Lodges, O-Shot-Caw 265 by Robert Mathis on September 8th, 2008 at 11:39 pm

     This summer, South Florida Council sent a contingent to the 2008 Irish National Jamboree.  Ordinarily, not an OA patch event, but O-Shot-Caw 265 has two flaps that were created for the Jamboree, the first woven flaps from Florida.

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"Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his."
George S. Patton


Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery (II)

Posted in Florida Lodges, O-Shot-Caw 265, Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on August 7th, 2008 at 5:02 am
O-Shot-Caw 265 Gokhos Chapter J2

O-Shot-Caw 265 Gokhos Chapter J2

Way back in October of 2006 I wrote a post entitled “Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery” in which I pointed out some patches whose designs appeared to be inspired by other patches.  I now offer up another pair of patches.

Pictured here is an image recently sent to me by Robert Mathis.  This is the J2 from O-Shot-Caw lodge’s Gokhos chapter.   As you can see, the design is simply a large cut-out owl, wings outstretched, on an arrow.   The chapter had previously issued their X1 with an almost identical design.  I think it’s an effective design and looks good.   However, it might look more than a little bit familiar to some folks.

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"Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity."
Catastrophe Theory, 1977.
E Christopher Zeeman


Echockotee Lodge 200 Summer 2008, Plus…

Posted in Echockotee 200, Florida Lodges, O-Shot-Caw 265 by Robert Mathis on June 2nd, 2008 at 5:02 am

On the weekend of May 16-18, Echockotee held its Summer Fellowship, and continued with the 2008 activity patch series of “Florida’s Coral Reef”.  The weekend patch featured the design of a snapper.

A few weeks earlier, at the Nok-Su Chapter Conch Craziness Weekend, a discovery was made that could potentially add a patch to the series.

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"There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third."
John F. Kennedy


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Posted in Florida Lodges, O-Shot-Caw 265 by Robert Mathis on January 31st, 2008 at 11:13 pm

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