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1950 Area 3A Fellowship Pow-Wow

Posted in Area 3-A, Area 3-C, Area 3-D, Area 3-E, Nentico 12, Section Conclave Patches by Dave Scocca on August 30th, 2008 at 8:00 am
1950 Area 3A Slide

1950 Area 3A Slide

In 1950 Nentico Lodge #12 hosted the lodges of eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia for the Area 3A Fellowship Pow-Wow at the two-year-old Broad Creek Scout Camps in Whiteford, Maryland.  The event featured the first known piece of Area 3A memorabilia, a burned wooden slice neckerchief slide saying “Broad Creek” and “WWW”.

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"The first nonabsolute number is the number of people for whom the table is reserved. This will vary during the course of the first three telephone calls to the restaurant, and then bear no apparent relation to the number of people who actually turn up, or to the number of people who subsequently join them after the show/match/party/gig, or to the number of people who leave when they see who else has turned up.
The second nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of the most bizarre of mathematical concepts, a recipriversexcluson, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the party will arrive. Recipriversexclusons now play a vital part in many branches of math, including statistics and accountancy and also form the basic equations used to engineer the Somebody Else's Problem field.
The third and most mysterious piece of nonabsoluteness of all lies in the relationship between the number of items on the bill, the cost of each item, the number of people at the table and what they are each prepared to pay for. (The number of people who have actually brought any money is only a subphenomenon of this field.)"
Douglas Adams


Lodge 12: Arrowhead Chapter Issues

Posted in NE-4C Lodges, Nentico 12 by Dave Scocca on May 26th, 2008 at 7:00 am

A set of chapter issues from Arrowhead Chapter of Nentico Lodge #12; like the Chesapeake issue of my last post, these are not brand-new but have not previously been documented. There are four arrowhead-shaped patches, all with button loops. Three have a white background and indicate “Ordeal”, “Brotherhood”, and “Vigil”; the fourth has a light gray background and says “Staff”.

The “Staff” patch is distinct from the already-listed A2 in two key ways: the background is light gray (instead of white) and the term “Lodge 12″ is ghosted (instead of red).

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"Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away."
Robert Orben


Lodge 12: Chesapeake Chapter 20th Anniversary

Posted in NE-4C Lodges, Nentico 12 by Dave Scocca on May 24th, 2008 at 7:00 am

Chesapeake Chapter 20th AnniversaryThis “new” item from Chesapeake Chapter of Nentico Lodge #12 is eight years old now, but has been hard to catch up with. I have finally been able to scan one this week; I saw it briefly at last summer’s lodge picnic, but was unable at that time to get either an image or enough notes to have a good description. Nentico started using district-based chapters in 1980; several chapter issues have commemorated anniversaries, including the piece pictured here issued by Chesapeake Chapter in 2000.

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"There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science."
Anton Chekov


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