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Lodge 459: Apache Chapter Patch

Posted in Catawba 459, SR-5 Lodges by John E. Pannell on September 11th, 2008 at 5:02 am
Catawba 459 Apache X1

Catawba 459 Apache X1

Larry Banks sends word of the first patch issued by Apache chapter of Catawba lodge.  As you can see it kind of follows the super hero theme of the lodge’s 2008 activity patches.

Instead of featuring “Meck”, the hornet character used on some recent lodge items, this patch features a turtle in a full bonnet.    A large “A” for Apache is superimposed on the underside of his shell, his chest.

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When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figure, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
Walt Whitman


Lodge 459: 2008 Dixie Fellowship Issues

Posted in Catawba 459, SR-5 Lodges by John E. Pannell on February 6th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

Here is another update on recent and forthcoming issues from Catawba lodge.

As is customary in recent years, Catawba will be issuing two patches for the delegates to this year’s Dixie Fellowship, the SR-5 Conclave.   Both items follow this year’s superhero them.

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"When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'"
Father Andrew SDC


Lodge 459: The OBV Set That Wasn’t

Posted in Catawba 459, SR-5 Lodges by John E. Pannell on February 5th, 2008 at 5:13 am

In the latter part of last year I was made aware that Catawba lodge had planned a new set of Ordeal, Brotherhood and Vigil flaps.   Shortly after that the directive came down from the National Committee that lodges were not to make special flaps for the various honors.   I had assumed Catawba issued the flaps anyway, as they were in the works, and left space on my site to insert them once I had images.

Recently Larry Banks told me that due to this new directive the Ordeal and Vigil flaps were not produced.  Only the Brotherhood flap was made and issued.   I pressume the lodge had run out of stock of their former brotherhood flaps before the change in policy and needed the new flap.

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"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?' "
Mike Godwin


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Posted in Catawba 459, SR-5 Lodges by John E. Pannell on January 15th, 2008 at 11:49 pm

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Lodge 459: Matrimonial Patches

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

Lodge 459: Catawba Club House Jacket Patch

Posted in Catawba 459, SR-5 Lodges by John E. Pannell on August 4th, 2007 at 4:24 am

Lodge 459: New “CCH” Neckerchief

Posted in Catawba 459, SR-5 Lodges by John E. Pannell on July 2nd, 2007 at 12:36 am

Lodge 459: 2007 Dixie Fellowship Issues

Posted in Catawba 459, SR-5 Lodges by John E. Pannell on May 1st, 2007 at 2:35 am

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