…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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It isn’t just issues from NOAC that come out late! I have just received word that Tomo Chi-Chi lodge has issued a host lodge flap for last April’s Dixie Fellowship (SR-5 Conclave). Thanks to Alan McDonald for the news and images.
To be honest, the flap didn’t come out this late. It just took this long for word of the patch to make it to me here in central North Carolina.
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Atta Kulla Kulla lodge adopted a fire fighter theme for this year’s conclave, honoring “Those Who Serve”.
Usually conclave themes tend to be a bit more lighthearted, so I’m expecting there is a story behind why the lodge chose this theme other than, “It was cool”. Does anyone know the story behind the theme?
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