1946 Area J Fellowship Meeting Slide

The lodges of southern Georgia and Florida gathered again from the 1946 Area J Fellowship.     As in 1945, Echockotee lodge served as the host lodge for this event.

Also as in 1945, a leather neckerchief slide was issued.     Age and the choice of a darker leather make it difficult to read the text of the slide on this image.     Once again, thanks to Robert Mathis for this image.

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1945 Area J Fellowship Slide

The lodges of Area J met at Camp Echockotee in November of 1945 for their Fellowship Meeting.     Echockotee 200 was the host lodge for this event.   This might be the first such meeting of these lodges.     This is the first piece of memorabilia known to me from this area.     I thank Robert Mathis for supplying the images used in this and forthcoming posts about Area J meetings.

This neckerchief slide should look very familiar to those who collect North Carolina Conclave Memorabilia.     The piece is almost identical in design and text to the 1945 Area I Fellowship Meeting neckerchief slide.

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1954 Area VI-E Conference

It would appear there was some debate over what to call the early Area 6-E meetings.     Is it a “fellowship” or a “conference”.     The 1954 Area VI-E Conference was held at Camp Soule.   Timuquan 340 host lodge.

The only item from this area fellowship that I am aware of is the pocket patch pictured here. As always, thanks to Robert Mathis for sending along this image, as well as many others from his Florida conclave collection.

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