Jeff Cook has been trying to keep me up to date with South Carolina items lately After seeing my recent post on possible issues from lodge 185, he sent me the image of the rather unusual patch pictured. It uses the names of three South Carolina lodges but appears to be issued by an Explorer post. He couldn’t remember exactly what the patch was made for, but had seen a few floating around South Carolina the last several years.
Why was this patch made? What’s the connection between the named lodges and “Post 1801″. Jason Spangler was able to provide some answers.
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“Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.”
Albert Einstein
Muscogee lodge has issued a patch for their recent Spring Fellowship Thanks to Jeff Cook for sending me word of this new issue.
Like last year’s issues, the plan is for this year’s events patches to follow a seasonal theme. The Spring Fellowship patch appears to be shaped like a shamrock. The design features a fox in what appears to be a salt marsh environment.
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"He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. "
Michel de Montaigne
Skyuka lodge has recently issued new OBV set of flaps, using their traditional double headed thunderbird design. What happened with the prohibition regarding such flaps? Has the prohibition been repealed or modified, or is Skyuka lodge ignoring it?
Thanks to Jeff Cook and Richard Cash for passing these images along to me.
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"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please."
Pythagoras
Atta Kulla Kulla lodge recently held their Fall Fellowship. As is customary, a single patch was issued for the event. Thanks to Jeff Cook for supplying the information and image of this piece.
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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. "
The Dalai Lama
I guess this is a case of “better late than never”…
Thanks again to Jeff Cook for this image of the 2007 Spring Fellowship patch from Skyuka lodge. There seems to be some cross pollination of ideas amongst the lodges of the Palmetto State. ;) Like Muscogee lodge, Skyuka is using a seasonal theme for this year’s event patches. This time around the archer is pictured in a springtime landscape. The lodge’s totem, the double headed thunderbird is pictured on the bottom part of the patch.
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"Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity."
Catastrophe Theory, 1977.
E Christopher Zeeman
Muscogee lodge continues this year’s pattern of “seasonal” patches by picturing the fox, their lodge totem, in an autumnal landscape for this year’s Fall Fellowship patch. Muscogee lodge also continues to commemorate their 65th anniversary with this patch. My first impression is that this one is the most artistic and subtle design of the lot. I like it a lot.
Thanks to Jeff Cook for sending me the image of this piece.
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."
John Adams
Post 1801 Fund Raiser Patch
Posted in Atta Kulla Kulla 185, Muscogee 221, SR-5 Lodges, Santee 116 by John E. Pannell on April 4th, 2008 at 12:08 am 
