Category IconLodge 331: 2008 SR-7B Conclave Flap

Posted in Klahican 331, SR-7B Lodges by John E. Pannell on April 27th, 2008 at 12:03 am

331 S66?Klahican lodge issued one of the best looking flaps I have seen in a few years from any of the North Carolina lodges. The very artful sunrise scene is similar in design to the event patch. Kudos to the patch designer and the embroiderer for such nice work.

Now, why do I call this a sunrise instead of a sunset? Well, Klahican lodge is headquartered in Wilmington, NC. In that part of the country if you are seeing the Sun over the ocean it is most likely early in the morning!

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"Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on."
Samuel Beckett


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Category IconCategory IconCategory IconNorth Carolina ArrowCorps5 Lodge Issues

Posted in Croatan 117, Occoneechee 104, SR-7B Lodges, Tsoiotsi Tsogalii 70 by John E. Pannell on April 7th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

Earlier today I was working on the price guide portion of this site and saw a set of five flaps from Croatan 117 that recently sold on eBay. These were issued by the lodge for this Summer’s ArrowCorps5 with each flap depicting one of the program’s sites.

Occoneechee lodge will issue a single flap to help fund the travel expenses of its ArrowCorps5 participants. The lodge will order 500 of these flaps.

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"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Lewis Carroll


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Category IconLodge 104: 2008 Conclave Issues

Posted in Occoneechee 104, SR-7B Lodges by John E. Pannell on March 17th, 2008 at 7:17 am

104 S67?Over the weekend I received word of new special issues from two North Carolina lodges .

Occoneechee lodge has adopted a theme based upon the movie “300″ for the 2008 SR-7B conclave.   A flap and pocket dangle were produced for this event.   Except for the flap and dangle that will be given to lodge delegates, the patches were sold out.  The lodge does not plan reorder any more.

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John W. Gardner


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Category IconLodge 459: Early 60th Anniversary Patch

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

I was recently commenting to a friend of mine how quiet it has been on the patch front here in North Carolina lately.  That silence has been broken, if only just a bit.  Catawba lodge will have its 60th anniversary in 2011.   In honor of that event, the lodge has issued its first 60th anniversary patch.

The design is based on the lodge’s A1, their first patch issued in 1951.   Catawba similarly used the A1 as inspiration for one of their 50th anniversary patches, A2, issued in 1999.   According to Larry Banks, the lodge will also imitate their 50th anniversary celebration by issuing one patch per year for the 60th anniversary until 2011.

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"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half."
Sir Winston Churchill


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Category IconLodge 104: Metal Flap

Posted in Occoneechee 104, SR-7B Lodges by John E. Pannell on September 15th, 2007 at 12:36 am

Occoneechee lodge was busy issuing patches this past weekend. In addition to the two 70th anniversary patches posted about yesterday and a fellowship patch to be detailed later, Occoneechee lodge became the second North Carolina lodge to issue a metal flap.

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"We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures."
William H Gass


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Category IconLodge 560: Unlisted Prototype?

Posted in Eswau Huppeday 560, SR-5 Lodges by John E. Pannell on June 30th, 2007 at 11:43 pm

Here’s another oddity that many have not seen and I have no real idea what it should be.

While at the SC TOR this past weekend, someone told me Johnny Pleasants had on his table a red bordered flap with the S9 design.   “Impossible!”  I said, “There is no such flap.”  I walked over to Brush Creek’s table and asked Johnny about it.  He reaches into one of his bins and pulls out this piece.

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"Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity."
Catastrophe Theory, 1977.
E Christopher Zeeman


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Category IconLodge 117: 1984 Conclave Delegate Neckerchief

Posted in Croatan 117, SR-7B Lodges by John E. Pannell on June 16th, 2007 at 11:08 pm

For whatever reasons many North Carolina collectors and Blue Book editors have not paid too much attention to lodge delegate neckerchiefs issued for our section conclaves. As I’m not native to here I don’t understand this bias. Many were forgotten. Only in recent years are they being properly documented.

Woody Woodruff and his wife were here earlier this evening and he brought more stuff from his collection for me to scan. Many of the piece are not yet in Blue Book. Among them was this neckerchief issued by Croatan lodge for the 1984 SE-7 Conclave.

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"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
Laurence J. Peter


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Category IconLodge 117: 2007 SR-7B Conclave Flap

Posted in Croatan 117, SR-7B Lodges by John E. Pannell on April 23rd, 2007 at 3:11 am

Croatan adopted a “Pirates of the Croatan” theme for this year’s conclave. It was not the first time they had a pirate theme for conclave. The lodge even used it on a Jamboree flap in 2001.

As “Blackbeard” is known to have spent some his last days within the geographical area served by this lodge, their fascination with pirates is not surprising.

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"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. "
Albert Einstein


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Category IconLodge 104: Prototype Woven?

Posted in Occoneechee 104, SR-7B Lodges by John E. Pannell on March 31st, 2007 at 11:21 pm

Earlier this evening my good friend Woody Woodruff came by my home with some interesting pieces from his collection to scan for my website. After first having a wonderful dinner at an excellent local Italian restaurant, we sat down to business.

Some of the items he brought are very rarely seen. A few of them are not yet listed in Blue Book. The first of these is an apparent prototype of Occoneechee’s 45th/60th anniversary wovens. It came from another well-known North Carolina collector who recently sold much of his collection and is a member of this lodge.

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Ronald Reagan


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Category IconCategory IconRare North Carolina OA: Sold!

Posted in Patch Collecting, Tslagi 163, Wahissa 118 by John E. Pannell on October 31st, 2006 at 2:45 am

Two great North Carolina OA pieces recently sold on eBay. These sales were notable for the prices paid as well as the pieces sold. Observant folks will also notice a few odd things about the sale…

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John F. Kennedy


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