Category IconEchockotee Lodge 200 Ceremonial Committee Patches

Posted in Echockotee 200, Florida Lodges by Robert Mathis on March 11th, 2008 at 12:03 am

200-j-3-2008-ceremonial-team-100-made.JPGAt the Echockotee Lodge 200 Spring Fellowship last weekend, the Ceremonial Committee released their set of patches created as an incentive to increase participation in their programs. The set includes a pocket patch with a WHT background (X-21?; 250 made), to be sold for $7 each, in order to finance the incentive program, and a BLK background (X-22?; 100 made), to be given to those that participate in a ceremony as a character. The last piece is a jacket patch (J-3?; 100 made), to be given to those that participate in four ceremonies.

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“What kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed of joy? Tell me, what kind of gage can quantify elation? What kind of equation could I possibly employ?”
Ani Difranco


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These 50 States: Oklahoma

Posted in These 50 States by John E. Pannell on January 29th, 2008 at 6:03 am

Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain
And the wavin’ wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain…

I thought it was well past time to return to a state that actually had some state shaped patches.  Some of these are classics of the hobby, too.

This is the sixteenth in an ongoing series of posts about state shaped patches. Previous entries have covered state shaped patches from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia.

There seems to be an affinity of sorts between lodge Texas and Oklahoma when it comes to OA collecting.   A couple of lodges chose to use the combined shape of the states of Texas and Oklahoma on their patches.   I will mention them here as well as the post for Texas.

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Niels Henrik David Bohr


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Category IconLodge 118: Takachsin 25th Anniversary

Posted in SR-7B Lodges, Wahissa 118 by John E. Pannell on December 26th, 2007 at 7:00 am

Last Saturday, while I was eating pizza at Peppers and cheering for the Tarheels, there was a trade-o-ree in Winston-Salem. Greg Grimes sent me sent me word and images of three new patches from Takachsin chapter of Wahissa lodge.

These were issued for the chapter’s 25th anniversary, under its current name. DuWayne Amen tells us that 25 years ago the council’s districts and the lodge’s chapters changed names but the areas served remained unchanged.

Takachsin chapter has had several patches before but all previous issues were arrowheads. These are their first ovals. Blue book data for these issues are as follows:

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"In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry."
Sir Christopoher Wren


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Category IconLodge 134: 2007 Ice Cream Social

Posted in SR-5 Lodges, Tsali 134 by John E. Pannell on August 29th, 2007 at 9:23 pm

This past Summer at Camp Daniel Boone Tsali lodge held an ice cream social on Wednesday evenings before their dance and drum practice and the weekly OA call-outs.   This patch was given to those OA members who attended.

The design depicts a Smoky Mountains landscape framed by a compass housing.  The lodge’s totem appears in red next to the fleur d’lis.   Thanks to Hank Birdsong for the news and image of this patch.

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"The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, and the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment and the best comrade is one that hath no desire. "
Tibetan Doctrine


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Category IconLodge 459: New “CCH” Neckerchief

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

One new issue from the Carolinas was spotted at the South Carolina TOR this past weekend.  Catawba lodge has issued a new neckerchief as a fundraiser for the Catawba Club House.

100 of the neckerchief were made.  The purpose of this neckerchief is alluded to by the addition of “CCH” in grey on the hornet’s nest.

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Michel de Montaigne


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