As promised, I've reduced the size of this Site News page by archiving items which are older than the current month and the month immediately preceding to another page. You can view the archived content here. Hopefully this will make keeping up with the site a lot easier since you won't have to wait for a large page to load.

I still need scanned images of the following patches to complete the Area III-C and Section SE-1 listings:

• 1953 Area III-C Pow Wow hosted by Blue Heron 349
• 1954 Area III-C Pow Wow hosted by Shenshawpotoo 276
• 1956 Area III-C Pow Wow hosted by Amangamek Wipit 470
• 1957 Area III-C Pow Wow hosted by Powhatan 456
• 1959 Area III-C Pow Wow hosted by Nawakwa 3
• 1960 Area III-C Pow Wow hosted by Koo Koo Ku Hoo 161
• 1967 Area III-C Pow Wow hosted by Shenandoah 258
  
• 1974 SE-1 Conclave hosted by Chanco 483
• 1977 SE-1 Conclave hosted by Blue Heron 349

Please let me know if you can help by contributing scans of these items or letting me borrow them -- I will gladly pay all postage and insurance if you do not have access to a scanner.

I have also added a section to this page listing Kecoughtan Lodge Arrowmen who served as Area or Section officers. Since my information for the later years of the Lodge is scanty, I may have missed someone. If you are aware of any discrepancies in the list, please let me know so that I can make additions or corrections. Most of the information for this section came from the excellent Virginia Section Officers Association web site, authored by Mike White of Shenandoah 258 and Scott Smith of Tutelo 161 -both former Chiefs of Section SR-6B.

The Kecoughtan Lodge Chiefs page is linked from the Lodge History page. I have also added a link on this page to a photograph of a Kecoughtan Lodge 463 ceremony which I believe was taken in 1971 or 1972 at Camp Chickahominy. I'm sorry that I can't credit the author or provide more details about the photograph - I found it in the box of supplies given to me when I took over editing the Lodge newsletter.

My current "to do" list includes the following:

• Compile a list of all Kecoughtan Lodge Advisors with their years of Service
• Filling in all missing Area III-C and Section SE-1 Pow Wow and Conclave images
• Create a page to vote for your favorite Kecoughtan Lodge flap, chenille, arrowhead, etc.

I am also in the process of trying to contact former officers of the Lodge, especially chiefs and newsletter editors, in the hope of obtaining more historical information to make available online.

Jimmy Arthurs came through with six Chanco flap scans (s3a, s5, s7, s8b, s10b, and s11) to add to the site. You can find them all on the Chanco Emblems page. Jimmy previously contributed several other images to this site, including the very hard to find Kecoughtan 463 s11 and s12 Vigil issues.

Still "on deck" as projects to be completed here:

• A chart of all Kecoughtan Lodge Chiefs from the inception of the Lodge until it merged in 1996. (I would prefer to list all 463 Officers, but I'll be happy to start with Chiefs!). I still need information about who served as 463 Chief for these years: 1978-1983 and 1990-1995. If you can help fill in the blanks, please send me an email or you can submit your information via the new feedback form.
• Voting for your favorite Kecoughtan Lodge flap, arrowhead, chenille, and activity patch polls.

I spent a lot of time looking at the many different options for free Guest Book services. Many collect email addresses to spam the people who sign them, others insist upon opening multiple new windows with banner ads in your face obstructing the book you are trying to read or sign, or in many cases I encountered, just don't work reliably.

I believe I have found a good service (Guest-Books.com) which inserts a single banner ad at the top of the page, promises not to collect email addresses, appears to function quickly and reliably, and even allows me to use HTML to format the Guest Book Form to customize its appearance to match the rest of this site. If you don't like the ad you can chip in 5 pounds sterling a month to get rid of them ... Guest-Books.com is located in Great Britain.

So, here's your open invitation to take the new Kecoughtan Lodge 463 Alumni Guest Book for a test drive. Please let me know what you think of it!

I also received a scan to complete the collection of SE-8 conclave issues from Mike White, the 1982 Indian Seminar patch from this event hosted by Tutelo 161.

I added scans of some miscellaneous patches I had for Peninsula Council to that page, including images for the Yorktown, Jamestown, and Williamsburg Trails, the 50th Anniv. Council patch, and a couple of other unique items.

My weekend project is to get the Council Camps page ready with the fascinating historical information provided to me by Sam Fairchild about Camp Chickahominy's predecessors, Camp Okee, Camp Washington, and Camp James River, along with scans of patches from those camps. Sam also included information about Camp Waters, Old Dominion Area Council's camp prior to Siouan Scout Reservation.

I also received scans for several SE-8 items from Mike White, Shenandoah 258 Arrowman and former Chief of Section SR-6B. Among the items he sent images of is the SE-8 10th Anniv. jacket patch which I have never seen before.

Former Kecoughtan Lodge and Section SE-8 Chief Alex Tyms helped out by providing a list of 463 Chiefs from 1984 through 1989. I am trying to compile a list of all 463 Chiefs from the beginning of the Lodge through the end. Silver Acorns lists a Roll Call of Chiefs from 1951 through 1977, so I still need information about who served in this capacity for these years: 1978-1983 and 1990-1995. If you can help fill in the blanks, please send me an email or you can submit your information via the new feedback form.

Herb also sent along a picture of E. Bailey Tudder, former Lodge Advisor for Kecoughtan Lodge from 1967-1974 for the site Dedication page.

I'm proud to say that thanks to the generous contributions of several people (documented on the credits page and here on the site news page) I now have scanned images of all Kecoughtan chenille, round, and arrowhead issues, with only a few missing X (other shaped) emblems and a couple of flap variations (S1b and S30a). I am missing many 463 activity patch scans and three chapter issues, however, and encourage you to help out wherever you can with images you can provide.

I am deeply indebted to the late Dr. Ron Godby of Yorktown, VA for his authoritative compilation of Order of the Arrow Lodge issues for the entire Commonwealth of Virginia. Dr. Godby's research was the basis for the Kecoughtan Lodge 463 listings in the first edition of the Blue Book Standard Order of the Arrow Insignia Catalog, published in 1996. This site is dedicated to Dr. Godby and the late E. Bailey Tudder, longtime Lodge Advisor for Kecoughtan 463 whose dedication to cheerful service was exceeded by no one.

On the Site Credits page I have tried to list the names of people who have been instrumental in helping me in my effort to provide an online reference of the history of Kecoughtan Lodge and every emblem that it issued. If you helped out and aren't mentioned, please forgive my accidental omission and tell me so that I can correct it.