While setting up the new Site Guest Book I decided to encourage everyone who visits this site to leave comments. Previously it was a "Lodge 463 Alumni Registry" but only received four entries.

I hope you will take a moment to stop by and leave your comments about the site, whether you were a member of Kecoughtan Lodge or not!

Added to the SE-1 page are images of a 1976 Conclave neckerchief, and a 1980 Conclave neckerchief. The Area III-C page now has an image of the 1971 Vigil Redication lanyard. There are also a couple of new Camp Siouan neckerchief images on the Council Camps emblems page.

Meanwhile, you can have a look at these new images which were provided by Larry Johnson: Colonial Virginia 1993 JSP (silver border), Lodge 333 1999 Holiday Banquet, Lodge 333 2000 Winter Ordeal. The last is particularly interesting - it is the first patch in a series of 7 which when assembled will form an arrowhead shaped backpatch. Lodge 333 members must attend each Lodge event during the year to obtain all 7 patches.

Even more pleasing is that this site is now linked from the Grand Poobah of Scout Patch Collecting sites - the Troop 24 Virtual Patch Collection.

On the bad news front, the site's Guest Book remains broken. It looks like I will indeed have to find another Guest Book service since all of my inquiries to Guest-Books.com have gone unanswered. For awhile the Kecoughtan Lodge 463 Alumni Guest Book was offline completely - clicking on the link to it took you to the main page for Guest-Books.com instead. Now it appears to be viewable again, but all attempts to submit information fail.

If you have suggestions for a good guest book service which won't assault the senses with multiple banner ads please let me know.

Also now available here, courtesy of Chancie Crowder who kindly loaned it to me, is the excellent reference History to SE-8 . Published in 1984,it includes a vast amount of reference material for Area III-C, Section SE-1, and the first years of Section SE-8. Using information from this reference I was able to fill in a lot of missing information on the Area III-C page and added information about past Chiefs, Advisors, and Leaders. History to SE-8 also includes individual pages devoted to each lodgde with profiles and pictures similar to the Area III-C Manual of Lodge publications.

I also archived all news prior to 2000 on another separate page to help this one load faster.

Looks like the Kecoughtan 463 Alumni Guest Book may need to be rebuilt on another service. Guest-Books.com appears to be serving up a generic main page instead of guest books from their service these days and I've not had any replies to their support email address after sending inquiries about this. Let me know if you have recommendations for free guest book services.

"In 1985, there was a problem with communications and patch orders from the office, the 'JAMBO' patch was a special purchase, 1 per contingent member. The gold border CSP was a bulk order for general sale.

In '97 there were two issues of the same CSP, the gold border was issued to the contingent members, initial limit of 3 per, with an additional purchase limit of 5 each (4 contingent troops plus those registered on staff). The white border CSP was available for general purchase (fund raiser) at the Scout office."

Be sure to check out Steve and Elisa Delman's excellent CSP reference The Boy Scout Council Shoulder Patch Guide. It's printed in gorgeous full color and features pictures of each Council's current CSP as well as information about what the patch design represents. I really enjoyed reading this book and learned a lot about the places my patches came from. Highly recommended for beginning and seasoned collectors alike.

Tim Streagle, former Kecoughtan Arrowman now serving as Camp Ranger for Camp Brady Saunders of Robert E. Lee Council kindly forwarded scans of two priceless photographs of E. Urner Goodman, Founder of the Order of the Arrow, when he visited Camp Chickahominy in 1976 for the Lodge's 25th Anniversary Celebration. In addition, Tim provided scans of a 463 Hour Slip, Ponder Booklet, and 25th Anniversary Scorecard. All of these items are linked on the Lodge History page.

I still need to get the SE-1 images from Bruce Johnson prepared for posting and update that Emblem page. Stay tuned ...

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.