Received an email from a collector of Area III-C items in response to my plea on Patch-L looking for images of many items from the Roy Page auctions. He indicated that he has what he believes to be a complete set of Area III-C memorabilia and promised to send along images of the items I am missing when he gets some time. Great news!

I've been sleuthing to locate former Kecoughtan Lodge Chiefs and have added some more email addresses to the 463 Chiefs page including Ed Dadez (1974-75), Gary Cubbage (1982-83), Lee Clodfelter (1986),and Ryan Kershner (1993-94). I was also able to find Harry Maney, a 463 Arrowman who served as Area III-C Vice-Chief in 1966-67.

On another topic, I just updated the Site Needs page to include the Area III-C items which I posted the following request for on Patch-L today:

Attention Virginia OA Collectors!

Did you bid on (and win) items from the Roy Page TSPA Auctions earlier this year? If not, do you know someone who did? If so please forward this message to them!

I am in serious need of pictures of many of the items featured in these auctions, especially some of the older Area III-C event issues.

If you were the winning bidder of any of these items, would you please send me a scan (preferred) or digital photograph so that I can include it on my web site which is dedicated to cataloging and providing pictures of all of the emblems issued by Lodges 333, 463, and 483, their parent councils, and the Area and Sections they belonged to.

You can visit the site at: http://welcome.to/kecoughtan/

If you don't have access to a scanner or digital camera I will gladly pay for insured Federal Express shipping both ways if you will allow me to borrow these items to scan or photograph them. I promise they will be on their way back to you within 48 hours of my receiving them. If you are not comfortable entrusting me with your valuable items you are welcome to contact any of the individuals who have helped me with the site who are listed on my site credits page. I will also provide you with my home, cellular, and work telephone numbers and addresses so you don't have to wonder where I am.

Here are some of the items that I need pictures of:

Area 3c-53 pow wow necklace
Area 3c-56 pow wow leather
Area 3c-56 pow wow patch
Area 3c-57 pow wow slide
Area 3c-59 pow wow woven patch
Area 3c-60 pow wow-neckerchief
Area 3c-62 pow wow slide
Area 3c-68 training institute
Area 3c-69 pow wow metal buckle
Area 3c-69 pow wow metal slide
Area 3c-70 pow wow-neckerchief
Area 3c-71 pow wow-neckerchief

463 YC1 - prototype acorn shaped chenille w/ "A63"

If you can help me out with these picture needs to make my site more accurate and complete you will be helping every Scout collector who is interested in Virginia OA memorabilia. Of course you will be appropriately credited for your generosity on the web site as the source of the picture(s).

Please send me an email if you have any questions at all.

Thanks in advance for your kind assistance,

Glenn Chase
spanky@mac.com
http://welcome.to/kecoughtan/
http://start/at/patchcamp/
ISCA Member 0548

Updated the Peninsula Council Emblems page to include two District pages - the Hampton District patch which featured the City of Hampton coat of arms, and the Central District shield.

As I was checking to make sure all of the images were loading correctly I noticed that the last version of the Peninsula Council CSP includes a tiny acorn on the branch that the cardinal is perched upon. I didn't remember an acorn on the original CSP, so I went through the series of patches as they were issued and noticed that this acorn seems to have begun with the large 1989 Jamboree Shoulder patch and then was included on the S5 regular issue CSP that became the last Peninsula Council CSP before the merger.

Do you know anything about this? I presume the acorn was added to represent Kecoughtan Lodge. If you have any insight please send me an email!

Please take a moment to check it out and send me an email if you can provide any information (even idle speculation or rumors) about it! I will post information as I receive it (with permission of the contributor, of course, anonymously if requested) here on this news page.

I also added a new Site Needs page which details the items which I know I am missing images for. Please have a look and let me know if you can help fill the gaps!

I have been able to get in touch with a few more former Kecoughtan Lodge Chiefs to solicit their assistance in adding items of interest to this site, and have added their email addresses to the Kecoughtan Lodge Chiefs page. Watch that space for more contact info as my sleuthing continues. If you know how to get in touch with any of the people listed on that page I do not have an email address for please let me know!

Updated several of the Kecoughtan Lodge activity patch pages with the new javascript code which opens patch images in a new window. Still not finished with all of the pages, but making progress!

Added scans of four decals loaned to my by Chancie Crowder (1972 Area III-C Pow Wow hosted by Kecoughtan Lodge, 1974 Section SE-1 Conclave hosted by Chanco 483, 1975 Section SE-1 Conclave hosted by Tutelo 161, and the 1971 Lodge 463 Winter Ordeal.

After a little research it appears these decals were not sold to the public, but rather were designed to affix to coffee mugs, since there is no mention of decals in the "History to SE-8" booklet memorabilia guide for Area III-C or SE-1 for these events, but coffee mugs were issued. Similarly, I am unable to find mention of any patch or decal issued for the Lodge 463 1971 Winter Ordeal, but a coffee mug was sold for this event.

This gives us little time to send patches to Herb Smith (Lodge 333 Advisor) to benefit a cause which Bailey considered so important. You can contact Herb Smith via email for his postal address to send patches for the auction.

I still need a lot of activity patch scans and more - please see the site news items for 16 April and 27 February for a list of what I need.

As I get time I will roll this feature out to include all of the pages on this site, but since I must specify the window size for each image manually in the link that means I must do a lot of rather tedious work so please be patient as this will take some time. Now you know why I did the pages with the smallest number of referenced patches first!

Can anyone provide me with a scan of a Lodge 333 S5? It's the only issue I am missing a picture of for this Lodge. It is the NOAC 96 Delegate flap, issued with X1 pocket patch (pictures a yellow duck in a bathtub), 110 made. This issue has a Light Blue border instead of the purple border of the regular issue. If you have one or know someone who does, please send me an email!

Larry Johnson of Wahunsenakah Lodge came through with excellent scans of the newly-released Lodge 333 neckerchief and 2001 Conclave flap, as well as the very scarce X10 pocket piece issued for delegates to the 1998 NOAC. All of these items are now available for your viewing on the Wahunsenakah Lodge Emblems page.

Another new feature of the Lodge 333 page is one which I intend to roll out across this web site as I get time: clicking on an image link will now open a new window sized specifically for the picture, rather than taking putting the image in your current browser window which forces you to go "back" to view the patch reference page. This feature depends upon javascript so if images do not appear for you please be certain that javascript is enabled in your browser preferences. According to server statistics, less than two percent of visitors to this site had javascript disabled, so I don't anticipate this will cause a problem.

Please let me know what you think of the new feature! One minor problem with the javascript I currently use is that it will not allow multiple picture windows to be open at the same time. I am actively searching for a new javascript which will allow multiple windows sized specifically for unique images to be open at the same time so that it will be easier to compare patch issues side-by-side.

It appears that the NetMind notification service (see the top of this page) is still functioning for this site, despite their earlier warning that it would be disabled at the end of March as they transition to a pay service requiring a mere 795.00/year from webmasters to provide this functionality to their visitors. Maybe they've reconsidered - or maybe they just haven't gotten around to turning if off.

I am still in need of some scans to complete image catalogs, notably:

463x1 (Acorn shape, BRN felt, WHT "W", on light turquoise n/c.)
463zs1 (fake, Computer designed reproduction of S10)
463zc1 (fake, Repro of C1-Acorn shape with canvas back, lettering is gray instead of tan)

463HP8-Hat pin, Flap shaped, design of S16, FDL
463HP10-Hat pin, Acorn with Red Arrow, plastic coated

463s1b-cut edge, black base material and black backing
463s30b-Honor Member flap, border ends top right, dark yellow lockstitch

I also need some activity patch scans for Lodge 463 which are details in the 27 February Site News below.

Lodge 463 Activity Patch scans needed:

57 Fellowship (w/349)
66 Fall Fellowship
69 Winter Ordeal

70 Fall Fellowship w/"453" number (error)
72 Fall Fellowship (Kiskiack Chapter sponsored)
74 Summer Ordeal
76 Spring Ordeal (Leather)
78 Summer Ordeal
79 Summer Ordeal

80 Winter Ordeal
80 Spring Ordeal
80 Annual Banquet
81 Winter Ordeal
89 Christmas Banquet

91 40th Vigil Rededication-Leather
92 NOAC (Leather)
94 Summer Ordeal
95 Summer Ordeal

Herb advised me that the annual Lodge 333 patch auction held each year to benefit the Bailey Tudder Campership Fund has been postponed to the Spring Ordeal which will be held May 18-20. This gives us time to send patches to Herb to benefit a cause which Bailey considered so important.

I owe a great deal of credit to Bailey for his many positive influences upon me as a youth and try to remember to contribute. I hope you will do the same. You can contact Herb Smith via email for his mailing address to send patches for the auction.

Don also took time to sign the Site Guest Book and I encourage everyone who visits to do the same to help re-establish communications with our fellow Arrowmen.

The handy Netmind service will be going away at the end of next month since they recently notified me that their fee for webmasters will be raised from free to an amazing 795.00 a year. That is exactly 795.00 more than this nonprofit site can afford. Should you have any opinions about their new pricing structure I encourage you to share them by sending an email to feedback@netmind.com.

If you previously used the NetMind service to receive notification of new updates to this site, or if you would just like to be notified of future site changes or news, please enter your email address in the field below to join an email notification list. You will not receive spam and your address will not be shared with anyone else. It simply allows me to send notices to one address and it lets bcentral handle all of the administrative tasks for subscriptions.

To visit the Patch Collector's Base Camp you will need to use this URL instead - it's just about as easy to remember: http://www.patchcamp.com

If you haven't had a chance to stop by "Patch Camp" lately, I encourage you to visit and explore over 80 direct links to the most helpful and interesting Scout patch collecting resources on the internet!

Still no input on who the members pictured below might be. Even if you aren't positive, please email my your best guess!

Also added a few new scans to the Chanco Lodge 483 Emblems page - a 1961 Fall Fellowship patch, a 1981 Spring Fellowship patch, and the 30th Anniversary Chanco Hat Pin.

Added scan of an Old Dominion Area Council RWS to the Old Dominion Area Council page. Also added an image for the 1976 SE Region Training Conference to the SE-1 Emblems page.

I archived six months of prior site news (May-November, 2000) on another page to help this page load faster!

The article, entitled "Insignia and Memorabilia of Kecoughtan Lodge 463," was authored by the late Dr. Ron Godby and his son Jeff. It listed all of the known Kecoughtan Lodge issues, including black and white photographs and was a landmark compendium of Kecoughtan Lodge emblem history. The article was the basis for the Kecoughtan Lodge information which was published in the first edition of the Blue Book Standard Order of the Arrow Insignia Catalog.

I hope to have optimized scanned images of the article online here very soon. Watch this News page for an announcement!

I am gratified that the cumulative visit counter for this site exceeded 1600 today! That may seem like small change compared to places like Yahoo, but considering this site originated as a single web page on AOL listing Kecoughtan Lodge flaps it's come a long way. Many, many thanks to all who have contributed scans and information to help make this the definitive online reference for Lodge 463 emblems and history. See the credits page for details on all of the fine people who have helped out.

As you can tell from this Site News page, I've not added a lot of content to this site recently. Part of the reason is that my sources seem to have temporarily dried up in the way of new information or images to add to the site, and the rest is because I have been spending a good deal of time on my latest project, The Scout Patch Collector's Base Camp. If you haven't had a chance to visit the Base Camp yet I hope you will click over and see what you think. Be sure to send me an email with suggestions to help make it the most useful site on the web for Scout Patch Collectors and Traders.

While you are in your attic or basement or closets looking for those holiday decorations if you happen to come across some old Kecoughtan Lodge newsletters, patches, meeting notes, etc. please take a moment to set them aside so you can look through them after the holidays and see if there is any information that might be of use here on this site. I am always looking for additional images and data to add to help make this site more accurate and complete.

Received a nice email recently from Tom Hilton who has taken over responsibilities for The Lord Baden-Powell Award For Scouting Excellence On The World-Wide-Web. As you may remember from previous Site News entries, I applied for consideration of this award back in July of 1999. The Evaluation Team was overwhelmed with hundreds of entries, and under the direction of Hilton is currently reorganizing to tackle the backlog and renew the Award program. This is great news and I encourage everyone with a Scout-related website to learn more about the award criteria and nominate your site for evaluation. Even if you are not a webmaster you can nominate a site which you feel is exemplary.

• May 1 through October 27, 2000
• January 24 through April 27, 2000
• January 1 through April 30, 2000
• November 2 through December 9, 1999
• July 28 through October 31, 1999

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.