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| Alan Spaulding, youth leader of the 1972 Pow Wow Organizing Committee, and Sam Fairchild, 463 Lodge Chief in 1972, kindly provided the following information about the pictures included in the 1972 Area 3C Pow-Wow photo album. If you have additional information please let me know. | |||||||
| 01 -Alan'c comments: Pat Wright.... Center facing... his dad was Harry Wright... a district commissioner for the Western District of PCBSA... Harry was also a Kiskiak chapter lay advisor at various times... he is now deceased.... Last I heard about Pat was that he was in the merchant marine and that was probably 20 years ago... Sam's comments: Indeed this is Patrick Wright working in the trading post. He was the typical salesman,and quite a good one. Patrick was from Troop 345 in Newport News, specifically Denbigh, and was the Treasurer of Kiskiack Chapter. He ran for Lodge treasurer, but I cannot remember whether or not he won. Patrick's dad, Harry, was a long time Scouter in Newport News, as Alan noted, and himself was a merchant seaman. Harry was well remembered for having a coffee cup permanently bonded to his left hand. Harry's sealeg pedigree is probably the main reason that Patrick went into the Merchant Marines following school. I lost track of Patrick 25 years ago, but remember that his dad passed away some time ago. 02 - Alan's comments: Larry Sutton..... Left facing with Vigil Sash.... Larry was a past chief, I believe prior to or after Corky Whitehead.... Larry went to East Tennessee University.... Majored in Athletic Training.... I also believed he has passed away... Sam's comments: Larry Sutton, on the left with the Vigil Sash, was in fact the lodge chief right before Corky (Joel) Whitehead. Larry had been Vice Chief under Chris Smith, his predecessor. He was often Meteu in the Ordeal Ceremony, and I remember how well his voice would carry across the lake at Chickahominy during the Pre-ordeal ceremony. He took the Order of the Arrow and Kecoughtan Lodge very seriously, and was a tireless, dependable, and honest Arrowman in every facet of his participation. Lodge Chief's who came after Larry Sutton were often measured against him. He was the gold standard of leadership. Larry, who lost his hair at an early age, was the consummate athletic trainer, serving in that position throughout his career at Hampton High School and later Clemson. He contracted a particularly difficult form of cancer and died in his mid 20's. I can remember the extreme sorrow we all felt about this, and how the lodge came together in our grief to provide solace to Larry's parents. A terrific guy. We all would be fortunate to be half the arrowman he was. 03 - Alan's comments: Meeting - Alan Spaulding - background right next to the placard of a flap patch.... In front of me (finger in mouth) is the current or past Area Chief....can't remember his name....I believe he was the past chief as I now remember... I also believe he ran for National Chief at the 1971 NOAC Sam's comments: The Arrowman in front of Alan is Richard Bryant, the former Chief of Koo-Koo-Ku-Hu Lodge and the 1971-2 Area III-C Chief. Richard was a really cool fellow, loose and energetic and absolutely magnetic. He worked very well with the PowWow planning committee, and provided a great flavor to the 1972 event. 04 - Alan's comments: Dining Hall - Ray Spaulding - center of picture (almost facing the camera) a long time member of the Lodge and my father... I personally escorted him when he received the Vigil Honor... can't remember the year... 1974 I think... He is now or will be 80 on 2/22/03 Sam's comments: I would add here that Bob Ashby, the Lodge Chief of Chanco Lodge, and a close friend of mine for the years of my youth, is tucked in on the far right hand side of this picture. 05 - Alan's comments: I believe that this is Dan Thompson.... Sam's comments: I must say I am flattered. That is actually a picture of me addressing the PowWow delegates. I am flattered because Dan Thompson had great sideburns, a mark of a hip hairstyle at the time, and my sideburns, no matter how hard I tried to grow them, simply left much to be desired. Being confused with Dan implies that my sideburns, at least at a distance, had enough fullness to get by. Danny, an adult who joined the lodge first as senior petty officer in the Coast Guard stationed at the Yorktown Coast Guard station and then later as the head of seamanship for Norfolk's successful Spirit Tours, was one of the hardest-working, most committed adults in Kecoughtan. He was highly supportative of Alan Spaulding in the deployment of the 1972 PowWow, and earned respect across both youth and adult ranks for his spirited efforts. On the far right in the picture (with the white hair) is Bob Alvis. Bob was the lay advisor to Area III-C, having inherited that position from the great Ray Garrabrandt. Bob was from Nawakwa Lodge, and was a gentleman's gentleman. He believed deeply in boy leadership, and was fully respectful of the often spirited Area Chief's wild ideas for leading the Area. He guided them quietly, gently towards more stable outcomes, and I suspect that every Area Chief who served with Bob will tell you that he was the best advisor they had ever worked with. 06 - Sam's comments: This is Bruce Sanders, at the time Lodge Chief of Blue Heron Lodge and my best Order of the Arrow friend, addressing the PowWow delegates. Bruce later became the first Section SE1 Chief, and the first Southeast Region chief. National soon abolished the Southeast Region after Bruce's reign, merging it with South Central to become Southern Region. I doubt there was any cause-effect here. Bruce was perhaps the best of a series of unbelievable Blue Heron leaders, including such luminaries as Tom Webb, the last Area III-C Chief. He went on to get his law degree at the University of Richmond, practiced law for a while, then unleashed his creative skills to support the efforts of major corporations to meet their corporate objectives. Bruce is now the head of special events for the American Association of Retired Persons, one of the most effect "trade associations" in Washington. He is a longstanding member of the National Order of the Arrow Committee, and for many years has been the visionary behind OA Shows, the organization that delivers cutting edge award winning show productions at the National Order of the Arrow Conferences (since 1975) and the National Scout Jamborees (since 1997). He was the brains (and brawn) behind 1997's Odyssey of the Laws show and 2001's Scoutopia show. He will again deliver at the 2005 Jamboree with a new show, Twelve Cubed. It was also Bruce who helped to meld together the extraordinary relationship enjoyed by Kecoughtan and Blue Heron for a decade. 07 - Alan's comments: Definitely Dan Thompson.... He was mostly without portfolio with the lodge.... He was generally there when you needed him for anything.... We kidded him a lot because he was always registered as a Cub Scouter.... Also he was the first person married at the chapel on the PSR...He along with Carlin Lewis - were the ones who ran the patch auctions during Lodge events... Sam's comments: Alan is right, this is Danny Thompson. On the left, seated at the main table, you will find me. Please compare the sideburns. I think there is a substantial amount of similarity in the quality of the two sets. Actually, looking at this picture is making me feel quite a bit better about my youth! 08 - Sam's comments: This is the set up of the Lodge Display Competition. Lodge Displays always portended a spirited fight for recognition from Lodges. Some of them were actually spectacular, given the state of exhibit technology at the time. The rain forced the competition indoors in the dining hall at Chickahominy. 09 - Sam's comments: While I am not absolutely certain, I seem to remember that this ceremonial team was from Shenandoah Lodge. I remember being impressed by the face paint job on Kitchkinet, seen on the far left. I thought that was a terrific concept. 10 - Area III-C National Standard Lodge Display - Sam's comments: Note that neither Koo-Koo-Ku-Hoo Lodge or Powhatan Lodge earned the National Standard Lodge award that year, but that every other Area III-C Lodge did. NSL was not particularly easy to earn. There was a good reason why Koo-Koo-Ku-Hoo and Powhatan did not make it that year. While very fine lodges in their own right, each of them were fully focused on merging the following year following the merger of Blue Ridge Area Council and Piedmont Area Council. Anything that was not geared towards making the merger successful simply was not a priority. In any event, I do remember that III-C was regarded as the most successful National Standard Lodge Area in the country. 11 - Alan's comments: the Scout in the middle is Martin Cross - his father Willis Cross was also very active in the Lodge.... If I am not mistaken, Martin is dead and I know for sure that his Dad is dead.... Martin was a member of Troop 49 it latter became 349... Dave Gourly was the Scoutmaster of that Troop during this period of Lodge history..... He lives I believe on the Outer Banks.... One of his sons was a past Lodge Chief I believe or at least on the Exec. Committee.... Late 60's Sam's comments: The middle Arrowman is indeed Martin Cross. He was a straight arrow scout, the kind envisioned by Baden Powell, Bill Hillcourt and the other Scouting visionaries during hte first 50 years of the program. His Dad, Willis, was something else. Willis, who was a major program manager at NASA, suffered from MS, I believe, and had contracted the ailment late in his middle years. His mobility was impaired immensely, and he suffered substantial pain with each step, yet Willis would always be there to support the boy leaders in every way. His good nature, believe in the positive elements of each Scout, gentle wisdom and faith in the Scouting program and in God was infectious. He had an immeasurable, but profound, effect on every member of Kecoughtan Lodge, and his death, following a several-decade struggle with the disease, was very sorrowful to all who knew him. The Arrowman on the right is Bill Irwin, at the time the Chapter Chief of Kiskiack Chapter and eventually the Lodge Chief of Kecoughtan. 12 - Alan's comments: remember the face... but not the name.... Sam's comments: Like Alan, I know the face, but need to think more about the name. 13 - Sam's comments: I am pretty sure this Arrowman was from Wipit, but for the life of me have no idea who he was. I will circulate the picture to some of my older friends in Washington, including Ken Davis, the National Order of the Arrow Historian, to see if I can jog their memory. |
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| Sam Fairchild provided this background information about this event, and commented on the term "Pow Wow" compared to "conclave," the name used later for these annual gatherings: "This Area event was the last one for Area III-C and the first (and only) Area III-C to be hosted by Kecoughtan Lodge. The Area system was abolished that year and replaced with a Section structure that brought in lodges from Maryland and Delaware. When this change was made, the official name of the annual gathering of lodges was standardized across the nation as "conclaves," and the proud Virginia tradition of hosting "Pow-Wow's" ended. By the way, the idea of calling the Virginia gatherings Pow-Wows came from none other than Ray Garrabrandt, then advisor to Lodge 276 and the unofficial organizer of Area III-C in 1952. Ray liked the name Pow-Wow because there were three W's in the name. If you look at the material he personally designed for the 1962 gathering at Camp Rock Enon, you will see repeated use of capital W's in the designs, to read 'poWWoW.'" Alan Spaulding also remembered that "...the Pow Wow was a big challenge because the weather got real bad and all the venues for the workshops had to be moved to other locations." |
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