National Bulletin ISSUE 2 | VOLUME LXXII SUMMER 2014
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ISSUE 3 ORDER OF THE ARROW | BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA FALL 2013 1 National Bulletin ISSUE 2 | VOLUME LXXII SUMMER 2014 Preparing for the centennial, one step at a time Todd Goldfarb CONTENT LEAD we are celebrating the accomplishments of As we prepare for the Arrowmen and are centennial anniversary of highlighting some exciting the Order of the Arrow, events happening around many new programs and the nation. To expand on initiatives will be rolling our centennial programs, out in the coming months. you can read more about We’re excited to announce ArrowTour, the one-time the unveiling of the Centurion Award and Arrowman Service Award, the Centennial Cache. In featured on the cover with addition, we unveil the new an in-depth overview on revisions to the Order of page 4. Those who complete the Arrow High Adventure the Arrowman Service Triple Crown Award! Be Award program will earn sure you are up-to-date on a new patch that can be all things OA by visiting our proudly worn on their sash. website, oa-bsa.org, and sign Read more inside! up for the News You Can Also in this edition of Use and Centennial Update the National Bulletin, e-newsletters! 2015 Arrowman National OA Changes in Service Award Committee Journey to & Centennial Silver Buffalo Excellence Cache recipients SCOOP INSIDE PAGE3 PAGE4 PAGE7 ISSUE 2 3 2 SUMMERFALL 2013 2014 NATIONAL NEWS ORDER OF THE ARROW National Bulletin PRINT PUBLICATIONS LEAD Michael Dioguardi Tips for Lodge history book committees PRINT PUBLICATIONS ADVISER Jeff St.Cyr PRINT PUBLICATIONS EDITOR Justin St. Louis PRODUCTION TEAM LEAD AJ Kelly PRODUCTION TEAM ADVISER Sam Pitts COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR Michael Shostek COMMUNICATIONS LEAD ADVISER Tony Fiori DEPUTY COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR Aaron Shepherd DEPUTY COMMUNICATIONS ADVISER Ed Lynes CONTENT LEAD Todd Goldfarb CONTENT ADVISER Nick Ochsner Kyle Brendel and Distinguished Service steps of the project. Lodge are sample historian duties, MANAGING EDITOR David Joyner PEOPLE & HUMAN INTEREST LEAD Award recipients. historians can join these important links and details VISUAL MEDIA Alex Leach & Kevin Montano You don’t need a collection webinars by submitting for uploading completed VISUAL MEDIA ADVISER Bob Black Lodge history committees of lists to get started. If you their contact information history books. MEDIA EDITING Bob Brown have commenced the have not already done so, through the survey found Send any questions, MEDIA EDITING ADVISER Joey Kiker compilation of information start acquiring resources for on the national OA website roadblocks or success stories COPY EDITORS Josh Kline, Alexander for their lodge history books, your lodge’s history book. – just search “lodge history you might have throughout McGrath, Jacob Wurth, Daniel Croshaw, an essential portion of the Take time to research and book.” A Dropbox created the year to lodge_history@ Ben Griffin 2015 Legacy Project. On write a thorough history. just for those working on email.oa-bsa.org. There is NATIONAL EVENTS Matt Garrison March 2nd, project chairmen Your lodge’s unique story the project contains webinar a team of youth and adult LOCAL FEATURES Eric Zavinski and advisers joined a is important for educating recordings, as well as many historians eager to help you ORGANIZATION & POLICY Aaron Gluck conference call to learn how future generations of additional resources. succeed in every step of the PEOPLE & HUMAN INTEREST Kyle Brendel to get started. Presenter and Arrowmen. While on the lodge history project. GENERAL ASSIGNMENT National Committee Member To further assist with book page of the national Go out and discover your Thomas Van Horn Bill Topkis explained your quest to compile your OA website, check out the lodge’s unique story so that 100TH ANNIVERSARY Frank Caccavale that lodges should start lodge’s history is to dial into resources! One example it might be shared with NOAC PROMOTIONS COORDINATOR by assembling a research the next historian webinar of a resource posted is a Arrowmen in our next Mitchell Heisler library, creating key lists, – they occur on the first history book instruction century! If you have not CONTENT TEAM ADVISERS and gathering artifacts. Lists Sunday of every month at manual which delves into already, please submit the Andrew Kulhmann, Kelly Rodrigue, Mike that might be helpful include 9pm EST. Webinar topics the researching, writing and contact information for your Bazonis, Matt Holland, Brent Wessel, Ned Lundquist, Dylan Ellsworth, Sean McCabe, Vigil Honor recipients, are organized in such a editing steps of the project. lodge history book team Darlene Scheffler, Phil Raine, Dan O’Rourke, Founder’s Award recipients, fashion that aligns with the Also available on the page through this survey. BRAND & IDENTITY Alex Call BRAND & IDENTITY ADVISER Matt Madderra NATIONAL CHIEF Nick Dannemiller OA LodgeMaster: JTE integration improving NATIONAL VICE CHIEF Taylor Bobrow The first year lodges 2014: lodges may submit the national OA committee lodges in support of this NATIONAL CHAIRMAN Ray Capp could submit their their information either in May 2014, and represents integration. Please look to VICE CHAIRMAN-COMMUNICATIONS & charter petition and JTE using OALM or through the a great opportunity for the July 2014 Lodge Ledger, TECHNOLOGY Craig Salazar application online using OA Excel workbook available on lodges to begin tracking and on the national OA OA DIRECTOR Clyde Mayer LodgeMaster (OALM) was the national OA website. more accurate information website in mid-July, for a full OA ASSOC. DIRECTOR Matt Dukeman 2013. This experiment was Beginning in 2016 (for on their members and implementation schedule, The National Bulletin is a publication of a success; 50% of lodges charter and JTE application programs and receiving list of resources and other the Order of the Arrow. Its content and made the recharter process submitted in the fall of incremental updates design are developed by youth Arrowmen detailed information on this under the guidance of adult advisers. easier on themselves by 2015), the OA will be moving throughout the year on their transition. If you have an article and/or photo (with submitting via OALM. For exclusively to a submission JTE performance. Lodges with questions are caption) for submission, please email it 2015 (submitted in the fall of process utilizing OALM. This There will be several encouraged to contact to [email protected]. 2014), the process will mirror decision was approved by resources available to [email protected] for help. instagram.com/ youtube.com/ oabsa. oa-bsa.org fb.com/ @oabsa oa-bsa oabsa oabsa oabsa tumblr.com ISSUEISSUE 23 JOURNEY TO EXCELLENCE SUMMERFALL 20142013 3 Changes coming to Journey to CHIEFLY SPEAKING Excellence program in 2015 and still achieve recognition. Similarly, the number of points per item have been adjusted to place a higher emphasis on particular requirements. Standards such as membership growth and event attendance are weighted significantly higher than other objectives. Brothers, Some requirements have also been removed or combined and With 2014 at the halfway point, it is amazing to us how much a few new requirements have the Order has accomplished in just six short months. It has been also been added. incredible to witness the mounting excitement for our centennial Lodges must now complete across the country. elections in a percentage of units throughout the entire The Order of the Arrow is executing three major events in 2015. council, rather than only for After preparing for the last several months, we are confident they units requesting an election. will all be delivered successfully. At the National Annual Meeting Points can be awarded for of the BSA in May, we rolled out the ArrowTour program. It helping units to earn the OA featured an engaging promotional campaign built around the Unit of Excellence Award, sharing of boarding passes, which visually displayed how the news and points will be available about ArrowTour was spreading. Be sure to look for an ArrowTour for lodges making in-person boarding pass at the next Scouting event you attend! visitations to units for other purposes, such as camping Registration for next year’s National Order of the Arrow promotions. These new Conference for both lodge contingents and staff will open August requirements push lodges to 1st. A lot of innovative work and energy has already been put into reach out and enhance the our centennial conference; we hope that you will seize this once- Order’s visibility in all Boy in-a-lifetime opportunity to join us at Michigan State University Scout units. between August 3-8th, 2015. Finally, the OA led, BSA powered, Aaron Gluck The first set of changes will A final programmatic change centennial year of service will kick off in the fall of 2015, and we ORGANIZATION & POLICY LEAD occur for 2014 JTE. The 2014 for 2015: JTE and charter encourage you to look for more details soon about this unique requirements were released petitions will be exclusively service opportunity. The Order of the Arrow began in May of last year. While the accepted through OA the implementation of Journey requirements are unchanged LodgeMaster. The JTE and OA In addition to the centennial events this spring, our OA high to Excellence in 2012. Due to its from 2012 and 2013, the LodgeMaster teams are working adventure programs experienced a 35% increase in attendance incorporation into the lodge standards required to achieve to create an implementation over last year. This resulted in all programs being almost 100% full, recharter process, every lodge each level of recognition plan, which will be released even with the addition of the brand new OA Summit Experience. in the Order participated in the have been adjusted based on this autumn. An outstanding conclave season allowed brotherhood, cheerfulness past year’s JTE program. To previous data. These new Journey to Excellence is and service to thrive and strengthen the bonds of our fellow simplify rechartering and JTE benchmarks (and all future an incredible resource that Arrowmen.