INTERNATIONAL SCOUTING COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION

JOURNALVol 11, No. 2 June 2011

The Life and Times of Scouting’s Camp Madron

ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 1 INTERNATIONAL SCOUTING COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION, INC

CHAIRMAN PRESIDENT

TERRY GROVE, 2048 Shadyhill Terr., Winter Park, FL 32792 CRAIG LEIGHTY, 4529 Coddington Loop #108, Wilmington, NC 8405 (321) 214-0056 [email protected] (910) 233-4693 [email protected]

BOARD MEMBERS VICE PRESIDENTS:

BILL LOEBLE, 685 Flat Rock Rd., Covington, GA 30014-0908, (770) 385-9296, [email protected] Activities

BRUCE DORDICK, 916 Tannerie Run Rd., Ambler, PA 19002, (215) 628-8644 [email protected] Administration

JAMES ELLIS, 405 Dublin Drive, Niles, MI 49120, (269) 683-1114, [email protected] Communications

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The International Scouting Collectors Association Journal, “The ISCA Journal,” (ISSN 1535-1092) is the official quarterly publication of the International Scouting Collectors Association, Inc. (ISCA) and is issued in March, June, September, and December by the International Scouting Collectors Association., Inc., 405 Dublin Lane, Niles, MI 49120. Periodicals Postage Paid at Niles, MI and at additional mailing offices. Annual membership dues are $10. Member subscription for a printed copy of the International Scouting Collectors Association Journal is $25.00 per year (50.00 per year for delivery outside the United States). The International Scouting Collectors Association, Inc. is a non-profit organization which is staffed and operated solely by volunteers and has no affiliation with the Boy Scouts of America. Views expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position of the International Scouting Collectors Association, Inc. ©2011, International Scouting Collectors Association, Inc. Printed in the USA.

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2 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 JOURNAL STAFF ON THE INSIDE

FEATURES EDITOR DSA Candidate Bios 4 JAMES ELLIS DSA Ballot 5 405 Dublin Lane 2012 Officer Elections - Call for Candidates 8 Niles, MI 49120 The Life and Times of Camp Madron 10 Phone (269) 683-1114 New BSA Merit Badges 16 [email protected]

ASSISTANT EDITOR

KEVIN DOYLE COLUMNS 1533 Kaminaka Drive Honolulu, HI 96816 TOR Calendar 6 Phone (808) 735-3846 ISCA News 7 [email protected] Looking For Red & Whites 9 Way Back When 22 World Jamboree Connections 26 OA News 28 Collecting Camp Patches 33 CSP Corner 37 COLUMNISTS Advertisements 38

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ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 3 KEVIN DOYLE has been active in Scouting for nearly 40 years. He is an Eagle Scout, a Vigil Honor member, and was the charter Lodge Chief for Lodge #567. Kevin also was a member of the Conference Committee for the 1973 NOAC. Kevin holds the District Award of Merit, OA Founders Award, District Committee Key, Silver Beaver Award, and the Silver Antelope Award. He has served on the National Cub Scout Committee where he has been responsible for updating the Cub Scouts Academics and Sports program and designed the 75th anniversary logo for BSA’s Cub Scouting program. He completed two Philmont Treks including the second Order of the Arrow Trek.

Kevin is presently working on an Order of the Arrow “name / number” set and has a complete CSP name collection. He actively collects patrol medallions, hat shaped badges, hat diamonds, and small council rounds. He is also an unofficial historian of Aloha Council. Kevin is best known as the co-owner and operator of Patch-L, where he serves the hobby unselfishly on a daily basis without compensation. Patch-L, under Kevin’s guidance, has emerged as a virtual grapevine for our hobby and boasts over 650 members. Kevin also maintains the website Gilwell.com and hosts reference pages for Patrol Medallions, First Issue CSPs, and Hat Diamonds. He often volunteers to help others working on collecting projects. In his non-Scouting life he is currently an International Director (one of 14 from around the world) for Toastmasters International.

BOB HANNAH has been in Scouting over 55 years. He was a Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and Explorer. Bob has been a Cubmaster, Scoutmaster, Exploring Adviser, Varsity Coach, Committee Chair, Den Leader, Cub Scout Roundtable Commissioner, Committee Chair, District Vice Chair, Council Membership Chairman, Unit Commissioner, and is currently a District Chairman and a Merit Badge Counselor. He was a Professional Scouter for 25 years. He has been to nine National and six World Jamborees. Some awards received are the District Award of Merit, Silver Beaver, the Masonic Community Service Award, International Scouters Award, the OA Founders Award, and the Daniel Beard Award. He is Woodbadge trained and a Vigil Honor Member.

Bob’s contributions to the hobby of Scouting include researching and producing information on the camp patches and OA patches for three councils. Bob has helped and been helped by numerous people over the years in the Scouting memorabilia hobby and continues to offer his expertise whenever needed in the United States and other countries. Bob was a major contributor to Neil Larsen’s book on collecting World Jamborees. Bob produced two pamphlets about collecting for the Sea Base and Charles L. Sommers Canoe Base. In 2007, Bob produced an updated booklet on the Sommers Canoe Base through “A Visual Guide to the Patches of Northern Tier High Adventure Bases.” In January 2010, Bob produced a booklet on the Maine High Adventure base with help from Bob Richards. Bob continues to display at Council events. He also owns and operates “Scouting Memories Museum.” Bob has put on numerous Trade-O-Ree’s both in Wichita, Kansas and in Minnesota.

DAVID C. SCOTT, a Dallas native, has been involved with Scouting for over 32 of his 45 years. As a 1981 recipient of the Eagle Scout award, including 5 Eagle palms, Dave prospered under quality adult tutelage in the Circle 10 Council. A Vigil Honor member in the Order of the Arrow and a Wood Badge recipient, he graduated Vanderbilt University in 1988 with a B.A. in Psychology and continued onward to SMU, where he earned a master’s degree in Applied Economics in 1993. For the past six years, Dave has scribed a quarterly column for the ISCA Journal attacking a range of topics in Scouting’s history. He is the author of two books – the best-selling We Are Americans, We Are Scouts, and the nationally award-winning The Scouting Party – and has two more in production. The first is an expanded 2nd edition of We Are Americans, We Are Scouts and the second is titled, My Fellow Scouts: Scouting and the U.S. Presidency.

He is a member of the Boy Scouts of America’s National Speakers Bank as well as numerous lineal and national patriotic societies including the Sons of the American Revolution, the Sons of the Republic of Texas, the Military Society of the War of 1812, the Jamestowne Society, the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States, the Baronial Order of the Magna Charta, and Presidential Families of America, being a first cousin to James K. Polk and a second cousin to George Washington. Dave and wife Aimee have been married nineteen years and have four children. ISCA DSA CANDIDATES DSA ISCA

4 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 ISCA’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce the candidates for the 2011 Distinguished Service Award (see facing page for nominee bios). The award is given annually to an individual who has distinguished themselves by the quality of their collection, by the unselfish sharing of information through writing articles, books, etc., by giving service to various collecting organizations, by providing information in a variety of formats, by being a positive force in the hobby, and their service to Scouting. ISCA DSA BALLOT

YOU MAY VOTE ONLINE, BY EMAIL, PRIOR RECIPIENTS OF THE ISCA DISTINGUISHED SERVICE OR BY AWARD MAILING THIS BALLOT (including predecessor awards) Carmella Russo E. Forest Reynolds PLEASE VOTE FOR ONE NOMINEE FOR THE Elmer Fennert 2010 ISCA DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD: Paul Myers Dave Leubitz [ ] Kevin Doyle Bill Price John Sell [ ] BOB HANNAH Bernie Miller Raymond Lee Brian Lee [ ] DAVID C. SCOTT Don Isbell Mike Fulco Cliff Alexander Vote by mail to: David Thomas Paul Kramer 5335 Spring Valley Rd. Jack Mitzman Dallas, TX 75254 Prince Watkins George Boxer Alan O’Connor Vote by email at: [email protected] Bill Kern Ken Wiltz Vote online at: http://ScoutTrader.Org Harry Thorsen Dave Minnihan Please sign your name: Dwight Bischel Gene Berman ______Albertus Hoogeveen Mitch Reis Please print your name: Conley Williams Bill Topkis ______Terry Grove John Pannell Member Number (required - see mailing label) Kelly Williams Craig Leighty ______Jeff Morley Roy More A photocopy of this ballot is acceptable. Chris Jensen The deadline to submit a ballot is Jim Ellis June 30, 2011 Doug Krutelik Bruce Dordick Ron Aldridge

ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 5 Texas -- The Lone Star Trade O Ree Ohio -- Central Ohio TOR Dates: 6/3/2011 thru 6/4/2011 Dates: 10/14/2011 thru 10/15/2011 Location: St Francis Church Family Life Center Location: Franklin County Fairgrounds Edwards (behind main church) 861 Wildwood Ln., Bldg, 4100 Columbia St., Hilliard, Ohio Grapevine, Texas Contact: Mike Lush, 5392 Sherry Ct., Columbus, Contact: John Ryan, PO Box 1062, Colleyville, TX OH 43232, (614) 755-9393, [email protected] or 76034 (817) 939-5673, [email protected] Richard Braessler, P.O. Box 29207, Columbus, OH 43229-0207 (614) 436-7200 New York -- 2011 Central New York Trade-O-Ree Dates: 6/10/2011 thru 6/11/2011 New Hampshire -- New England Scout Location: Camp Woodland - Dining Hall, Camp Memorabilia Show Woodland - Kibbe Lake Rd., Constantia, New York Dates: 10/28/2011 thru 10/29/2011 Contact 1: Steve Austin, 8237 Tuna Path, Liverpool, Location: Camp Carpenter Dining Hall, Camp NY 13090 (315) 456-1511, [email protected] Carpenter, Manchester, New Hampshire Contact: Greg Anthony, 10 Lilac Court, Nashua, NH 03062, [email protected] New York -- Western New York Traders Association Trade O Ree & Auction Dates: 9/16/2011 thru 9/17/2011 Wisconsin -- Scout Heritage 33rd Annual TOR Location: North Forest Presbyterian Church, 300 Dates: 11/5/2011 North Forest Rd, Williamsville, New York Location: Milwaukee Country Council BSA Services. Contact: Dirk Norwich, 1370 Dodge Rd., Getzville, Pieper Power Learning Center (lower level), 330 S. NY 14068, [email protected] or Paul Freitag, 84th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin 581 Erie St., Lancaster, NY 14086, (716) 829- Contact 1: Matt Stoffel, 330 S 84th St., Milwaukee, 9025, [email protected] WI 53214 (414) 443-2874, mwstoffel@bsa. org or Chuck McBride, 10570 W. Grantosa Drive, Wauwatosa, WI 53222 (414) 464-7265, Georgia -- 2011 ATLANTA SCOUT MEMORABILIA [email protected] SHOW & TRADE-O-REE Dates: 9/23/2011 thru 9/24/2011 Location: Atlanta Area Council’’s Volunteer Service Center, at I-75 & I-285 North, Atlanta, GA. 1800 Circle 75 Parkway, SE, Atlanta, GA. 30339-3055, Georgia Contact: Randy Yates, 1593 Crestline Drive, NE, Atlanta, GA 30345, (404) 636-1251, yates55@ NOAC TOR comcast.net 7/27/12 thru 7/30/12 Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia Trade O Ree Michigan State University, Dates: 9/23/2011 thru 9/24/2011 East Lansing, MI Location: PA National Guard Armory, 1046 Belvoir Rd, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania Contact: Frank Barger, 1485 Valley Forge Rd., Watch the Journal and the ISCA website Wayne, PA 19087, (215) 620-5038, frankbarger@ for more information. yahoo.com

Nevada -- LV International Scout Memorabilia Exchange and Show Dates: 9/30/2011 thru 10/1/2011 Location: FRI: International Scouting Museum SAT: To have your Palace Station Hotel and Casino Salon A/B (NON Smoking) Fri: 2915 W Charleston Blvd, Ste #2, SAT: TOR listed here, 2411 W Sahara Ave, Las Vegas, Nevada register it on the Contact: F.T. RICK Bedsworth, 2915 W Charleston

TOR CALLENDAR TOR Blvd Ste #2, Las Vegas, NV 89102, (702) 561- ISCA Website at 2598, [email protected] or James Arriola, 2915 W Charleston Blvd Ste #2, Las Vegas, NV www.scouttrader.org 89102, (702).878-7268, [email protected] or [email protected]

6 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 Mark Bennick Gone Home Most of you will not know his name nor recognize his picture. He probably never collected a Scout patch or attended a Scouting event. Yet, he was instrumental in the development of the ISCA Journal we know today. For the past 10 years Mark Bennick was the printer who oversaw production of this magazine. He is the one that made sure that ISCA received the highest quality printing at the best possible price. Mark may not have been a Scout, but he certainly lived up to Scouting’s ideals. He looked after the Journal as if he had written each and every word himself. Mark was a gentleman and a good friend to ISCA and he will truly be missed. ISCA NEWS Mark went home on May 5, 2011. He is survived by his wife Susan, his daughter, Christian Danielle, and his son, Mark Bennick II.

ISCA TO HOST 2012 NOAC TOR ISCA will again be hosting the Trade-o-ree on-site in advance of the NOAC at the Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Since NOAC will officially start on Monday, July 30, 2012, (and will conclude on Saturday, August 4th), it will be a four day trade-o-ree starting Friday afternoon and ending on Monday, afternoon.

Watch for more details in the Journal and on ISCA’s website: www.scouttrader.org

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONS / RENEWALS

Check your mailing label - if it reads “Dues Paid Thru 06/30/2011” THIS IS YOUR LAST ISSUE unless you renew immediately. A ­renewal reminder may also be mailed, but don’t count on it and risk missing an issue! Now would be a good time to check your collecting codes too and update them if needed. We no longer backdate memberships, so if you miss an issue you’ll have to buy it online from the ISCA store.

To join ISCA or renew your membership please go to www.ScoutTrader.org or send your application*/renewal to: ISCA Membership P.O. Box 10008, So. Lake Tahoe, CA 96158 ($35 for a yearly subscription, $10 for online subscription, $25 for printed subscription if a life member, $60 for foreign subscription.) DO NOT SEND RENEWALS TO THE EDITOR *Applications are available online or from the ISCA Membership Vice President at the above address.

ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 7 2012 Elections For ISCA Officers

Call For Candidates

By action of the ISCA Board of Directors on April 28, 2010, terms of office of the officers and directors (18 total) have been staggered such that rotation will allow election for 1/3 each year plus any partial term vacancies.

The schedule of the process adopted by the ISCA Board of Directors for election of officers calls for announcement of open seats in the June issue of the ISCA Journal. The newly elected officer terms will begin January 1, 2012.

ISCA Chairman, Terry Grove, has appointed ISCA Board Member, David Minnihan, to chair and oversee elections to be conducted this year.

Nominations are now being accepted for Board positions listed below:

THREE YEAR TERM (2012-2015):

VP-ADMINISTRATION VP - LEGAL VP - MARKETING 3 MEMBERS OF BOARD AT LARGE

Job descriptions for positions can be found in the Member Section of the ISCA website: http://www.scouttrader.org.

Board members must be able to communicate by email and need to be able to attend Board meetings (in person or at least by telephone). Nominations must be received by June 30, 2010. Nominations can be emailed to [email protected] or mail to Dave Minnihan, 2300 Fairview G202, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. If you are nominating yourself, you need to provide a list of five names of ISCA members to be used as references.

All candidates must provide a 200-word or less statement of their candidacy by July 1, 2011 for inclusion in the September Journal. Ballots will be printed in the September Journal. Ballots must be returned electronically or by mail and received by October 9, 2011. Results will be announced in the December Journal and those elected will take office effective January 1, 2012. 2010 OFFICER NOMINATIONS

8 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 L Looking For Red & Whites

Gaps, Tags, and Even a Hyphen

By Blake Keasey The RWS that I have to report are in ISCA 0084L keeping with the variation theme, which [email protected] I discussed in the April 2011 issue. The NORTH ESSEX/COUNCIL (gap = 6 mm)/) RWS is much less common than the previously known one with a gap of 12 mm. Yes, the ROBERT E (hyphen) LEE/COUNCIL RWS actually does have a 2 mm hyphen rather than a period. The NATIONAL (all tags to border) CAPITAL AREA/COUNCIL RWS has the tags for ONA to the border, whereas the much more common one has tags between those 3 letters. The more common one comes with both a Type 1 and 2 border, whereas the newly reported one comes with only a Type 1 border. The GRAND TETON/COUNCIL RWS (HI) is only reluctantly reported as it is a newly manufactured issue and thus will be designated as a HI (Historical Issue). There is a similar one in the khaki and red format, which is not pictured.

In terms of Sea Scout patches, the mismatched mate for the Tennessee Valley/Council WBS r/e (reported in 10-2) has finally turned up. It is the TENNESSEE VALLEY/COUNCIL BWS, but it is a cut edge (c/e) rather than a rolled edge (r/e). That is why it is a “mismatch.” There are very few rolled edge Sea Scout patches (5 BWS and 3 WBS)

Three new 1/2KRs have turned up. The 2 from MI include S. W. MICH. COUNCIL 1/2KR and HIAWATHALAND 1/2KR. From MA we have MONADNOCK 1/2KR. It is a council in that state and there is no town by that name. A monadnock is an isolated rock hill, knob, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently slopping or virtually level area.

There are 2 new military base strips (mbs) to report and 1 to remove. Although there is a town named Johnson the JOHNSON (AFB) 1/2RW mbs appeared on eBay with the Japan 1/4RW underneath it. One set appeared on a Cub Scout uniform and the other appeared on a Boy Scout uniform. It was established as a Japanese air base named Iruma in 1937. The US Air Force took it over in 1945 and eventually returned it to the Japanese in 1978. The ABERDEEN 1/2RW mbs was worn both by Scout troops at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland and by Scout troops in the nearby town. Many of the Scouts in the town troops were the sons of employees on the base. A former writer of this column with expertise on US Naval installations provided a compelling explanation as to why Portsmouth strips should not be considered authentic mbs. Consequently they will be removed from all relevant lists.

In terms of interesting and/or funny community strips (cms), we have Baileys X Road, Braggadocio, Equality, Tar Heel, Thunderbird, Panhandle, and Shady Nook.

Special thanks go to the following contributors; Steve DeWick, Dan Graham, Destry Hoffard, Larry Kelley, Rob Kutz, Roy More, and John Shaw.

ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 9 The Life and Times of Scouting’s Camp Madron

By Jim Ellis ISCA # 0011L and Chris Patton ISCA # 0763

Scouting has been active in The first camp sites were located Southwestern Michigan from to the east of the dining hall. They at least 1919, although it may had 8 man pyramid type tents from have existed as early as 1910.1 World War I placed on platforms. However, it wasn’t until the winter of 1926 that a small group of men, Swimming was done at a spot on headed by Louis and Fred Upton of the North side of the lake known as the Upton Machine Company (now “Beginner’s Point.” This was good Whirlpool Corp.), addressed the because the lake bottom was hard need for a permanent camp for the there, but bad, because of the long Boy Scouts of this area. Based on walk through the mosquito infested the group’s recommendation, the swamp area. In those days, all Benton Harbor-St. Joseph Council2 Scouts took part in a early morning purchased 27.7 acres near Madron swim, before breakfast. Later, they Lake3 while it lay under a blanket of gave the Scouts the option of either snow. Spring came and a portion of the swim or calisthenics. the site was found to be too wet for use. Several thousand yards of gravel had to be hauled in as fill. In the fall of 1930, with no Ranger to look after the place, someone This “fill” area was originally used as a ball diamond and activity apparently broke into the dining hall and was careless with their area for the sports type activities that were a part of the camp fire. The hall was burned to the ground. Unfortunately beside a program. dining hall, this building was also used for storage. All was lost rea except the fireplace, andirons, and a small cannon. That cannon The first road into camp was built by Scouts, Scouters, and their was in the display case in Upton Hall and the andirons were still wives with shovels, rakes, and horse-drawn gravel wagons. This being used in the fireplace at the time of the camp’s sale. road angled toward the Northeast and ended on the lake side of the present dining hall. The first dining hall was a mere shed compared Because of Scouting’s growth, the need for a larger dining hall to what was to come later. Materials were brought in by horse and became quite evident. Many felt it would take 2 or 3 years to by boat across the lake. Heat was provided by a fireplace at the raise the funds for a new building, but to everyone’s surprise, the South end of the building plus a pot bellied stove in the middle of new dining hall was built and ready for use in 1931, thanks to the the room. Heat rises, so if a camper was brave, he could put his cot leadership of the Uptons. Rightfully so, it was named Upton Hall. on the rafter braces and have a real cozy place to sleep. Lighting Six new sailing canoes were also purchased at this time, for the was by kerosene lanterns and water was from a hand pump out in waterfront area, which was now on the south side of the lake, at its back of the building. present location.

Upton Hall (New Dining Hall) Circa 1932

10 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 Under the new dining hall was the boat storage area in the winter and Additional programs were added and many people became a locker room in the summer. There were individual compartments once again involved with the betterment of Camp Madron. Mr. for each camper’s towel and personal gear. All washing and bathing Duncan realized the value of the Indian Pageant, which had been was done in the next room in two metal troughs, (at that time 30 to discontinued years before, and created the Madron Dancers. After 40 Scouts made an average week with 60 as capacity). The room the camp stopped being used as a summer camp, the Dancers under the camp office was the trading post, where scouts were continued as an Explorer Post for a few more years before served through a small window, and only for a short period of time disbanding. after the noon and evening meal. If the Scouts had a snack, it was usually just one candy bar per day. 1973 saw the beginning of the end for Camp Madron when Southwestern Michigan, Nottawa Trails and Fruit Belt Area Councils About this time Leo “Unk” Slate took over the handicraft area. merged to form Southwest Michigan Council. As a result of this Model boat building and braiding were his specialty. Scouts that merger, Camp Madron was not used as a summer camp in 1974 or came to camp more than just one week per summer began making 1975. The camp was again used as a summer camp in 1976, after bows and arrows out of bow making kits. This developed the which long term camping operations were discontinued for good. interest in archery and the need to create an area for this type of program. The handicraft area was located in the present library In 1978 area Scouters undertook a major reconditioning of the room of the dining hail. Also, with the camp expanding, the tent camp buildings, winterizing McGawn and Slate Lodges and putting sites were moved to the present handicraft hill and each area given new roofs on all permanent buildings. The camp was used as a an Indian name. week-end camp by local Scouts and Scouters until it was sold to a developer in 1986. The next major improvement was the addition of a new handicraft building. Morris McGawn, of Three Oaks, headed up the committee After logging off portions of the camp, 49 home sites were hacked to raise money for the new building. They sold candles for a dollar out of what was considered hallowed ground by generations or more each. That was in 1938 and the silver spade that was used of Scouts in Southwestern Michigan. Never again would young to break the ground for the building was on display in Upton Hall for voices be heard singing in the dinning hall: almost 45 years. On the day of the groundbreaking, a tremendous cake, was delivered by van and was served in the dining hall. Down at Madron In December of 1938, Mr. and Mrs. Upton, announced that, as a Down at Madron Christmas gift to the local Scouts, they had purchased and were Best camp for Boy Scouts donating to the Scouts the 61 acres of land south of the rangers If there is another better cabin. Sadly, in April of 1939, Eagle Scout Phil Upton, the son of We all have our doubts Louis Upton, died in a sailing accident on the Hudson River. 4 Keep Scouting

On June 18, 1939, as a memorial to his memory, the Berrien-Cass Down at Madron County Council designated the recently donated property the Philip Down at Madron Upton Memorial Woods. May there ever be In the hearts of all our campers Following this addition, the county put in the present road into the Loyality camp. Then the camp’s Fire Bowl was moved from an area directly opposite the dining hall to a site south of McGawn Lodge. The folks sat on the banks above the bowl to view the Indian ceremonies, put Endnotes on by the campers who made their own costumes, which consisted of a breechcloth from a gunny sack, turkey feathers and head band, 1 Scouting was founded in 1907 by Robert Baden-Powell in England. The plus a little grease paint. program officially arrived in the United States with the incorporation of the Boy Scouts of America by Chicago Publisher W.D. Boyce and oth- World War II brought a shortage of staff personnel, but the camp ers in 1910. However some Scouting units in the United States were actually formed prior to the incorporation of the BSA. remained open. Many staff members had to assume 2 or 3 jobs. Sometime in the late 40’s a large waterfront storage building was 2 See Diagram on Page 15 showing the development of the local Scouting constructed. This made the opening and closing of council. camp much easier for all those concerned. 3 Around 1850, the Madron family established a farm on the northwest corner of an unnamed lake about 5 miles north The next major change was in the late 1950s, when and west of Buchanan, MI. This lake was ultimately named the council felt the need to build a swimming complex. in their honor. It is not known how long they stayed but it is A capital fund drive was conducted and from that reported that an epidemic hit the Madron family and three of their daughters are buried on the farm site. came the indoor/outdoor pool complex. At the time of the pool building dedication in 1958, Madron was 4 Philip Quentin Upton was born November 11, 1918 at St. purportedly the only Scout camp in the country with Joseph, Michigan and died April 12, 1939 at Annandale on indoor/outdoor pools and a lake. This facility was the Hudson, New York. Phil learned to sail a cape cod dory as a Boy Scout at summer camp on nearby Lake Madron. It used very heavily for a few years then problems with was a passion he learned to master. Phil, by age 17, won the the roof arose. Much work was done to keep the Great Lakes Championship Star series, defeating skippers facility operable, but eventually it was closed in the twice his age and many fold his experience. He repeated the mid-1970s. feat in 1937, bringing national recognition to his home fleet and harbor. Tragically, when Phil returned to college in the spring of 1939, taking his new frostbite dinghy, Phil and two About the time the new pool building was being friends were lost to the frigid waters of the Hudson. Source: constructed, a man named Berkley Duncan came Berkley P. Duncan http://www.sjjf.com/history.htm to the council and was put in charge of the camp. ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 11 Circa Early 30s Circa Late 30s

12 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 13 14 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 15 NEW BSA MERIT BADGES by FREDTod Johnson DUERSCH, ISCA JR. # 0678 ISCA #3012L

MERIT BADGE TYPES WATER (Large Design). These merit badges only exist in Type J and K. NUCLEAR SCIENCE came on the scene Some new merit badge types, along with new merit badges in 2005 and exists only in Type J and K. COMPOSITE and designs, were introduced in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, MATERIALS arrived in 2006 and was issued only in Type J 2006, 2008, and 2010 creating two new logos that were and K. AUTOMOTIVE MAINTENANCE (Wheel), ROWING added to the reverse of plastic back merit badges. (Life Jacket), and WATER SPORTS were all introduced in 2008. WATER SPORTS replaced WATER SKIING The first plastic back merit badges were introduced in using the same large design. It’s interesting to note that 1972 without a logo and are referred to as Type H in the AUTOMOTIVE MAINTENANCE (Wheel) and ROWING (Life Merit Badge Field Guide. The plastic back was continued Jacket) exist in Type H, J, and K. WATER SKIING (With except the logo “SCOUT STUFF-SUPPLY DIVISION” was Trim) exists only in Type H and J. The Type H version of laminated on the back in 2002 introducing the Type J Merit these three Merit Badges is quite rare. SCUBA DIVING was Badges. introduced in 2009 and exists in Type J and K. Merit Badges introduced in 2010 include the four 100-Year Anniversary The logo was changed in 2010 to “BSA 2010-100 YEARS OF Merit Badges, CARPENTRY, PATHFINDING, SIGNALING, SCOUTING,” while retaining the plastic back and creating and TRACKING that could only be earned in 2010 and exist Type K Merit Badges. After consulting with representatives only in Type K. Other Merit Badges introduced in 2010 were of the National BSA Council, I was told the new logo would GEOCACHING, INVENTING, ROBOTICS, and SCOUTING continue indefinitely. HERITAGE. INVENTING and SCOUTING HERITAGE exist in Type J and K even though they were both issued in 2010. NEW MERIT BADGES & DESIGNS GEOCACHING and ROBOTICS have surfaced only in Type K. Again, I don’t have a good explanation for this. FLY FISHING was introduced in 2002 and exists only in Type J and K. WATER SKIING (Large Design) appeared in Following are checklists for Type H, J, and K Merit Badges 2004 but only exists in Type J. It replaced WATER SKIING for all of you serious Merit Badge collectors to catalog your (With Trim) that exists in Type H and J and was only used Merit Badge collections. Examples of the different logos are for about a year beginning in 2003. Other merit badge also shown. Please provide feedback if you have comments designs that were introduced in 2004 were AVIATION (Jet to this article. Liner), RAILROADING (Crossing Tracks), and WHITE

TYPE H MERIT BADGES TYPE J MERIT BADGE LOGO TYPE K MERIT BADGE LOGO

16 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 ISSUE DATE & TYPE COMPARISON FOR MERIT BADGES ISSUED AFTER 2000 DATE OF ISSUE AND TYPE

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2008 2009 2010

FLY FISHING J&K

WATER SKIING (With Trim) H&J

WATER SKIING (Large Design) J

AVIATION (Jet Liner) J&K

RAILROADING (Crossing Tracks) J&K

WHITE WATER (Large Design) J&K

NUCLEAR SCIENCE J&K

COMPOSITE MATERIALS J&K

AUTOMOTIVE MAINTENANCE (Wheel) H,J,&K

ROWING (Life Jacket) H,J,&K

WATER SPORTS J&K

SCUBA DIVING J&K

CARPENTRY K

PATHFINDING K

SIGNALING K

TRACKING K

GEOCACHING K

INVENTING J&K

ROBOTICS K

SCOUTING HERITAGE J&K

ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 17 CLEAR PLASTIC (TYPE H) MERIT BADGE CHECKLIST (1972 to 2002) Asterisk Indicates Use of the Same Design

Agribusiness Dog Care Agriculture Drafting American Business Electricity American Cultures Electronics American Heritage Emergency Preparedness (Green Cross) American Labor Emergency Preparedness (Red Cross) Animal Industry (Horse) Energy Animal Science (Cow) Engineering Archaeology Entrepreneurship Archery Environmental Science Architecture Family Life (Green Border) Art Family Life (Silver Border) Astronomy Farm Arrangements/Farm & Ranch Management* Athletics Farm Mechanics Atomic Energy Farm Mechanics (Roll Bar) Automechanics (Shop Manual) Farm Records Automotive Maintenance (Wheel) Fingerprinting Automotive Safety/Traffic Safety* Firemanship/Fire Safety* Aviation (Jet Fighter) First Aid Backpacking First Aid to Animals Basketry First Aid to Animals - Silver Border (Error) Beef Production Fish & Wildlife Management Beekeeping Fishing Bird Study Food Systems Bookbinding Forage Crops Botany Forestry Bugling Fruit & Nut Growing Camping (Green Border) Gardening Camping (Silver Border) Genealogy Canoeing General Science Chemistry Geology Cinematography Golf Citizenship in the Community Graphic Arts Citizenship in the Home Handicapped Awareness/Handicap Awareness/ Citizenship in the Nation (Large Bell, Blue, White, & Red) Disability Awareness Citizenship in the Nation (Large Bell, Red, White, & Blue) Hiking (Green Border) Citizenship in the Nation (Small Bell, Blue, White, & Red) Hiking (Silver Border) Citizenship in the Nation (Small Bell, Red, White, & Blue) Hog Production Citizenship in the World Home Repairs Climbing Horsemanship Coin Collecting (Black Letters) Indian Lore Coin Collecting (Black Ring) Insect Life/Insect Study* Coin Collecting (White Letters) Journalism (Camcorder) Collections Journalism (J Key) Colonial Philadelphia (Green Border) Journalism (Key Board) Colonial Philadelphia (Yellow Border) Labor (Inventoried but never Issued) Communications (Satellite, Green Border) Landscape Architecture Communications (Satellite, Silver Border) Law Communications (Telephone) Leatherwork Computers (Personal Computer) Lifesaving Computers (Punch Card) Machinery Conservation of Natural Resources (Green Border) Mammals/Mammal Study* Conservation of Natural Resources (Silver Border) Masonry Consumer Buying Medicine Cooking (Green Border) Metals Engineering Cooking (Silver Border) Metalwork Corn Farming Model Design & Building Cotton Farming Motorboating Crime Prevention Music Cycling (Bicycle) Nature (Green Border) Cycling (Triangle, Green Border) Nature (Silver Border) Cycling (Triangle, Silver Border) Oceanography Dairying Orienteering Dentistry Painting 18 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 Personal Finances Signaling Personal Fitness Skating Personal Management Skating (Roller Blades) Pets Skiing (Blue Skis) Photography Skiing (Brown Skis) Pigeon Raising Small Boat Sailing Pioneering Small Grains Plant Science Snow Sports Plumbing Soil & Water Conservation Pottery Space Exploration Poultry Keeping Sports (Green Border) Printing Sports (Silver Border) Public Health Stamp Collecting Public Speaking Surveying Pulp & Paper Swimming Rabbit Raising Textile Radio Theater Railroading (Streamliner) Truck Transportation Reading Veterinary Science/Veterinary Medicine* Reptile & Amphibian Study Water Skiing Reptile Study Water Skiing (Life Jacket) Rifle & Shotgun Shooting Water Skiing (with Trim) Rifle Shooting Weather Rowing White Water Rowing (Life Jacket) White Water - Black Border (Error) Safety (Green Border) Wilderness Survivial Safety (Silver Border) Wood Carving Salesmanship Woodwork Scholarship World Brotherhood Sculpture Zoology Sheep Farming Shotgun Shooting

CLEAR PLASTIC “SCOUT STUFF-SUPPLY DIVISION” (TYPE J) MERIT BADGE CHECKLIST (2002 to 2010) Asterisk Indicates Possible Crossover with Type H & K

American Business Climbing American Cultures Coin Collecting American Heritage Collections American Labor Communications Animal Science Composite Materials* Archaeology Computers Archery Cooking Architecture Crime Prevention Art Cycling Astronomy Dentistry Athletics Disability Awareness Atomic Energy Dog Care Automechanics (Shop Manual) Drafting Automotive Maintenance (Wheel) Electricity Aviation (Jet Fighter) Electronics Aviation (Passenger Jet)* Emergency Preparedness Backpacking Energy Basketry Engineering Bird Study Entrepreneurship Bugling Environmental Science Camping Family Life Canoeing Farm Mechanics Chemistry Fingerprinting Cinematography Fire Safety Citizenship in the Community First Aid Citizenship in the Nation (Blue, White, & Red) Fish & Wildlife Management Citizenship in the Nation (Red, White, & Blue) Fishing Citizenship in the World Fly Fishing

ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 19 Forestry Radio Gardening Railroading (Streamliner) Genealogy Railroading (Tracks Crossing)* Geology Reading Golf Reptile & Amphibian Study Graphic Arts Rifle Shooting Hiking Rowing Home Repairs Rowing (Life Jacket)* Horsemanship Safety Indian Lore Salesmanship Insect Study Scholarship Inventing* Scuba Diving* Journalism Scouting Heritage* Landscape Architecture Sculpture Law Shotgun Shooting Leatherwork Skating Lifesaving Small Boat Sailing Mammal Study Snow Sports Medicine Soil & Water Conservation Metalwork Space Exploration Model Design & Building Sports Motorboating Stamp Collecting Music Surveying Nature Swimming Nuclear Science* Textile Oceanography Theater Orienteering Traffic Safety Painting Truck Transportation Personal Fitness Veterinary Medicine Personal Management Water Skiing Pets Water Skiing (With Trim)* Photography Water Skiing/Water Sports (Large Design) Pioneering Weather Plant Science White Water Plumbing White Water (Large Design)* Pottery Wilderness Survival Public Health Wood Carving Public Speaking Woodwork Pulp & Paper CLEAR PLASTIC “BSA 2010-100 YEARS OF SCOUTING ANNIVERSARY” (TYPE K) MERIT BADGE CHECKLIST

American Business Cinematography American Cultures Citizenship in the Community American Heritage Citizenship in the Nation American Labor Citizenship in the World Animal Science Climbing Archaeology Coin Collecting Archery Collections Architecture Communications Art Composite Materials Astronomy Computers Athletics Cooking Automotive Maintenance Crime Prevention Aviation Cycling Backpacking Dentistry Basketry Disability Awareness Bird Study Dog Care Bugling Drafting Camping Electricity Canoeing Electronics Carpentry (Gold Mylar Border) Emergency Preparedness Chemistry Energy

20 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 Engineering Photography Entrepreneurship Pioneering Environmental Science Plant Science Family Life Plumbing Farm Mechanics Pottery Fingerprinting Public Health Fire Safety Public Speaking First Aid Pulp & Paper Fish & Wildlife Management Radio Fishing Railroading Fly Fishing Reading Forestry Reptile & Amphibian Study Gardening Rifle Shooting Genealogy Robotics Geocaching Rowing Geology Safety Golf Salesmanship Graphic Arts Scholarship Hiking Scouting Heritage Home Repairs Scuba Diving Horsemanship Sculpture Indian Lore Shotgun Shooting Insect Study Signaling (Gold Mylar Border) Inventing Skating Journalism Small Boat Sailing Landscape Architecture Snow Sports Law Soil & Water Conservation Leatherwork Space Exploration Lifesaving Sports Mammal Study Stamp Collecting Medicine Surveying Metalwork Swimming Model Design & Building Textile Motorboating Theater Music Tracking (Gold Mylar Border) Nature Traffic Safety Nuclear Science Truck Transportation Oceanography Veterinary Medicine Orienteering Water Sports Painting Weather Pathfinding (Gold Mylar Border) Whitewater Personal Fitness Wilderness Survival Personal Management Wood Carving Pets Woodwork

Special thanks to Craig McDaniel, Roy More, & Mitch Reis for their timely assistance in the preparation of this article.

Robotics: Scoutings Newest Merit Badge

The Robotics merit badge is part of the BSA’s new curriculum emphasis on STEM: science, technology, engineering, and math. The BSA focus on STEM takes a fun, adventurous approach to helping Scouts develop critical skills that are relevant and needed in today’s competitive world. The new merit badge is one of 31 STEM-related merit badges that Scouts can earn.

This merit badge involved approximately 14 months of development and input from more than 150 youth members, leaders, and industry professionals from across the nation. Earning the Robotics merit badge requires a Scout to understand how robots move (actuators), how they sense the environment (sensors), and how they understand what to do (programming). Scouts will spend approximately 14 hours meeting the requirements of this merit badge, including that they design a robot and demonstrate how it works. The BSA anticipates more than 10,000 Robotics merit badges will be earned in its first year.

ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 21 WAY BACK WHEN Two Great American Frontier Scouts (and one Rascal) that Helped Inspire a Worldwide Movement

In the September 2006 issue of Indian foe, because, in handling expeditions or leading troops, By The Journal, I authored an article on him alone depends correctness of destination, avoidance of entitled “How ‘Boy Scout’ Entered the dangers, protection against sudden storms, the finding of game, David Scott Language.” In it, I describe the impact grass, wood and water, the lack of which, of course, is more fatal of several “Wild West” impresarios that ISCA #5425L than the deadly bullet.” So declared a show program sold for ten [email protected] include William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, cents to wide-eyed spectators at Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West and John “Texas Jack” Omohundro, and 1 a literary rascal named Edward Zane Congress of Rough Riders of the World during 1900. Carroll Judson, aka “Ned Buntline.” That story centers on Texas Jack being nicknamed “The Boy Scout of the Confederacy” during Baden-Powell himself was susceptible to these Western myths.2 the War Between the States – probably being the first time the term Moving in the upper echelons of London society in 1903, the “boy scout” had been used to describe anyone. General went backstage at the Wild West Show during its West End run to pay his respects to Cody. They were mutual admirers: But due to space constraints, I was unable to include two interesting on learning in 1900 that the famed Boer War siege of Mafeking was pieces of the puzzle – the first being a short tale of American lifted, Cody cabled Mafeking commanding officer Baden-Powell to frontiersman and soldier of fortune, Frederick Russell Burnham, offer “congratulations upon your heroic defense,” adding that, “all and the second being an expansion of the colorful back story of 3 Buntline’s two degrees of separation from Robert Baden-Powell American soldiers and sailors are today singing your praises.” himself. The indefatigable scout was a staple of American folklore. Daniel In Baden-Powell’s landmark military instruction book, Aids Boone’s memoirs were published in 1784 (and republished often to Scouting for NCO’s and Men, he makes note of Cody and by the growing colonial press), sparking interest in the cutting of Burnham as being the two great military “scouts” whose qualities a road into “a howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and and characteristics should be the model for every properly trained wild beasts.”4 Others won fame as the frontier soldier.. pushed into the West, including Simon Kenton and George Rogers Clark (brother of William As for Buntline, Baden-Powell probably never knew he existed, but Buntline’s contributions Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition). were critical in the making of the legend of William F. Cody. With an ever-drunk but James Fennimore Cooper made the scout a hugely creative Ned Buntline behind him, staple of American fiction in 1826 with The Buffalo Bill began his illustrious stage career Last of the Mohicans. Natty Bumppo, hero of that culminated in the founding of his world his Leatherstocking Tales, possessed a “sturdy, famous “Wild West Show”- the same show weather-beaten countenance and forest attire” that eventually captured the imagination of an and a “singular compound of quick, vigilant upstart young English soldier by the name of sagacity, and of exquisite simplicity, that by Robert Baden-Powell. turns usurped the possession of his muscular 5 * * * * * features.”

The mass success of the Boy Scouting By the end of the Civil War, the terrain and movement that Robert Baden-Powell, Ernest employment of the scout had shifted to the Thompson Seton, Daniel Carter Beard and Great Plains and the relentless war on the Indian their backers proposed was predicated on the nations that the U.S. Army prosecuted with the idea of the frontier scout as the personification help of such men. William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody of strength against enemies, resourcefulness was the very image of the scout in the popular imagination. His reputation was established in the face of hardship, and of manly virtue in William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody the midst of decadence and corruption. serving the U.S. Army in the Indian Wars of the late 1800s. But his fame was fashioned by A true scout was “full of self-reliance in his own ability to meet and writer and impresario Edward Zane Carroll Judson, who went by overcome any unlooked-for difficulties…a thorough student of the name of Ned Buntline, an allusion to his early years at sea. nature, a self-taught weather-prophet, a geologist by experience, an astronomer by necessity, a naturalist, and thoroughly educated This talented rascal had a near brush with respectability in the in the warfare, stratagems, trickery and skill of his implacable 1840s in launching the Western Literary Journal and Magazine in

22 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 Cincinnati, which soon went out of business. Buntline thereafter Cody, already known as “Buffalo Bill” for his horseback marksman seemed a magnet for trouble. He shot and killed a man in shooting down buffalo to provision rail workers during the a duel in Nashville, apparently over Buntline’s liaison cross-country rail push, was engaged as scout for the with his adversary’s wife. Arrested and put on trial, detachment. Cody and the soldiers followed the he was dragged out of jail by an outraged mob Indians’ trail to the North Platte River, where and lynched, though friends cut him down they gave up the chase. Fascinated with in good time. Moving to New York, he Cody, Buntline drew out and cultivated the churned out dime novels, of which he was scout on the trail, seeing his potential as to produce some 400 in his career, and a a literary property with a deadly aim.9 five-volume work called The Mysteries and Miseries of New York which sold Back in New York, Buntline threw some 100,000 copies.6 But soon himself into the production of his after, Buntline was brought up on first dime novel with Buffalo Bill as charges of inciting a riot in Greenwich the central figure.10 With the railroad Village, which military authorities put completed and the buffalo headed for down with artillery fire killing thirty four extinction, Cody was soon in demand and wounding 141. as a celebrity scout for hunting parties of politicians, businessmen, and on After a year in jail, he migrated to St. occasion members of European nobility. Louis, again running afoul of the law for In 1871, Cody and another legendary leading a 5,000-strong mob protesting figure, John Burwell Omohundro, known alleged election fraud. Bailed, Buntline as “Texas Jack,” served as guides for a moved on to southern Illinois to set up again party including the Earl of Dunraven. Texas in publishing. He found religion in 1857 and Jack’s exploits with Southern forces in the Civil became a temperance lecturer, often with a bottle War had earned him the name of the “boy scout of of booze tucked neatly in his pocket. the Confederacy,”11 perhaps the first occurrence of a Town after town, Buntline took the stage amidst Ned Buntline formulation Baden-Powell would later popularize. hundreds of women devoted to stomping out the public drunkenness that frequently led their husbands into their Buntline’s sensational novels brought Cody to the attention of town’s bars and brothels. James Gordon Bennett, publisher of the New York Herald. Bennett was always on the lookout for the next phenomenon to help him One time during a lecture given to the L.N. Fowler Society of sell newspapers. Whether at the instigation of Buntline or Bennett, Daughters of Temperance, a grizzled Buntline took the stage to Cody showed up in New York in 1872 and was lionized by Bennett’s the disdain of the assembled ladies who did not expect to see a Herald, which reported the standing ovation given to the scout “short, heavy-bodied young man.” However, his potent speech when he appeared in a Broadway theater box. That exposure to caused them to forget those inequities and only hear his flatteries. the limelight made Cody more receptive to Buntline’s proposals for He closed his lecture with, “I am a man of deeds rather than words. a theatrical career. That same year he and Texas Jack debuted I write better than I speak and therefore I sign my name to your on the stage of Chicago’s Bowery Theater in a play dashed off pledge.” by Buntline, The Scouts of the Prairie, or Red Deviltry As It Is.12 Derided by critics, Scouts of the Prairie was a smash and made its Suddenly, vociferous applause rumbled throughout the room, way via St. Louis and Cincinnati to Niblo’s Garden in New York. 13 whereupon Buntline took his bow, quickly left the meeting, and “The drama is about everything in general, and nothing in particular,” immediately found his way to the nearest low level brothel at 77 commented the New York Herald’s. Cody’s performance was Lispenard Street and got drunk.7 “ridiculous,” while Texas Jack was “not so ridiculous.” The Herald reviewer saved his most pointed barbs for the producer and * * * * * playwright, who also appeared in the play and at one point delivered a temperance lecture. In the Civil War he served the Union, receiving citations for gallantry and insubordination. After the war, Buntline took up the pen again “Ned Buntline,” the scribe declared, “is simply maundering in New York, writing novels under contract for $20,000 a year and imbecility.”14 The audience did not know what to make of the constructing himself a stately mansion up the Hudson River.8 shambles onstage. “The applause savored of derision, and the derision of applause. Everything was so wonderfully bad that it was In 1869, heading home from a series of temperance lectures on the almost good.”15 West Coast, Buntline stopped at O’Fallon’s Bluff Station, Nebraska, a former stop on the Pony Express mail line. Travel by rail across Buntline’s character, “Cale Durg,” frequently got caught-up in the America had become possible that May with the linking of the onstage line cueing of Cody and Omohundro. However, that would Central and Union Pacific Railroads. When he showed up, an Army have to end in the second act because Durg was slated to be killed detachment was setting out after an Indian raiding party that had after being tied to a tree before a long temperance monologue. The killed several railway workers and made off with livestock. Chicago Inter-Ocean reported that “it was to be regretted that he had not been killed in the first act.”

ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 23 The audience that night, however, reacted differently. Filled to the enemy territory to summon reinforcements to relieve an encircled brim with drunken cowboys, they demanded that Durg be executed detachment of thirty-five men. as soon as he began his temperance lecture. When the third act opened, out popped a previously killed Cale Durg to the delight of That contingent was doomed, but Burnham’s race through bush the audience who begged for him to die again.16 seething with warriors earned him military distinction and tabloid fame. When the Matabele rose up again in 1896, Burnham * * * * * reconnoitered with Baden-Powell and taught him the finer pints of the scouting art, earning a place in Aids to Scouting,19 a book But Cody’s charismatic appeal somehow radiated through the Baden-Powell wrote as a military manual but which became a mayhem organized by Buntline, displaying “a curious grace and a best-seller among youth around the British Empire as the Mafeking certain characteristic charm that pleases the beholders,” observed siege lengthened. the New York World’s critic. “He is a remarkably handsome fellow on the stage” and the “utter absence of anything like stage art won for him the good-will of an audience which was disposed to laugh at all that was intended to be pathetic and serious.” Cody had entered American show business, and Buntline faded away after one season, with the famed Western lawman Wild Bill Hickok taking his place.

After briefly returning to scouting duty on the plains when Sitting Bull defeated General George Armstrong Custer at Little Big Horn, Cody received an offer from the international theatrical promoter Nate Salsbury. Recognizing the public appetite for things Western, Salsbury mounted an extravaganza called “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World.” It was a worldwide success, no more so than in London where members of the royal family attended a Saturday afternoon performance in March 1903.

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Baden-Powell, as noted, also paid his respects to the Western showman. Even before Mafeking, he developed admiration for the American legend, though his personal experience with American scouting was mainly through his contact with Frederick Russell Burnham, whom the British press dubbed the “King of Scouts” for Frederick Russell Burnham his work on behalf of the British military in Southern Africa at the end of the 19th century. “Riding with a really trained scout, such as Buffalo Bill or Burnham, you will notice that while he talks with you, his eyes scarcely look Burnham, wrote famed war correspondent Richard Harding Davis, you in the face for a moment, they keep glancing from point to was “as unlike the scout…of the Wild West Show, as it is possible point of the country round from sheer force of habit,” Baden-Powell for a man to be.”17 He mastered the scouting art over years from his wrote. “As you move along, say, in a hostile country, your eyes youth in Los Angeles through years wandering Mexico, Arizona and should be looking afar for the enemy or any signs of him; figures, California. He briefly tried to acquire a formal education in the East, dust rising, birds getting up, glitter of arms, etc.”20 but he soon gave that up and headed back into the West where he “fought the Apache Indians for the possession of waterholes, When the Matabele again rose against British rule, Burnham was he guarded bullion on stage-coaches, for days rode in pursuit of said to have tracked the insurgent leader Umlimo to his hill redoubt Mexican bandits and American horse thieves, took part in county- and killed him. He sustained a crushing personal blow when seat fights, in rustler wars, in cattle wars; he was cowboy, miner, his infant daughter died in Bulawayo, capital of Matabeleland, deputy-sheriff, and in time throughout (the West) the name…. and returned to California. From there Burnham set out for the Burnham became significant and familiar.”18 Klondike to join the latest gold rush. He hurried home when the Spanish-American War broke out, hoping to enlist in Roosevelt’s In 1893 Burnham struck out for South Africa hoping to make Rough Riders, but the conflict ended before he could secure a his fortune prospecting for gold, but returned to his first calling commission. Burnham went back to the Klondike, but when the as a scout in British service in Rhodesia when the Matabele Boer War broke out in 1899, his former commander in Africa, by tribe rose up against white colonization. During this campaign, then Lord Carrington and second in command of the British forces, Burnham distinguished himself in a battle with King Lobengula recruited him as chief of scouts. As British forces pushed north on the Shangani River in present-day Zimbabwe, riding through into Boer-held territory, Burnham “was a hundred times inside the

24 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 Boer laagers” gathering intelligence, and was twice captured, 7 Jay Monaghan, The Great Rascal: The Exploits of the Amazing Ned escaping both times, reported Davis, assigned to cover the war as Buntline (New York: Bonanza Books, 1951) 165 – 6. 21 a correspondent for the Hearst papers. 8 Jay Monaghan, “Literary Opportunities in Pioneer Times,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, December 1940, 431-437. For other stories Thus the notion of the scout wove through not only American of Buntline’s adventures refer to Jay Monaghan’s The Great Rascal: The culture but through Baden-Powell’s military and subsequent Exploits of the Amazing Ned Buntline. career. Nor was he unaware of the popular appeal of the myth: 9 Wilson, R.L. and Martin, Greg, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, An American he is believed to have taken the name of the Boy Scouts from Legend (New York: Random House, 1998) 13 – 4. some “penny dreadful” novels for boys whose publishers borrowed liberally from the Buntline oeuvre. Thus fact and fiction mingled in 10 It was titled, Buffalo Bill: The King of the Border Men. the origins of Scouting, as in other spheres – after all, Theodore 11 Logan, Herschel C., Buckskin and Satin (Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Roosevelt’s Rough Riders had, when shaping up for their role in Company, 1954) 13. Omohundro was also credited with writing the first the Spanish-American War and the battle of San Juan Hill, taken dime novel using the phrase “boy scout” entitled, “Ned Wylde, Boy Scout.” their name from Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show. However, although the by-line reads “Texas Jack Omohundro,” popular dime novelist Prentiss Ingraham is believed to have actually penned it.

* * * * * 12 Wrote Cody in his autobiography Life and Adventures of Buffalo Bill - which was actually ghost written by Ingraham – Buntline had not actually So I say, “Three cheers to Buffalo Bill Cody and Fred Burnham!” written any part of the play by the time that any of them had arrived in Chicago on a Friday. “Buntline immediately obtained a supply of pens, ink for being two real-life American frontier inspirations of Baden- and paper, and then engaged all the hotel clerks as penmen. In less than an Powell. But I also raise a glass to that forgotten, drunken rascal, hour after he had rented he theater, he was dashing off page after page of Ned Buntline, whose popularization of Cody that helped lead to the his proposed drama – the work being done in his room at the hotel. He then Scouting movement that we all enjoy today. set his clerks at copying for him, and at the end of four hours he jumped up fro the table, and enthusiastically shouted; ‘Hurrah for ‘The Scouts of the Plains!’ That’s the name of the play.” Copyright 2011 by David C. Scott Then Buntline gave the parts to Cody and Omohundro for memorization David C. Scott is the co-author of the book, The Scouting Party: Pioneering over the weekend for a Monday opening. Wrote Cody, “I looked at my part and Preservation, Progressivism and Preparedness in the Making of the and then at Jack; and Jack looked at his part and then at me. Then we Boy Scouts of America (Red Honor Press, 2010) and We Are Americans, looked at each other, and then at Buntline. We did not know what to make We Are Scouts (Red Honor Press, 2008). The latter of which places the of the man.” words and stories of Theodore Roosevelt into the framework of the ideas “‘How long will it take to commit your part to memory, Bill?’ asked Jack.” of Scouting. A new book by Scott scheduled for release in early 2012 “’About six months, as near as I can calculate...’ answered I.” and entitled My Fellow Scouts (Red Honor Press, 2012) documents the “We studied hard for an hour or two, but finally gave it up as a bad job...” 100-year relationship between the U.S. Presidents and the Boy Scouts of Colonel William F. Cody, Life and Adventures of Buffalo Bill (Chicago: John America. R. Stanton Company Publishers, 1917) 261 – 2. The author can be reached at [email protected]. 13 The Theater rent was $600 for the week and the show grossed $2,800 on the opening night sellout on December 16, 1872. Cody, Life and Adventures, 261; Henry Blackman Sell and Victor Weybright, Buffalo Bill (Endnotes) and the Wild West (New York: Oxford University Press, 1955) 100.

1 “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World, 14 Cody, Life and Adventures, 265; Sell and Weybright, 101. Historical Sketches and Programme,” c. 1900. Indicated as by permission of Frederick Remington from Mrs. Helen Cody Wetmore’s Book, The Last 15 The Chicago Times reported, “if Buntline had actually spent for hours in of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of ‘Buffalo Bill’ (New York: Grosset and writing that play, it was difficult for anyone to see what he had been doing all Dunlap, 1918) 7. the time.” Cody, Life and Adventures, 265.

2 Under the auspices of the Wild West Show’s recurring theme of the 16 Cody, Life and Adventures, 265; Sell and Weybright, 101. Congress of Rough Riders of the World, Cody included soldiers from the Siege of Mafeking in the 1902 programme. Some had been under 17 Davis, Richard Harding, Real Soldiers of Fortune, 1910, found at http:// the command of Baden-Powell and others were Boers commanded by www.pinetreeweb.com/burnham-davis-soldier.htm Gen. Piet Cronje. Fellows & Freeman, 80; “Boers and Britons Camping Together,” The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 28 March 1901, p. 3. 18 Ibid

3 Fellows, Dexter W. and Andrew A. Freeman, This Way to the Big Show: 19 Baden-Powell wrote, “Burnham a most delightful companion on such a The Life of Dexter Fellows (New York: The Viking Press) 152. Baden- trip; amusing, interesting, and most instructive. Having seen service against Powell would later call Cody “the greatest scout that modern times have the Red Indians, he brings quite a new experience to bear on the scouting produced.” “Boy Scout Founder Called an Authority in Scouting Tactics,” work here. And, while he talks away, there’s not a thing escapes his quick The Christian Science Monitor, 27 January 1912, p. 27. roving eye, whether it is on the horizon or at his feet.” Baden-Powell, The Matabele Campaign 1896 (London: Methuen & Co., 1897) 70 – 1. For an 4 Boon (sic), Col. Daniel, The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon, 1784, interesting account of Burnham’s adventures through his personal family found at: http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/boone/chapt1/index.html letters, refer to An American Family on the African Frontier by Mary and Richard Bradford. 5 Cooper, James Fennimore, The Last of the Mohicans, Chapter 6. 20 Baden-Powell, Sir Robert S.S., Aids to Scouting (London: Gale & 6 After Judson died in 1886, fellow dime novelist Prentiss Ingraham took Polden, Ltd., 1899) 31. over the “Ned Buntline” byline, who produced “Buffalo Bill” stories into the early 20th century. 21 Davis, op. cit.

ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 25 World Jamboree Connections BSA 2011 World Jamboree Contingent Items

BSA Jamboree Division finally sent out an 18 page, 5 3/4”x 10 1/2” color glossy Official WSJ Contingent Item Catalog. It contains 31 unique BSA Contingent items as well as uniforms, camping, and other Scouting items. Items not carried over from the 2007 Contingent items are the shot glass/toothpick holder, key chain, By ornament, and a few more. The Contingent Neckerchief is of blue cotton blend cloth with the Contingent Neil W. Larsen emblem heat set on it and red and white on the edge. The Neckerchief is relatively expensive and it seems ISCA #0086L doubtful that most BSA participants will be buying many extras. [email protected] A few items that appeared for the BSA Centennial National Jamboree in 2010 have been redesigned for this years BSA World Jamboree Contingent. There are special shoulder loops and a special Rocker to be placed above either the BSA Centennial World Crest Ring or the National Jamboree Ring. Also redesigned is an eight-piece puzzle that consists of laser-cut sublimated embroidered emblems that represent different regions of the U.S. to create a map of the lower 48 states.

Each BSA participant once again will receive two Contingent badges, two custom unit numbers, one Neckerchief and a nameplate as part of their jamboree fee. Extra custom unit numbers may be order prices vary based on quantity.

These items can only be ordered online via www.scoutstuff.org, using a special pin code sent to each BSA participant. One other note, when you place the order state tax and shipping charge are added to the amount. This makes all the items a little more expensive, for example: the BSA Contingent badge sells for $4.00, but with tax and shipping it is closer to $4.50, depending on the state tax rate.

See the lists of 2011 BSA World Jamboree Contingent items plus the past two BSA World Jamboree Contingent items.

2011 WJ – Sweden Items 2007 WJ – United Kingdom Items

Item # Description price per item Item # Description price per item 611482 Pocket Emblem $3.99 130 Polo Shirt $35.99 611862 Money Clip & Light $19.99 131 T-shirt, tie-dyed $19.99 6119## Polo #(32-37) $36.99 132 Leather Belt $24.00 6119## Jersey #(44-48) $29.99 132 T-shirt, moisture wicking $24.99 6119## Hoodie #(50-55) $34.99 133 Stetson Hat $49.99 6119## T-Shirt #(57-62) $21.99 13200 Pocket Emblem $4.00 6119## Outback Hat #(64-67) $34.99 13201 Brolly, umbrella $19.99 6119## Leather Belt #(69-83) $24.99 - $29.99 13202 Mahogany Box $25.00 611984 Cap $19.99 13203 Pewter Hat Pin $4.50 611985 Light-up Cap $24.99 13204 Key Chain $5.50 611989 Neckerchief $18.99 13205 Neckerchief Slide, leather $6.25 611990 Neckerchief Slide, leather $6.99 13206 Belt Buckle $18.00 611991 Belt Buckle $19.99 13207 Bucket Hat $22.99 611992 Coin $3.99 13208 Cap $21.99 611993 Dog Tag $3.99 13209 Ornament $7.50 611994 Lighted Necklace $4.99 13210 Paperweight $12.99 611996 Pin (Pkg. of 10) $7.99 13212 Coin $5.99 611997 Water Bottle $9.99 13215 Neckerchief $18.99 612011 Flags Pin (Pkg. of 10) $6.99 13220 Money Clip $8.95 612012 String Bag $3.99 13226 Wrist Band (Pkg. of 10) $6.89 612013 Writing Journal $8.99 13229 Day Pack $43.00 612015 Nameplate (1 line) $7.99 13231 Travel Duffel $39.99 612016 Nameplate (2 lines) $8.99 13233 Pack Duffel $43.00 612029 Vinyl Magnet $0.99 13237 Hat Pin (Pkg. of 10) $6.79 612038 Plate, 7 ½” $19.99 13241 Toothpick Holder $4.99 612097 Rocker Emblem $1.49 13243 Nalgene Water Bottle $9.99 612098 Jacket Emblem $9.99 13245 Water Bottle $6.99 612099 Knife $49.99 13249 Jacket Emblem $10.50 612254 Pen & Pencil Set $19.99 13251 Nameplate (1 Line) $7.25 612258 US Puzzle $24.99 13253 Mouse Pad – same design JP $6.99 612510 Custom Unit Numeral $4.99 – $2.89 13261 Nameplate (2 Line) $7.75 612521 Shoulder Loops $4.99 13271 Staff Medallion $5.00 26 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 2002-3 WJ –Thailand items 13205 Neckerchief Slide, leather $5.00 13206 Belt Buckle $14.00 Item # Description price per item 13209 Ornament $6.00 130 Polo Shirt $30.00 13210 Paperweight $15.00 131 T-shirt, moisture wicking $20.00 13211 Travel Mug $16.00 132 Leather Belt $24.50 13212 Coin $6.00 132 Hat $29.95 13213 Key Ring $7.00 132 Cap $15.15 13213 Koosie $15.00 133 Jacket $44.00 13215 Neckerchief $10.00 13200 Pocket Emblem $4.00 13217 Nameplate (1 Line) $4.50 13201 Jacket Emblem $10.00 13218 Executive Glass $10.00 13202 Leather Emblem $4.00 13227 Nameplate (2 Line) $6.00 13203 Hat Pin $3.00 13204 Bolo $6.50

Shoulder Loops Unit Number

Pocket Emblem

Jacket Emblem

Neckerchief Slide Rocker Emblem Official WSJ Contingent Item Catalog

ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 27 OA News Unknown OA Insignia

At the Madison, Wisconsin, Tradefest The middle W was raised leaving a By in March, attendees were treated large area inside the red border where By Dave Minnihan to the appearance of some very a 231X1 was sewn. This was a very Bruce Shelley interesting old badges that are possibly well-made and attractive neckerchief ISCA # 0018L previously unknown OA insignia. The unlisted in the BB. It looked like ISCA # 0054L [email protected] [email protected] badges were shown by Tom Fleming it would pre-date any of the more of Indiana. modern looking neckerchiefs currently listed for the lodge. The badge with the strongest case was a small felt arrow pointing left with the year 1932 stitched onto it. This badge came with a large Finally, Tom also had a previously unlisted dance team jacket patch group of wonderful contemporary badges from Camp Shaginappi, from Kiskakon 75 chapter Wagi’ On. This is a large arrowhead including several of the well-known green felt arrowheads with shaped badge and includes the number “2432,” which is the yellow felt S’s, canoe shaped felt segments dated 1928-1932, Explorer Post that supported the team during its 7-8 years of and a Wisconsin Eagle Scout Camp badge from 1933 on a sash existence. with another Shaginappi S badge. The possibility exists that the 1932 felt arrow is OA insignia associated with Shaginappi 61. The In March a collector from Washington State wrote to Patch-L asking existence in the group of the canoe segment dated 1932 eliminated for information about the Baluga 538 S1 flap on behalf of a friend the possibility that the arrow was just a year segment. If the arrow who had acquired one in the Philippines in 1976. This set off an came to be accepted as OA, the badge would become the first interesting message thread about the origin of the flap, the varieties known insignia from Shaginappi lodge. We believe that lodge was of it that exist, how many are in collections, its value, and how many first chartered in 1932. were made.

The second very cool badge was an orange composition material Paul Myers commented on Bob Cylkowski’s discovery that the arrowhead on the pocket of a shirt from Menominee, a town within flap exists with both 7 and 8 lines across the field in the design, Hiawathaland Council in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Sewn onto probably due to the badges being made individually on sewing the arrowhead were a pair of crossed black composition material machines, possibly by multiple seamstresses. Bob wrote us about snowshoes. Orange thread had been embroidered to complete that discovery, saying he held two Balugas in his hand in 1990 and the design of the snowshoes. The badge looked homemade. The was embarrassed when a friend pointed out the different crop line community strip was khaki & red, consistent with dating from the counts. 1940’s. Bob Sherman started a poll of Patch-L members who owned This badge is of interest because the totem of Ag-Im 156 is the the flap, coming up with 21 people, and approximately 13more snowshoe and crossed snowshoes are used on much of its insignia, collectors thought by members to also own the badge. raising the possibility that this badge is a previously unknown issue of that lodge, possibly even its first insignia. Ag-Im was chartered in Joe Hupp reported a discussion about this flap in The Trader 1945 following the merger of three smaller lodges in the area, but newsletter circa 1972. A former Baluga member claimed that only we understand that neither of those lodges used the snowshoe as 50 were made. Dave Leubitz voiced his opinion then in the same totem. newsletter that perhaps 150 were made. Bill Topkis then wrote to the Patch-L thread about certificates that he possessed signed by Evidence supporting the possibility that either of these badges Baluga Lodge Advisor Charles (Chuck) Taft stating that 60 Baluga are OA insignia may never be found and they are likely to remain flaps were made and distributed to lodge members. The rumor enigmas. The snowshoe badge, for example could just be a sort that banana fibers had been used in the manufacture of these was of Klondike derby or winter activity badge. Information about refuted. insignia from the war years and earlier is often very problematic. Nevertheless, all of the Wisconsin, Michigan, and Region 7 Bill mentioned another certificate from Mr. Taft stating that they collectors in the room would have been very pleased to add both made 20 of the Baluga “cobra” neckerchief. to their collections. As a follow up, we got to see an image of this Baluga flap and we Tom wasn’t done with just those badges. He also showed us a were surprised to learn it had only 6 crop row lines, not the 7 or previously unlisted thick cotton cloth neckerchief from Mikano 8 previously seen. (Does this create S1a, S1b, and S1c varieties 231. Screened into the cloth were a wide red border, a red outlined based on crop lines?) arrow, and these words: This flap also appeared to have been worn and washed. This was Order of the Arrow the first worn Baluga flap most of us had seen, but Bob Cylkowski Mikano Lodge 231 told us he owns a photograph of a member wearing one as he WWW receives the Silver Beaver award from Far East Council. This is

28 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 probably another case of badges being received just as the lodge questioner noted that he had bought several S2s and S4s that were is merged away. said to be S1s, but were not. There were 18 bids from only two people. In all other respects, especially the sky, it looked like a real example to us and everyone else who commented on the images. We TSPA listed in their March eBay store a variety of the Tatonainyanka learned later that the flap in question was consigned to TSPA, with 356 F1 flap that was new to us. This flap had an aqua or turquoise the proceeds to be donated to the owner’s local council. twill, rather than the blue normally seen. They reported that a long time collector in the lodge told them that he had only seen one Ajapeu 33 is another lodge that has issued flaps as fundraisers for other of this color. The flap was listed for $2500. breast cancer awareness. In this case they have issued a single design featuring a pink deer, but with three different borders. We Glenn Chase has created a new web site about conclaves and hear that only 50 were made with a silver mylar border and these other OA gatherings in Virginia. He hopes to include not just images were offered for $24.95. Breast cancer awareness flaps became of badges and other insignia, but also photographs and memories a fairly hot item on Patch-L as a number of people sought them of those who attended. Check it out here: http://VA-oa.org in remembrance or in honor of family afflicted with this terrible disease. Nick DeMarco traded us the Japeechen 341 flap for 2011 new members, their S37. This flap shows in its design two sets of For the BSA 100th anniversary and the 2010 National Jamboree, markers on poles in water, green squares and red triangles. He tells Mikano 231 carried on its tradition of making two-piece sets us that these are channel markers used in rivers and canals within portraying the head and torso of a turtle. The turtle lodge totem their council territory that lead to the Delaware Bay and ultimately comes from an ancient turtle shaped Indian mound located at the ocean. The markers tie into the “traveling Japeechen” theme of their main camp. Member Dan Gille told us the lodge continues to recent lodge badges. discuss changing the design, but it sells so well they are hesitant to give it up. A Kcumkum 285 S10 Vigil flap (no name on badge, just lodge number) with gold mylar cut edge sold eBay in February for $750. Here is a piece of news we missed. David Hultberg apparently posted There was one bidder at this minimum. The seller said he believed to Arrow-L last November that the new lodge formed by the merger only 25 were made. of Susquehannock 11 (Keystone Area Council) and Tuckahoe 386 (York-Adams Council) would be named Sasquesahanough Hunninkick 76 chose to celebrate their 76th anniversary rather 11 (New Birth of Freedom Council). The new name is thought to be than their diamond (75th) anniversary and issued several badges the 1612 spelling of the name Susquehanna. Since it is not likely in commemoration. Randy Holden sent us images of their felt flap, that any Native American of that time was literate in English, this a 76 R1-like chenille, and two CSP shapes. The first CSP shape spelling is probably the oldest known attempt by a European to with black arrow was rejected by National possibly because a spell the native name for the big river that flows into the top of the Lenape arrowhead, their camp logo from the 1940’s and 1950’s Chesapeake Bay. was superimposed on the FDL. The second accepted CSP has a red arrow and BSA added to make the copyright clear. We discovered the above news when looking at Rob Higgins excellent web site devoted to OA conclaves and conferences. If We noticed a Loon 364 flap on eBay with gold mylar border that you are seeking information about when and where these meeting was not listed in BB or on oaimages.com, so our curiosity was were held, who was hosts, etc., this is a good place to start your piqued. There was something embroidered in gold mylar on the research. left side of the flap but the image was so poor we could not identify http://www.oasections.com it. We turned to Bill Mulrenin’s excellent web site devoted to NY OA and we were quickly able to learn that this flap is an historical Illini 55 has come up with a new marketing scheme involving a issue from Kittan 364 that honors the BSA 100th anniversary. The badge that they hope will improve attendance at lodge events and gold mylar embroidery says “100”. Bill catalogs this flap as both the raise money. They are offering members a round multicolor chenille Loon 364 HS1 and the Kittan 364 HS5. The flap was offered for $25 dated 2011 for $95. Purchase of the chenille covers the cost of all but got no bids in the auction we watched. lodge events for the year and allows the member to buy additional chenilles for $50 each for trading. If they run out of chenilles early in www.nyoatrader.com the year they plan to have more made. If the scheme is a success they are likely to repeat it next year. Thanks to Bob Cylkowski for A reproduction of the Ty-Ohni 95 first chenille with a gold mylar FDL this news and Dave Pede for an image we could examine. and “75” added to the design was offered in an eBay auction ending April 1. The seller (SWCSHS) noted that this chenille was issued An interesting group of 20 badges sold on eBay in February at by the Seneca Waterways Council Scouting Historical Society “to $230 after 18 bids. The key piece was an Amanquemack 470 commemorate the 75th anniversary of the first Order of the Arrow X1 shark tooth shape in worn condition. Most of the other badges lodge chartered in Western New York State.” The chenille came were of minor interest, including six patrol medallions and generic with a history of Ty-Ohni lodge and its merger with Ganeodiyo 417 camporee patches, but there was a nice Camp Roosevelt Beaver in 2009-2010 to form new lodge Tschipey Achtu 397. Also included felt. A community strip in the lot suggested they came from Seat was a list of all OA lodges in New York State formed before 1940 Pleasant, Maryland. with the dates when they were officially chartered.

A Ga-Hon-Ga 34 S1 flap sold on eBay in February for $77, and this The chenilles are serially numbered and were released at the caught our attention as it seemed like a top price for a relatively Tschipey Achtu annual trade-o-ree March 26th. The seller said that new lodge first flap. From a question and answer posted bythe all proceeds benefit the society, which was the seller. seller, it seems that the first flap is nearly identical to the S2 and S4, with the difference a matter of size. The S1, which was, measures The appearance of this chenille raises some interesting questions. 126x51mm, while the S2 is 125x63 and the S4 is 128x53. The Does anyone own the rights to the Ty-Ohi name, or for that matter ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 29 any no-longer chartered lodge? Can any historical society, or Talking with another collector at the Indianapolis TOR we raised anyone really for that matter, issue badges like this? How will the idea of collecting OA lodges by membership card. So far we’ve badges like this, issued by historical societies or other groups met only one person who says he does and he has cards from only probably intending to do good works in their council, be cataloged? 30 or so different lodges. (How many of us would consider a lodge How would we know if such a society is just a front for personal flap collection really serious if it contained flaps from 30 different profit? With councils already flooding the market with patches, lodges.) If anyone out there has a fairly serious lodge collection by won’t more patches, even from well-intentioned non-official groups membership cards (not by type, which we believe several people just add to the flood? collect), we would like to hear from you.

In this case the historical society seems quite legitimate. It has a Tracy Mesler in April offered on Patch-L access to a current up to web page and can be reached from the council’s site. It consists date list of all old Region 9 OA issues, the latest revision of the The of local Scouters and collectors who meet monthly at the council Warshield. He said this was not on a public domain site and those service center and place historical displays in the atrium. The interested in seeing the information had to contact him directly. We society apparently owns many items related to local Scouting’s contacted Tracy and had a discussion about why the huge effort he history and solicits donations. On eBay they have both bought and and co-editors put into this very detailed catalog and how he sees sold items. this work in relation to the national catalog that the Blue Book is attempting to be. Bill Mulrenin has cataloged this chenille for now as the 95ZC5, private issue, but says he will change that if the local lodge Tracy explained that while he and his group had been strong retrospectively approves it as official. He believes 200 were made. supporters of the Blue Book from the start, they did not want the cataloging of issues from their area to languish while the national Tracy Mesler tells us that Wichita 35 owns its 1928 charter and reference changed owners and stopped publishing. Plus he every charter from 1936 to 2006, except two in the 1970s. All and his friends are “extreme” collectors, interested in detail and have been scanned and the images donated to the OA National varieties that many collectors don’t want to deal with. Tracy has had Archives. He is contemplating doing an article on charter styles. He conversations with TSPA about the future of the Blue Book and it is is still searching for charters from anywhere dated before 1928. If a likely that he and his group will be involved again. lodge anywhere has a more complete collection of its charters, we would like to hear about it. The Blue Book has migrated to the web and can be accessed by anyone for not only getting information but adding to it. This Kittan 364 has issued a new flap showing the porcupine in a tree Wikipedia-like approach seems to be the only practical solution holding a fishing rod. This is a fund raiser to help a brother who for the future. Bill Topkis put in a huge amount of time overseeing was recently injured defray medical costs. We’ve seen fishing rods the first six editions and coordinating the work of many dozens of on OA patches before, but maybe not being held by a porcupine. regional, state, and local editors. It may never be possible for one person to take that job again as the amount of insignia issued each year continues to grow. Mark Chilutti writes that Unami 1 has decided to build a new arena at Resica Falls Scout Reservation to accommodate the additional For the web Blue Book, collectors are encouraged to add new campers each summer week now that Treasure Island has been issues to the database, with images and comments. It is our closed. The new facility is to honor their past Section Chief, Tom understanding that the cataloging system will be redone, with Richards, who died suddenly of an aneurysm at age 19. In Mark’s volunteer editors helping to make changes where necessary. Older words, Tom was “an amazing kid.” issues will have their BB 1.0 number and a new BB 2.0 number. Issues that have appeared after the BB VI, will have only BB 2.0 Mark is leading an effort to raise $100,000 for this effort and they numbers. are half way there. As part of the fundraising, the lodge has issued 200 of a green mylar bordered flap and 50 of a csp/flap set with We went to the site and were able to review the last 100 patches gold mylar border. Mark tells us that these sold out at the lodge added to the database, look at images of those, and read comments. spring service weekend. Next month they will issue 150 sets with It will be relatively easy at some point to download the listings in silver mylar border. parts or as a whole.

There is a lot of work to do now for the BB and into the future. While old Region 9 is very well covered by the Warshield group and other parts of the country are being cataloged as well, there are parts or entire states with little or no coverage. Editors are being recruited. As time passes the number of issues to be identified and cataloged keeps growing. Roy More tells us that last year 100 people added over 2,000 badges to the database, but the Blue Book lost ground.

Tracy pointed out that the original Warshield was 100 pages in 1989. The current edition is in excess of 600 pages.

To check out the web Blue Book, go here: http://oabluebook.com

Last time we mentioned a 2010 postage stamp from Illinek 132 that we thought was the first such item from an OA lodge. David Fry sent us images of the a stamp from his lodge, Kittatinny 5, issued for NOAC 2009. The Kittatinny stamp also came from Zazzle.com.

30 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 A Shenandoah 258 F1 was offered on eBay in April and drew no 245f1 light use? $807 FF ($1700) bids at the minimum of $500. The seller described this badge as 299f2 $205 mint and stiff, but stitch marks were clearly visible in the image 310f1b $456 FF (F1a $1700) provided. It was relisted at $475 and attracted at least one bid. 310s3 (25th anniversary) $511 322s3 Woa $177 the “Blue Woa” Quick comments: 351f1 Wisie looked mint $999 FF ($1409) 385s1 $701 FF ($720) 424a1 Amochol w/loop crisp $400 ($661) The pocket part of the two piece set from Owasippe 7 that 482f1 $1,125 FF crisp mint ($1250) commemorates the 100th anniversary of Owasippe Scout 491s1 Tunxis $306 Reservation names the 18 different camps operated within the 507f1 Penain $183 FF ($250) reservation over its history. 524s1 worn $404 FF ($715) 525f1 choag worn $610 FF ($1800) The Lowaneu Allanque 41 National Jamboree flap for 2010 532f2 $945 includes in its design the logos of six major railroads that once ran through its area. Please drop us a note with news or stories that you think would be of interest to other collectors. If you have information from your th The Ku-Ni-Eh 145 25 anniversary odd shape design is a Lodge or Section to share, send an e-mail, photocopies (with large “25” hanging from a button loop. descriptions, catalog numbers, and preferably in color), or scan The Wulapeju 140 S59 2010 Jamboree flap with gold (olive?) to either of us. You reach Dave at [email protected] or border was issued the Lodge Executive Committee after the Bruce at [email protected] For publication we require black event. & white TIFF images of new badges scanned at 300 dots per inch (DPI), reduced 50%. We will trade for new issues if you wish. EBay now blocks any software attempting to mine pricing Contributors:.Jeff Goldsmith, Jim Deroba, Roy More, Tracy data from completed sales, which makes it possible to recover Mesler, Randy Holden, Tom Fleming, Jeff Gruenke, Bill Mulrenin, prices realized only by hand, item by item, or by buying the Bob Cylkowski, Dave Pede, Mark Chilutti, Jef Heckinger, Mike very expensive data from them. DeLeo, David Fry, Bruce Paulson, Jeff Williams, Jim Sherbarth, The Kittatinny 5 S45 90th anniversary flap issued in Dan Gille, John Kennedy, and Nick DeMarco. April incorporates the distinctive wolf’s head design from predecessor lodge Minsi 5. New Issues Randy Holden mentioned in correspondence that at the Allentown TOR he finally found the elusive Aquaninoncke 1s59 Grmy R MC Wht Yel Fdl; 359 J1.5 Ceremonial & Dance Team badge, which he had “Thomas J. Richards Arena Project” been seeking for more than 25 years (no image available on 1s60 Gmy R MC Wht Yel Fdl; oaimages.com). “Thomas J. Richards Arena Project” 5s45 Gry R M/C Dyl Dbl Fdl; “1921-2011” Jim Deroba tells us that the Wyona 18 BSA 100th anniversary 7s41 Red R Lbl Red Wht Fdl; “1921-2011” flaps were fund raisers. 7x12 Red R MC Blk __; “1921-2011” Jeff Goldsmith sent us images of many new issues from 7s42 Dyl R Grn Dyl Red Fdls; “1911-2011”; Yokahu 506 including a 2010 Vigil two piece set, several event Owasippe Scout Reservation 90th Ann badges and neckerchiefs, chapter patches and ncs, and an 7x13 Dyl R Grn Dyl _; “1911-2011” unauthorized 2010 conclave neckerchief with blue lettering 18s42 Gmy R MC Blk Brn BSA; BSA 100th embroidered on white cloth. 18s43 Smy R MC Blk Brn BSA; BSA 100th 21s12 Wht R Dgr Wht Wht Fdl; JAM10 The following badges did not sell on e-Bay when bids did not reach 25s57 Blk R MC Blk Lbr Fdl; 35th Ann; BSA 100th the reserve (dnmr) or no one bid at the minimum (nbam). 33s55 Smy R MC Wht Red Fdl; pink deer 41s33 Pur R MC Blk Yel Fdl; JAM10 118s1 light use nbam $740 FF ($810) 55c2 Blk _ MC Dbl Red Fdl: “2011” 138s1 Daw ltly sewn nbam $700 FF ($1100) 76f8 Blk R Red Blk __; felt; “1935-2011” 504f1 mint nbam $1800 FF ($2800) “76 Years of Service” 511f1 worn nbam $1400 FF ($5000) 76c11 Red _ Red Grn __; like R1; “1935-2011” 538n1 cobra nbam $5250 76x14 Blk R Wht Lbr Yel Fdl; CSP shape; Red arrow; “1935-2011” Here is a list OA badges of note that changed hands recently in 76Zx4 Blk R Wht Lbr Yel Fdl; CSP shape; Internet auctions or in private sales for which we have certain Blk arrow; “1935-2011”; reject information. Figures in parentheses are the prices asked for the 96s25 Smy R Red Blu Red; Fdl; “1936-2011” Dave Thomas first flap (FF) collection. 102s26 Blu R MC Blk Tur Fdl; trader 140s56 Brn R Blk Red Yel Fdl; “2009” 26c2 $400 “A Tradition of Excellence” 37x3 Achtu felt football $455 140s57 Blu R Wht Red Yel Fdl; Jam10; trader 41a2 $406 felt 140s58 Gry R Wht Red Yel Fdl; Jam10; contingent 54f1 rusty staple mark $207 FF ($286) 140s59 Olv R Wht Red Yel Fdl; Jam10; LEC 181s2 Mahican $494 145s86 Red C Wht Red Wht Fdl; JAM10 193f1 $400 mint FF ($700) 145s88 Smy R MC Wht Yel Fdl; 25th Ann 219f1 Calusa mint $5000 ($5750) 145x37 Smy C Wht Lbl Smy Fdl; 25th Ann 237eF1 1956 eFF worn $356 ($575) 156j1 Yel R Blk Wht Wht Fdl; RND

ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 31 180s26 Blk R MC Smy MC Fdl; “1941-2011” 293s50 Red R Grn Red Blk Fdl; BSA 100th 193s33 Blk R Brn Wht Lbr FDL; 293s51 Red R MC Red Brn Fdl; Cherokee design “Serving Choctaw Area Council/2010” 364s15 Lgr R MC Red Dbl Fdl; 231s63 Yel C Tan Grn Yel Fdl; “1910-2010” Porcupine w/fishing rod; fundraiser 231x30 Blk C Lbr MC Yel Fdl; BSA 100th 373s33 Gmy R MC Yel Red Fdl 231s64 Gmy C Tan Grn Yel Fdl; “1910-2010” 374s45 Wht R MC Grn Blu ??; “2010 NR” 231x31 Gmy C Lbr MC Yel Fdl; BSA 100th 506s74 Gry R Lbl Wht Wht Fdls; VIGIL 235s124 Dyl R MC Dyl Dyl Fdl 506x17 Gry R MC Dgy Fdl; set w/S 293s49 Smy R Blk Blk Blk Fdl; “2010 Conclave”

96s25

140s57

145s88

145x37

96j2 231s63 / 231x30

32 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 Collecting Camp Patches Mystery Camp Patches

This issue’s camp column will feature MYSTERY CAMP PATCHES (MCPs). For the purpose of this column, By I will define them as any Scout patch that is unidentified and “may” have been a camp patch. The majority will Bob Sherman be older patches, often made of felt with a letter or two. In the early days of camp patches, they were made for the local camp and the patches usually stayed in the same area so most Scouts knew what camp it was from. ISCA 0490 [email protected] After WW II, we became a more mobile society so it became more important to identify the camp with a full name with or without a council name. Embroidery techniques improved so that they could often have designs or logos and became what we commonly know as a contemporary camp patch. However, the early camp patches were simple and relatively primitive so they are often a mystery to the modern collector.

Through the years, I have been able to identify quite a few of these patches but there are MANY more that are still unidentified. Hopefully my readers will be able to ID some of these. If you have your own MCPs, send me your scans (300 d.p.i.) for a future column.

On another subject, Rob Kutz has published an outstanding book in color entitled “New England BSA Council Camps.” Rob selected an example of one patch from each camp and council including many rare felts. Contact Rob if you would like a copy ([email protected]).

Getting back to MCP’s, our editor will use as many images as he has room for. Send your ID’s to me. Thanx to Mike Evans, Marty Tschetter, Jason Schull, and others who sent in MCPs.

MCP #1-6/11 MCP #2-6/11

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34 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 MCP #16-6/11 MCP #17-6/11 MCP #18-6/11 MCP #19-6/11

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36 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 CSP CORNER Post 100th Anniversary Issues

Hello everyone. This quarter there is another long list of new issues. Many councils are By redesigning their regular wear CSPs now that the 100th celebration is history and the 100th CSP Steve Austin they may have used last year are gone or outdated now. ISCA # 0080 [email protected] I also have a list of issues that are in the CSP Guide this time which are possibly “phantom” issues – which do not actually exist. I’m looking for your help to confirm or deny their existence.

Central Florida SA-111 East Carolina S-A (Same as SA-12:1?) Grand Teton SA-180:1, SA-180:2, SA-184:1 (These were pocket patches - not CSPs) Gulf Stream SA-37a & SA-37b (Do both exist or is there only 1?) Nashua Valley SA-35 SW Michigan S-19 (Same as S-13?) San Gabriel Valley SA-57:1 (same as SA-54:2?)

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WILL BUY OR TRADE FOR ALL CALDWELL JEWELRY OA TOTEM PINS.

* THESE GENERALLY HAVE THE LODGE TOTEM ATTACHED TO AN ARROW BY A CHAIN.

* THESE ARE GENERALLY HALLMARKED ON THE REVERSE SIDE OF THE TOTEM “J E CALDWELL.”

* LOOKING FOR ANY SUCH TOTEM PINS FROM ANY LODGE. * SILVER OR GOLD. * BROTHERHOOD OR VIGIL. Thank you! - Please contact:

John Ortt (ISCA # 3106) 968 Lindsley Drive Virginia Beach, VA 23454 757-496-9540 [email protected]

ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 45 Trustee/Historian for the NJSM

46 ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 Bob Cylkowski 1003 Hollycrest Drive Champaign, IL 61821-4205 Phone (217) 778-8109

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ISCA JOURNAL - JUNE 2011 47 ISCA CODE OF ETHICS

All members of the International Scouting Collectors Association (ISCA) subscribe to a Code of Ethics to insure fair trading practices amongst its members. All members sign a statement subscribing to this Code.

I will: S et an example in which all ISCA members will take pride. C onsciously, fairly represent items of Scout memorabilia. A lways follow the rules of the event that apply to trading.

E xtend the hand of friendship to all collectors. T rade or sell no patch that I know to be a fake or reproduction without disclosing the fact. H elp new collectors get started. I mpress on new collectors the importance of ethics in trading. C urrently be eligible to be registered in Scouting. S trive for fairness in all actions consistent with the Scout Oath & Law.

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