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SILVER ANTELOPE LEADERTHINK HIGH-ADVENTURE JOSH SAIN Western Region Learn about a leader’s OA high-adventure Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge chairman honored responsibility to programs await builds memorial to with BSA Silver represent the group, Arrowmen seeking honor late National 2page Antelope Award. 3page its ideals and its values. 4page fun in 2006. 5page Vice Chief Josh Sain.

Volume LXII, Issue 4 ’s National Honor Society December 2005 - February 2006 A LOOK AHEAD AT NATIONAL PROGRAMS

Brad Haddock •2006 National Conference Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Like every successful lodge, the national Order of •2007 National Conservation and Leadership Summit the Arrow committee must plan ahead and prepare its Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana membership for upcoming events. Key lodge and national leadership will gather to prepare for Arrowcorps5 Given the size and planning required for national •2008 Arrowcorps5 (pronounced “Arrow Core Five”) events and in anticipation of the Order’s 100th National service projects planned and developed in cooperation with the US anniversary, the committee has developed a schedule Forest Service throughout the summer–five sites, five weeks, five thousand of events. volunteers. Here’s a quick look ahead for national OA events • Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri to assist you as your lodge plans for what may well be • Manti-La Sal National Forest, Utah the busiest five years of our history. • George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, Virginia Mark your calendars now. Make your plans to • Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California attend the 2006 NOAC, where more information on • Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming these exciting opportunities for fun, fellowship, •2009 National Order of the Arrow Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana training, and service will be provided. •2010 National – 100th Anniversary of the NOAC Reservation Information Released Between July 29 and August In November, NOAC under the age of 21, as long required. The deadline for 3, 2006, more than 7,000 reservation information was as you maintain at least submitting a support staff Arrowmen from across the mailed to every council’s two-deep leadership. application to the national office United States will gather for the Scout executive, detailing To help promote the for lead adviser and OA direc- 29th National Order of the how their council can conference, a specially tor approval is March 31, 2006. Arrow Conference. Your make reservations to designed 2006 NOAC Conference Administra- council, along with 308 other attend the conference. promotion patch will tive and Program Informa- councils, is invited to Initially, every council be mailed to contin- tion: Conference administra- participate in the fun and must complete a gent leaders when their tive and program information will excitement of the Order’s Contingent Reserva- participant reservation be available to all council largest national event. tion Form and forward deposits are received in contingents on April 1, 2006, by The conference will be held it with a $100 deposit the national office. going to the NOAC Informa- on the beautiful campus of per participant (nonre- Participants are en- tion Portal on the OA Web site. Michigan State University in fundable) to the national couraged to wear the Administrative information will East Lansing, next door to the OA office by March 1, patch on their Scout include information about capital of Michigan, Lansing. 2006. The total confer- The 2006 NOAC promotion patches will uniform. (A conference Michigan State University, Founded in 1855, the ence fee of $345 for both be mailed to contingent leaders when patch also will be sold at emergency contact information, university, a member of the Big youth and adult partici- participant reservation deposits have been NOAC.) In addition to medical requirements, risk 10 Conference, is one of the pants is due May 31, received by the national office. the patch, if your lodge management issues, transporta- nation’s leading institutions of 2006, to avoid late fees. Infor- be found on the Order Key 3 all attend NOAC, they tion information, contingent and higher learning, serving mation about NOAC and the of the Arrow Web site, will receive an attractive golf participant needs lists, approximately 45,000 students. reservation process can www.oa-bsa.org. shirt with the conference logo. and more. For the 2006 NOAC, your NOAC Conference Staff: The NOAC Information council will be allowed a Youth and adult Arrowmen Portal will also provide program minimum of 10 delegates plus 3 interested in serving on the 2006 information and an activity percent of your council’s 2005 NOAC staff can apply online and training guide for charter year OA membership. at the NOAC Registration conference participants. The ratio of youth reservations Portal on the OA Web site Information about conference to adult reservations has been after January 2, 2006. activities and events will be set at 1 to 1. Your council may Signatures of the council Scout included on the portal. send more youth than adults, executive and lodge adviser are continued on page 6 1 Scouting’s National Honor Society CHIEFLY SPEAKING Steve Bradley New BSA Silver Antelope ern Region Ryan Hawk Ryan Hawk chairman and National Order of the youth within their region. is member Arrow Committee Steve is a member of of the region member Steve Bradley Wiatava Lodge of the and section received the Silver . operations Antelope Award at the He also serves as the subcommittee Boy Scouts of America’s council commissioner and of the national 2005 National Annual as a member of the coun- OA commit- Brothers, Meeting in Grapevine, cil executive board. He tee. Profes- Texas. The National has also served as the sionally, Steve Looking back over the year, I can think only Court of Honor presents Wiatava Lodge adviser is a territory Steve Bradley is pictured with his of cheerful service. the and the Western Region manager for wife Cheryl after being presented This was the first summer that every national Area 4 adviser. Currently, with the BSA’s Silver Antelope to Scouters who provide EIS Inc. Award for his service to Scouting high-adventure base had an OA program. distinguished service to Steve serves as the West- within the Western Region. Youth Arrowmen gathered at Philmont, North- ern Tier, and the Florida Sea Base for two weeks of unforgettable brotherhood and National Web Site Update service. Each program inspired Arrowmen to of the opportunities offered at Indian Summer program vice chief return home with a purpose. I had the Jon Fuller opportunity to attend Wilderness Voyage this Philmont, Northern Tier, and the of communication. year and will never forget the Arrowmen that Over the past few months, the Florida Sea Base. When asked about his goals for changed my life. National Order of the Arrow Web Beginning in 2006, the national the upcoming year, Brian stated, “I The Order excelled in its four service areas site has seen numerous updates to site will be under new leadership. hope to further develop the content at the 2005 National Scout Jamboree. From better serve Arrowmen. Replacing Dominique Baker as of the Web site with more The Outdoor Adventure Place to the Indian The biggest change is the new youth coordinator will be Brian interactive features.” Village, Twelve Cubed, and Service Corps, OA high-adventure portal Love. Brian is from Horseheads, Doug Kupec will take over as the Order was well-represented at (www.adventure.oa-bsa.org) that New York, and has worked with his lead adviser to the Web site, the jamboree. The Leadership in Service program has com- was launched as a subdomain of the lodge and section Web sites, as replacing Joe Glenski, who is pleted its inaugural year. This program en- national Web site. This site is well as the Northeast Region site. now working with the technology courages Arrowmen to give service to their designed to better inform Arrowmen Brian was also the 2003 subcommittee. councils and communities. While traveling, I heard firsthand from Arrowmen about projects that their lodge completed. Every- one had pride in the work done for their lo- cal camps or communities. Looking ahead, the Order is poised to dem- Season’s Greetings onstrate its continued support of Scouting and community service. The 2006 NOAC is expected to be the largest event the Order has ever held. In 2007, the Order will be conducting a summit for lodge leaders to begin preparation for the 2008 service projects. In 2008, the Order will be giving service to five national forests with 5,000 volunteers over five separate one-week pe- riods. I challenge every Arrowman to leave a mark on the Order by attending one of these upcoming national events. In conclusion, I heard a quote while serv- ing as National Chief this year that has stuck with me. This quote sums up my feelings to- ward the amazing individuals I have had the opportunity to serve with during the past year: “The best recognition comes not from those for whom the service was done, but rather from those with whom you served.” At any level in the organization, there are many remarkable people that you have already had the honor of serving with. Take the time to get to know these people because you never know how much they could contribute to your life. With Peace and Prosperity Yours in Brotherhood, in the New Year! Patrick Murphy National Chief www.oa-bsa.org 2 Scouting’s National Honor Society Testimonial From Senior Patrol Leader in Section SR-7A Tells Joy of Service I am Jason Morgan of started to enjoy attending Troop 4, Piedmont our meetings. District, in the Blue Ridge We then invited the Mountains Council. I am Webelos Scouts on a a Brotherhood member of two-night camping trip to Tutelo Lodge, an Eagle the youth camp belonging Scout, and completing to the church that charters my term as senior our troop. The trip was patrol leader. fun-filled with activities Over the past few such as hiking and months, my troop has swimming. Many of the participated in our local Scoutreach members had Jason Morgan Scoutreach program. A never been swimming Scoutreach program offers fun, excitement and before. Our troop leadership training to youth who typically have limited members taught them to access to get involved. These programs usually target swim and helped areas where there are few units, such as in the inner them to improve their city. This is exactly the kind of area where our unit is camping skills. located, in an older neighborhood of Lynchburg, Later that month, we Senior Patrol Leader Jason Morgan teaches Scoutreach boys to read contour lines at a meeting of Scout Troop 4 of the Blue Ridge Mountains Council. Virginia. Our district executive established the went on a canoe trip Scoutreach troop as a group of boys meeting once a down the James River with the Scoutreach troop. Each The BSI program helps new Scouts with requirements week at their local school. Once they were introduced new Scout was paired with an adult leader or older needed for the ranks of Tenderfoot to First Class. They to Scouting, our troop invited them to our meetings, youth from our troop, which made the Scoutreach really enjoyed the program, returning to our campsite and they became involved with an established unit. boys feel more comfortable since they had never every day and telling us all the things that they had These future members first visited our troop as a canoed before. done and seen. Webelos Scout group with their Scoutreach leader. When summer camp rolled around, the Scoutreach If you want to reach out to Scoutreach troops, I During those first few meetings, we showed them some members had become a part of our troop and were would tell you to make your program action-packed, basic Scout skills such as simple knot tying and how eager to go with us. While the older Scouts of the troop interesting, and fun. Show them how much fun it is to to find direction with and without a compass. They participated in the merit badge activities, newer Scouts be a Scout and encourage learning by doing Scouting soon became excited about Scouting and participated in the camp’s Brownsea Island program. in an outdoor setting while making new friends. OA Trading Post Leaderthink: Responsible for Representing the Group Now Online bers but instead Mark Hendricks If you want to thank is focused upon your Scouting friends One of the fundamental tasks our founding during the holiday of leadership is serving as an ideals. Leaders season or recognize example of the group to in the Order your lodge leaders outsiders. Representing the must represent at your upcoming group is a skill that is essential more than just winter banquet, visit to leadership. All leaders in the the people that tradingpost.oa-bsa.org. Order of the Arrow are charged make up the The Order of the Arrow with this duty; a chapter chief organization. is offering bronze and represents his chapter to the As leaders in painted figurines, Joseph lodge and a lodge chief the Order, we Csatari prints, and OA represents his lodge to the obligate our- literature. These unique section. However, OA leaders selves to repre- items can provide special are required to take this a step sent the set of recognition to any further. Not only are we values found in Arrowman! The online OA Trading Post required to represent the group, the Scout Oath, On April 1, the offers many unique items, such as a reproduction of the very we also are obligated to , and the OA Obli- OA and Scouting hold. NOAC 2006 merchan- first OA Handbook, originally represent the ideals of gation. Our obligation commits OA leaders must represent dise will be posted. printed in 1948. (Pictured our brotherhood. us to these values, that we will this set of values to nonmem- NOAC reserved orders above.) Very few originals In most organizations, the always and faithfully live these bers and members alike. So the from conference partici- exist, but you can have your leader simply has to represent principles and represent them to leader must always set the reproduction for only $10. pants must be picked up the group. This works because all those around us. We were example. As Allowat Sakima at the conference. the group is the organization. A elected into the OA states, “you must remember Arrowmen not attending Other items include the OA school president represents the because we were already that this obligates you to a life NOAC will have their 90th anniversary patch and certificate sets and a school by representing the leaders, and as such we are now of cheerful service,” a life of mail orders shipped from biography of OA founder student body. Yet the OA is charged with representing not representing the ideals of the conference. E. Urner Goodman. something higher; our organiza- only our brothers, but the Scouting and the Order tion is not centered on its mem- principles and values that the of the Arrow. www.oa-bsa.org 3 Scouting’s National Honor Society Publishing your lodge’s yearly goals on Agaming Lodge of St. Paul, Minnesota, the lodge’s Web site helps to get the word and Tonkawampus Lodge of Minneapolis, AROUND THE NATION out. The more members who are aware of Minnesota, are in the final stages of consoli- your goals, the more support you will have dation. A name for the new lodge will be in accomplishing those goals. Eswau determined by a vote of the combined Huppeday Lodge of Gastonia, North Caro- memberships. The new lodge will consist of lina, publishes its goals at www.eswau.org. 4,000 Arrowmen serving 22 counties in Minnesota and four in Wisconsin as well as eight council camps. Find out more at Passaconaway Lodge of Manchester, New www.indianhead.org/oa/merger. Hampshire, recently started a program called Chapters of Our Lodge. This is an incentive-based program designed to mea- sure the health of each chapter. Learn more about it at www.dwcbsa.org/districts/oa/ LEE THACKSTON index.shtml.

If your lodge conducts a service project, celebrates an anniversary or starts a new program that is noteworthy, e-mail Lee Thackston at [email protected] for consideration in the “Around the Nation” column.

High-Adventure Philbreak 2006 Opportunities Await Popular program continues to offer have the opportunity to work closely with Dave Nguyen exciting springtime adventures Arrowmen from across the country who Each summer, the Order of the are concerned about the future of the Philbreak is an alternative spring break for college-age Scouts and Arrow offers a variety of high- national high-adventure programs. Venturers conducted at . The program allows young adventure opportunities to Arrowmen. This could be seen as a daunting task, people a chance to contribute worthwhile service to Philmont Scout Whether “wetting” your appetite by but it is a mountaintop experience unlike Ranch, to visit the ranch at a unique time of year and to enjoy going for a plunge in the Atlantic Ocean any other in Scouting. The OA fellowship opportunities. with the Ocean Adventure at the Florida high-adventure programs take you out The one-week program will be conducted from Friday, March 10-17, Sea Base or fulfilling your passion by of your daily routine and connect you 2006. The program includes four days of service on trail work, one day of hiking through Philmont Scout Ranch as with people who want to do something snow skiing at nearby Angel Fire Resort, and tours of Philmont and the sur- a part of your Trail Crew experience, different. It is not every day that you can rounding area. OA High Adventure makes for a great tell your friends that you climbed into The $100 fee covers lodging, meals, one day of skiing, and the shuttle to/ summer. If you have ever given thought Cypher’s Mine, watched the Northern from Albuquerque International Airport. This program is limited to 48 par- to what American Indians and early Lights from a canoe or went scuba ticipants. Preference will be given to first-time participants. explorers did to be avid traders, then diving in the Florida Keys. Philbreak participant requirements include the following: maybe the OA Wilderness Voyage is These programs help to ensure that • Be 18 years old by the day the program begins, but not yet 26 years your calling. future Scouts will have a place to live, old by its conclusion. Before your weeklong trek work and interact. This summer, • Be physically fit and able to lift and handle materials up to 50 pounds. completely designed by you, each commit to one or more of the Order of Philmont height and weight guidelines will be strictly enforced. Arrowman will be afforded the the Arrow high-adventure opportunities. • Be a registered Boy Scout or Venturer and be approved by your opportunity to serve cheerfully for a For more information about the OA high council’s Scout executive. week by improving portage trails, adventure programs, please visit Registration applications can be obtained by contacting: Philmont Scout backpacking trails or coral reefs. Along adventure.oa-bsa.org or talk to your Ranch, 17 Deer Run Road, Cimarron, NM 87714, Telephone: 505-376- with providing a Good Turn at each lodge chief. Choose your 2281, E-mail: [email protected]. high-adventure base, participants will adventure now!

Editor in Chief Features Editor Ian Pinnavaia Matt Griffis

Lead Adviser Layout Editor David Garrett Jonathan Hardin

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE National Chief People/Recognition Editor NATIONAL ORDER OF THE ARROW Patrick Murphy Lee Thackston BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA National Vice Chief Program/Events Editor The National Bulletin is published quarterly. If you have an article and/or Seth Mollitt Jason Koch photo (with caption) for submission, please send it to Ian Pinnavaia, 1978 Haring St., Brooklyn, NY 11229, or e-mail it to Director Copy Adviser [email protected]. The next submission deadline is January 13, 2006. Clyde Mayer Tony Fiori National Chairman Associate Director Layout Adviser Brad Haddock Carey Miller Craig Salazar Vice Chairman of Communications and Marketing Copy Editor Jack Butler Tyson Ford www.oa-bsa.org 4 Scouting’s National Honor Society Profiles in Service: Grant Helps Cub Scouts Ty-Ohni Lodge builds nature lodge for Adventure Camp at Camp Cutler members during fellowship weekends to Cameron Michaelree complete the project. In 2005, Ty-Ohni Lodge of Otetiana Following completion of the nature Council, Rochester, New York, received building, there was a 22 percent increase a $4,500 Order of the Arrow Service in camp attendance. The new nature Grant. This grant was used to construct building helped the council to develop a nature lodge for Cub Scout an exciting program along with a great Adventure Camp at Camp Cutler, the environment for visiting Cub Scouts. local council camp. Steve Denaker, who is camp The members of Ty-Ohni Lodge had director and adviser to the noticed that the Cub Scout program was quartermaster corps, proudly states, suffering from low membership and camp “The new nature lodge is a shining participation. They also saw that Cub example of what the OA can Scout Adventure Camp needed a accomplish to support camping and Cub nature building to offer the best possible Scouting. This new building and the experience to campers. After evaluating grounds surrounding it enabled Cub these needs, the lodge decided to Scout Adventure Camp to build a support the Cub Scout program to a successful nature program. The nature greater extent then ever before. program can be credited for increased Lodge members contributed 960 camp attendance as well as overall camp Arrowmen of Ty-Ohni Lodge put the finishing touches on the nature lodge, man-hours and additional funds toward satisfaction. I am very pleased with the which was partially financed by an OA Service Grant for $4,500. The nature the project. Camp rangers and council work done by our Order of lodge will support their council’s Cub Scout Adventure Camp program. volunteers worked closely with lodge the Arrow lodge.” Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge Remembers Josh Sain Council. The youth 2005 Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge High Adventure is the result of Jeffery Finley leadership decided to build a Chief Peter Capp declared this a national outpouring of support Josh Sain was Wa-Hi-Nasa gateway at the entrance of a year that the lodge would from the entire Order of the Lodge chief and SR-6N planned high-adventure area at complete the Josh Sain Arrow family,” said lodge ad- section chief before being Boxwell Scout Reservation. Gateway to High Adventure. viser Bob Corlew. “Josh was elected the 1997 National Vice Before the gateway could be When Capp was elected such a special person, we Chief of the Order of the built, the Section 6N chief and Jeff Finley wanted to remember him in a Arrow. Josh was killed in a Council had to raise the became lodge chief, the two special way. He would have tragic car accident on October required $1,350,000 to began working with dedicated liked the way everyone pulled 25, 1997. As a reminder that construct the program areas. members of the lodge to build a together and had such a great Josh never finished his term, a With the completion of the series of three 20-foot arches. time working together on this yellow ribbon is affixed to the Walker Project COPE facility, This memorial gateway is made project. What a great memory National Vice Chief’s bonnet. the Parish high-adventure of 10-inch steel pipe, hundreds to him.” Soon after Josh’s death, center, the DeBartolo swimming of cinder blocks, and enough Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge started pool and the Maddox shooting Tennessee limestone to fill the Scout Executive Joe Long While serving as national vice chief in 1997, Josh Sain planning a permanent way to sports complex, it was time to cavity in the Tooth of Time. is very proud of the project. was killed in a tragic car recognize his role in the Middle construct the gateway. “The Josh Sain Gateway to continued on page 6 accident. OA Conservation Activities in Adventure Programs Lead to New Heights of Service trek along Philmont’s trails. The second part of the Following the good work at Northern Tier, the US Ken Davis program was a reinforcement of the purposes and Forest Service awarded its top volunteer In 2005, the Order of the Arrow opened its third principles of the Order in the lives of the attendees recognition to the OA in 2003, noting that the Voyage service event program at a national Boy Scouts of through discussions, program elements and the effort had improved canoeing for all members of the America high-adventure base to good reviews when example of the staff. Most summers, this program runs canoeing public in the Boundary Waters area, a 1.2 the OA Ocean Adventure program was fully throughout the season at Philmont. million-acre tract supervised by the Forest Service. subscribed. At the same time, the Order was finalizing Following the successful work done at Philmont, Because of the success of these programs, the OA its plans for five major service projects in 2008, which the National OA Committee in 1999 authorized a has committed itself to five major service projects for will allow even more Arrowmen to participate in similar program, the Wilderness Voyage, at Northern the summer of 2008. Working with the Forest conservation service to our nation. Tier High Adventure Base near Ely, Minnesota. This Service, the OA will offer conservation events at na- This work began in 1995 when the first such program engaged young men in improving portages tional forests in California, Utah, Wyoming, Missouri program, the OA Trail Crew, opened at Philmont Scout between lakes, work that had not been done in the and Virginia. Up to a thousand Arrowmen will be Ranch in New Mexico. The idea was twofold. First, Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness since the welcomed at each location for a week of trail and each participant at least 16 but not yet 21 years of age 1930s. Like the Philmont program, the Arrowmen plan conservation work. The OA’s history of finding addi- would work for a week improving or creating trails at and take a weeklong canoe trip after their week of tional ways to serve has led to these major projects Philmont. This work would be followed by a weeklong portage trail work. planned for 2008. www.oa-bsa.org 5 Scouting’s National Honor Society NOAC, continued from page 1 SAIN, continued from page 5 Trading Post Pre-Orders: On April 1, 2006, the reserved order He remarked that “this truly is a up-and-coming Scouts who pass Contingent participants and conference form, along with a mail order form for gateway to high adventure. Passing through the Josh Sain Gateway to staff members must utilize the NOAC those unable to attend NOAC, will be through these resplendent arches, the High Adventure.” Reserved Order Form to order available online at the Trading Post world of high adventure opens up to The gateway and the program merchandise in advance of the confer- Portal on the OA Web site, any Scout of OA age, which we know areas were dedicated on December 3, ence. This will help ensure that partici- http://www.oa-bsa.org. will help with retention of older Scouts. 2005. Josh’s parents, John and Melba pants can obtain all their mementos and All mail orders will be shipped from In this area of Boxwell Reservation, a Sain, joined with lodge members avoid long lines and possible disappoint- the conference site between July 28 and Scout can find a shotgun range, a high for this special occasion. Josh’s ment in attempting to purchase merchan- August 2, 2006. Reserved orders must ropes course, a world-class rappelling legacy of service to youth will continue dise at the conference. Additional items be picked up on Saturday, July 29, or tower, a brand-new swimming pool, as Scouts pass through the gateway to not found on the reserved order form Sunday, July 30, of the conference. and a Venture Conference Center that high adventure and experience will also be available for purchase at the can sleep 64 Scouts! And there is more all the wonders of Scouting’s conference. to come in the future for the outdoor program.

National Officer Directory Notes National Chief, Patrick Murphy LLD Recognition Patch Lodge Charter Renewal Kits Tempe, AZ The Lodge Leadership Development rec- Lodge charter renewal kits were [email protected] ognition patch order form distributed to council offices in October. is available on the OA Web site, National Vice Chief, Seth Mollitt Charter renewals are due in the national http://www.oa-bsa.org. This patch Order of the Arrow office by Jacksonville, FL recognizes Arrowmen who staff and December 31, 2005. The 2006 Lodge [email protected] attend your lodge LLD training course. Program Support Pak that contains Vigil Central Region Chief, Paul Jensen and Founders’ Award petitions and other Online OA Trading Post program information will not be mailed to Steven, MN National Click on the OA Trading Post banner on a lodge until the charter has [email protected] the home page of the OA Web site to been renewed. Northeast Region Chief, Dan O’Rourke purchase some great recognition items and gifts. Click on the National Endowment Wilbraham, MA OA Scoutreach Mentoring page to check out the selection of coins, Is your lodge taking advantage of the OA [email protected] figurines and prints. Scoutreach Mentoring Program? Learn all Southern Region Chief, Bradley Long about the program by visiting the OA Web High-Adventure Web Site Pulaski, VA site at http://www.oa-bsa.org Check out adventure.oa-bsa.org to obtain [email protected] information about Philmont Trial Crew, Western Region Chief, Ross Armstrong OAOA, and the Voyage. Reno, NV [email protected] More information about these National Notes and other news can be found on the OA Web site online at http://www.oa-bsa.org. Select “Operations Updates.”

2006 National Planning Calendar January 31 DSA & Red Arrow Applications Due July 25 Northern Tier OA Voyage Ends February 3–5 Incident Command Training 2008 Projects NOAC Staff Week Begins February 6 National OA Steering Committee Meeting - DFW July 28 Philmont OA Trail Crew Ends February 24–26 NLS, Rochester, IN July 31–August 3 NOAC, Michigan State University March 1 NOAC Lodge Reservations Due September 15–17 NLS, Alpine, NJ March 4–8 Report to the Nation September 22–24 NLS, Camp Lake, WI March 10–12 NOAC Site Visit, Michigan State University SR SOS, Norcross, GA March 17–19 NLS/NLATS, Cimarron, NM October 2 OA Charter Kits Distributed March 24–26 NLS/NLATS, Canton, MS October 6–8 NLS, Conroe, TX March 31–April 2 NLATS, Parkville, MO October 13–15 NLS/NLATS, Camp Tracy, UT NLS/NLATS, Alpine, NJ October 20–22 SOS, Phoenix, AZ April 28–30 NLS, High Ridge, MO October 27–29 NLS, Ridgecrest, NC May 1 Camp Promotion Packets Available October 31 OA Service Grant Applications Due May 5–7 NLS, Camp Gorton, NY November 1 Lodge Program Support Pak Available May 24 National OA Meeting, Washington, DC November 3–5 SOS, Alpine, NJ May 24–26 National Annual Meeting, Washington, DC November 17–19 NLS, Camp Bothin, CA May 31 NOAC Final Payment Due and Staff Fees Due NLS, Parkville, MO June 2–4 NLS, Camp Gorsuch, AK NLS/NLATS, Norcross, GA June 6 OA Ocean Adventure Begins December 1–3 SOS, Rochester, IN June 7 Northern Tier OA Voyage Begins December 27–30 National Planning Meeting, DFW June 9 Philmont OA Trail Crew Begins December 31 Lodge Charter Renewal Deadline June 18–24 Philmont LLD Training June 30 OA Service Grant Applications Distributed 2007 July 23 OA Ocean Adventure Ends January 26–28 NLS/NLATS Train the Trainer www.oa-bsa.org 6 Scouting’s National Honor Society