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Journalof the American Scouting Historical Society Number 7 • 1999 PickPick AA Card!Card! plus:plus: byby JeffJeff FeldmanFeldman && TomTom GouldGouldAlanAlan O’ConnorO’Connor HalHal YocumYocum JohnJohn SneadSnead ToddTodd HatfieldHatfield FredFred DuerschDuersch KenKen KittlebergerKittleberger 2 Number 7 – 1999 Journalof the American Scouting Historical Society Number 7 • 1999 Journal of The American Scouting Historical Society 3 Members of the American Letters to the Editor Scouting Historical Society Have just received the “Journal of Nice job on the ASHS issue! Very Thomas Ashton, Burnsville, MN the American Scouting Historical Soci- useful and informative. I especially Conrad Auel, Monessen, PA ety”, and as always, very much appreci- apreciated Bob Wagner’s article on how Ed Basar, Livonia, MI ate it. Both Son and I have looked at it, to download the Blue Book, which I Mike Bega, York, PA with myself reading it just about from followed to the letter and with outstand- Dr. Gene Berman, Jackson Heights, NY cover to cover. Thank you ever so much. ing results. I also thought Bruce Dwight Bischel, IL Shelley’s article on lodge names was Dana Bonstrom, Kettle Falls, WA Also will be looking forward to the great. Hopefully that article will stimu- Gary Burdorf, Santa Monica, CA new edition of the “Blue Book”. late more interest in this area of OA Bob Connor* Take care and all the very best. Chris Deering, DeKalb, IL research! I enjoyed the article on the Frederick J. Oppliger Fred Deurch, Logan, UT Lodge 15 neckerchiefs and was in- Kirk Doan, Kansas City, MO St. Petersburg, FL trigued by all the ones you’ve found that Duane Fowlks, San Antonio, TX had not been reported to me when we Jeff Feldman, Woodland Hills, CA were working on the Blue Book. Dr. James Flatt, Huntsville, AL Congratulations! Jeff Godby, Columbia, SC Thanks ever so much for sending Dr. Ron Godby* me a copy of the Journal. The articles Take care,YiS. Gary Gole, Cleveland, OH were excellent and I have enjoyed read- Rob Kutz <==WWW==<<< Tom Gould, Los Angeles, CA ing it. Thanks again! [email protected] Todd Hatfield, Salem, OR Y i S, Randall Holden, Blairstown, NJ Rick Horne, Greensboro, NC John White I enjoyed reading the Journal. I was Frank Kern, DuPont, WA [email protected] very impressed with the detail and level Ken Kittleberger, Columbia, MD of research that went in to each article. I Rob Kutz, Carlisle, PA think it is truly a publication that is un- Raymond Lee* matched in quality within the hobby. I Dr. David Leubitz, Akron, OH I am just back from a week of trav- look forward to contributing. Wally Majors, Jackson, MS eling and found The Journal in my mail. Hope all is well ! Craig McDaniels, American Fork, UT Haven’t read the entire issue yet but it Roy More, Ann Arbor, MI Mark Dr. Jeff Morley, San Francisco, CA looks great. [email protected] Paul Myers, Goshen, IN Thanks, Alan O’Connor, Sacramento, CA Bruce Shelley John Pannell, Burlington, NC [email protected] Journal John Pleasants, Siler City, NC Al Sakai, Honolulu, HI Number 7 Scott Shackleton, Hermosa Beach, CA 1999 Bruce Shelley, Arlington Heights, IL Dr. Roger Schustereit, Cisco, TX I just finished reading the No. 6 edi- John Snead, Baton Rouge, LA tion of the Journal and found it very in- published by the teresting. I have started collecting Wayne Snyder, Northumberland, PA American Scouting Historical Society again, having put it aside in 1972 to at- Bill Topkis, Park City, UT c/o Bill Topkis Bob Wagner, Kansas City, MO tend college. Obviously a lot has 2580 Silver Cloud Court Cliff Ward, Cary, NC changed in 25 years or so. Park City, UT 84060 Roger Ward, Nokomis, FL Mark Stiles Roy Wetherbee, Shrewsbury, MA Sterling Heights, MI © 1993–1999 All Rights Reserved Rusty Van Reeves, Madison, MS American Scouting Historical Society John Conley Williams, Waco, TX Hal Yocum, Golden, CO I recently received the No. 6 edition Editors: *deceased of the Journal, and I must commend Tom Gould (310) 474-4647 everyone involved for their excellent [email protected] ON THE COVER work. Jeff Morley (415) 474-1555 OA Membership Cards Yours in Scouting, [email protected] The wide variety of designs used on Bart Stump John Snead (225) 346-8540 Order of the Arrow membership cards Dallastown, PA [email protected] over the years are pictured on the cover. Bill Topkis (435) 655-8899 See the article on page 7. Cover photo by [email protected] Jeff Morley. 4 Number 7 – 1999 As usual I really enjoyed reading academic and formal as it is. This bodes In This Issue “The Journal,” especially the articles of well for you. Even the sales have mul- the OA Neckerchiefs and Run for the tiple values that are both economic and BSA Documents Border… historical, ie, the Bischel interview in 7 Pick a Card! Munch 3(1) and the Bischel auction in No. 6. National OA, local lodge, [email protected] It would have been interesting to know what OA was cherry-picked from the and Vigil Honor cards PS: Nice to see my old 47 R1 pictured by Jeff Feldman collection. & Tom Gould in the article. Keep up the quality! Yours in Scouting, 13 OA HISTORY John Bursewicz One Tough Solid The latest issue of the Journal ar- Culver-Stockton College Why is the 479 S1 “Green rived today - what a first class Canton, MO Fluffy” so rare? publication. I will be spending quite a [email protected] by John Snead bit of time going over it - I would love to have a patch or two out of the Bischel BSA HISTORY collection. You guys did a splendid job Your journal publication is out- 17 putting together this issue. standing! I think you have a great thing Merit Badges YIS, going and I would like to contribute. Tan crimped narrow-border Robert E. Sherman merit badge varieties Yours in Scouting, by Fred Duersch, Jr. [email protected] Scott D. Wagenseller, ASM Eagle Scout, T223 19 PRE-OA HISTORY Honor Camper Tribes Today I received the issue of the new Journal of the ASHS. It is very I received issue 6 of the Journal The Tribes of the Golden yesterday and am most favorably im- Empire Council before 1945 nice–although at this point in my life, by Alan O’Connor many of the patches are a wee bit ex- pressed! Informative articles on pensive ;-). interesting topics; even the auction and RESEARCH sales lists are opportunities to learn Thanks and good job on the journal, 23 more about specific patches. Eric Farbman Ever Changing Arrow Randall M. MacDonald [email protected] Profile of lodge charters, Lakeland, FL changes, and mergers [email protected] by Todd Hatfield DOCUMENTATION Journal arrived!!! Looks fantastic… 25 You’ve got my mouth watering with all I read with great interest your ar- Juniata Lodge 103 the great patches included. I’m gonna ticle in issue 6 of the “Journal of the Tracking down the early log-off now to give it a closer look. American Scouting Historical Society” lodge 103 history and Thanks my friend. regarding lodge names. I have been re- documents In WWW, searching the history of my own lodge, by Hal Yocum Wyona Lodge 18, for some time. One Rusty Van Reeves of the tales that has been passed down PRE-BSA HISTORY [email protected] through the years is that the original 29 name of the lodge was Winona. Lone Scout Postcards The Lone Scouts of America This has some credence in that the communicated with Thank you for your reply concern- site of our council camp, Camp postcards ing back issues of The Journal of the Lavigne, was known to be a Native by Ken Kittleberger American Scouting Historical Society American campground named Winona and for Issue 6 that arrived several days Park from the 1700’s until it’s purchase DEPARTMENTS ago. by the council in 1923. In support of 4 Letters It is hard to believe, yet none the this I offer the following quote from the less true, that The Journal, concerned 25th Anniversary Book for Columbia 28 Blue Book with a hobby and its history could be as 33 Rules of the Auction (continued on page 6 ) 34 The Auction Journal of The American Scouting Historical Society 5 Editors Note It is a pleasure to present to you one to continue recieving free Journal the 7th Journal of the American Scout- subscriptions. ing Historical Society. This issue The American Scouting Historical features articles on a tough first flap, Society encourages free and at-cost old merit badge variations, OA mem- publications. The Blue Book, Pocket bership cards, Lone Scouts of America Blue Book and several planned publi- postcards, and some Pre OA Tribes in cations are prepared by volunteer effort central California. A fine selection of and wholesaled at cost in order to make better OA pieces is available in the Auc- basic references affordable to scouts tion in the Journal, as well. and scouters. The Journal is entirely There is still a lot of misunder- free due to auction support and rev- standing about how everyone receives enues from the advertisements now the Journal. The Journal is free. You accepted. do not have to be a member of the The Journal of the ASHS also ASHS to receive the Journal, you only needs your support in providing new have to be an interested scout memo- articles for publication (see “Member- rabilia collector, historian, or just an ship Guidelines on page 22).