VOLUME 9, ISSUE 1 | SPRING 2016 THE SILVER ARROWHEAD PRESENTED FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO THE ORDER SINCE 1940 VOLUME 8, ISSUE 1 | SPRING 2015 My Honor, My Best, My Duty, My By KEN BADGETT HISTORIAN, OLD HICKORY COUNCIL When Banks Newman returned to Winston- Salem, North Carolina, in May 1979 for the 50th Anniversary of Boy Troop 749, reporter Arlene Edwards of the Winston-Salem Journal wrote, “If you don’t want to get involved in Boy Scout work, you’d better stay indoors today and keep your telephone off the hook - H. Banks Newman is back in town.” She noted, “If you don’t believe me, ask around the eight counties that make up the Old Hickory Council…It won’t take you long to find any number of people who are still trying to figure out how Newman and…(Scout Executive) W. E. Vaughan-Lloyd talked them into taking over a troop.” This zest for Scouting and all of its programming features was the hallmark of Banks Newman’s 67 years as a Scouting volunteer. Harry Banks Newman (May 23, 1898 - June 10, 1986), always known as Banks, and William E. (Skipper) Vaughan-Lloyd were two of a group Banks Newman (second from right), received the in 1933. Courtesy of of four important twentieth-century Scouting Raven Knob Boy Scout Museum, Old Hickory Council, BSA. leaders in northwestern North Carolina who for Scouting’s youth and adults, could - and into the 1970’s, these men - Banks Newman recognized the importance of summer camp probably would - help to endear thousands (Class of 1963), Roy Hinshaw (Class of 1963), operations to the effectiveness of local Boy of active members and their families to local Skipper Vaughan-Lloyd, Sr. (Class of 1946), and Scout councils. Also, they understood that the Scouting through the fellowship created by CONTINUED PAGE 5 , as a method of recognition positive camping experience. From the 1920’s NEWMAN, “Chief” Newbery: Pioneering Arrowman By MAC MCLEAN Joseph Rucker Newbery was born in 1898 up his nickname “Chief.” Newbery indicated in CLASS OF 1988 and became a Scout in Troop 1 in Beaumont, a self-published booklet Scouting Memories Texas, in 1911 when a young friend invited him printed in 1976, that while conducting his first RUSTY RIDDLE to a troop meeting. His youthful participation summer camp, his nightly campfires had at UNALI’YI LODGE HISTORIAN ended in 1915, but by 1919 a council formed least in part an Indian theme. At a particular in Beaumont and its executive recruited time in the program, patrols requested to J. Rucker Newbery provided important and Newbery to serve as Scoutmaster of new be recognized by the “Chief of the Fire” and pioneering leadership to Scouting during Troop 4. He also worked at a bank --- whose Newbery served in that role as camp director. its formative years and to the Order of the president served as the council treasurer. By The patrols would begin their requests with Arrow during its primary days of expansion in 1922, the Beaumont Council hired Newbery the words “Oh, Chief…” and this was repeated the South. Everyone seems to know that he as Scout executive, a position in which he throughout the summer’s campfires. This edited the first OA Handbook, but many know flourished. little else. While serving in Beaumont, Newbery picked CONTINUED NEWBERY, PAGE 6 LEADERSHIP First Summit Circle ceremony held RAY CAPP By HUNTER JONES National Chairman, Class of 1973 2016 NATIONAL CHIEF Over the past 100 years, the MICHAEL THOMPSON Order of the Arrow has taken youth Vice Chairman, Class of 2006 through a journey of personal Recognition, Awards, History and Preservation growth and discovery – one of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual development. This could CRAIG SALAZAR not have been possible without the Vice Chairman, Class of 1994 hard work and dedication of many ON THE COVER: Arrowmen gather at Summit Circle where the six Communications and Marketing individuals. Unfortunately, our past national youth officers, Unami Lodge and Section C-4B led a ceremony can sometimes become lost in the celebrating the transition from Treasure Island to the Summit Circle. MATT DUKEMAN mix as we look to the future. In along with representatives from that have made our organization Director, Class of 2004 an effort to further preserve our the Unami Lodge and Section C-4B what it is today. As the flame history, the Summit Circle was conducted a ceremony celebrating carried from Treasure Island TRAVIS RUBELEE born. Starting in 2016, Arrowmen the transition from Treasure Island ignited the fire constructed of now have a location that they can to the Summit Circle. During Vermont birch wood, the spirit Associate Director point to as a physical home for the ritual, the Unami brother of our Order travelled from one our Order. The Summit-Bechtel symbolically passed along the individual present to the next as HUNTER JONES Reserve now houses a place of duties of care for the OA’s physical they cheerfully helped feed this National Chief reverence for our organization home to Section C-4B. The section very fire, igniting their own flame and our many accomplishments will now serve as the caretakers that they would then carry back TYLER INBERG in the advancement of youth of the Summit Circle, under the to their respective communities of development. guidance of the National Order of brothers. It was an experience that National Vice Chief The ceremonial passing of the the Arrow Committee. truly embodied our three principles torch took place on April 16, 2016 The ceremony symbolically of brotherhood, cheerfulness, and MARTY TSCHETTER when the six national youth officers embodied many of the elements service. Editor, The Silver Arrowhead Class of 1996 DSA recipients who donated to the Summit Circle Jason Accola, Class of 1998 Jason Hood, Class of 1986 James Terry, Jr., Class of 1986 JEFFREY ST. CYR Ronald Amen, Class of 1977 Kenneth Hood, Class of 2004 Mason Thomas, Class of 2009 Layout Editor, Class of 2012 Glenn Ault, Class of 1988 C. Michael Hoover, Class of 1994 Michael Thompson, Class of 2006 Thomas Bain, Class of 2006 Roger Hoyme, Class of 1981 Bill Topkis, Class of 2012 The Silver Arrowhead is distributed Scott Beckett, Class of 1996 Jeffery Jonasen, Class of 2006 Kay Trick, Class of 2009 two times each year via electronic communication to recipients of the Order Ron Bell, Class of 1988 Dabney Kennedy, Class of 1969 Scott Valcourt, Class of 1992 of the Arrow Distinguished Service Award. Bob Black, Class of 2006 David King, Class of 1969 Russ Votava, Class of 2012 Articles, photographs, and updates may be Mike Bliss, Class of 2009 James Knepler, Class of 1965 Matt Walker, Class of 1992 sent to [email protected] Nelson Block, Class of 1994 Doug Kupec, Class of 2004 Billy Walley, Class of 1983 Steven Bradley, Class of 2002 Delbert Loder, Class of 1975 Thomas Webb, Class of 1975 Jack Butler, Class of 1986 Bill Loeble, Class of 2000 Jason Wolz, Class of 2012 Ray Capp, Class of 1973 Carl Marchetti, Class of 1958 Larry Young, Class of 1971 Toby Capps, Class of 2009 Robert Mason, Class of 2009 Andy Chapman, Class of 2004 Clyde Mayer, Class of 1998 Mark Chilutti, Class of 1990 Dan McCarthy, Class of 1998 Current Donald Cunningham, Class of 2002 John Meckley, III, Class of 1992 Kenneth Davis, Class of 1977 Carey Mignerey, Class of 2002 statistics of Darrell Donahue, Class of 2009 Terrel Miller, Class of 1998 David Dowty, Class of 2006 Richard Mills, Class of 1998 Matt Dukeman, Class of 2004 Ed Pease, Class of 1971 the Centennial Wayne Dukes, Class of 1990 Tico Perez, Class of 2004 Michael Feeney, Class of 1977 Mike Perkins, Class of 2000 Campaign Tom Fielder, Class of 1971 Michael Philbrook, Class of 2012 A total of $1,004,860 or 84% of Tony Fiori, Class of 1998 Tom Reddin, Class of 1986 $1,200,000 goal has been raised James Flatt, Class of 2009 John Rotruck, Class of 1996 for the Centennial Campaign. Steve Gaines, Class of 2006 Craig Salazar, Class of 1994 $195,140 or 16% is the gap to goal of David Garrett, Class of 1990 Max Sasseen Jr., Class of 1996 $1,200,000. Jeff Goldsmith, Class of 1992 Sara Seaborne, Class of 2012 There are still several naming Christopher Grove, Class of 2006 Daniel Segersin, Class of 1975 opportunities available at Philmont, Brad Haddock, Class of 1977 Joseph Shore, Class of 2000 Northern Tier and the National Bud Harrelson, Class of 1998 Steven Silbiger, Class of 1988 Museum. Interested donors please John Hess, Class of 1998 Russell Smart, Class of 2015 contact Associate OA Director Travis Mike Hoffman, Class of 1986 Tony Steinhardt III, Class of 1992 Rubelee at Travis.Rubelee@scouting. Roger Honberger, Class of 1996 Clint Takeshita, Class of 1992 org or 972-580-2440

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My Brothers, our 100th Anniversary. Our Founder E. Urner Goodman had built the revered “Brotherhood As an integral part of induction, a candidate Fireplace” in the barn on his property using pledges to “observe and preserve the rocks similarly donated from across the traditions” of the Order of the Arrow. On nation. April 16 our national youth officers led a special ceremony opening our new national The architect, Tony Steinhardt, suggested ceremonial grounds at the Bechtel Summit we merge the two projects by using the Reserve in West Virginia. This completed the lodge rocks to form columns, holding the 15 relocation of our ceremonial grounds from blazes reminiscent of the Ordeal Ceremony. New Jersey. This move, and the story behind These light posts would illuminate the way it, is a living testament to the true meaning of into the ceremony site along a path we came the Scouting spirit and part of our continuing to call “the reflection trail”, reminding us of legacy. important quotes from our ceremonies, our founder, and our lore. We wanted a place of In the early part of this century floodwaters pilgrimage and quiet reflection. of the Delaware River repeatedly ravaged the Treasure Island Scout Camp, birthplace of Mark Chilutti worked with the council to our Order and site of its first ceremonies. The gain access to the original site, allowing us Cradle of Liberty Council based in Philadelphia to salvage the rock formations at Treasure reluctantly concluded that the site needed Island for reconstruction at the Summit. Dan to be decommissioned by abandoning the McCarthy, Chris Grove, and I tramped the and durable elements of Tony’s design. The island and moving to a new property. As news backwoods of the Summit to find “the right local section (C-4B) under the leadership of of this decision spread, Arrowmen across spot.” Scott Best managed the volunteer effort Shane Miller committed to take on the service the country realized that with the closing of to gently deconstruct the site and pack it for of caring for the grounds once established. Treasure Island our birthplace could literally its journey to West Virginia. Nyles Possiger wash away into history. arranged to have the rocks airlifted across the This summer we expect 1,500 Arrowmen river to be trucked to their new home. from across the country to participate in At the 2012 National OA Conference, BSA the PRISM program at the Summit. All will President Wayne Perry and Vice President of Toby Capps, wishing to memorialize be asked to go through a ceremony at the Outdoor Adventures Jack Furst encouraged his father and the lodge of his youth, Summit Circle. This ceremony is our way to our leadership team to find ways to become recommended that the national committee breathe new life into those 100 year old rocks more involved with the Summit Bechtel accept engraved rocks from lodges that are no from the place of our founding, serving as a Reserve. Their suggestion led me to the longer active, which became the springboard way to observe and preserve the traditions idea that if the BSA would set aside a few for the Legacy Plaza. Chris Grove managed of the Order of the Arrow. This project will acres in the SBR woods, we would work with the process of restoration and local Arrowman become a new part of the lore of the Order of the council office in Philadelphia to move and architect George Soltis oversaw day-to- the Arrow as we move forward. the original ceremony site with its historic day construction. podium to the Summit. They readily accepted the idea and this vision became our plan. Now Carl Marchetti volunteered to add this we had to make it happen. Summit project to the Centennial Fundraising Campaign we were beginning to launch, and We had already asked every lodge in the hundreds of Arrowmen across the country country to send us a rock engraved with responded to make the dream a reality. their lodge name and council headquarters Bobby Robinson and Don Miller added their city to “build something” to commemorate metal craftsmanship to create memorable Ray Capp

THE ORDER OF THE ARROW PAGE 3 Capp named National Alumnus of the Year for 2016 By BRYAN WENDELL recent example was last year’s -Serving on the National NATIONAL OFFICE 100th anniversary of the Order of Scouting Museum board, National the Arrow. Outdoor Adventures committee, The ’s Capp used that occasion to reach National Marketing and Innovation Scouting Alumni Association out to “countless former Scouters committee, and National Staff named Ray Capp, Distinguished asking them to become involved Training committee at the Philmont Eagle Scout and chairman of in the Scouting movement once Training Center. the Order the Arrow, as its 2016 again,” according to the letter. -Wrote the template for how National Alumnus of the Year. The These alumni re-engaged in the OA to establish a council alumni award, presented annually since as it celebrated its 100th birthday, association and implemented it at 2011, honors one volunteer whose with many becoming inspired . efforts have helped grow Scouting by what they saw at the National -Received the Silver Buffalo in big ways. Order of the Arrow Conference. Award, OA Distinguished Service A letter co-authored by Scouting And here’s the best part: Most of Award, Silver Antelope Award, Silver Previous recipients of the Alumni Association committee these individuals will stick around Beaver Award, District Award of National Alumnus of the Year chairman Ed Pease and director to help grow the BSA in 2016 and Merit, and the Scoutmaster Award Award, that also received the DSA Dustin Farris paints an impressive beyond. of Merit. As a youth he earned Eagle include 2013: David Briscoe (Class portrait of Capp’s contributions to Other contributions by Capp Scout and the prestigious William T. of 1992) and 2015: Ed Pease (Class the Scouting movement. The most include: Hornaday Conservation Award. of 1971). ARROWMEN SERVING Lodge History Resource SCOUTING AND THEIR Guide released COMMUNITY By NIK NEWMAN out to contributors, the project AINA TOPA HUTSI LODGE HISTORIAN has evolved over the last seven DEVLIN COOPER (Class of The Great Smoky Mountain months and is now positioned 2004) recently entered a new law Council in Knoxville, Tennessee During NOAC last summer, to provide several thematic practice as Cooper, Shrable, & recently honored WILLIAM a few of the Goodman-Edson articles that include aesthetics, Cooper, L.L.P. in Macon, Georgia. “DOC” ROONEY (Class of 1990) Observatory (GEO) staff members collecting, storage and archiving, His practice is devoted largely to with the Heart of an Eagle Award discussed the importance of material and staff resourcing. eminent domain work, business during its Friends of Scouting national initiatives like the The guide also addresses best litigation, corporate work, and Breakfast. Rooney became a Centennial Lodge History project practices concerning written, oral adoption law. Scoutmaster in 1955 serving for and the continued need to help and visual history, display and DAVID SURRETT (Class of almost 60 years with more than 50 preserve local history. With this web design. 1986) recently became the senior youth earning the Eagle rank. in mind, the idea of the Lodge Initially the LHRG will be pastor at Central United Methodist In February, TIM BROWN History Resource Guide (LHRG) published as an Adobe Acrobat in Newberry, South Carolina. (Class of 2015) and TIM TERRY emerged as a tool the Recognition, PDF document this summer; DABNEY KENNEDY (Class (Class of 2012) were honored with Awards, History & Preservation later, however, the intention is to of 1969) was recently honored by the NESA Outstanding Eagle Scout subcommittee could produce. create a more interactive online the mayor of Houston with the Award by the Blue Grass Council in The guidebook will help lodge guide that will interest younger naming of a new Scout Pavilion Lexington, Kentucky. historians perform the often lodge members or those who in his honor as part of the Willow JASON HOOD (Class of 1986) daunting and ambiguous craft of consider themselves neophytes Waterhole Greenway Project, was bestowed the Outstanding writing, preserving, displaying, and at historical work. As additional which is a 290-acre public space Eagle Scout Award by the generally articulating their lodges’ lodges start implementing the serving Southwest Houston. Learn in Memphis, histories. recommendations that the guide more about the project at www. Tennessee. As co-editors Robert Mason will provide, our Order’s historical willowwaterhole.org. (Class of 2009) and I reached record will continue to mature.

DSA RECIPIENTS WHO HAVE GONE TO MEET THEIR MAKER

MILTON BOSSIER New Orleans, LA Eagle Scout, Silver Beaver Class of 1965 March 23, 2016

PAGE 4 THE SILVER ARROWHEAD Newman held all the council key-three positions 1950’s. Hale’s knowledge of their NEWMAN, CONT’D FROM PAGE 1 service probably enhanced their George Kellock (Kel) Hale, Jr. (Class consideration for the DSA, which of 1946) - were foundational figures they all received before 1965. in the development and operation Among the group, Banks of the Old Hickory Council and its Newman is of special interest summer camps - Camp Lasater, because of the breadth and the Camp Robert Vaughn, and Camp depth of his experience. He Raven Knob - in the state’s Blue held all three of the council “key Ridge Mountain foothills. All three” positions - Scout executive, were early organizers and heavy council commissioner, and council supporters of the council’s Wahissa president. After graduation from Lodge, from its creation in 1938 Winston-Salem High School in 1916, until the ends of their lives. Hale a time when high school diplomas was the only one of the group to were tickets to good jobs, Banks pursue serious involvement in the had a choice between an entry-level position in the credit department at OA at the national level, as chairman Courtesy of Raven Knob Boy Scout Museum, Old Hickory Council, BSA of the National Committee in R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company 1948 and as chairman of the and a scholarship at Wake Forest as the city’s first juvenile probation the camp service projects related to Distinguished Service Award (DSA) College. He chose to work and officer. Mac was a leader in Troop Ordeal induction. The camp service Committee, primarily during the was quoted as saying, “I graduated 10, and invited young Banks on a provided by the Order of the Arrow 1960’s. Newman, Vaughan-Lloyd, from high school on Friday night mountain camping trip with the has continued for the lodge’s entire and Hinshaw performed well on and went to work for Reynolds on troop. Banks remembered “…that 78 year history. local and area stages, many times Saturday morning.” he became very ill the very first Banks ultimately served two in support of Hale’s responsibilities By 1918, Banks had become night (of the hike) and stayed sick for terms as president of the Old Hickory at area and national OA meetings friends with A. S. (Mac) MacFarlane, three or four days. And, as he began Council, from 1952 to 1954 and and conferences in the 1940’s and who had moved to Winston-Salem to feel better, he began to notice a from 1962 to 1963. During his term curious thing. His pack seemed to in the 1950’s, the council purchased get a little heavier every day. The approximately 800 acres for Camp Scouts, he said, had been taking Raven Knob. Just after the camp’s things out of his pack to make his opening in June 1954, Skipper load lighter while he was sick and Vaughan-Lloyd (by then retired they were gradually sneaking them Scout executive), wrote to Banks back in as he gained strength.” Banks congratulating him on his planning was so impressed by the helpfulness and timing skills with regard to the and the courtesy of the Scouts on purchase and noted that “(t)his that trip than he began attending camp will bring happiness to untold troop meetings and became an thousands of Scouts and Scouters.” assistant Scoutmaster. By 1920, All told, in 2016, Camp Raven Knob he expanded his troop service by has served at least 150,000 campers becoming assistant camp director on now more than 3,000 acres since at the council’s two-week summer Banks worked to establish it more camp at High Rock on the Yadkin than 60 years ago. River. His productive Scouting work In the notes that he wrote for resulted in an invitation to be Scout use by adults in working with Executive in Augusta, Georgia, in youth on their Tenderfoot rank, 1924, which he accepted, but for Banks described the Scout Oath only a year before he returned as a personal, possessive, living to Winston-Salem in 1925 to a obligation. He wanted Scouts position in the export department and Scouters to “DO“, to “HELP“, at Reynolds Tobacco. He became and to “KEEP” Scouting in ways manager of the export department that would develop and maintain in 1949 and retired in 1963. physical, mental, and moral Back in Winston-Salem as a strength. Banks Newman did his volunteer, Banks was the Old Hickory best and understood his duty as Council’s commissioner from 1935 a volunteer to provide excellent until 1949. He developed training programs and facilities for Scouts materials for adult leaders including and Scouters in his local council. guidelines for troop committees He certainly earned his many and program materials used in honors - Silver Beaver, Vigil Honor, teaching skills to youth members and Distinguished Service Award. Banks Newman (second from right) works with Scouters to construct for Tenderfoot through First Class My Scouting and our Scouting are the Tom Holder Memorial Chapel at Camp Lasater in 1945. Courtesy of ranks. In 1938, Banks was part of better because of his foundational Raven Knob Boy Scout Museum, Old Hickory Council, BSA the creation of Wahissa Lodge and work.

THE ORDER OF THE ARROW PAGE 5 Key role in expansion of the Order ceremony for the newly-created NEWBERY, CONT’D FROM PAGE 1 lodges. caused the Scouts and leaders to In 1942 Newbery had become refer to Newbery as “Chief” during busy with bigger OA leadership the day too, and the title stuck. roles including joining the Newbery transferred to Augusta, National Executive Committee of Georgia, as Scout executive in the OA (the predecessor to today’s October of 1925. Newbery served National OA Committee). in Augusta and led the Georgia- The following year Chief Carolina Council (initially known Newbery transferred to as the Augusta Area Council) until Charleston, South Carolina, to early 1943. While in Augusta in serve as Scout executive of the 1936, Newbery established Bob Coastal Carolina Council. He White Lodge #87, one of the worked in this position until 1963 earliest OA lodges in the South. and lived in Charleston until his Two years later the Order of the death. Promptly upon his arrival Arrow established a system of areas to the council in 1943, Newbery across the country to better serve obtained the charter for Unali’yi its lodges. In Region Six, Newbery Lodge #236. Further increasing his served as the newly formed Area national involvement, Newbery 8 leader (a role for professional ran for National Treasurer at the Scouters). Newbery’s efforts as 1946 National Meeting of the OA Area Leader through 1942 had a at Chanute Field, Illinois, and won E.W. Rabon, E. Urner Goodman, J.R. Newbery, and Jim Southard at the huge impact on the expansion a two-year term. In 1948, the OA 1977 SE-3B Dixie Fellowship. Courtesy of Jim Southard. of the Order in the South. From became fully integrated into the 1936 to 1942, eighteen councils in Scouting movement and a number Region Six established lodges, due of changes took place; so the 1946 in no small part to the efforts of election was the last election of Newbery. He typically organized adult national officers. Also at the a “degree team” from an already- 1946 National Meeting, Newbery existing lodge to conduct the first went through his induction into the Vigil Honor. PThe 1948 integration into the Scouting movement required the creation of an OA Handbook. Newbery edited the first edition, printed it in Charleston, and the book went on sale later that year. At the first modern National OA Conference in 1948, Newbery and two other individuals received the DSA only 20 persons held the award prior to that presentation. Newbery served on the National OA Committee until it transitioned into a group of primarily volunteer Scouters in 1952. Upon Newbery’s retirement as Scout Executive, he continued his involvement in Scouting and in the Order. The Coastal Carolina Council presented him the Silver Beaver Award for service. Newbery also remained active in the Charleston Rotary Club; he served as Club President, Secretary, and Treasurer and wrote a book about the club’s history. Newbery also wrote a book, Scouting Memories, Signed copy of the first OA Handbook by author J. Rucker Newbery Chief Newbery, from a 1948 in 1976. One grand highlight of his Unali’yi Lodge publication. later years involved attending the The Order would lose both men Order of the Arrow, both Bob Courtesy of E.W. Rabon. 1977 Dixie Fellowship (SE-3B OA in less than three years. Newbery White Lodge and Unali’yi Lodge Conclave), held near Charleston, died in January of 1979. Upon selected Newbery posthumously together with E. Urner Goodman. the centennial celebration of the for the Centurion Award.

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