I'll expand on one of my favorite words of wisdom from Mac McLean that some of you can relate to.  Mac used to always say the people that should get the patches are the ones that attended the event.  This explains why in his day (and mine) at the end of the event they would form a line and say ok everybody can go through the store again and buy 2 more or 3 more or whatever until there were none left. 

• Patches 1956 Camp Oljato, Stanford, Chief Seattle
• Commissioner Blue Enamel Sterling Pinback Pin
• Metal Hat still Bank Washington Copper Toy
• Patches Merit Badges Pins Crests and More
• Boy Scouts of America Fixed Blade Knife
• Camp Caddo - 1947 - Norwela Council

 

Sounds like common sense except that in my lodge we have broken that rule several times and it makes for a mess.  At the banquet two patches were available that were 2-3 years old.  Both patches were impossible to get at the time (they wouldn't sell them to you!) but now a few years later they are blowing them out cheap.  So the new advisors are like "what are we doing with 50 of these - let's sell them!".  It would be nice if everyone would follow Mac's sage advice and just let the people who are there buy the patches.  After all isn't the patch supposed to commemorate that event?

• Lodge 445 Pohawk F1a First Flap
• Conclave Area 5E Ve 1954 Kickapoo
• Lodge 104 R4 Occoneechee WWW Patch
• Woa Cholena 322 9 Flaps Arrow Corps Anniv
• Nischa Nitis 410 N5 Neckerchief Hiawatha Council
• Amo'chk lodge 339 N3 Neckerchief Genesee Council

 

I am sure many of you can relate to that story either from a council/lodge that suffers from that decision making or from a Scout group that has figured it out and does things right.  Why should someone three years later have the privilege of buying a patch (in quantity) that a person who was at the event didn't have the ability to purchase.  Ok rant finished!

• Lord Baden Powell 14 Inch Statue
• Manatoanna Lodge 461 N1 Neckerchief
• Gabe-shi-win-gi-ji-kens Lodge 374 Black
• Lodge 502 T'Kope Kwiskwis P4 on Neckerchief
• Gabe-shi-win-gi-ji-kens White Ghost Death Flap
• Nentico X3 on Large Full Square Red Neckerchief

 

For fun I convinced Mac to let me record his talk last night at the banquet.  I have never done that before but how many of us would love to be able to go back and have a recording of some memorable speakers sharing history?  Sorta reminds me of the project that the OA did for the 100th anniversary.  

• Tslagi S5 Flap; Ord; Ver Bkgd; Hor Sky; Fdl above "CI"
• Occoneechee F14 Flap; BBQ at Conclave; ORG border
• Tomo Chi-Chi eX1998 Patch; 60th Annual Meeting
• 70 Tali Taktak S4 Flap 50th Ann; Hor Bkgd 1983
• Cherokee Council 417 Burlington, NC S-4 Black
• General Greene Council 418 Greensboro NC
• Nawakawa Lodge 3 Heart of Virginia SAP