Saturday, October 24, 2009
One of the first issues of the lodge was not a patch or a neckerchief. By 1957 members of the lodge were wearing a service armband when they were out representing the lodge at service projects in the community. Early issues of the Santee Arrowmen confirm that the armbands were worn at least 3 events in 1957: May 3-4 for the Council Camporee, Oct 11-13 for a Camporee at Shaw Air Base and Nov 23 as ushers at the USC vs. UNC football game in Columbia. It is not known how these armbands were given out or when they stopped being used.
Following the success of the "Service Arrowhead" in 1993, the lodge continued the program in 1994 by issuing a first ever lodge neckerchief. Designed by Lee Galloway the neckerchief was black with red trim. A pie shaped patch was sewn onto the bottom of it. Although it cost eight dollars to buy the neckerchief, like the service arrowhead before it, got a lot of brothers to come up to camp and do service projects. A total of 200 of these "Service Neckerchiefs" were made and all were earned in 1994.
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Santee Lodge Rounds and Jacket Patches
 R1 - Bicentennial |
Similar to the 1973 Fall Fellowship patch (35th anniversary A2) the patch for the 1976 Summer Fellowship falls under the "if it looks like a duck" rule. Many Scout councils and lodges issued memorabilia to commemorate America’s bicentennial in 1976. The summer fellowship patch that year was Santee’s effort to celebrate the event. Since the fellowship patch did not say fellowship and was a round patch it looked more like a lodge issue…"if it looks like a duck". Therefore, national collectors consider this fellowship patch as the R1. |
 J1 - Twill Jacket Patch |
In 1977 the lodge issued a 6 inch round twill jacket patch. The design for this patch was by Greg Vaught. Like most all Santee patches it has the traditional symbolism in its design. There was no restriction placed on the purchase of these patches. This run of patches was sold out by 1981. |
 J2 - Black Arrow Jacket Patch |
In 1986 the lodge issued a 5 inch round embroidered jacket patch. The patch followed the design of the contemporary flap in the mid 1980s and had an Audubon parakeet. It was the only patch to feature a black arrow for the bird to perch on. It was also sold openly and was designed by Sam McCown. The back-patches sold out in 1987. |
 J3 - 60th Anniversary Jacket Patch |
The third Santee jacket patch came out for the 60th anniversary in 1998. The patches were designed by Marshall Smith and copied the now familiar design for the Santee J's. The patches cost $8 in the lodge store and were sold on open sale. The final batch was sold at the 2000 Spring Fellowship. |
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
The lodge has issued other memorabilia besides the lodge flaps that members wear. Among these other forms of memorabilia are arrowheads, back-patches, delegation patches, anniversary patches, neckerchiefs, and Dixie patches. With few exceptions all of these patches contain the parakeet, lodge colors, and "WWW".
Santee Lodge Arrowhead Shaped Patches
 A1 - Felt Arrowhead |
The first lodge emblem did not come out until 1955. This patch is in the shape of an arrowhead and is commonly called the "arrowhead". Prior to this time members only had their white sashes and dangle pin to distinguish them as brothers in the order of the arrow. The "arrowhead" was ordered to have a lodge emblem to wear while hosting the 1955 Dixie Fellowship at Camp Coker. This event was a meeting of all the lodges in the surrounding areas where special competitions and events would occur. Ed Fowler, who was the professional in charge of the lodge at the time, helped with the design and ordered the patches. It featured a parakeet from Audubon's painting sitting on a red arrow with word "Santee" across the bottom. The arrowhead was made of black felt with embroidery. The patches were sold for 50 cents and worn on the right breast pocket.
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 A2 - 35th Anniversary |
The second lodge arrowhead falls under the "if it looks like a duck" rule of patches. For a couple of years the lodge had issued fellowship neckerchiefs for events. However, the neckerchiefs ran out at the 1973 Summer Fellowship and many of the brothers wanted to have fellowship patches instead of neckerchiefs. Members of the executive committee approved a design for a patch for the 1973 Fall Fellowship. However, the design did not include the word "fellowship". Since it says "35th anniversary" the collecting community has always viewed this patch as a lodge issue for the 35th anniversary of the lodge instead of a fellowship patch. So "if it looks like a duck" it is a duck or in this case the A2. |
 A3 - 50th Anniversary |
The lodge celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 1988. To commemorate this event the lodge produced a replica of the original arrowhead from 1955. The "50th Arrowhead" is identical except it has the inscription "1938-88" to mark it as an anniversary patch. It also has a red loop which the original arrowhead did not have. The lodge made 700 of these and the patch was designed by Jason Collins and Phil Whittle. The patches were sold 3 per person at the 1988 Summer Fellowship. |
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 A4 - Service Arrowhead |
In 1993 the lodge executive committee came up with a program to promote attendance at the lodge workday and chapters to sponsor their own service projects. The program stated that if an Arrowmen gave 6 hours of service at Camp Coker they would be entitled to purchase a special 55th anniversary arrowhead patch. However, cheerful service performed during the lodge’s regularly scheduled fellowships did not count. Most of the chapters did hold chapter workdays at Coker and 230 of the special "Service Arrowheads" were earned. This arrowhead patch was designed by Andrew Myers. |
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 A5 - 60th Anniversary |
Along with creating a new jacket patch and lodge t-shirt the 60th anniversary of the lodge in 1998 also saw a new felt arrowhead. The new arrowhead was first available at Winter Banquet in January of 1998. At first the patches were sold on a limited basis. However, later they were put on open sale. The price of the patches went up and down according to who was behind the window of the lodge store. One fellowship they were sold for $2 while later the price was raised to $4. The patches sold out at the 1998 Fall Fellowship. |
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