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  • Latest Posts

    • scoutldr
      1915 Society Endowment Program

      By scoutldr · Posted

      I would be interested in where the funds go and for what purpose?  How is this different from FOS or the James E. West fellowship?  Do I get another square knot? Or knot?
    • InquisitiveScouter
      What is Going On With the OA

      By InquisitiveScouter · Posted

      Agree with that line of thinking...  make it an honor to be earned & recognized for again, and make senior patrols of OA Scouts in units the centerpiece ... with emphasis on unit and community service. There is too much emphasis on serving the Lodge, rather than serving your unit or the community.  So much so, that the Lodge and the OA have become a self-licking ice cream cone (yes, I've used that phrase before...)  That is, for most of the Lodges I have seen since the early 2000's, the Lodge exists to serve itself.  This is one avenue where the OA has gone wrong...  Hopefully, some of you out there have vastly different experiences.
    • BetterWithCheddar
      What is Going On With the OA

      By BetterWithCheddar · Posted

      I like the OA. I've got lots of good memories from my youth and the admonition has stuck with me as an adult. That said, I wouldn't be upset if it folded. Lax membership standards and concerns over Native American cosplay have left the OA in rough shape. One underrated benefit of ending the OA program would be a boost in Venturing participation. Right now, they function as parallel senior scout programs, but a strong chapter could easily function as a Crew and continue providing service to its district and local camps. If the OA were to continue in present form, I'd consider eliminating elections in favor of a universal standard such as: 50 Nights of Camping 50 Hours of Community Service Star Rank Completion of Ordeal
    • mrjohns2
      1915 Society Endowment Program

      By mrjohns2 · Posted

      More to participate in the endowment donation program. 
    • skeptic
      What is Going On With the OA

      By skeptic · Posted

      Maybe the answer is to make it significant again and not just a notch on the belt for someone.  When it was an Honor Camping Society that encouraged camping on the unit and council levels, and had real standards to be elected, including limits, and councils did not sell off camps to survive, it was viable.  Now it is pretty much a memory for we old people and that notch I noted.  No, that would make some people unhappy to have real entry standards.  An Honor Scoity for Scouts and Scouters should actually present an aura of honor one might think.  A few still do, but it is no longer a mystery or has it any real reason to exist.  Just an observation.  

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