BSA Arrowhead LHC District: Order of the Arrow Meeting and EAGLE COURT OF HONOR

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Order of the Arrow Meeting and EAGLE COURT OF HONOR

Arrowmen:

Good evening. For those who didn't make it to the Sid Richardson Ordeal on September 20-22, I would like to announce our new Ordeal and Brotherhood members:

Ordeal Members:

William Brangers

Cole Davis

Quinn Gibson

Connor Greenwood

Ethan Mattox

Douglas Miles

Mike Cameron

Dwayne Nickols

Asa Rice

Chris Rissler

Jim Sears

Brotherhood Members:

Christian Brangers

Christopher Davis

Larry Gibson

Congratulations to these members! And we still need to get other candidates to do their Ordeal and our eligible Ordeal members to do their Brotherhood. We have a couple of opportunities for conversions. We have a BH opportunity at our District Camporee on Nov 15-17 at Worth Ranch. We also have a last-minute Ordeal at Worth Ranch for Ordeals & Brotherhoods at Worth Ranch on December 6-8. I've attached the Brotherhood question & answer sheet for your help. You can go to the Longhorn Council website to register for the Ordeal, and check with your troop or team to see about registering for the Camporee. We (your Chapter and your Lodge) still need help to reach our goal of Ordeal & Brotherhood conversions to reach our Journey to Excellence goal for the year. PLEASE HELP US! If you're planning on being at the District Camporee and you've been an Ordeal member for at least 10 months, go ahead and do your Brotherhood - I'll even give you your BH sash at no extra cost! That's free!!!

For this month's activity, we have something special! One of our Arrowmen, ANDREW FALETTI, has earned his Eagle rank and wants to celebrate this with his fellow Arrowmen and will have his EAGLE COURT OF HONOR at the Elks Lodge on Tuesday, Oct. 15 as part of our Chapter meeting.  Please come celebrate this occasion with him and have a piece of cake with him after the ceremony. Our Chapter ceremony team will be doing an OA ceremony as part of the COH.

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As follow up, the last Ordeal date of the year is December 6-8 at Worth Ranch. Please remind candidates that they need to attend an Ordeal weekend to complete their journey into the OA, and current Ordeal members are encouraged to seal their OA membership by doing their Brotherhood

As always, the Talahi Chapter meets the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m., at the Elks Lodge, located at 601 W. Pioneer Pkwy, Arlington, TX 76010.   Our next scheduled meeting is at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, October 15, 2013. The chapter officers and I would like to invite all Arrowmen to attend our meeting. If you're a regular attendee, it will be great to see you again. If you haven't been to a meeting in a while, please come and reconnect with the Order of the Arrow - we've missed you! Also, if you have any suggestions for meeting events, please let your Chapter Chief or me know; we want to provide an interesting program for you.

Yours in Brotherhood,

Gary Faletti

Talahi Chapter Adviser

talahiadviseroa@earthlink.net