Summer Brotherhoods 2009

Summer Brotherhoods

and OA Service Hours at Camp Hinds

This summer at Camp Hinds, every Thursday is OA Thursday. Wear your purple tabs, your favorite purple shirt, and be at the Dining Hall directly after dinner. Brotherhood conversions will be offered for those Ordeal members who have completed the required ten months of active service. The conversion costs $20. If you're planning on coming up to camp specifically for the Brotherhood, please show up a little early so that you can hear any announcements about the conversion during dinner. Also on Thursdays, the Lodge will be hosting the OA Service Hour, which is exactly what it sounds like. One hour, directly after dinner, spent in service to Camp Hinds. Service Hour projects in recent years have included staining new picnic tables, replacing the fence in Tenny Campsite, and putting up old plaques in the Dining Hall. Complete an OA Service Hour, and you'll receive a neat patch! There is no cost for the OA Service Hour.

Also in the news...

Second Ordeal 2009

Matt Allaire, Lodge Secretary

The second Ordeal of 2009 was at Camp Hinds on June 5-7. 59 candidates completed their Ordeal, and 6 members converted to Brotherhood. This Ordeal did a lot to prepare for Conclave on the 12-14th - cots were put in, tarps were put up, and the Council Ring was repainted. Photos from this and the first Ordeal are available in the new Photos section of the website.

Conclave Staff Registration Online

The Conclave staff registration form is now online. If you are interested in helping out at Conclave, please fill out the form and send it in. Remember, staff still have to pay for regular registration (which helps cover the cost of food). Conclave Staff Registration is only open to members of Madockawanda Lodge.

Update 5/28: Staff registration has ended and the form is no longer available.

Lodge Wins Fourth National Service Award

On Friday, we received notification that Madockwanda Lodge had been given its fourth National Service Award - a Northeast Region record. The NSA was awarded for 2008 service, including the large contingent the Lodge sent to ArrowCorps⁵. Lodge Adviser Bruce Rueger thanks everyone who contributed to last year's service for their outstanding effort and devotion to Madockawanda Lodge, and looks forward to a continuation of the level of service that merited this award.

January/February Turtle Soup Released

The latest issue of Turtle Soup is now online for your reading pleasure. The online version has been corrected to reflect the actual cost of registering for the University of Scouting. The print version should be arriving in your mailbox soon.

Conclave 2009

Conclave was held at Camp Hinds this year, and 239 Arrowmen from Section NE-1A and beyond were in attendance. Past National Chief Jake Wellman and current Southern Region Chief Mark Norris stayed the weekend, judged OA Jeopardy, and held a Meet The Man session Saturday afternoon.

Saturday morning opened with a Vigil rededication and eggs-to-order by Phil Taschereau and Henry Zwetsloot. After breakfast, training sessions were held on a wide range of topics, including How To Dance, Leading Leaders, Effective Lodge Websites, and Developing a Conservation Project.

After lunch, there was some time for open recreation, a Pow Wow, and the ever-popular, coffee Moxie® Race. Five members of each Lodge ran a relay race that involved a short sprint, spinning around, sprinting back, and quickly drinking an entire can of Moxie. Madockawanda Lodge won the Moxie® Race by a slim margin. Sources are divided as to whether or not Tom Thornton's collision with the Moswetuset team was in fact an accident.

More information about the Conclave will be in your next issue of Turtle Soup - look for it in your mailbox in the upcoming weeks! Photos from the Conclave are available now on the new Photos section of the website.

Website Updated for Conclave, NOAC

The Lodge website has been updated to meet standards for the Conclave and NOAC website competitions. We've cleaned up some of the History pages and generally improved the website. Most of the changes are to the actual.shtml code, so you won't really "see" them. One change you should notice is the new Wikipedia-style link icons. With these, links that go to other websites have this icon. We also have email icons, file (mostly PDF) icons, and video icons. Links that go to pages on our site have no icon.

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