Dustin Counts is Elected Region Chief

Posted: December 28, 2005

At the 2005 National Planning meeting our Section Chief and former Lodge Chief, Dustin Counts, was elected Region Chief of the Southern Region.

During the next year Dustin will play an integral part in planning our National Order of the Arrow Conference, holding NLS's across the Southern Region, promoting High Adventure, and many more activities. Catawba Lodge congratulates Dustin on this huge honor and knows he will represent us well.

Posted: November 21, 2005

The Lodge will have it's Annual Banquet on December 2 at Clear Creek Scout Camp's Dining Hall. The doors will be opening at 6:00 and food will be served at 6:30. The cost will be $11 per person.

We invite all Arrowmen and their families out to honor our leaders, fellowship and learn about the coming year.
 

Posted: November 02, 2005

The Vigil committee is proud to announce the 2005 Vigil Honor Recipients. Catawba Lodge has chosen to honor 8 brothers in its 2005 class of Vigil Honor Recipients.
 

The registration deadline for NOAC passed but Catawba Lodge has chosen to extend it to see if we can get more members interested. This year it will be held at Michigan State University from July 29th - August 3rd. The number of people that Catawba Lodge can take is limited so please get your registration in quickly in order to be guaranteed a spot. Please visit our NOAC event information page to find out more about NOAC and to download a registration form.
 

Posted: September 02, 2005

The June - August Issue of The Legend has been mailed to all current dues paid members.

  Posted: September 02, 2005

 Posted: September 02, 2005

The National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC) is upon us. This year it will be held at Michigan State University from July 29th - August 3rd. Registration will begin on September 1st and continue through November 1st. The number of people that Catawba Lodge can take is limited so please get your registration in quickly in order to be guaranteed a spot. Please visit our NOAC event information page to find out more about NOAC and to download a registration form.
 

Posted: July 04, 2005

Posted: June 10, 2005

We have now posted pictures from this past Second Ordeal held at the Clear Creek Scout Camp from June 3-5.
 

Posted: May 31, 2005

We have now posted pictures from this past Beaver Festival / First Ordeal held at the Mecklenburg Scout Reservation from May 20-23.
 

Lodge Elections Round 2

Posted: May 30, 2005

At this past Beaver Festival Chase Kliber was elected the Lodge Secretary and Asa Smith was elected the Apache Chapter Chief

Because of this we now have an opening in the Etowah Chapter Chief position. At 6:30 P.M., Wednesday June 1^st, at the Scout Office, the Etowah Chapter will hold a short meeting. The purpose of this meeting will be to elect a new Etowah Chapter Chief and Etowah Chapter Secretary to finish out the remainder of the 2004-2005 term. All youth arrowmen (under 21) from the Etowah Chapter will be allowed to vote. Anyone youth can run. The newly elected chapter officers would then be expected to stay for the Executive Board Meeting at 7:00.
 

Posted: May 18, 2005

Within the last year the website All Things OA has been gathering news & information and developing services & tools that will help members of the OA. Every day they report on interesting news from different lodges across the nation.

Posted: May 16, 2005

The March - May Issue of The Legend has been mailed to all current dues paid members.

Posted: May 16, 2005

Posted: May 11, 2005

At this past Executive Board meeting, John Mickey was installed as the Catawba Lodge Chief to fill the vacancy left by Dustin Counts' election to Section Chief. Elections were also held for the Vice Chief of Program and Vice Chief of Inductions vacancies.  Sean Smith was elected Vice Chief of Program and Michael Baker was elected Vice Chief of Inductions.

Posted: April 29, 2005

As you may know our Lodge Chief, Dustin Counts, was elected SR-5 Section Chief at the past Dixie Fellowship. In light of this, Order of the Arrow policy states he must resign his position of Lodge Chief. In this instance, per the Catawba Lodge By-Laws, the Vice Chief of Program, John Mickey, will become Lodge Chief. This leaves us with out a Vice Chief of Program. Also a new Vice Chief of Inductions will need to be elected because the former Vice Chief of Inductions had to step aside to concentrate on school.

Posted: April 26, 2005

During the elections at the SR-5 Dixie Fellowship, Dustin Counts was elected to serve as the 2005-2006 Section Chief for Southern Region Section 5. He will lead the 11 lodges of SR-5 throughout the year and lead the 2006 Dixie Fellowship.

Posted: April 18, 2005

In recognition of the Order of the Arrow's heritage of service, the National Order of the Arrow Committee created a new three-year Leadership in Service Program which was announced at the 2004 NOAC. For the next 3 years any Arrowman youth and adults can earn this award through service to scouting and the community. If the Arrowman earns the award multiple years they will get pins to place on the ribbon. To find out more please visit our Leadership in Service Award Page.
 

Posted: April 05, 2005

At this past Spring Fellowship the lodge dedicated a new ceremonial ring at Clear Creek Scout Camp. Posted here are pictures from that dedication and pictures from the construction process. A big thank you goes out to all of those people who have put so much of their time and efforts into this project.
 

Posted: April 05, 2005

We have now posted pictures from this past Spring Fellowship held at Clear Creek Scout Camp from March 18-20.
 

Former Lodge Adviser's Mother Passes On

Posted: March 23, 2005

Max Cooper's mother passed away this morning. Mr. Cooper is our former lodge adviser and strong supporter of our lodge, the Order of the Arrow and Boy Scouting in general. Mrs. Cooper was a regular attendee of our Annual Banquet and at many other Scouting events since the early 90's. Condolences may be sent to:

Max Cooper
4108 Coleman Dr.
Charlotte, NC 28215-9536

The service will be out of town . The family is asking that in lieu of flowers donations be made to the council Endowment fund. Donation checks should be made out to "BSA" with "Catawba Lodge Memoriam for Mrs. Cooper" in the memo. The Cooper's have been and continue to be active members of our Scouting family.

In addition to the Cooper family loss, Scouting has had two other tragedies in the past week.

David Royster who is a vigil honor member of our lodge and very active troop, district, and council scouter, lost his son, Robert Royster, in a car accident last Thursday. His son was an Eagle Scout and a Brotherhood member of our lodge.

Mary Meir passed away this past weekend. She was the wife of George Meir (also known as Jose). Mr. Meir is a life member of the the lodge and has been very active on the council property committee.

Posted: March 12, 2005

The Service Lodge has extended the registration deadline so there is still time to submit your Dixie registration to the registration committee. All late registration forms must be submitted and postmarked no later than March 15. Send your registration form today.

Posted: February 28, 2005

The January - February Issue of The Legend has been mailed to all current dues paid members.

Posted: February 20, 2005

The Vigil committee is now accepting nominations for the Vigil Honor. Nominations can be made by downloading and filling out the Vigil Nomination Form which is linked above and returned it to the Council Service Center or by submitting it online.

The committee will need the nominations by March 18th so that the committee can best choose who should be honored with the Vigil Honor.  Any scout or scouter can nominate any brotherhood member (of two years) of Catawba Lodge for Vigil.  For more information and a history of Catawba Lodge's Vigil Honor recipients please visit the Vigil website.
 

The lodge’s Annual Banquet was held this past December 3rd at Clear Creek Scout Camp. We had an excellent guest speaker in Mayor Ted Biggers. We also presented our yearly awards and had a vote on the bylaws. Find out more by reading the Annual Banquet in Review Article.
 

Posted: January 05, 2005

Posted: January 05, 2005