Your Lodge Inductions Team has made signing up for this year's Elangomat and Nimat efforts EASY!!!  The following are hyperlinks for both of those service efforts.  Additionally, the Inductions team is also providing REQUIRED training for both roles.  All information on event and training dates are available in the following sign up pages.  

Elangomat: https://forms.gle/9NkuhR8wMN2ZFRur5

Nimat: https://forms.gle/ZarpLZ4CRjMQsYrX6

As the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, the National Order of the Arrow Committee deemed it appropriate to allow all of the pandemic-era policies, including those relating to membership, to expire.  In addition, the national committee decided that as of January 1, 2023, individuals selected as candidates for membership in the Order of the Arrow retain that eligibility for a period of 18 months from the date of their selection.  After that period, individuals may be considered again for selection if they continue to fulfill the eligibility requirements.  This increase from the previous 12 months will give lodges and individuals additional time for induction opportunities and aligns with the 2022-23 National Business Plan objective of membership growth.  For the latest membership information, please visit oa-bsa.org/about/membership.

Update posted 1.13.23

Catawba Point is our new meditation garden on the property of Camp Grimes near the new Belk Dining Hall.  It consists of a Flagpole, Totem Poles from our 2015 Dixie Fellowship incorporated with local plants and flowers.  But your help is needed to make PHASE 2 of this dream come true.  Through the purchase of commemorative bricks and commermorative jacket patches, you can help see this plan to fruition.  Help honor a loved one such as an Eagle Scout, Silver Beaver Recipient, Woodbadge Participant/Staff Member, or someone special who has passed. 

Thank you for your support in this endeavor, it is greatly appreciated!

Please click on the following links for Commemorative BRICKS and JACKET PATCH orders:

BRICKS:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OCJtrppWhEj1FOUs8F1gPQJ2bwI5FSOj/view?usp=sharing

Updated: 1.12.24

Introduced at the 1981 National Order of the Arrow Conference, the Founder's Award was created to honor and recognize those Arrowmen who have given outstanding service to the lodge.  The award is reserved for an Arrowmen who demonstrates to fellow Arrowmen that he or she memorializes in his or her everyday life the spirit of achievement as described by founder E. Urner Goodman and cofounder Carroll A. Edson.  The Award is a handsome bronze medallion bearing the likenesses of E. Urner Goodman and cofounder Carroll A. Edson, with wooden base and brass plate suitable for engraving.  Also available is a special Founder's Award arrow ribbon, with a gold colored arrow suspended from a red ribbon.  Lodges may petition the National Order of the Arrow Committee to present up to four awards annually, based on lodge membership. If the lodge presents more than one award, one must be to a youth under the age of 21.

CLICK HERE for award form.

The O. A. (Olvin Alexander) Crenshaw and Family Arrowman of the Year Award is given to one adult and one or more youth per year for outstanding service to the Lodge.  All members of the Lodge may make nominations for the Arrowman of the Year Award.  The youth recipients are voted on by adults and the adult recipient is voted on by youth.  It is voted on at the October Executive Committee Meeting.  These Awards are presented at the Lodge's annual banquet in December.

CLICK HERE for award form.

The award is named after the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America who exemplified Ralph Walso Emerson's observation that "an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man."  Scouting today is the "lengthened shadow" of more than three decades of the farseeing and dedicated leadership of Dr. James E. West.

Those who are recognized by the James E. West Fellowship Award will cast their own "lengthened shadow" as they help ensure the Scouting legacy for future generations of young people and create the financial stability of the program in the twenty-first century for their local council.

A gift to a local council, designated by the donor to the council endowment fund, qualifies for membership as a James E. West fellow.  The gift must be in addition to— and not replace or diminish—the donor’s annual Friends of Scouting support.  A minimum gift of $1000 in cash or marketable securities qualifies for the Bronze level membership. Donors may make cumulative gifts to reach Silver, Gold, and Diamond member levels.  For example, 5 years of giving at the Bronze level would qualify for Silver level membership.  Many individuals and corporations make these gifts either on behalf of someone else—such as in honor of an Eagle Scout, Silver Beaver recipient, a retirement, a special accomplishment, or anniversary—or in memory of a special individual.