The Order of the Arrow (OA) is the National Honor Society of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), composed of Scouts and Scouters who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law in their daily lives as elected by their peers. The society was created by E. Urner Goodman, with the assistance of Carroll A. Edson, in 1915 as a means of reinforcing the Scout Oath and the Scout Law. It uses imagery commonly associated with American Indian cultures for its self-invented ceremonies. These ceremonies are usually for recognition of leadership qualities, camping skills, and other scouting ideals as exemplified by their elected peers.
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Order of the Arrow | Introduction
E. Urner Goodman, with the assistance of Carroll A. Edson E. Urner Goodman, with the assistance of Carroll A. Edson The society was created by E. Urner Goodman, with the assistance of Carroll A. Edson. E. Urner Goodman, with the assistance of Carroll A. Edson.
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The Order of the Arrow was founded in 1915 at a Scout summer camp on Treasure Island, on the Delaware River near Philadelphia. The two men principally responsible for its creation were camp director E. Urner Goodman and his assistant Carroll A. Edson. Goodman and Edson were looking for ways to improve the camp and to keep the older boys coming back. They looked at several sources in creating their new 'camp fraternity', including: The Order earned official recognition as a BSA program experiment in 1922, along with several other honor societies. It acquired its present name at the same time.
Unami Lodge | History
The brotherhood of Scout honor campers with its American Indian overtones was a success and was repeated again the following summer at Treasure Island. Those Scouts honored at Treasure Island in 1915 and 1916 would eventually become members of the Order of the Arrow's Unami Lodge. By 1921, Goodman had spoken to Scout leaders in surrounding states about the OA, and lodges were established in a score of Scout councils in the northeast. In October 1921, he convened the first national meeting of what was then called the National Lodge of the Order of the Arrow in Philadelphia, and Goodman was elected Grand Chieftain.
E. Urner Goodman | Founding and development of the Order of the Arrow
The Order of the Arrow (OA) is the National Honor Society of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), composed of Scouts and Scouters who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law in their daily lives as elected by their peers. The society was created by E. Urner Goodman, with the assistance of Carroll A. Edson, in 1915 as a means of reinforcing the Scout Oath and the Scout Law. It uses imagery commonly associated with American Indian cultures for its self-invented ceremonies. These ceremonies are usually for recognition of leadership qualities, camping skills, and other scouting ideals as exemplified by their elected peers.
Order of the Arrow | Introduction
They decided to create an honor society of their own at camp that summer, in a manner befitting a boy's interest and understanding. Goodman utilized the appeal of Indian lore and recognition by a Scout's peers as motivational tools. He devised a program where troops chose, at the camp's conclusion, those boys from among their number who best exemplified the ideals of Scouting. Those elected were acknowledged as having displayed, in the eyes of their fellow Scouts, a spirit of unselfish service and brotherhood. Edson helped Goodman research the traditions and language of the Lenni Lenape—also known as the Delaware—who had once inhabited Treasure Island.
E. Urner Goodman | Founding and development of the Order of the Arrow
In 1915, at Treasure Island Scout Reservation on the Delaware River E. Urner Goodman and Carroll A. Edson started an honor society, Wimachtendienk ("Brotherhood" in the Lenape language), to recognize Scouts who best implemented the Scout Oath and Scout Law as examples to follow. This organization is today known as the Order of the Arrow. Six years later and away at Camp Roosevelt a group that called itself the Clan of the Mystic Oak formed in 1921, with the nearly identical goals of "further Scouting, advance the interests of Camp Roosevelt, and to promote fellowship among its members." While the Clan of the Mystic Oak was specific to Camp Roosevelt in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, the Order of the Arrow spread across the country as it formed new lodges.
National Capital Area Council | Order of the Arrow
Goodman and Edson, the founders of the Order of the Arrow, opted to portray what they saw as Native American characteristics "as a sign of scouting excellence," and that the imagery, costuming, titles and imitation rituals "evoked a primitivist exterior Indian Other, vanished from the modern world but still accessible through ritual and its accompanying objects." Goodman and Edson established the OA at Treasure Island Scout Reservation as a Scouting honor society "based on a loose interpretation of" "Hiawatha" and the novel "The Last of the Mohicans". Inductions of new OA members at Treasure Island involved OA members meeting around bonfires in "ritual Indian costume".
Order of the Arrow | Association with Native American Cultures
Committees were organized to formulate a constitution, refine ceremonial rituals, devise insignia, and plan future development. Reflecting Goodman's ongoing interest in music, he composed the words to the Order of the Arrow's song, "Firm Bound in Brotherhood", set to the stirring melody of a hymn found in the Presbyterian hymnal of the 1920s, "God the Omnipotent" in 11.10.11.9 meter, which was adapted from the Russian national anthem, "God Save the Tsar!", composed by Alexei Lvov in 1833.
E. Urner Goodman | Founding and development of the Order of the Arrow
In 1915, E. Urner Goodman, a newly hired field executive for the Philadelphia Council, was assigned to serve as director of the council's summer camp at Treasure Island Scout Reservation on the Delaware River. He believed that the summer camp experience should do more than just teach proficiency in Scoutcraft skills; rather, the principles embodied in the Scout Oath and Scout Law should become realities in the lives of Scouts. Along with his assistant camp director, Carroll A. Edson, he started an experimental honor society to acknowledge those campers he felt best exemplified these qualities, calling the program, "Wimachtendienk", or "Brotherhood" in one of the Lenape dialects.
Order of the Arrow | Founding and editing the Order of the Arrow
Goodman is best remembered today for having created the Order of the Arrow (OA), a popular and highly successful program of the BSA that continues to honor Scouts for their cheerful service. Since its founding in 1915, the Order of the Arrow has grown to become a nationwide program having thousands of members, which recognizes those Scouts who best exemplify the virtues of cheerful service, camping, and leadership by membership in BSA's honor society. As of 2007, the Order of the Arrow has more than 183,000 members.
E. Urner Goodman | Introduction
Even the early national meeting was called a "Grand Lodge," a Masonic reference.
Order of the Arrow | Founding and editing the Order of the Arrow
For over 100 years the Order of the Arrow has played a significant role in the life of millions of Scouts, shaping them to be young men dedicated to the cheerful service of others and bound in brotherhood to their fellow man. Soon after Dr. E. Urner Goodman and Col. Carol A. Edson founded our Order at Treasure Island Scout Camp in 1915, word of the Wimachtendienk came to New York City. In 1920, four men were inducted into the Order and formed the 4th Order of the Arrow Lodge in the country. It was on that evening that the rich history of Brotherhood, Cheerfulness, and Service began in what we now know as the Greater New York Councils.
Greater New York Councils | History of the Order in GNYC
Established in 1908, The Order of Myth and Sword is the last secret society founded in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The organisation was first formed as "Vernon Hall", a three-year society bearing the Greek letters Phi Gamma Delta (like other "Sheff" societies, such as Book and Snake "Sigma Delta Chi", and St. Elmo "Delta Phi"). Today, each new delegation of the Society is elected to membership at the end of the junior year. Membership of the Society is reputedly based on character, and achievements in the field of public service in accordance with the Order's mission and values.
Myth and Sword | Introduction
Lodges are not required to give the Founder's Award if they feel that no one is worthy of it. A member may only receive the award once in his or her lifetime. The award is a bronze medallion bearing the images of Goodman and Edson. The reverse of the medallion reads "For he who serves his fellows, is of all his fellows, greatest" which was Goodman's prime reason for starting the Order of the Arrow. The recipient may also wear a red OA Pocket Device with a gold arrow, instead of the red and white one with a silver arrow.
Order of the Arrow honors and awards | Founder's Award
The Order of the Sword & Shield was established in 2010 at St. Johns University by Professor Jeffrey Grossmann. The organization was created to be the first national honor society dedicated exclusively to homeland security, intelligence, emergency management and all protective security disciplines.
Order of the Sword &amp; Shield | Founding
The Order of the Arrow Founder's Award was first introduced at the 1981 National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC), following the death of Goodman. This award honors Arrowmen in the Order of the Arrow (OA) for unselfish service above and beyond their normal duties to their lodge. Any lodge may present the award to up to two arrowmen annually; lodges with more than 1,000 members may present up to three awards, and lodges with more than 1,500 members may present up to four awards. No lodge may present more than four awards. If more than one Founder's Award is presented, at least one must be presented to a youth member under the age of 21.
Order of the Arrow honors and awards | Founder's Award
The recipient is also presented with a certificate detailing his name and lodge.
Order of the Arrow honors and awards | Founder's Award
It was written in 1921 by OA founder E. Urner Goodman to the Russian hymn tune "God Save the Tsar!", composed by Alexei Lvov in the 19th century.
Order of the Arrow | Ceremonies
In 1915 the Order of the Arrow (OA) was founded at Treasure Island by the Camp Director, E. Urner Goodman, and Assistant Camp Director Carroll A. Edson. The W. W. W. (the original name of the OA in the Lenni Lenape language) was designed as a camp honor fraternity that would emphasize the ideals of Scouting through the use of ceremonies and American Indian lore. At the beginning of the camping season, Goodman explored the island to find a suitable site for the Council Fire and for the rituals of his new program. A natural amphitheater was chosen on the south side of the island that was secluded from the rest of the camp.
Treasure Island Scout Reservation | Order of the Arrow
The "Kaweah Lodge" was founded by council president and founder, Barclay Stephens, In July 1947, the first candidates were tapped out and inducted into the order by members of another lodge at Camp Stephens.
Alameda Council | Order of the Arrow
Mr. Hale consulted Goodman after Mr. Vaughan-Lloyd asked Mr. Hale to explore the establishment of an Order of the Arrow lodge in the council. Mr. Hale was an active member of the National Committee of the Order of the Arrow beginning just before his brief term as National Chairman in 1948 and ending with his death in 1973.
Raven Knob Scout Reservation | Founders
Mikanakawa Lodge is the local extension of the Order of the Arrow within Circle Ten. It was founded in 1937 by L. L.Hotchkiss after Scouts from Circle Ten Council came back from the 1937 National Scout Jamboree. On April 26 Hotchkiss, himself a distinguished Arrowman, mailed a letter to the National OA Secretary about starting a Lodge. On June 22, final approval for the lodge was given and within seven days of the letter, the first Ordeal was held at Camp Wisdom. The lodge gained its name when the Mikanakawa Tribe, a group of Scouts acting outside of the Order of the Arrow but with similar activities, was merged by Circle Ten into the official Order of the Arrow lodge and allowed to keep the name Mikanakawa.
Circle Ten Council | Order of the Arrow
The Military Order of the Reason () was created in the year 1385. Along with the Order of the Pigeon was one of the two orders founded by King John I of Castile. Cristóbal Suárez de Figueroa, citing an earlier work, he said in his book "Plaza universal de todas las ciencias y artes" that in it were selected its members based on the value and skill shown in handling the weapons instead of the degree of nobility of their ancestors. Also it came to naming hundred noble young noble of this order. Its emblem or badge consisted of a spear with the figure of a small heraldic shield on one of its extremities.
Order of the Reason | Introduction
The full original name for the organization was "Wimachtendienk Wingolauchsik Witahemui" (Brotherhood of Those Who Serve Cheerfully). It is still referred to via the inclusion of the letters "W W W" on most lodge patches. Goodman and Edson decided that a "camp fraternity" was the way to improve the summer camp experience and to encourage older Scouts to continue attending Scout summer camp. In developing this program they borrowed from the traditions and practices of several other organizations. Edward Cave's "Boy's Camp Book" (1914) was consulted for the concept of a camp society that would perpetuate camp traditions. College fraternities were also influential for their concepts of brotherhood and rituals, and the idea of new members pledging themselves to the new organization.
Order of the Arrow | Founding and editing the Order of the Arrow
After researching the OA and watching their ceremonies she said, "Use of these items by Boy Scouts indicates that there is very little understanding of the Native people they claim to admire and respect."
Order of the Arrow | Concerns of cultural appropriation and stereotypes
As the Philadelphia Council's newly hired field executive in 1915, one of Goodman's assignments was to serve as director of the council's summer camp at Treasure Island Scout Reservation on the Delaware River. He believed that the summer camp experience should do more than just teach proficiency in Scoutcraft skills; rather, the principles embodied in the Scout Oath and Scout Law should become realities in the lives of Scouts. Along with his assistant camp director, Carroll A. Edson, he started an experimental program to recognize those Scouts best exemplifying those traits as an example to their peers. Goodman and Edson were strongly influenced by the use of American Indian culture by Ernest Thompson Seton in his Woodcraft Indians program.
E. Urner Goodman | Founding and development of the Order of the Arrow
Below is a list of Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour from the order's creation in 1917 until the present day:
List of Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour | Introduction
Adults age 21 or older may be nominated after meeting the camping requirements and being approved by the lodge adult selection committee. Honorary membership was once bestowed in special circumstances, as with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower, but this practice was officially discontinued in 1953.
Order of the Arrow | Membership
The OA program sponsors several events, awards, and training functions.
Order of the Arrow | Introduction
The society was named "after the battle where the male lovers of the Theban Band were slaughtered in 338 BC." Ives and other members dated letters and other materials from the year of the battle, so that 1900 would be written as C.2238.
Order of Chaeronea | Establishment and organization
It lasted only to 1654 when Christina of Sweden abdicated. In 1860, James B. Taylor of Newark, New Jersey drew upon Queen Christina's order to create a new fraternal society. In 1873, Robert Macoy organized Taylor's society into the Order of the Amaranth, part of a proposed Adoptive Rite of Masonry. Eastern Star was to be the first degree, and until 1921, Amaranth members were required to join Eastern Star first.
Order of the Amaranth | Introduction
These letters of patent: revived and ratified, on their behalf, the old laws and acts of Parliament that favored archery; gave them power to admit members, chose a President and council, appoint commanding officers, and to meet and act under their officers' supervision in military form for weapon-shawing as often as they should think convenient; and prohibited the civil magistrate from interrupting their activities. These rights and privileges were designed after the mode of feudal tenure, and to hold them in blanch fee ("reddendo") of Her Majesty and her successors, therefore annually acknowledging a pair of barbed arrows. The society received these rights and privileges in its charter from Queen Anne in 1704.
Royal Company of Archers | Early history
The Order of the Yellow Ribbon was founded in 1600 in Nevers by the French-Italian nobleman Charles III, Duke of Nevers, nephew of the French king Henry III, and knights would be imposed very peculiar duties.
Order of the Yellow Ribbon | Introduction
Between 2005 and 2007, the National Order of the Arrow Committee created the Leadership in Service Award to recognize both youth and adult members completing a set number of hours of service on community and lodge levels. The award was given over three years with first year recipients receiving a red acrylic pocket arrow suspended from on a blue device and second and third year recipients receiving silver and gold palms, respectively.
Order of the Arrow honors and awards | Leadership in Service Award
General Bramwell Booth instituted the "Order of the Founder" on 20 August 1917 and the first awards were made in 1920 to one Soldier and 15 Officers. General George Carpenter founded the "Order of Distinguished Auxiliary Service" in 1941 to express the Salvation Army's gratitude for service given to the organisation by non-Salvationists.
The Salvation Army | Honours
Historically, the society was male-only, founded as the "Highest Honor Attained by Men." In 1937, Nu Kappa Tau, a separate sister organization, was founded as "The Highest Honor Attained by Women." In 1966, Nu Kappa Tau became affiliated with the national women's honor society, Mortar Board, and as Randy Femmer wrote in his book "Iron Arrow: A History","leaving Iron Arrow to carry the tradition alone". In 1976, the federal government notified the University of Miami that it was providing significant assistance to Iron Arrow in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The university responded by having Iron Arrow move its tapping ceremony off campus and negotiated with it to accept women members.
Iron Arrow Honor Society | History
Brunton was a Scout executive of the Chester County Council and one of the charter members of its Order of the Arrow Octoraro Lodge #22. He volunteered considerably for the Order during his professional career, served as a National OA officer, and was elected National Chief when adults still served in those positions. He was instrumental in creating the OA Distinguished Service Award first given at the 1940 National Lodge meeting, and he himself later received the Award in 1946.
Joseph Brunton | Order of the Arrow
The Legacy of Servant Leadership Lifetime Achievement Award was created by the National Order of the Arrow Committee in 2002 to recognize the Order's second and third generation "Founders" - Scouters who have built an enduring legacy to Scouting and the Order of the Arrow through a lifetime of cheerful service to others. The award is intended to recognize only those extraordinary Arrowmen who have deeply influenced and significantly contributed to the vision, direction, and growth of the Order of the Arrow, faithfully demonstrated a lifetime of servant leadership, and, through their daily example, illuminated and reinforced the significance of the values found in the Scout Oath and Scout Law.
Order of the Arrow honors and awards | Lifetime achievement award
The Society of Archers is an English archery organisation that was formed on Sunday 14 May 1673. The purpose of the Society is to continue the annual Antient Scorton Silver Arrow tournament and preserve details of its entrants and winners. The Society was formed immediately following the first Antient Scorton Silver Arrow tournament. Membership is obtained by entering the tournament and agreeing to abide by its rules. Entry to the tournament is restricted to men aged 21 years or over.
Society of Archers | Introduction
The council's Order of the Arrow lodge is called the Buckskin Lodge, 412 WWW.
Theodore Roosevelt Council | Order of the Arrow
Begun in 1999, the National Service Award recognizes four Lodges each year whose service work is exemplary in both quality and quantity. The Lodge must petition for the award and show proof of their accomplishments, in addition to being certified a Quality Lodge for that year.
Order of the Arrow honors and awards | National Service Award
The Iron Arrow Honor Society is an honor society at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida for students, faculty, staff and alumni. It is the highest honor that can be bestowed by the university. Founded at the University of Miami in 1926, the society admits about thirty members annually, including undergraduates, students at the School of Law, and Miller School of Medicine, alumni, and faculty/staff/administrators. Membership requires unanimous votes of the membership. Criteria include scholarship, leadership, character, humility, and love of "alma mater".
Iron Arrow Honor Society | Introduction
The Order of Sir Galahad was an organization for Anglican and Episcopal boys and men, founded in Boston in 1896 by the Reverend Ernest J. Dennen. The Order's activities were structured around Galahad in Arthurian legend. The Order's summer camp was Camp O-AT-KA in Sebago, Maine.
Order of Sir Galahad | Introduction
The Order of Aftab ("Nishan-i-Aftab") was founded by Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar, the King of Persia, in February 1873, before his first visit to various European states. The order came in two classes, the first class restricted to female sovereigns or consorts of reigning rulers and the second class to princesses and ladies of high rank, and those deserving of special recognition or signs of conspicuous appreciation by the Shah. In 1967 during the reign of the Pahlavi dynasty the statues of the order had changed, there changes included the name to the Order of Aryamehr, the insignia and the eligibility of receiving the order.
Order of Aftab | Introduction
The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England in 1348. Dates shown are of nomination or installation; coloured rows indicate Princes of Wales, Royal Knights & Ladies and Stranger Knights & Ladies, none of whom counts toward the 24-member limit.
List of Knights and Ladies of the Garter | Introduction
Originally awarded in only one class, in 1896 it was expanded to three classes: Two crossed swords were added if the award was for military service.
Order of Berthold the First | Classes
After five meetings between February and September 1998, all details regarding basic structure, committee responsibilities, name of the lodge, bylaws and first lodge event were discussed and finalized. On October 4, 1998, the first meeting of the memberships of Owaneco Lodge occurred. The lodge membership approved the lodge name, number, bylaws and the first group of lodge officers was elected. During the lodge’s first year, the executive committee worked to mold the new lodge program. Several changes were made to combine the traditions of Tankiteke and Arcoon and adapt a new lodge program. In 1998 the Ockenuck Chapter renamed itself to the Arcoon Chapter.
Connecticut Yankee Council | Order of the Arrow
The Order of the Arrow Quapaw Lodge 160 was formed with fifteen members in June 1939 and inducted sixty-two members during the summer of 1939. Today, the lodge has about 500 members.
Quapaw Area Council | Order of the Arrow
Grant and Julia Grant. The first annual banquet of the Order was held on February 2, 1897 in the Hotel Manhattan in New York City with over 200 members and guests in attendance, as reported in the New York Times.
Order of the Founders and Patriots of America | Founding
In 1842, after an elementary dispute on authority, the American Lodges formed a governing system separate from the English Order, and in 1843 assumed the name Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows | Introduction
The Knights and Ladies of Honor originated as a splinter group of the Knights of Honor, a fraternal secret society founded in 1873. In 1875, the Knight of Honor created an auxiliary, the Degree of Protection, open the wives, mothers, widows and unmarried daughters and sisters of members of the Knights of Honor, as well as male members of the parent order. The only a few lodges of the auxiliary were formed in the years between its creation and May 1877, when the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Honor abolished the auxiliary. On September 6, 1877 representatives of the lodges of the Degree met in convention in Louisville, Kentucky, and decided to form their own organization.
Knights and Ladies of Honor | History
The Order of Sultan Qaboos was instituted in 1985 by Sultan Qaboos.
Order of Sultan Qaboos | History
The order was founded in 1885 by Margaret J. Franklin and her Bible study class at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in New York. The order marked its quasquicentennial or 125 years of existence in 2010. The organization was founded in 1885 and considered itself "an order rather than a society" during its early years.
Daughters of the King | Founding
Inspired by Ernest Thompson Seton's previous Woodcraft Indians program, American Indian motifs were used to make the organization interesting and appealing to youth. Other influences include the Brotherhood of Andrew and Phillip, a Presbyterian church youth group with which Goodman had been involved as a young man, and Freemasonry. The traditions and rituals of Freemasonry contributed more to the basic structure of the OA ritual than any other organization. In fact, there appears to be no known fraternal organization more faithful in form to Freemasonry than the OA. Familiar terms such as "lodge" and "obligation" were borrowed from Masonic practice, as were most of the ceremonial structures and ritual formulae.
Order of the Arrow | Founding and editing the Order of the Arrow
The Order of the Arrow is represented by Shinnecock Lodge 360. The lodge was founded on June 20, 1947. The lodge totem is the tern.
Suffolk County Council (Boy Scouts of America) | Order of the Arrow
The Order of the Companions of Honour is an order of the Commonwealth realms. It was founded on 4 June 1917 by King George V as a reward for outstanding achievements and is "conferred upon a limited number of persons for whom this special distinction seems to be the most appropriate form of recognition, constituting an honour disassociated either from the acceptance of title or the classification of merit." Founded on the same date as the Order of the British Empire, it is sometimes regarded as the junior order to the Order of Merit. Now described as "awarded for having a major contribution to the arts, science, medicine, or government lasting over a long period of time", the first recipients were all decorated for "services in connection with the war" and were listed in "The London Gazette".
Order of the Companions of Honour | Introduction
Furst Aquatics Base. The Order of the Arrow is represented by Mikanakawa Lodge.
Circle Ten Council | Introduction
Order of the Sword is a Swedish order of chivalry created in 1748. Order of the Sword may also refer to:
Order of the Sword (disambiguation) | Introduction
On June 23, 1877, he called together a group of his friends at 1066 Washington Street, Boston and initiated them as the first Supreme Council of the new order. Among the other participants was J. A. Cummings, at that time Grand Vice Dictator of the Knight of Honor in Massachusetts, who was offered, but refused, the post of Supreme Regent of the Royal Arcanum.
Royal Arcanum | History
With the introduction of the Scouts BSA program on February 1, 2019, unit elections are now permitted in Scouts BSA, Venturing and Sea Scouting units.
Order of the Arrow | 21st century
The Honourable Order of Rama (; ) was established on 22 July 1918 (B.E. 2461) by King Rama VI of the Kingdom of Siam (now Thailand), to be bestowed onto those who have rendered special military services either in peace or in wartime.
Order of Rama | Introduction
Revived in the early 1990s under a newly-styled name, "the Order of Myth and Sword", the organisation continues to this day as a senior secret society. This process occurred alongside the refounding of several older Yale societies, such as Mace and Chain and Torch Honor Society.
Myth and Sword | About
The council is served by the Totanhan Nakaha Lodge, which was formed in 2006 after the Viking and Indianhead Councils merged. Its name means "From the Past, A New Beginning". The previous lodges and their origins are depicted below.
Northern Star Council | Order of the Arrow
The initial delegation, including ten Class Day officers from the Class of 1884 and led by Edwin Albert Merritt, met in secret during their senior year with the aid of members of the Class of 1883 who were "eager to start a society provided the evil features of the old societies would be eliminated. [The graduating and rising seniors] were unanimous on this point." Included among the supporters from the Class of 1883 were members touted as sure selections to Bones or Keys by the publishers of the "Horoscope", an undergraduate publication that provided feature material on the most likely taps.
Wolf's Head (secret society) | Establishment
These institutions in turn gave rise to the modern-day orders of merit of sovereign states.
Order of chivalry | Introduction
Upon its founding, the Three Harbors Council was temporarily served by two lodges: The terms of the Three Harbors Council merger (dated October 1, 2011) specified that the two lodges should determine how best to consolidate within 18 months of the council merger. In 2012, the Lodge Creation Committee was formed of equal numbers of youth from each lodge with limited adult involvement, aside from the lodge's primary advisers. This committee met multiple times leading up to the 2012 summer camp season to decide on the Lodge Executive Committee structure, how the new lodge is going to utilize all four camps, a chapter system for the larger geographic area, the officers and election cycle, etc.
Three Harbors Council | Order of the Arrow
Many medals were made, but were mostly unissued.
Order &quot;For Personal Courage&quot; | Introduction
Echockotee Lodge, a chartered Lodge of the National Order of the Arrow, was founded in 1941, with an initial Ordeal held at Camp Echockotee on May 9 of that year. The first Ordeal class of 36 candidates was made up of youth and adults selected by a council committee, for their prior service to Scouting and the Summer Camp program. The initial totem of the fledgling Lodge was the alligator, but in an organizational meetings that summer, the totem was changed to that of the left-handed handclasp, and the name of the camp was adopted as the Lodge name ("Echockotee" is a Seminole word meaning "we are brothers").
North Florida Council | Order of the Arrow
The Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" () was established on 2 March 1994 by Presidential Decree No.442. Its award criteria were modified on 6 January 1999 by Presidential Decree 19 and again on 7 September 2010 by Presidential Decree 1099. The medal of the Order is divided into two classes, the first and the second, it is further divided into a civilian and a military division, the medal of the military division is awarded "with swords" and its criteria differ from those of the civilian division.
Medal of the Order &quot;For Merit to the Fatherland&quot; | Introduction
Those who are invested are said to have to jump like frogs on the University Campus in keeping with tradition with the original award in 1917. When a member of the order dies the members closest are asked to return the frog insignia which the members wear around they necks or otherwise destroy it.
The Order of the Frog | Introduction
The Order of the Arrow is represented by the Passaconaway Lodge #220. On June 10, 1942, the Passaconaway Lodge was organized at Camp Manning. 43 members were inducted that year. The totem of the lodge was chosen as the bear since the Native word "Passaconaway" means "the child of the bear". Election of the first lodge officers took place. The mission of this lodge is to fulfill the purpose of the Order of the Arrow as an integral part of the Boy Scouts of America through positive youth leadership under the guidance of selected, capable adults.
Daniel Webster Council | Passaconaway Lodge
The Order of the Shields and Spears was established on 8 August 1927 by Daudi Cwa II of Buganda, Kabaka of the Buganda, for the purpose of recognizing excellent service to the kingdom. The order's medals was created on 26 May 1937. It is awarded to Bugandan subjects and foreign nationals.
Order of the Shield and Spears | History
The Order of Distinction or Order of Honour () was an order of the Ottoman Empire founded by Sultan Abdul Hamid I ca. 1780. It was a higher honor than the Order of Glory and given to reward merit and outstanding services. It was revived on 17 December 1878 by Sultan Abdul Hamid II. This was the highest order in the Ottoman Empire.
Order of Distinction (Ottoman Empire) | Introduction
The order was bestowed for the first and only time on December 2, 1616, at the great celebrations that took place in Kolding, on the occasion of the enfeoffment of Slesvig to the King's nephew, Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. Although this was the first time the order came into use, it is assumed that it was created to celebrate the happy outcome of the Kalmar War. The twelve men knighted were all noblemen who had distinguished themselves during the war.
Order of the Armed Arm | Establishment
First instituted in only one class, the order in 1912 was expanded to include a First Class, Second Class, and Third Class.
Order of Merit for Science and Art | Order classes
The order, conceived in an ecclesiastical spirit in which mass and obsequies were prominent and the knights were seated in choirstalls like canons, was explicitly denied to heretics, and so became an exclusively Catholic honour during the Reformation. The officers of the order were the chancellor, the treasurer, the registrar, and the king of arms (herald, ). The Duke's stated reason for founding this institution had been given in a proclamation issued following his marriage, in which he wrote that he had done so "for the reverence of God and the maintenance of our Christian Faith, and to honor and exalt the noble order of knighthood, and also ...
Order of the Golden Fleece | Origin
The Order of the Arrow Quapaw Lodge 160 was formed with fifteen members in June 1939 and inducted sixty-two members during the summer of 1939. Today, the lodge has about 500 members.
Scouting in Arkansas | Order of the Arrow
Ini-To Lodge chartered in 1945 and still active. Name changed from Thundering Spring Lodge #324 in 1952.
Flint River Council | Order of the Arrow
The Vigil Honor was first bestowed upon E. Urner Goodman by the Unami Lodge in 1915, and has since been conferred annually as a national recognition upon OA members for noteworthy service to others through the OA and Scouting. New Vigil Honor members are nominated, approved, and inducted annually in all current OA lodges. Lodges nominate Brotherhood members for the Vigil Honor according to specific national requirements, with nominations limited according to lodge size and a balance between youth and adult members. Those members whose lodges' nominations have been approved by the National OA office are inducted during a special ceremony, and are bestowed with a name of honor translated in both a Native American/American Indian language as well as English.
Order of the Arrow honors and awards | Vigil Honor
The Order of the Jar (, ) was a chivalric order founded by Ferdinand of Antequera in 1403. After Ferdinand became King of Aragon in 1412, it became a royal order and lasted until 1516.
Order of the Jar | Introduction
Iron Arrow Honor Society Iron Arrow Honor Society, founded in 1926 in conjunction with the University of Miami's opening, is the highest honor attained at the University of Miami. Based on Seminole Indian tradition, Iron Arrow recognizes those individuals in the University of Miami community who exemplify the five qualities of Iron Arrow: Scholarship, Leadership, Character, Humility and Love of Alma Mater.
Collegiate secret societies in North America | University of Miami
It is important to distinguish between "awards," "honors," and "membership levels" in the Order of the Arrow – the honor camping society of the Boy Scouts of America. The Founder's Award, the Red Arrow Award, and the Distinguished Service Award are all "awards". Any of the awards of the Order of the Arrow (OA) may be presented to an individual regardless of which membership level he or she has achieved. The Vigil Honor may only be presented to Brotherhood Members.
Order of the Arrow honors and awards | Introduction
Later in 1947 the National Order of the Arrow Bulletin published it, and gave TKC full credit for its original development. The National Committee adopted it as its official version, and it is still used by TKC as well as many other lodges in the Order. The original script is located in the Archives Room at Tesomas Scout Camp.
Samoset Council | Lodge history
For example, the Independent Order of Foresters was set up in 1874 when it separated from the Ancient Order of Foresters Foresters Friendly Society, which itself was formed from the Royal Foresters Society in 1834.
Fraternal order | Examples
The Albert Order () was created on 31 December 1850 by King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony to commemorate Albert III, Duke of Saxony (known as Albert the Bold). It was to be awarded to anyone who had served the state well, for civil virtue, science and art.
Albert Order | Introduction
An organisation of this name was also founded by Romano Mussolini in 1997.
Order of the Roman Eagle | Introduction
The Order of Civil Merit () was established by King Alfonso XIII of Spain in 1926. The order recognizes "the civic virtue of officers in the service of the Nation, as well as extraordinary service by Spanish and foreign citizens for the benefit of Spain."
Order of Civil Merit | Introduction
Also, its original statutes required that each member of the Order already be a knight (what would now be referred to as a knight bachelor) and some of the initial members listed were only knighted that year. The foundation is likely to have been inspired by the Spanish Order of the Band, established in about 1330. The earliest written mention of the Order is found in "Tirant lo Blanch", a chivalric romance written in Catalan mainly by Valencian Joanot Martorell. It was first published in 1490. This book devotes a chapter to the description of the origin of the Order of the Garter.
Order of the Garter | History
In turn, Iron Arrow sued the federal government seeking the right to continue on campus as a male-only organization. In 1982, University President Edward T. Foote II wrote to Iron Arrow stating that regardless of how the court case came out, Iron Arrow would not be allowed back on campus as a male-only organization. This rendered the court case moot before it was scheduled to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, in "Iron Arrow Honor Soc. v. Heckler", In 1985, breaking with over forty years of tradition, the society's all-male membership voted to admit women, and Iron Arrow was allowed back on campus.
Iron Arrow Honor Society | History
There, the "Tribe of Matilija" was founded as the honor camping organization of the council. The tribe had as its purpose to promote camping at Camp Grey. The Order of the Arrow in Ventura County was established in June 1944, when ceremonies were conducted during the Camp-O-Ral at Steckel Park to induct 13 selected scouts as charter members of Topa Topa Lodge #291 of the Order of the Arrow. Thus the Order of the Arrow came to replace the "Tribe of Matilija." The new lodge took its name from the legendary Chief Topa Topa.
Ventura County Council | Order of the Arrow
The concept did not wither and, on 5 January 1888, British prime minister Lord Salisbury submitted to the Queen a draft constitution for an Order of Merit in Science and Art, consisting of one grade split into two branches of knighthood: the Order of Scientific Merit for Knights of Merit in Science, with the post-nominal letters "KMS", and the Order of Artistic Merit for Knights of Merit in Art, with the post-nominal letters "KMA". However, Sir Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy, advised against the new order, primarily because of its selection process. Victoria's son, King Edward VII, eventually founded the Order of Merit on 26 June 1902 (the date for which his coronation had been originally planned) as a means to acknowledge "exceptionally meritorious service in Our Navy and Our Army, or who may have rendered exceptionally meritorious service towards the advancement of Art, Literature and Science".
Order of Merit | History
In 1953, the very first delegation of Scouts from the Puerto Rico Council attended the National Scout Jamboree at Irving Ranch, California. Among the activities, the delegation witnessed an Order of the Arrow ceremony that caught the attention of some adults among the delegation. Having the ceremony concluded, the adults approached the OA members and asked them about the ceremony and its meanings. Upon the delegation's return to Puerto Rico, the idea of the Order of the Arrow was taken to the Puerto Rico Council. With the necessary requirements in hand provided by the OA National Office, the council commended the founding of the Order of the Arrow in Puerto Rico to its executive Luis Matías Ferrer in 1954.
Yokahu Lodge | History
Scroll and Key was established by John Addison Porter, with aid from several members of the Class of 1842, including Leonard Case Jr. and Theodore Runyon, and a member of the Class of 1843, William L. Kingsley, after disputes over elections to Skull and Bones Society. Kingsley is the namesake of the alumni organization, the Kingsley Trust Association (KTA), incorporated years after the founding. Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg wrote that "up until as recent a date as 1860, Keys had great difficulty in making up its crowd, rarely being able to secure the full fifteen upon the night of giving out its elections." However, the society was on the upswing: "the old order of things, however, has recently come to an end, and Keys is now in possession of a hall far superior...not only to Bones hall, but to any college-society hall in America."
Scroll and Key | History
The order was created by King Frederick I in 1748, along with two other orders, the Order of the Seraphim and the Order of the Polar Star. In 1788, King Gustav III created two new grades of the order, which could only be bestowed in war time: These grades proper were only given to commissioned officers, but an affiliated decoration, the "Svärdstecken" ("Badge of the Sword"), introduced in 1850, was given to non-commissioned officers; one thus decorated would call himself a "svärdsman" ("Sword man"). A Medal of the Sword was also introduced for enlisted men. Both the non-commissioned officers and the enlisted men had to have served for at least sixteen years to qualify respective for the Badge and Medal.
Order of the Sword | History
The Knights were founded by an original group of 17 men in 1873 and increased to 99 by the end of the year. By the end of 1874 it had increased to 999 members. The group was hit hard by the yellow fever epidemic of 1875–1878. In 1878 alone, the order had to pay out $385,000 for death benefits for 193 members. Despite this, the Knights disbursed large sums of money to suffers of the yellow fever who were not members of the order. Over the next 18 years, the order steadily increased its membership, reaching 126,000 in 1895. That year, as stated, the group changed from the graded assessment program to a more actuarially sound one, causing costs to go up and membership began to decline.
Knights of Honor | Membership
In an article published in the Calcutta Review in 1856 Henry Lawrence however expressed the opinion that the Order had become "virtually the reward of old age" with its wearers mostly limited to retired pensioners.
Order of British India | Establishment
The organization was founded on December 18, 1878, in Boston, Massachusetts, by Dr. Darius Wilson and nine others. Some of the founders had participated in the founding of the Royal Arcanum and Dr. Wilson was also connected with the Knights of Honor and was reportedly a members of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
American Legion of Honor | History
This order replaced the former "Order of Merit for Agriculture" (), created on 3 December 1905 and established by Royal Decree on 9 February 1906.
Order of Merit for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | History
Below is a list of Members of the Order of Merit from the order's creation in 1902 until the present day. The number shown is the individual's place in the wider order of appointment since the Order of Merit's inception; the blue colour denotes honorary members and the orange colour denotes current members.
List of members of the Order of Merit | Introduction
The Royal Order of the Sword (officially: "Royal Order of the Sword"; Swedish: "Kungliga Svärdsorden") is a Swedish order of chivalry and military decoration created by King Frederick I of Sweden on February 23, 1748, together with the Order of the Seraphim and the Order of the Polar Star. Awarded to officers, and originally intended as an award for bravery and particularly long or useful service, it eventually became a more or less obligatory award for military officers after a certain number of years in service. There were originally three grades, "Knight", "Commander" and "Commander Grand Cross", but these were later multiplied by division into classes.
Order of the Sword | Introduction
In 1917, five years after the death of the founder of the Salvation Army William Booth, his son, General Bramwell Booth, inaugurated the Order of the Founder to recognise Salvationists who had rendered distinguished service, such as would have specially commended itself to the Founder. The first awards were made in 1920 to 15 officers and one soldier. Three years later, seven officers and one local officer were honoured, but since then the awards have been made much more sparingly and, to date, 104 officers and 106 lay Salvationists have been recognised with the Army's highest honour, a mere 210 in total over 83 years.
Order of the Founder | Introduction