Order of the Arrow Section List

list of all lodge and council links, mergers, and realignments

Special Thanks to. . .

In 1995, I wanted a list of all lodges and councils by sections so that I could track mergers and realignments. I posted several requests on Arrow-L and Scouts-L for arrowmen to email me a list of the lodges in their section. I received quite a few responses, but to my surprise, I got even more requests for a copy when it was done. It was then that I realized that this stuff was actually relevent, and in June of 1996 I created the OA Section List. In fact, thanks to Derek Pillie's listing it on his OA Page, it became so popular that it was featured in the 1997 National Bulletin.

"How a Web Site Can Help Your Lodge"
by John Bicket & Andy Martin

Since then, I've been able to announce the newest mergers and realignments, document section and region changes back to the 26 Areas of the 1940s, developed a section timeline for each lodge, created simple maps and diagrams, and included several patch scans, too.

Now in it's fourteenth year, the Section List is one of the oldest continuous Order of the Arrow websites. It would not have been possible without the following arrowmen:

Phil Abbey, Gamenowinink 555 Mark Paul Amatrucola, Shu-Shu-Gah 24 Kevin Ambra, Otahnagon 172 Chris Anderson Matt Baldwin Michael Ban Mike Bazonis, 1997 NSJ OA Service Corps, Alibamu 179 Chief Dr. Gene Berman Mike Bremser John C. Cameron Brent Clark, 1993 NSJ Public Relations staff Bill Claycomb Bruce E. Cobern, Suanhacky 49 Rex Cole, Pachsegink 246 Mike Conkey, Tahosa 383 Sean Cox, 1992 National Chief Neale Cummings, NE-3B webmaster Brandon DeVito, Kayanernh-Kowa 219 Scott Dillard, Blue Book CD Josh Dippold Wayne Dukes Joe Eckman Ed Evans, Region 4 and EC-4 Conclave Patch Collection Robert C. Evans, Passaconaway 220 Leslie D. Fife Tony Fiori, 1996 WR Chief James Ford, Black Warrior Council Section Conclave Issues, and Region 5 Fellowships Bill Fox, Buckskin 412 Farley Fox Adam Fromm, 1998 NE-3A Secretary and webmaster William C. Gardner Barry Griffin, Egwa Tawa Dee 129 Joe Glenski, 1998 C-1B Adviser Joseph Gulick, Kotso 330 Ken Hayashi, Western Region Committee Doug Heller, C-5A Adviser John Hoffman, Bucktail Council Scout Executive Randy Holden, Blue Book Regional Editor Everett Holm, ASTA Webmaster Alan R. Houser, Troop 24 (Berkeley, CA) OA page at emf.net Mike Hulsizer, Western NY Conclave Memorabilia Dave Hultberg, Susquehannock Lodge XI Conclaves Patches C Kent Jackson, Coosa 50 Ken Jenkins, 1998-99 NE Region Chief George Jennings, 1957 2-F Area Chief John Jewett JW Justice Bruce Kaffenberger, Louisiana Trader Conclaves Jason Kracht, W-5B Secretary Bob Kearley Tom Keck, Te'kening 37 & Japeechen 341 John Kent, 1999 Haudenosaunee 19 webmaster Bill Kethley Bro. Andrew Kosmowski David Kruse		Jim Lake, Otahnagon 172 Fred Lang, Jr. Ted Langdon Rob Lee Ben Lefever, Section NE-5A & NE-6/4C Memorabilia Sage Lichtenwalner, 1999 NE-2A Chief, Sanhican 2 Chief Bob McCanless, The Patch Blanket blog Tracy Mesler, Blue Book Regional Editor J. Todd Metcalf Roy A. More, The Scout Patch Auction Sean Morrissey Andrew Mueller, Kayanernh-Kowa 219 Bill Mulrenin, New York OA Trader blog Joan Nester, Sakuwit 2 Kevin Nichols, 2007 Amangamek Wipit 470 Chief Dave Panko, W-5A Associate Section Adviser John E. Pannell, Internet Guide to OA Insignia John M. Papp, Kittan 364 Mike Perkins Derek Alexander Pillie Roger Poulard John Richers, W-5 Area Director Joe Rion, Anpetu-we 100 Jay Schnapp Mark Scheiderer, Chapter Adviser, Timuquan 340 Kevin Doyle and Don Shull, Patch-L Listserve Tracy Schultze, History of the Order of the Arrow for Western Region Area 4 Dave Scocca, Nentico 12 Memorabilia Bob Sherman Tracy Schultze, History of Western Region Area 4 Nick and Joan Skoglund Herb Smith, S-7A Adviser John Stafford, Kayanernh-Kowa 219 Tom Stombaugh Brian Sutilla, 1997-98 Wag-O-Shag 280 Chief, C-3/C-3A webmaster John Tegtmeier Jason Thompson, 1998 C-6 webmaster Joey Traywick, 2000 NE-2B Conclave Coordinator Don Turk, Cahuilla 127 Russ Votava, Golden Sun 492 Lodge Adviser Mike Walton "Settummanque, the blackeagle" Dave Wilson, Gyantwachia 255 Warren Williams Rich Wolos, Tschitani 10 Randy Worcester, Collectibles Editor, American Scouting Digest Randy Yates, Georgia and Florida OA Area and Section Fellowships
Other sources include: Arrow-L Dingwerth, Frank, and Chris Jensen, Order of the Arrow Conclave Handbook, vol I&II., 1993 Reynolds, E Forest. Order of the Arrow Lodge Listings, "Blue Book" 1958; 1968-69 OA Lodge Listings Reynolds, E Forest and Paul Weary. Order of the Arrow Blue Book Lodge Listings, 1967 Price, Bill. OA Illustrated Lodge Patch Handbook, 6th (1976) and 7th (1977) ed. Golden Sun Lodge #492 Virtual Patch Collection Immokalee Lodge #353 Section/Area History NE-1A/B Conclave Record, Passaconaway Lodge #220 PacificOA, memorabilia of Hawaii and Guam, Gilwell.com Patch-L Scouts-L W-1A History W-1C History

Special thanks to Bret Hollander, creator of the Order of the Arrow in Cyberspace, who provided invaluable research that helped me get started. His website was the largest and most well-known OA resource in the early days of the web, and it inspired many early OA sites.

To Chris Jensen, co-author of the Order of the Arrow Conclave Handbook, for collaboration, advice, and insight on conclave history.

And finally to my lodge brother, Todd Rogers, who bugged me to start a homepage for our lodge (which was promptly shot down, as the BSA hadn't formulated any kind of policy back then) and who helped me immeasurably to keep things running when I couldn't afford the site hosting.

OA Section List
Created: June 19, 1996
This page updated: 03-13-10