116 Santee

Pee Dee Area Council, Florence, SC

Santee Centennial Set Rolls Out For the OA Birthday

Santee Centennial Set Rolls Out For the OA Birthday To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Order of the Arrow Santee 116 is issuing an activity patch set.  Although the first event in the set happened in January the patches were not ready.  However, they were sold at the recent Spring Fellowship and the lodge store adviser was kind enough to bring out the …Read More



Santee Gets In The Centennial Spirit

Santee Gets In The Centennial Spirit Santee Lodge has approved a couple OA Centennial issues which will be available in 2015. All of these designs were drawn by Vigil Honor brother Todd Knaperek of Tsali Lodge. As noted in an earlier post the lodge is doing a 5-patch set for the lodge events in 2015. At the 2014 Fall Fellowship this …Read More



Santee Is Splitting Up For The Centennial

Santee Is Splitting Up For The Centennial For the OA Centennial Santee is going to have a fellowship set for the third year in a row.  In a typical year the lodge has five events that patches are issued for.  So for 2015 the five patches are going to fit together and make an approximate 15″ wide set.  The idea for this …Read More



Pee Dee Area Council Scout Memorabilia Show – January 3, 2015

Pee Dee Area Council Scout Memorabilia Show  – January 3, 2015 CLICK TO OPEN PDF OF FLYER – FEEL FREE TO SHARE Santee Lodge 116 is putting on a Scout Memorabilia Show in conjunction with their Winter Banquet.  This will be the first Trade-O-Ree of 2015 and just about every kid in America will be on vacation leading up to this Saturday only event.  Dealer set …Read More



Santee Lodge Almost Hosted the 1942 National OA Meeting

Santee Lodge Almost Hosted the 1942 National OA Meeting This was shared by Jason Shull and it was honestly a surprise to everyone he told about it.   As some of you may know there were plans to hold the a National OA Meeting in 1942 and apparently one of the places that was strongly considered as the host site was Cheraw State Park just …Read More



Santee Scores With New Flap Issue

Santee Scores With New Flap Issue News from Camp Coker this last fellowship- Santee 116 has a new standard issue flap.  The S44 makes the third version of a design that was first issued in 2010.  Designed by Steven Lastauskas with help from Todd Knaperek the first version of this design was the S32.  In my frame I have it labeled …Read More



Santee Continues Dixie 2014 Design In Activity Patches

Santee Continues Dixie 2014 Design In Activity Patches Several lodges including recently Un A Li’yi, Muscogee 221 and Atta Kulla Kulla 185 have decided to use the design of their Dixie patch as a template for their event patches during that year.  For collectors that has added some extra spice since not everyone collects lodge issues but there is something special about a …Read More



Burn Those Parakeets!

Burn Those Parakeets! The Blue Book listing for Santee Lodge 116 has a curious listing that I’m sure most folks have never heard the story on.  It is listed as ZS1 and the description reads, “Known examples burned in fireplace”.  Well it just so happens that I stumbled across the only pictures ever taken of this patch and …Read More



My Favorite Collection – Lodge T-shirts!

My Favorite Collection – Lodge T-shirts! I really can’t tell you where I got hooked on lodge T-shirts.  My brother will tell you that when he shipped out for the army after graduating high school that I raided his drawers looking for cool clothes.  Among the shirts in there was the 1983 Dixie staff t-shirt from Santee 116.  It is not …Read More



Santee 116 Dixie Fellowship Host Flap Broke the Mold

Santee 116 Dixie Fellowship Host Flap Broke the Mold If you go back and take a look at lodge host items issued for either the Cardinal Conclave or Dixie Fellowship I think 1983 marks the beginning of a new era.  Up until that point I’m not aware of any patches being issued by host lodges unless you want to count some of the early …Read More