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The Flying Eagle Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge No. 111 - Middle Tennessee Council No. 560 - Volume 70 No. 4 - August. 2008 - Matt Brown, Editor What’s Inside? - Fall Fellowship - One Day of Service - 2009 Lodge Calendar - ArrowCorps 111 Update - Arrowman Spotlight - Where Is He Now? - Summer Events Wrapup - NOAC 2009 ...And Much More! As the Or- deals have come and gone, it is now time to have a little fun. This year’s Fall Fellowship is the cannot miss event of the year! Roman Gladiator “Heir to the Empire” will take place at the Boxwell battlefield the weekend of Sept 19-21, Early Registration is $22 and onsite is $27. The weekend will be dominated with Feats of Strength, Feats of Skill, and Feats of Knowledge. It all starts Friday night upon arrival. Arrowmen will be divided up into le- gions, who will join together in a quest for glory, and the right to claim the title “Victors of the Empire.” The weekend will begin Friday night with the first legion cracker-barrel. Saturday will be a day to remember, starting off with a Legion Breakfast, followed by the first round of activities, including archery and canoe races. Lunch will be a cookout on the battlefield with the troops. Here members will take a break from the activities and regroup to devise a master plan for winning the battles to come. Activities like the 40 man tug- o-war will prove to the Senate who is the best. Saturday night will be like no other! It starts off with the Legionnaire’s din- ner, which includes roast pig! After dinner and a short recap of the day, members will head out to the secret final challenge that will determine Boy Scouts of America Order of the Arrow Fall Fellowship Will Be a Fight to Remember For the sixth year, Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge and the Middle Tennessee Council will host Winter Camp on December 26-31. Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge members have made up the core of Winter Camp Staff and this year will be no exception. Chairman Josh Wilson and Adviser Dan Rule are working hard coming up with new ideas for Winter Camp 2008. The theme for this year’s winter camp is “Wild, Wild, West!”. To honor this theme, winter camp will feature a number of western events, like a Dutch Oven Cook-off. The Winter Camp key staff are still looking to recruit talented volunteers for all areas including training, camp- fire, and afternoon and evening pro- gram. Winter Camp is also looking for adults who can instruct special- ized merit badges that can be of- fered at Winter Camp. If you are interested in working any areas at Winter Camp you can e-mail [email protected]. Come out and help have a “Wild, Wild, Western” holiday camping experience. Over five-thousand pro- fessional Scouters from all around the country recently met at the Gaylord Opry- land Hotel in Nashville for the 2008 National Leader- ship Training Conference. Here the professionals prepared for Scouting’s centennial as new Chief Scout Executive Bob Mazzuca pre- sented his vision for the future of Scouting. The Middle Tennessee Council Lodge Shines at Opryland Conference was selected to take center stage as the host for this conference. Council volunteers performed approximately 5221 hours of service. OA members played a key role in performing this service. Arrowmen from our Lodge “Wild Wild” Winter Camp Staff Needed Continued on Page 7 Continued on Page 7 Wa-Hi-Nasa member Jim Teal assists a Cub Scout volunteer at the 2008 National Leadership Training Conference.

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The Flying Eagle Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge No. 111 - Middle Tennessee Council No. 560 - Volume 70 No. 4 - August. 2008 - Matt Brown, Editor

What’s Inside? - Fall Fellowship - One Day of Service - 2009 Lodge Calendar - ArrowCorps111 Update - Arrowman Spotlight - Where Is He Now? - Summer Events Wrapup - NOAC 2009

...And Much More!

As the Or-deals have come and gone, it is now time to have a little fun. This year’s Fall Fellowship is the cannot miss event of the year! Roman Gladiator “Heir

to the Empire” will take place at the Boxwell battlefield the weekend of Sept 19-21, Early Registration is $22 and onsite is $27. The weekend will be dominated with Feats of Strength, Feats of Skill, and Feats of Knowledge. It all starts Friday night upon arrival. Arrowmen will be divided up into le-gions, who will join together in a quest for glory, and the right to claim the title “Victors of the Empire.” The weekend will begin Friday night with the first legion cracker-barrel. Saturday will be a day to

remember, starting off with a Legion Breakfast, followed by the first round of activities, including archery and canoe races. Lunch will be a cookout on the battlefield with the troops. Here members will take a break from the activities and regroup to devise a master plan for winning the battles to come. Activities like the 40 man tug-o-war will prove to the Senate who is the best. Saturday night will be like no other! It starts off with the Legionnaire’s din-ner, which includes roast pig! After dinner and a short recap of the day, members will head out to the secret final challenge that will determine

Boy Scouts of America Order of the Arrow

Fall Fellowship Will Be a Fight to Remember

For the sixth year, Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge and the Middle Tennessee Council will host Winter Camp on December 26-31. Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge members have made up the core of Winter Camp Staff and this year will be no exception. Chairman Josh Wilson and Adviser Dan Rule are working hard coming up with new ideas for Winter Camp 2008. The theme for this year’s winter camp is “Wild, Wild, West!”. To honor this theme, winter camp will feature a number of western events, like a Dutch Oven Cook-off. The Winter Camp key staff are still looking to recruit talented volunteers for all areas including training, camp-fire, and afternoon and evening pro-gram. Winter Camp is also looking for adults who can instruct special-ized merit badges that can be of-fered at Winter Camp. If you are interested in working any areas at Winter Camp you can e-mail [email protected]. Come out and help have a “Wild, Wild, Western” holiday camping experience.

Over five-thousand pro-fessional Scouters from all around the country recently met at the Gaylord Opry-land Hotel in Nashville for the 2008 National Leader-ship Training Conference. Here the professionals prepared for Scouting’s centennial as new Chief Scout Executive Bob Mazzuca pre-sented his vision for the future of Scouting. The Middle Tennessee Council

Lodge Shines at Opryland Conference

was selected to take center stage as the host for this conference. Council volunteers performed approximately 5221 hours of service. OA members played a key role in performing this service. Arrowmen from our Lodge

“Wild Wild” Winter Camp Staff Needed

Continued on Page 7

Continued on Page 7

Wa-Hi-Nasa member Jim Teal assists a Cub Scout volunteer at the 2008 National Leadership Training Conference.

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The summer is quickly nearing an end for those who have to return to

school. I hope that it has been a wonderful summer for everyone. The lodge has been busy this sum-mer with ArrowCorps5, Arrow-Corps111, and the summer camp crackerbarrels. Thanks and con-gratulations to the twenty two Arrow-men who journeyed to the Mark Twain National Forest ArrowCorps5 project work site. A great amount of hard work was done there to remove over 250,000 invasive cedar trees from the natural glade area. The work done there will have such an enormous positive impact on the habitat. Also thank you and con-gratulations to the six Arrowmen who traveled to the Shasta-Trinity Na-tional Forest ArrowCorps5 project work site in northern California. It was a wonderful trip and the work that was accomplished was amaz-ing. In California, the project re-paired 100 miles of trail, removed twenty-two tons of illegally disposed trash, and repaired a watch tower to be utilized by the US Forest Service. The trip was fun and rewarding at the same time. Finally, thank you

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and con-gratulations to the other six Arrow-men who have been to the George Washing-ton/Jefferson and Bridger Teton Na-tional For-est project sites. The work that they have done there will also impact those areas greatly. I was glad to see many of our members at this year’s summer camp cracker barrels. It was a great opportunity for myself and the other officers to meet and talk with the many Arrowmen in the lodge. I met new people and had a great time at every one of the Wednesday night gatherings. Thanks to all who helped out with the National Leadership Training Conference at Opryland Hotel. Our lodge’s service at this event was irre-placeable, and the experience was one that will be remembered for a

long time to come. Finally, congratulations to all the Arrowmen who were recently inducted at the Fall Ordeal. The hours that you served have greatly impacted Boxwell Reservation. You all will make a great addition to our lodge and your chapter. I hope to see everyone I met at the Summer Camp cracker barrels as well as the other members of our lodge, especially the new ones, at this year’s Fall Fellowship. It is going to be the most fun event of the year, and everyone is guaranteed to have a great time. Thank you all for the ser-vice you give.

Jake Jones 2008 Lodge Chief Lodge Chief Jake Jones takes a water break af-

ter a long day on the Sisson-Callahan trail at ArrowCorps5.

Less than a year now on Au-gust 1-6, 2009, Arrowmen from all around the country will gather at Indiana University in Bloomington for the National Or-

der of the Arrow Conference. NOAC is a gathering of all of the Lodges from across the nation for a week long conference that features superb training, intense competitions, great shows, and fellowship which provide a great environment for fun and im-provement. It is without a doubt one of the best events that you will ever be able to attend in Scouting. Like all other years our Lodge will be sending a contingent of Arrow-men to the conference. For this NOAC, the Lodge has decided to give all interested Arrowmen a spe-cial opportunity. Any interested Ar-rowmen in the Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge may submit a design for the 2009 NOAC flap. If you would like to submit a flap design, one would need to turn it in no later than the Friday of Fall Fel-lowship. These designs will be re-viewed and voted on by the Lodge Executive Committee at Fall Fellow-ship. If you are interested in going to NOAC you can find more information about the conference by going to the National Order of the Arrow’s web-site at www.oa-bsa.org. You can reserve your spot today by returning the pre-registration form enclosed with this newsletter. Forms are also avail-able at http://wa-hi-nasa.org. NOAC is a great op-portunities that you won’t want to miss! Above: Wa-Hi-Nasa’s 2006 NOAC contingent flap and patch.

Great Opportunities Come with NOAC 2009!

Chiefly Speaking

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lifted off. Everyone was thrilled. After several seconds, the second but-ton was pressed to ignite the second stage. Un-fortunately nothing hap-pened and since the second stage did not ignite, the rocket stalled and began to fall back toward the ground. Since the rocket only used half of its fuel payload, it exploded upon im-pact and was destroyed when it hit the ground. What happened? Was it the rocket? Was it the fuel? No, it was a problem with the transmitter, which did not send the signal because its small battery had quit working. Imagine this huge rocket was de-stroyed because a tiny battery failed to work. Our Lodge is dependant on every little part to function correctly at each one of our events. We rely on every member, no matter how small or young to participate to make our pro-gram a success. Each one of us is important to the welfare of our Lodge. Thank you for what you do to make our Lodge successful.

Yours In Service, Robert Guisinger

Every Part is Important It is exciting to watch a rocket launch. There is a thunderous sound when the rocket ignites and begins to move upwards. There is also so much power and accelera-tion after the initial explosion! We are warned not to be too close in case anything should go wrong and the rocket goes off course or explodes. For this reason we have to keep a safe distance. As you watch the rocket ascend into space, you may wonder how they start the rocket launch? It’s not done with a match but is done by remote control. In the early days of our Ameri-can rocket program, our rockets were very simple. A huge pipe was filled with a fuel and ignited by a heavy battery. But how did the battery know when to send the spark to start the rocket? A transmitting device would send the GO signal to the battery, which would start the rocket with a big spark. When the button was pressed, the first stage of the rocket was launched high into the air. Then a second button was pushed to ignite the second stage of the rocket to carry it further up-wards. On the day of our launch, eve-ryone was ready. The first button was pushed and a huge spark ig-nited the first stage and the rocket

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This summer the Order of the Ar-row teamed up with the United States Forest Service to deliver a week of service at five different Na-tional Forests. The Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge had the distinct privilege of sending members from our Lodge to four out of the five sites. Wa-Hi-Nasa’s main contingent of twenty-two Arrowmen went to Mark Twain National Forest in Mis-souri. There, they cut down and re-moved over one-hundred and thirty-four acres of cedar trees. Two weeks later, a small group of three Arrowmen traveled to George Washington and Jefferson National Forest in Virginia to serve on staff. After another week, a group of six led by Matt Brown and Jake Jones headed to Redding, California to serve at Shasta Trinity National For-est. The project focus at Shasta was trail maintenance. Participants fixed, smoothed, and built trail. Steps, rock walls, and water bars were all built to improve the trails. At Shasta over one-hundred of trails were main-tained and built and twenty-two tons of illegally dumped trash was re-moved from the area. Wa-Hi-Nasa also had a contingent of three go to the site at Bridger-Teton National Forest where they removed evasive species, trail main-tenance, and preformed other im-provement projects. At each site, participants also got to enjoy a bit of recreation, including activities like canoeing, hiking, and fishing. The Shasta/Trinity contin-gent event hiked to the top of snow covered (in July!) Mt. Lassen. Congratulations to all ArrowCorps5 participants for a job well done.

ArrowCorps5 a Huge Success All Around

the Nation

Adviser’s Corner

Wa-Hi-Nasa took a large contingent of twenty-two Arrowmen to ArrowCorps5 at Mark Twain National Forest during the week of June 7-14.

Nominate A Worthy Arrowman!

Help us recognize our outstanding OA members at the 2008 Winter Banquet by nominating an Arrow-man for a lodge award. Forms are due by the Fall Fellowship and can

be downloaded at: http://wa-hi-nasa.org

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Where will you be on Saturday October 18th? You can be providing cheerful service with fellow Arrowmen for the commu-nity at One Day of Service. One Day of Service is a program started back in 1996 by the Southern Re-gion as a way for Lodges to get involved and provide cheerful service outside of Scouting. It is a fantastic chance to meet new Ar-rowmen in the Lodge and make a significant contribution to the com-munity. The Southern Region One Day of Service is set for October 18. Our project will be in the Cheatham County Wildlife Management Area where we will be working on refores-tation projects. We will need as many Arrowmen as we can get to help out with this project so that we provide as much service possible. If you are inter-ested in participating, send an email to event chairman Matt Brown at [email protected]. You can also check the Lodge website at www.wa-hi-nasa.org to print off a flyer with directions and other information.

Are you looking for something fun and exciting to do during the four

weekends of the month of October? If you an-swered yes to this ques-

tion, Cub Event Chair-man Taylor Fox has

something for you to do.

Your help is needed at the Middle Tennes-see Council Area Cub and

Family Events dur-ing the month of

October. The Cub Event will be an awe-some chance to serve

the lodge and Cub Scouting. Our goal is for members of the Order of the Arrow to staff the events. We want to facilitate the council and provide cheerful service to the Cub Scouts that will someday be the leaders that we are today. This will provide a good example for the Cub Scouts, letting them know that we want them to continue on with their Scouting career. If you would like any other information or are interested in helping any of the weekends in October or at your area’s Cub and Family Event please contact Chairman Taylor Fox at [email protected].

Cub Event to Be Grrrreat!

The Olson OA Lodge at Boxwell Reservation came alive every Wednesday night of Summer Camp. For many years the Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge has hosted the Summer Camp Crackerbarrels on Wednesday nights for Arrowmen at camp. It is a great time for fun, fellowship, ice cream, and popcorn while learning about all the great opportunities the OA has to offer. This summer at Boxwell was a very successful one for the Order of the Arrow. Many of our lodge mem-bers served on Boxwell Staff. The two Order of the Arrow Representa-tives, Matt Brown at Camp Stahlman and Nate Danielson at Camp Craig worked hard visiting troops, running elections, and promoting the Order of the Arrow. Every week, Ordeal members in the Lodge had the chance to seal their membership in the order by obtaining Brotherhood. Chairman Zack Whitehead did a great job this summer as 81 Arrowmen went through the Brotherhood Review and Ceremony. One hundred members re-registered with the lodge. The Lodge Officers and Advisers would like to thank all of those Arrowmen who came to help with the Crackerbarrels as well as those who came to partici-pate. Thank you for helping make this summer a successful one!

Summer Camp Crackerbarrels a Hit

Corey Barry helped every Wednesday serving Arrowmen popcorn at the Crackerbarrels.

One Day of Service

Vice Chief of Activities Michael Petty gives a presentation on ArrowCorps5 during a Summer Camp Crackerbarrel.

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During the weekends of May 30-June 1 and August 8-10, the Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge inducted 288 new mem-bers into the Order of the Arrow at the Spring and Fall Ordeals. Both Ordeals were a huge success, serv-ing a vital “behind the scenes” role for the summer camp season Box-well. At the Spring Ordeal, 184 candi-dates successfully set up tents, cots, and mattresses getting all of Box-well prepared for Summer Camp. At the Fall Ordeal, 104 candidates broke down and folded all remaining tents, elevated platforms, and pre-pared the camp for a busy fall and winter season. All of these duties could not be completed with out the help of our numerous elangomats, who took the lead in training the next generation of Arrowmen what cheerful service is all about. Thanks should also be given to the Assistant Ordeal Masters, Caleb Wilson, Josh Wilson, Zack White-head, Nate Danielson, Tyler Stein and their Advisers for Camp Craig, Camp Stahlman, Camp Parnell, and Gaylord Cub World. Without their hard work and organization, Ordeals would not have run as smoothly. The Ordealmasters for the Ordeals were Michael Petty (Spring Ordeal) and Michael Murphy (Fall Ordeal). Ordeals are a great way to get involved with the lodge. Consider being an elangomat in 2009!

Ordeals Provide Valuable Service

OA member Danny Smith helps put up a tent at the 2008 Spring Ordeal.

An elangomat crew sets out at the 2008 Fall Ordeal.

ArrowCorps111 Rolls On

Lodge Announces 2009 Calendar

Recently the Middle Tennessee Council announced that Latimer High Adventure Base would be closed until 2010 for major construction. Fortunately, Wa-Hi-Nasa’s Arrow-Corps111 program is a vital part of that construction! Be one of the first to see, and help build, Scouting’s newest high adven-ture jewel. The lodge is working on the Bee Creek connector trail which will link the Latimer property with other trails along the Caney Fork river. No tools or experience are required and it really is a lot of fun! Individual chapters and groups of Arrowmen can arrange to go down to Latimer just about any weekend this fall. Want to join another crew al-ready going? Lodge Adviser Robert Guisinger will lead a crew on the weekend of September 5. Other dates are available. If you are inter-ested, contact your chapter chief or email [email protected]. Arrowmen who perform 12 hours of trail crew service will earn this special edition lodge flap!

Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge is pleased to an-nounce the 2009 Lodge calendar. We ask that all troops take note of these dates when planning troop activity calendars.

Arrowmen Development Corps March 13-15, 2009

Section SR-6 Conclave

April 17-19, 2009

Spring Ordeal May 29-31, 2009

National Order of the Arrow

Conference* August 1-6, 2009

Fall Ordeal*

August 14-16, 2009

Fall Fellowship September 18-20, 2009

Winter Banquet

December 5, 2009

Winter Camp December 27-31, 2009

*Please note that the calendar pub-lished by the council listed incorrect dates for the 2009 Fall Ordeal and National OA Conference. The above dates are correct.

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Robert “BJ” Ingram went through his ordeal in 1992. He im-mediately turned to a full career in cere-monies. He served as the American In-dian Events Chairman in 1994. While a

ceremonialist, he placed first indi-vidually in two section conclave ceremony competitions and first in a section conclave traditional dance competition. In 2002, Robert went to Lipscomb University and majored in political science, ulti-mately earning a master’s degree in that field. Robert also served as an instructor in Interna-tional Relations at Rhodes College in Memphis for two years. He is currently married with a one-year-old daughter and is beginning his first year of Law School at the Univer-sity of Tennessee this fall. FE: What drew you into becoming active in the OA? RI: Ceremonies drew me into the Order and encouraged me to become active. I was fascinated by the mystery and ritual and I was inspired by those who could actually become their character and represent the principles of the Order and the best of the Scouting movement. I started doing district Arrow of Light ceremo-nies to help build a second cere-mony team for our chapter. Soon I stepped in and began doing Ordeal ceremonies. It doesn’t take long to become active in ceremonies; there is always demand for new team members and teams. FE: Why ceremonies? RI: A ceremony connects Arrowmen

Where Is He Now? to the Order’s past, and by doing so, it provides the principles that drive the Order where it should go. In ad-dition, a ceremony creates an envi-ronment for contemplation, insight and inspiration. I see ceremonies as a service project that the Order con-ducts for members, both new and old. Also, every Arrowman who has helped prepare the circle for a cere-mony-by clearing the site or building a fire-knows that he has served. It is an essential link in the activities of every lodge. FE: One of the challenges people see in getting involved with ceremo-nies is getting regalia. How did you get yours? RI: There wasn’t one point where I purchased, made or was given my

ceremony regalia. Pieces came to-gether over time. I started out wear-ing brown cloth leggings and a red breech-cloth that my mom helped me assemble for less than $10. Over the course of two years, I put to-gether a cheap plastic choker and breast-plate. An adult leader do-nated split-cowhide leather for new leggings and a shirt I sewed myself. A year later, one of our team mem-bers learned about taking deer skins, usually thrown away by hunters, to a tanner. We saved a lot of money on buckskin when our deer-hunting

friends gave us their skins for free during deer season. I actually was able to turn sewing buckskin leg-gings into a school project for history class. When I stopped doing cere-monies, I lent my regalia out to who-ever was doing a ceremony that needed it. Hopefully it is still in circu-lation. If anybody knows where my stuff is, I would like to hear the story of where it’s been the last five years. FE: What is your favorite memory about being a youth in the OA? RI: My favorite memories as a youth member in the Order are the invest-ing time before each ceremony. This is when each team member be-comes his character before the cere-mony begins. Each team has its own way of doing it, but it usually happens around dusk after a long

day of preparation. During those quiet moments before the candidates arrived, I could anticipate and become someone and something big-ger than myself. That feeling of con-nection was both an adrenaline rush and a true sense of calm, which operated out-side the hectic tum-ble of everyday life. FE: Do you have any advice for peo-ple interested in get-ting involved with ceremonies? RI: Those who are considering getting into ceremonies should help a current team prepare for a ceremony. Lines

need to be memorized; feathers need to be wrapped; sites need to be cleared and provisioned; and fires need to be built. By assisting a team with these duties, a future ceremony team member can choose the char-acter he wants to become, start learning that character’s lines and learn how to put together regalia for that character. But being a character in the circle is not the only way to get involved. Every ceremony team has a support staff that is necessary for the circle to operate effectively.

Robert Ingram, Adam Dozier, Steve Probst, and Cory Younts before an Ordeal Ceremony in 1995.

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who is the best. The winner will be crowned at the closing ceremony, that will be followed by the what is undoubtedly Wa-Hi-Nasa’s first ever Toga Party (Be Prepared). Also at the Fall Fellowship, the impressive call-out ceremony for the 2008 class of Wa-Hi-Nasa Vigil Honor candidates. On Sunday morning the youth members of the lodge will elect the 2009 officers. We will also have a guest appearance from the 2008 National Chief and Vice Chief. Be sure to attend the 2008 Fall Fellowship “Heir to the Empire” Sep-tember 19-21 at Boxwell. A registra-tion form can be found within this issue of The Flying Eagle or online at http://www.wa-hi-nasa.org.

Fall Fellowship (Continued from page 1)

As the year starts to come to a close and Fall Fellowship rolls around it means that it is time to elect the Wa-Hi-Nasa officers for the 2009 year. Elections for the 2009 Lodge Chief, Vice Chiefs (3), Lodge Secretary, and Lodge Treasurer will all take place at Fall Fellowship on Sunday September 21, 2008. To be eligible to run for one of these positions, you must be a reg-istered member of the Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge and you must not reach your twenty-first birthday before December 1, 2009. Arrowmen interested in running are expected to meet with the Lodge Adviser Robert Guisinger on Saturday September 20, 2008 at Fall Fellowship. Please take note that it is inap-propriate for any adult member to participate in the election process. This includes asking questions during a candidate forum or per-suading a youth to ask a particular question, voting, encouraging a youth or chapter to vote for one candidate over another, publicly expressing support for one candi-date over another, being in the immediate area where youth are casting votes, or any other activity with the intent to directly influence the election results. It is however, always appropri-ate for an adult to privately encour-age a youth to run for lodge office. Candidates, their supporters, and adults are expected to act in a positive manner that exemplifies the Scout Oath, Law, and OA Obli-gation. Any questions about elec-tion processes and procedures should be directed to the Lodge Adviser.

Lodge Officer Elections Set for Fall Fellowship

served in various ways. Many of the Lodge officers and a few others

were at Nashville International

Airport days before the convention greeting the participants at the airport.

Others worked in the Host Council Office checking people in and out. Arrowmen helped staff the Middle Tennessee Council High Adventure Booth, showcasing our new Latimer property to the nation. Arrowmen volunteered to be proctors for the breakout training rooms. Our Lodge also had an enormous presence in the nightly shows. Best of all, our volunteers looked sharp, with many supporting the brand new Scouting uniform, and displayed a fine example of Tennes-see hospitality that was the talk of the conference. A special thank-you to all of those who volunteered their time and energy into making this conference a rousing success!

Arrowman

Spotlight

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Schultz McLean is a 15

year old First Class Scout from Brentwood, Ten-nessee. Schultz is beginning the new school year as a sophomore at Brentwood High

School. Schultz is a very active stu-dent at Brentwood High School. During his freshman year, he served as the Vice-President of the Fresh-man Class and will serve as the Sophomore Class President for the upcoming school year. Schultz started his Scouting ca-reer as a Cub Scout in Pack 144 at Scales Elementary School. In the spring of 2004, Schultz crossed over into Troop 1 at Brentwood United Methodist Church. While a Scout in Troop 1 Schultz has served as a Den Chief for one of the dens in Pack 144. Schultz was elected into the Or-der of the Arrow earlier this year and he went through the Ordeal this May. After his Ordeal, Schultz jumped right into the program, participating in the ArrowCorps5 Service Project at Shasta-Trinity National Forest in California. Schultz said this about ArrowCorps5, “It was a great pro-gram and I had a great time. We were in a very beautiful part of the country and we got to do some beneficial work for the forest...this was a trip that I will never forget.” Schultz looks to continue to partici-pate in the Order of the Arrow by showing up to upcoming events and getting more involved. Great job Schultz!

NLTC at Opryland Continued from page 1)

Winter Banquet December 6, 2008

Jackson Park Church of Christ

Online Lodge Event Registration is Coming!! Read the next issue of The Flying Eagle

for more information!

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The Flying Eagle is the official publication of the Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge # 111, based in the Middle Tennessee Council, Boy Scouts of America, Nashville, Tennessee. All submissions, news, and suggestions should be sent via e-mail to: [email protected]. The Wa-Hi-Nasa Lodge can also be found on the World Wide Web at: http://www.wa-hi-nasa.org.

Next Submission Deadline: October 1, 2008 Editor-In-Chief: Matt Brown The Flying Eagle Adviser: Ben Whitehouse Photos: Ben Whitehouse, Matt Brown, Robert Guisinger, Carl Head, Mikel Venable Lodge Adviser: Robert Guisinger Associate Lodge Adviser: Ian Romaine Lodge Staff Adviser: Martez Moore Supreme Chief of the Fire: Hugh Travis

Officer Directory

Lodge Chief - Jake Jones

[email protected] Vice Chief of Service - Michael Murphy

[email protected] Vice Chief of Development - Michael Moore [email protected] Vice Chief of Program - Michael Petty [email protected] Secretary - Matt Brown [email protected] Treasurer - Taylor Fox

[email protected]

Veni Vidi Vici! Come to Conquer at the 2008 Fall Fellowship

September 19-21, 2008

2008 Lodge Calendar Fall Fellowship September 19-21 Cub & Family Weekends Every Weekend in October One Day of Service October 18 Winter Banquet December 6 Winter Camp December 27-31

2009 Lodge Calendar Available on Page 5!

Caption Contest: Matt Brown, Schultz McLean, and Ryan Robin-son lounge around in the snow on top of Mt. Lassen at ArrowCorps5. Send in your sug-gestion for an ap-propriate caption to this picture and you could win a 70th Anniversary Lodge Collector Flap. Email sub-missions to: [email protected].

One Last

Look...

SAVE THE DATE! Winter Banquet December 6, 2008