21 August 2008
ArrowCorps5 Videos
Posted by admin under: community service .
If you wish you could have been there or you just want to see what the Boy Scouts of America’s honor society, the Order of the Arrow, did for their biggest service project in history you can go to http://oa-bsa.org/events/arrowcorps5/index.php?p=onsite/siteinreview and watch videos for each of the 5 forest areas that the OA worked on: Bridger-Teton, George Washington and Jefferson, Manti-La Sal, Mark Twain, and Shasta-Trinity (this is the one a member of my troop and chapter worked on [he's in the video for about a brief flash about 30 seconds from the end]). You really get a feel for the scope of the project and the variety of people working on it from the videos.
Incidentally, this is also part of the newly redesigned OA website. Once again, for the benefit of parents who may not know, the Order of the Arrow is not a secret organization. They do ask that their ceremonies and signals are kept private, but any OA event is open to parents who wish to assure themselves that their child is not being inducted into some sort of diabolical cabal. You might not be able to participate, but you are allowed to watch and inspect any BSA event, even the ones the boys like to treat as a special club.
For those troops that have excellent Boy Scouts, but have not held an Order of the Arrow election in a while, please contact your local council and find out how to get the OA out to your troop meeting for an election. You’re even allowed to induct one adult per year, too. Where I’m from, being an Arrowman is almost as rare as being an Eagle Scout.
- ArrowCorps Documentary in the Works
- President Bush Honors Eagle Scouts
- It Was an Ordeal
- New OA Officers for 2009
- President’s Volunteer Service Award
