Kevin Rudesill
I've been an active Scouter and Boy Scout patch collector since my childhood.
1980's Scout-O-Rama at South Sound Center
My primary collections are of Northwest Order of the Arrow Lodges.
Tillicum Lodge 392 YP1 1 known
I am in the process of putting together a Northwest camp collection. I'm working on one 1920s-1940s camp patch from each camp in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. I prefer felt camp patches. I also collect camp histories and am the camp editor for
Washington State.
Camp Cleland Patch, earliest Tumwater Area Council camp on Lena Lake &
Camp Olympus, predecessor to Camp Thunderbird on Summit Lake circa 1945
I'm most proud of my service as Tillicum Lodge 392 Chief and my seven years working on staff at Camp Thunderbird located near Olympia, Washington.
Friendship totem pole at Camp Thunderbird that I helped carve
in memory of Jeff Carrington who died during travel at the 1988 World Jamboree in Australia
I've attended all of the NOAC's since 1988, except 1, and have served three times as the lead over the Lodge Displays and Oral Presentations at the NOAC Museum (OA Center for History).
1996 National Order of the Arrow Conference
Indiana University
I also served on the 75th OA Anniversary Special Events Committee, NOAC Training Registration Adviser and Lodge Contingent Leader.
2006 NOAC National Champion Lodge Display
I was a Scoutmaster for the 1993 and 1997 National Jamborees, visited the 2001 National Jamboree and served as Communications Officer for the Pacific Northwest Subcamp at the 2005 National Jamboree.
Arlington National Cemetery
prior to 1997 National Jamboree
I was a Nisqually Lodge Associate Adviser for many of its years and was pleased to be the lead Adviser for the Thunderbird Stage Project and many successful lodge fellowships and banquets. One of the most special events was the fellowship that I was Adviser for that we were able to get the National Order of the Arrow Chief and Western Region Chief to attend. I continue to serve in the unofficial position of Lodge Historian. Over eight Section W1-B conclaves I led the memorabilia auction and raised over $40,000 to help fund youth programs. I have been the longtime webmaster for Section W-1N.
New Stage at Camp Thunderbird
My collecting interests include one of the most complete collections of Pacific Northwest & Alaska Order of the Arrow insignia, specializing in the restricted 1980's to early 1990's issues. I collect at least one 1920's-1940's camp patch from each local council and strive to increase my collection of camp felts. I collect CP's and I also have an extensive northwest National Jamboree collections. The Western Washington Trade-O-Ree, which I co-sponsor, is on its 12th year. Currently I'm the International Scouting Collector's Association Washington State VP and the former ISCA NWTA Chapter #1 President.
I've traveled extensively around the United States and a few special moments from recent years are captured in the pictures, below.
Kauai, Hawaii June 2006
Secret Waterfall accessed by helicopter
Philadelphia August 2005
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania July 2005
Liberty Plaza
Las Vegas Stratosphere May 2005
Badlands South Dakota, July 2004
Fairbanks, Alaska March 2004
University of Alaska Museum
with Zach West, Nisqually Lodge Chief, and Joe Riekena, Section W1-B Chief
Inspiration - Camp Patches and Council items. Why? Sam Fairchild to Patch-L 12/24/2006: "...It is my firm belief that OA collecting will soon intersect with camp collecting. Imagine collecting the first issue (or first flap) of each lodge with the camp issue that was contemporaneous with that OA issue. I can see council collectors matching camp issues, including staff issues, with lodge issues. I can even envision collecting with these sets the camping promotions literature published by a lodge. This projection is also based on the fact that Bill Topkis is collecting early camp patches as fast as he can, and has been doing so for the last four to five years. His collecting habits is usually a precursor to the direction the hobby will head off into. This will solidify as soon as someone (perhaps Bill again) publishes the book with the lodge issue married up with the camp issue. It will be this phase of collecting that will help to bring collecting back to the way it once was -- a hobby of friendship, adventure and discovery/detective work, not the greed-driven, profit-centered, one-wins-at-the-expense-of-another activity that we have drifted into. Sorry to be so blunt about this, but the things that made this hobby so wonderful, and that pop up occasionally among the youngest scouts at National Jamborees and multi-council camporees, have escaped us. Shame on us, myself included. I can only hope that the camp-OA thing moves quickly into play, as I think it will draw more fellowship into the collecting world. Just my thought..."
"Best of the Best" Alaska Camp Patches & Histories
"Best of the Best" Idaho Camp Patches & Histories
"Best of the Best" Montana, Utah, Wyoming Camp Patches & Histories
"Best of the Best" Oregon Camp Patches & Histories
"Best of the Best" Washington Camp Patches & Histories
"Best of the Best" Region 11 CP's
Sea Scout Ship Patches from the Pacific Northwest ** New **
Fine examples of "The Oldest" Camp Patches
A selection from "The Oldest" Camporee / Event Patches
Fine examples of rare Scout pictures
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