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Order of the Arrow Elections are this Monday!

Order of the Arrow elections are this Monday, everyone needs to be there to vote!

O/A Brothers: please wear your O/A sash to the meeting on Monday!

The Order of the Arrow is Scouting’s National Honor Society. It recognizes those who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law in their daily lives and, through that recognition, cause others to conduct themselves in such a way that warrants similar recognition, to promote camping, to develop leaders, and to crystallize the Scout habit of helpfulness into a life purpose of leadership in cheerful service to others. Voting for youth candidates is to be based on their spirit of brotherhood, cheerfulness (no matter how tiresome their duties), and a willingness to give unselfish and wholehearted service to others at all times. Elections for the O/A are not a competition between Scouts. Scouts should vote for as many, or as few, of the candidates as you believe are qualified. Any Scout who gets at least 50% of the votes cast is elected as a candidate for membership in the O/A.

Youth Membership Qualification

  1. A Boy Scout who holds the First Class rank, is under the age of 18, and is registered as an active member of a troop, with the approval of his unit leader, be nominated for election. Prior to the annual election, the unit leader must certify the nominee’s Scout spirit and youth membership qualifications.
  1. After registration with the troop, the youth must have experienced 15 days and nights of Boy Scout camping during the two-year period prior to the election. The 15 days and nights must include one, but no more than one, long-term camp consisting of six consecutive days and five nights of resident camping, approved and under the auspices and standards of the Boy Scouts of America. The balance of the camping must be overnight, weekend, or other short-term camps.
An election team from the Kenesaw Chapter, Egwa Tawa Dee Lodge, of the Order of the Arrow will be present at the meeting on Monday to conduct the elections. Elections occur only once per year, usually about this time.

For more information, please visit oa-bsa.org/pages/category/C15.