Membership
This scouting rank is required to be eligible for OA election.
What is First Class Scout?
This youth leader runs the lodge.
What is the Lodge Chief?
These are the three values the Order of the Arrow is based on.
What are Brotherhood, Cheerfulness, and Service?
OA members are often called this.
What are Arrowmen?
The Order of the Arrow was founded in this year.
What is 1915?
This is the first level of membership in the OA.
What is Ordeal?
These smaller groups within a lodge help represent different geographic areas.
What are chapters?
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What is Wimachtendienk, Wingolauchsik, Witahemui?
This symbol on the sash represents the Order.
What is an arrow?
OA was founded at this Scout camp.
What is Treasure Island Scout Reservation?
This process selects candidates for OA membership within a troop.
What is the unit election?
Multiple lodges are grouped into this regional structure.
What is a section?
This OA principle means willingly helping others without expecting anything in return.
What is Service?
This is the OA’s official song often sung at events.
What is the OA Song?
These two people founded the Order of the Arrow.
Who are E. Urner Goodman and Carroll A. Edson?
Members must wait this many months after Ordeal before becoming eligible for Brotherhood.
What is 6 months?
This national event brings Arrowmen together every few years.
What is NOAC (National Order of the Arrow Conference)?
This principle refers to the bond between Arrowmen across different troops, lodges, and states.
What is Brotherhood?
"I do hereby promise, on my honor as a Scout, that I will always and faithfully observe and preserve the traditions of the Order of the Arrow. Wimachtendienk, Wingolauchsik, Witahemui. I will always regard the ties of brotherhood in the Order of the Arrow as lasting, and will seek to preserve a cheerful spirit, even in the midst of irksome tasks and weighty responsibilities, and will endeavor, so far as in my power lies, to be unselfish in service and devotion to the welfare of others."
What is the OA Obligation?
The OA was originally created within this local Scouting council.
What is the Philadelphia Council?
This is the highest honor that can be bestowed upon an OA member.
What is Vigil Honor?
In OA structure, this group acts as the primary youth-led governing body of a lodge.
What is the Lodge Executive Committee (LEC)?
Which OA principle is shown when you keep a good attitude during hard work?
What is Cheerfulness?
This Lenni Lenape word means “cheerful service.”
What is “Wimachtendienk”?
The OA’s original purpose emphasized recognizing Scouts who best exemplified this set of ideals.
What is the Scout Oath and Law?