Name That Council – Hiawatha Seaway Council
Hiawatha Seaway Council President Robert Berger announced on November 11th, 2009 the formation of an ad hoc Committee to coordinate the process of selecting a new name for our combined Boy Scout Council.
The committee will consist of five members representing, marketing, public relations, and communications; and will draw members from Cayuga County, the Syracuse Area, and the North Country.
The suggestion nomination process has ended. Stay tuned for more information!
Steve Austin reports:
the 2 finalists that the Executive Board is voting on now are:Longhouse Council and Adirondack Foothills Council. I will let you know what wins as soon as I hear.
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Table of contents for Hiawatha Seaway - Cayuga County
- Cayuga County Council – Court rules against local Boy Scouts in merger battle
- Upcoming Name Change For Kayanernh-Kowa Lodge #219?
- Name That Council – Hiawatha Seaway Council
- Cayuga County & Hiawatha Seaway Merger Update
- Cayuga County Council Loses Its Charter
- Cayuga County and Hiawatha Seaway Council Merger Update
- Boy Scout Council loses in court
- Kayanernh-Kowa Lodge #219 No More?
- Hiawatha Seaway Council Changes its Name
- Longhouse Council
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December 21st, 2009 at 10:05 pm
I like the Adirondack Foothills name more than Longhouse Council.
December 22nd, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Hi Bill-
I’m a little partial to Adirondack Foothills simply for heritage reasons (the Adirondack foothills area comprises is mostly the old Seaway Valley Council). Longhouse Council is remniscent of the old Onondaga Council. I don’t believe either name represents well the geography encompassed within the new boundaries but I’m guessing Central-Northern NY Council is a bit too generic. I heard a convincing rumor that the lodge will choose a new name and will be a native American translation of one of the two phrases (either “Deep Snow” or “Peace of the Deep Snow”). Again these are rumor from a credible source and indicates one of two possible totems:
*the Bobcat
or
*the Gougou
(I proposed this one several months ago and certainly ties into local lore dating back several centuries…for more on the Gougou, I’m including an article I dug up at the time I’d proposed it):
http://www.pressrepublican.com/homepage/local_story_108213458.html
December 22nd, 2009 at 8:20 pm
I’d lamented since day #1 of Lodge 219 that having a wampum belt was no fun for a totem and I sought to lead a grass roots effort to switch the totem to a moose (which would have been the only lodge to currently have that totem) by designing two lodge issues with a moose on them. Immediately thereafter, Lodge #34 was chartered with the moose totem eliminating any hope (and my desire) that lodge leadership would change it (the desire to change the totem was not purely selfish…from day #1 of Lodge #219, we ran into problems with the leadership of the local tribe with the Hiawatha Belt totem being a copyrighted image and had to modify it to some degree in order to avoid trouble…which only further made it’s use sort of meaningless…it was this situation which led me to desire a totem we could anthropomorphize and have some fun with). Since I did not wish to have a totem done ad-nauseum by other lodges, I sought regional lore indicative of early settler experiences and discovered the Gougou. Time will tell if it is chosen.
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