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Jimmie  Lee  Bowles

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September 2015

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At the 2011 Ribbon Cutting for the Mazzuca Campfire Bowl

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With Bob Mazzuca, Chief Scout Executive

At the 2012 National OA Conference
 

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With Wayne Brock, the new Chief Scout Executive

Heading to the 1967 NOAC
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Jeff Gieseke, Jim Bowles, Chuck Warne, Kevin Biddle & Jeff Doane

NOAC's I have attended

 1958
University of Kansas
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Machek N'Gult Delegate
 1961
Indiana University
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Machek N'Gult Delegate
 1963
University of Illinois
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Area 12-B Contingent Leader
 1965
Indiana University
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Area 12-B & 12-D Contingent Leader
 1967
University of Nebraska
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Esselen Contingent Leader
 1969
Indiana University
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Area 12-D Contingent Leader
 1971
University of Illinois
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Area 12-D Contingent Leader
 1973
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Esselen Contingent Leader
 1975
Miami University, Ohio 
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California Contingent Leader
 1977
University of Tennessee
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Esselen Contingent Leader
 2006
Michigan State University
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Esselen Assistant Leader

 2009
Indiana University

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Esselen Assistant Leader

 2012
Michigan State University

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Esselen Lodge Deligate
2015
Michigan State University
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Saklan Lodge Delegate
   

1961 NOAC at Indiana University as a member of
Machek N'Gult Lodge of the Oakland Area Council

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Oakland Tribune, August 1961

 Jim L. Bowles 
Esselen Lodge & Camp Pico Blanco Historian

 1957 Ordeal
1958 Brotherhood
1961 Vigil Honor
at Rancho Los Mochos
Machek N'Gult Lodge 375
Oakland Area Council 21 
 1962 Lodge Chief 
Machek N'Gult Lodge 375
Oakland Area Council 21
Oakland California
 1962-63 Area 12-B Treasurer
1963 Area 12-B Chief
1971-72 Area 12-D Associate Adviser
 
1965-1967 Associate Chapter Adviser
1967-1979 Lodge Adviser
2008-2013  Associate Lodge Adviser
Esselen Lodge 531
Monterey Bay Area Council 25
Salinas, California 
  Scouter Positions
Assistant Scoutmaster, 
Associate Explorer Adviser,
Explorer Adviser,
Neighborhood Commissioner,
Council Camping Committee,  
Lodge Adviser,
Council Member at Large,
Venturing Crew Committee,
Associate Lodge Adviser,
Venturing Crew Assoc. Adv.,
Land & Facilities Committee
 National OA Conferences (NOAC) 
Attended: 1958, 1961 

Contingent Leader

for Esselen:  1967, 1973, 1977

Asst..  Leader 2006, 2009, 2012

Contingent Leader for

 Multi Lodge Contingents:

  1963, 1965, 1969, 1971, 1975 (made up with most of the lodges between Eureka and Orange County)

Total of 13 NOAC's

 
Dimond-O Camp Staff 
1960-1962
Oakland Area Council
near Mather next to
Yosemite National Park 
Pico Blanco Camp Staff
1966-1978
Provisional Scoutmaster, 
Camp Commissioner,
Trading Post Manager,
Camp Business Manager 

In 1972 I was to become the new Area 12-D Adviser for the Lodges of Central California (Stockton, Modesto, Fresno, Visalia, Bakersfield, San Luis Obispo and Salinas).  Before I was installed the 12 BSA Regions merged to become 6 Regions and the 5 OA Areas in California became 4 Sections.  It was Area 12-D that was disbanded and did not become a Section.  Esselen Lodge then joined Section W3A of the San Francisco Bay.

30 FROM ESSELEN ATTEND NOAC - 1973

Thirty Esselen members went by chartered Greyhound bus to the 1973 National Order of the Arrow Conference held at the University of California in Santa Barbara.  We spent a day at Disneyland before arriving at the conference.  It was the largest contingent Esselen has sent to a NOAC.

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  ISCA LIFE MEMBER #5303
INTERNATIONAL SCOUTING COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION

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 1967 - Scout Executive Tom Moore asked me to be the Esselen Lodge Adviser two months after this photo was taken
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1970 - Camp Pico Blanco Business Manager
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1971 - With Carroll A. Edson, Co-founder of the Order of the Arrow in 1915
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1972 - Trying on the official Lodge Chief's Headdress
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1972 - At the OA desk in the Scout office
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1972 - Going over Ordeal projects
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1969 - Santa Cruz District Scout-o-rama
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1976 - Lodge Banquet
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1976 - Section W3A Conclave

In the Pico Blanco Trading Post in 1971
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This website is for collecting and displaying the history of Esselen Lodge 531.  This is a private website and is not part of Esselen Lodge or the Monterey Bay Area Council.