Interview with OA Historian Ken Davis
Ken Davis is a long-time member of the OA National Committee from the Southern Region. He came onto the committee as the first Regional Chairman for the Southeast Region in 1974. He has a Ph.D. in history and was tapped to write a book on the history of the Order of the Arrow.
Now in its third edition, we caught up with Ken at the recent National OA Conservation and Leadership Summit. In the following video podcast Ken discusses how he came to write this book and some of the surprises he came across in doing his research for this book.
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We picked up some copies of his book that he graciously autographed and we now have on sale. Here’s a peek inside.
on August 16th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
[…] feature on the TSPA blog; On-line video Scouting legacy interviews. One recent one is an interview Interview with OA Historian Ken Davis the author of “The Brotherhood of Cheerful Service A History of the Order of the Arrow” […]
on February 23rd, 2009 at 12:53 am
Ken worked with me at Philmont and always sent me a Christmas Card on time and I failed to reply some years. I was on the National Order of the Arrow Conference Committee 1963 at the University of Illinois. Ken is a great person ansd I have always considered him a friend.
Ed Kumorowski
on February 23rd, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Ed,
Thanks for the note about Ken. I worked with him too. Great guy. He’s =
been a real asset to the Order. I am writing though about your note =
about serving on the ’63 NOAC Committee.. Could you expand on this? What =
sticks in your mind about that conference? What lodge and area are you =
from? What did you do on that Committee? Problems? Successes?
Regards
Roy