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<h1 align="center">Historic Reenactment Ceremony Competition </h1>


<P><a href="history.jpg"><img src="history-sm.jpg" alt="Candidates" width="150" height="113" class="thumb" align="left"></a>The Historic Reenactment Ceremony Competition is one of three separate competitions for lodges at the OA Center for History at NOAC. (The other two are Lodge Historical Display and Lodge Oral History Presentation.) These competitions emphasize local OA history as well as the history of the ceremonies. </P>
<P><a href="historicalreenact.jpg"><img src="Historicalreenact-sm.jpg" width="150" height="113" class="thumb" align="right"></a>The Center for OA History presented  four live historical ceremonies as planned during training cells at the 2003 Indian Summer. These ceremonies were the first Ceremony for the Ordeal, the first Pre-Ordeal, the first Brotherhood (Second Degree) and the first known Vigil Honor Ceremony. Each ceremony is historically different from those currently used, allowing all Arrowmen to attend any historical ceremony regardless of their honor.<br>
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<H3>Historic Ceremony Evaluation Guidelines</H3>
<P><STRONG>Purpose:</STRONG>
<BLOCKQUOTE>To learn the beginnings of our ceremonies and to strive for a better understanding of not only the ceremonies as we know them today, but also the ceremonies at the roots of the Wimachtendienk (the Order of the Arrow). <a href="history_2.jpg"><img class="thumb" src="History_2-sm.jpg" alt="history reenactment" width="150" height="113" align="right"></a></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P><STRONG>Ceremonies for Evaluation:</STRONG>
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  <LI>1916 - Ritual for the First Degree of the Wimachtendienk (Ordeal Ceremony) 
  <LI>1918 - Ritual for the Second Degree of the Wimachtendienk (Brotherhood Ceremony) 
  <LI>1916 - Ritual for the Third Degree Ritual (Vigil Ceremony) 
  <LI>1921 - Ceremonial for Start of Ordeal (Pre-Ordeal Ceremony) </LI>
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<P class=foot>Revised 8/02/2004</P>
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