In 1991 a merger took place between Kootaga Council located in Parkersburg, WV and the Central WV Council located in Clarksburg, WV. Tom Kramer was adviser for Kootaga Lodge 201 and Dwight Davis was adviser of Buckongehannon Lodge 527. Al Billips was asked to advise the newly formed Nendawen Lodge 618.
Kenny Barnhouse and Pete Roth were Chiefs of the merging lodges. With representatives from both lodges, they confirmed the name "Nendawen" for the new lodge and designed a new patch refelcting two buckskin covered arms each holding a torch and having the numerals 201 on one sleeve and 527 on the other sleeve. The torches were directed to a firelay in the center of the patch with a red border and by a flip of the coin Kenny Barnhouse became the first Lodge Chief and Pete Roth was the Vice Chief.
A new set of Lodge rules were formulated and adopted. The first Winter Banquet was held in December, 1991, at Salem Teikyo University and at that banquet each chapter was required to have a minimum of 10 youth members present to elect their Chapter Vice Chief. This presented a problem since Hock Hocking with Chapter Advisr Gus Morris was the only chapter able to hold their election. The rules were amended to take out the 10 member present rule.
Al Billips left the advisorship of Nendawen Lodge 618 in order to serve as Section Advisor for EC6B and later C5B which covered all of West Virginia and a large aera of Ohio. He was succeeded in 1993 by Gus Morris as the second Nendawen Lodge 618 advisor. Gus was succeeded in 1999 by Bruce Enlow as the third Nendawen Lodge 618 Advisor. Bruce Enlow then resigned in 2001 and Jay Wilson took over as the Lodge Advisor.
Kenny Barnhouse and Pete Roth were Chiefs of the merging lodges. With representatives from both lodges, they confirmed the name "Nendawen" for the new lodge and designed a new patch refelcting two buckskin covered arms each holding a torch and having the numerals 201 on one sleeve and 527 on the other sleeve. The torches were directed to a firelay in the center of the patch with a red border and by a flip of the coin Kenny Barnhouse became the first Lodge Chief and Pete Roth was the Vice Chief.
A new set of Lodge rules were formulated and adopted. The first Winter Banquet was held in December, 1991, at Salem Teikyo University and at that banquet each chapter was required to have a minimum of 10 youth members present to elect their Chapter Vice Chief. This presented a problem since Hock Hocking with Chapter Advisr Gus Morris was the only chapter able to hold their election. The rules were amended to take out the 10 member present rule.
Al Billips left the advisorship of Nendawen Lodge 618 in order to serve as Section Advisor for EC6B and later C5B which covered all of West Virginia and a large aera of Ohio. He was succeeded in 1993 by Gus Morris as the second Nendawen Lodge 618 advisor. Gus was succeeded in 1999 by Bruce Enlow as the third Nendawen Lodge 618 Advisor. Bruce Enlow then resigned in 2001 and Jay Wilson took over as the Lodge Advisor.
