Predecessor Lodges
Munhacke 88

 

Munhacke Lodge #88 was chartered to the Washtenaw-Livingston Council on June 16, 1936.  Munhacke is a Lenni Lenape word that means "Badger".  The council name was changed to Portage Trails in 1949 and was based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  The lodge was based at Camp Newkirk, a small camp of about 40 acres located on the banks of the Huron River near Dexter, Michigan.   The lodge was started by two individuals in the council, both of whom were former members of the OA and had moved into our council's area.  One had joined the OA in 1921.  Walter MacPeek was the council executive at the time.  Munhacke was the first OA lodge in our council.  In the 1930's, one scout per week at camp was inducted into the Order.  The lodge initiation in the 1930's required that a scout demonstrate his skills by navigating a canoe several miles down the river back to camp, without paddles and at night.  Today we would consider this hazing, but those were different times.  Dan Ling was the Lodge Advisor in 1945 and later became a member of the National OA Committee and Founders Advisory Council.   Aprestigious section service award is named in his honor.  The first lodge flap was issued in about 1956.  Prior to the first lodge flap after World War II, the lodge issued a round patch and another arrowhead-shaped patch.