[Elfsea] Baronial Awards for A&S and Martial activites

[frayduck at tx.rr.com]

Not a bad idea, I think.  I know of at least one Barony that did something similar.  Dun Or, in Caid, had baronial awards in the shape of Oreo cookies (Dun Oreos), and they came in different colors for different awards: red for fighting, black for service, green for arts.

Their reasoning was to have a single award that was easily recognized as being from them, with only a single submission for approval.

Of course, I think Towers have considerably more dignity and panache than Oreo cookies as awards....

Dux


---- Dragonetti <dragonetti at generich.com> wrote: 
> Not being a heraldic type, I sought assistance on a couple of occasions to
> advance this effort, however, distractions diminished a persistent effort on
> my part and "life" frequently happened among those I in whom I had sought
> council. There had been discussion of altering the Eastern Tower to simply
> the "Towers" in order to allow more leeway in issuing different "flavors" of
> the award, (i.e., Eastern for static or performance A&S, Western for martial
> activities, Central perhaps for excellence among our youths, etc.)  This
> would alleviate the need to go through the submission and approval process
> with the college of heralds over and over for each new "flavor". Hopefully
> our successors can fair better than I in seeing this effort through. It is
> an excellent topic and I am pleased to see it getting a bit of attention.
> Thank you Mistress Caterina! :-)
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> HE Armand
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> From: elfsea-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org
> [mailto:elfsea-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Richard Threlkeld
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:56 PM
> To: 'Barony of Elfsea'
> Subject: Re: [Elfsea] New website
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> Agreed. We do have one for A&S, but it is rarely awarded. We have talked of
> combat awards, but have not yet built such an award structure.
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> Caelin
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 22:31 PM
> To: elfsea at lists.ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Elfsea] New website
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> Thank you for your reply.  I am aware that there are Kingdom awards for
> Shires, but this doesn't entirely answer my question.  It seems that these
> awards are largely given only for service.  If there is a structure in place
> to give a Barony the power to recognize those contributions which are
> outside the realm of service, whether it be on a Baronial or Canton level,
> then why are they not utilized?  Service is indeed something worthy of
> recognition and praise, but the martial and artistic communities contribute
> just as much in their own venues to our enjoyment of the game.  I am just of
> the firm belief that we need to encourage growth and participation in all
> sectors, not merely in one.  
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> M. Caterina
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