Facts about the Yokahu Lodge

• The Yokahu Lodge was founded in the year 1954 by Frank H. Wadsworth
• There have been two official visits of a National Order of the Arrow chief to our lodge, being the most recent at last semester's National Leadership Seminar.
• Last March the lodge was host for the first time in its history of a National Leadership Seminar.
• The lodge has two special awards that recognize cheerful service in adults and Youth. For adults the award is called the 3 W's and for youth the award is called the bronze Cemi. Both of them are pins that are placed on the flap. Only a limited amount of these awards are handed out annually. 
• Frank Wadsworth is the only recipient in our lodge of the Distinguished Service Award.
• Even though Frank Wadsworth was the founder of our lodge he was not the first Vigil Honor to be inducted.
• Frank Wadsworth is the only Vigil of Honor in our lodge that does not have a Lenni-Lenape named. Instead he has a taino (Puerto Rican native Indians) name.
• The lodge's first name was Yuquiyu Lodge, and later was changed to Yokahu. There is no evidence of a Flap bearing the original name.
• One of the first Yokahu Flaps reads "Yokahu 506 - Puerto Rico & Virgin Islands"
• During the 45th Anniversary of our Lodge a group of Arrowmen visited NYC to celebrate the occasion, there they visited the Local Council and met a section officer.
• By tradition the Yellow original Yokahu flap is not traded outside of Puerto Rico.
• There are four characteristics that are unique in the Yokahu Lodge 506: he's the only youth that uses gray loops, the Indian headdress, the gavel and he's the only person in the lodge authorized to use the beaded sash.
• There are five activities that are a standard in our lodge every year: OA Fellowship, Leadership Seminar, High Adventure, Guateke and the annual Convention.
• The first Yokahu Lodge web site was created in the year 2000.
• The lodge has eight chapters: Arasibo, Cayniabon, Guani, Guaraka, Guarionex, Guaitiao, Majagua and Yagueka.