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Royal Rangers History
July 31, 2020
This project is now a few years old. However we still need your help to keep it up to date. Do you have any history for your activities at outpost, sectional, district, regional, or national events for 2020 or before? We would love to get a copy and get it posted on the history site. Whether is it Pow Wow packets, FCF packets, posters, documents, patch scans, staff listings, etc. All history for your district and section can be posted. Please contact Mark Oliver and it will get updated quickly. We ask that patch scans/photos be a minimum resolution of 300x300. If you take a photo, please put one patch per picture and take the photo close to the patch so we get it up close.
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July 31, 2020
Have you submitted the required information to receive your 2020 Contributor patch yet? If not, remember, there are only 5 months left in this year. Don't wait too late completing the requirements or we may run out of patches. Read more about it here.
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This site is managed by the North Texas Royal Rangers on behalf of and is the exclusively authorized history site of the national Royal Rangers ministries office, Springfield, MO. Contacts for this site include Mark Oliver and Jonathan Trower.
Dispatches
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Dispatch History
The following is from a letter from Paul Stanek, then the national training coordinator, to a local commander in January, 1977.
“The first issued “Dispatch” was for June, July and August 1963. The front cover has a drawing of a mail pouch with words, Royal Rangers DISPATCH. The cover is black and white. The scenes in a glass bottle is in this issue."
“The second “Dispatch” has a yellow cover which was for the Autumn of 1963. I find no record of a Winter issue of Dispatch November, December, January 1963-1964. I don’t know if one was published at that time."
“The Spring “Dispatch” 1964, I do have. This issue speaks of a new format for “Dispatch” from mimeographed to printing. The copy also speaks of the 50th anniversary of the Assemblies of God."
“I do not find any record of a 1964 Summer issue of ever being printed. We do have records of all other issues put out since then.”
NOTE: The RoyalRangersHistory.com site has scans of the Dispatch magazines from Summer 1963, Autumn 1963, and Winter 1963-64 (the issue Paul Stanek did not know if it existed or not) and the Spring 1964 Dispatch.