Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo
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. It was founded in 1892 in Gurdon
Gurdon, Arkansas
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, Arkansas
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, USA by five business travelers who were returning from a meeting of the Arkansas Yellow Pine Manufacturer's Association, and had to wait several hours for their connecting train. They were joined by a local businessman. The first name suggested for the new organization was Ancient Order of Camp Followers, but the name Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo was selected instead.
The founders wanted the organization to be unconventional and unregimented. Its one aim would be to foster the health, happiness, and long life of its members.http://www.hoo-hoo.org/pdf/HHI-History.pdf In a spirit of fun, names for some of the officers were inspired by Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
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's The Hunting of the Snark
The Hunting of the Snark
The Hunting of the Snark is usually thought of as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll in 1874, when he was 42 years old...
. The chief executive officer of Hoo-Hoo is the Snark of the Universe (formerly the Grand Snark of the Universe). The Board of Directors includes the Chairman, Vice-President, Secretary-Treasurer, the Seer of the House of Ancients and the Supreme Nines. The Supreme Nines include the Supreme Hoo-Hoo, Senior Hoo-Hoo, Junior Hoo-Hoo, Scrivenoter, Bojum, Jabberwock, Custocatian, Arcanoper and Gurdon. The Hoo-Hoo emblem is a black cat with its tail curled into the shape of a figure nine.
External links
- Hoo-Hoo International website
- The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture - Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo
- Inventory of the International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, Inc., Records, 1892 - 1972 in the Forest History SocietyForest History SocietyThe Forest History Society is an American non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of forest and conservation history. The society was established in 1946 and incorporated in 1955....
Library and Archives, Durham, NC - January 21, 1892: Hoo-Hoo International, Not Your Father’s Skull and Bones