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Delegate Robert Malouf (left) of Brookfield, Wisconsin, checks in with Jennifer Wedemeyer-Campbell (center) for the 110th U.S. Bahá’í National Convention, joined by other Bahá’í National Center employees. Photo by Joyce Litoff
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Directors elected at the 2010 CHS annual meeting were, left to right, Dennis Carlson, C.J. Blew, Randy Knecht, Michael Toelle, Robert Bass and Steve Riegel.
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The Sixty-Third Fourth Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of WIPO Member States took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from July 6-14, 2023.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Violaine Martin. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Last day shooting as a group of delegates to continental congress, John Adams miniseries, This is a self portrait, I'm on the far right.
Delegates and Member States representative at the first day of the IAEA 62nd General Conference. IAEA, Vienna, Austria, 17 September 2018
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
The Sixty-Fourth Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of WIPO Member States took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from July 6-14, 2023.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
RICHMOND -- Each day, when the General Assembly is in session, 81-year-old Bud Roderick slips on a pair of white gloves. At precisely three minutes before the gavel bangs in the House of Delegates, Roderick -- dressed always in a blue blazer, gray slacks and a white shirt -- opens a glass case, tenderly removes a golden mace and carries it on extended arms into the chamber.
In a Capitol rich with pomp, few things embody it more than Virginia's solid silver, 24-karat-coated ceremonial mace.
Weighing in at 10 pounds plus, measuring nearly 4 feet long with a head that's shaped like a crown, the staff is a throwback to the days of kings and queens.
"It seems unusual in an American setting, I know," says Mark Greenough, a Capitol historian. "But tourists find it fascinating."
To Roderick, it's the best part of being sergeant at arms in the House, a position he's held for eight years.
"The mace is everything," Roderick says reverently.
Its every movement is escorted by an armed Capitol police officer. Its display case is double-locked and outfitted with a pressure-sensitive alarm. Gleaming in a wooden cradle where Roderick lays it at the front of the chamber, the mace signals that an official session is under way.
It's also a symbol of authority and order, a significance that traces its origins to ancient kings and the clubs of their bodyguards.
No one can say why Virginia's Senate doesn't have a mace -- only that they're usually associated with lower houses of assembly, and today, even that's rare. In Washington, the House of Representatives opens its sessions with one, but among the states, only five still cling to such ceremony.
Once, all 13 colonies claimed official maces, each presented by a royal governor as an emblem of ties to the British empire. But only South Carolina still has its genuine article.
Virginia sold its original after the Revolutionary War, when anything that smelled of nobility was shunned. A Richmond silversmith paid $100 for the 7-pound sterling silver mace in 1794, money that went into the public treasury.
"It was probably melted down to make punch bowls and ladles and tea pots," Greenough says with a sigh. "What would it be worth today? I often wonder."
For 180 years, the nation's oldest representative assembly did its work without a mace. In 1974, the Jamestown Foundation presented the House with the replacement.
Crafted in Britain in 1938 for a wealthy Englishman, the mace had changed hands several times and been stolen at least once, only to be recovered by Scotland Yard mere moments before it was melted down. The Jamestown Foundation bought it from an art dealer for $4,625. Colonial Williamsburg restored it and then, the mace was "Virginia-ized" with a couple of inscriptions about the legislature's history.
"Since it wasn't made from scratch for us," Greenough says, "it has some of the things you might expect -- the royal coat of arms, Tudor roses, oak leaves -- all good English stuff. So we customized it with engravings and things like that."
Theoretically, the mace has the last word inside a chamber. Debates can get heated, and when members get too passionate, the sergeant at arms presents the mace to restore order. In Washington, fistfights have been halted by sheer respect for the mace.
"We've never had to do that here, though," Roderick says. "Although, long ago, there was a sergeant at arms who used to tap legislators with his cane."
As for the tangible, Virginia's mace is valued at $70,000 for insurance purposes.
As for the intangible: "It doesn't matter what its worth," says Greenough. "It's a symbol of the best ideals of representative government transmitted from England to North America. We sold it once. We're not going to make that mistake again -- for any price."
The Fifty-First Series of Meetings of the Assemblies of WIPO Member States took place in Geneva, Switzerland from October 5 to 14, 2015.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Violaine Martin. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
The Fourteenth Session of WIPO's Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from November 10 to November 14, 2014.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.
Delegates and Member States representative at the first day of the IAEA 62nd General Conference. IAEA, Vienna, Austria, 17 September 2018
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Participants and Delegates at the 7th Our Ocean Conference, hosted by Palau and the United States, On April 14, 2022 in Koror, Palau (Jesse Alpert/U.S. Department of State)
Delegate Kimberly Woods of the Illinois Great Rivers conference joins in singing at the conclusion of the episcopal address at the 2016 United Methodist General Conference in Portland, Ore. Photo by Mike DuBose, UMNS
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