The organizers of PUB 2017 in Virginia found an apparel vendor who did PUB 2017 logo and Pagoda Group logo embroidered shirts, jackets, caps, etc. for pre-registered participants.
Those of you with a LONG memory may recall that for each of the PUBs prior, I arranged for T-Shirts in advance and delivered them to those who bought them. Some were humorous, all were colorful. As PUB (
Pagoda
University
Blacklick, when it was indeed in Blacklick, Ohio, at Joe Alexander's place) grew, and many were coming from overseas, the foreigners politely objected to T-Shirts (apparently an American tradition is viewed as mere underwear in much of the world) and in the last one I did, I arranged for embroidered shirts. They just happened to be of a Pagoda, because the guy who did them for me, was the former President of an MBCA section and also ran an embroidery business, so he had the program for a Pagoda. We added the PUB 2009 lettering below. For 2011, then President Ray Hays used a vendor he was familiar with for embroidered shirts I believe. This was all long before we had a logo that can be embroidered. Our new logo, in existence now for several years, is suitable for print or embroidery. Our old logo was an excerpt of a photograph and not suitable for embroidery.
The new logo vs. the old logo was one of the things that held us back in the grille badge project. Once we finalized the logo, we were able to do the grille badges.