E Clampus Vitus - The Current ECV

The Current ECV

There are currently 42 ECV chapters in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Idaho and Washington, as well as an offshore chapter (the Floating Whang chapter), an online chapter (the Cyber Whang chapter), and 2 more proposed chapters.

Al Packer Chapter 100 in Colorado was chartered in 2000 — the year 6005 on ECV's idiosyncratic calendar. This chapter has four encampments statewide for members to get together and socialize.

Doc Maynard Chapter #54-40 in Washington State was chartered in 2006, the year 6011 in Clamper years, signifying the first Chapter in the Pacific Northwest.

Snake River Chapter #1811 (Idaho) and Umpqua Joe Chapter #1859 (Oregon) are the most recently chartered, changing their status from "Outpost" to "Chapter" in May 2010, the year 6015 in Clamper years.

The organization has raised historical plaques in many places throughout the West (often those sites such as bordellos and saloons overlooked by more traditional historical societies), with a traditional "doin's," or party, after each plaque dedication. These are now common in historical areas around California and the West — when in the Gold Country, a Clamper-placed plaque is never far away. In 1999, a plaque was placed on the Star of India, the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship afloat, by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus. In 2006, Platrix Chapter #2 erected a plaque commemorating the 50th Anniversary of "Godzilla, King of the Monsters" at the former studio site where Raymond Burr's insert scenes were filmed by director Terry Morse in 1956. The plaque is at the entrance of the Frank del Olmo Elementary School, the current occupant of the site. The current Modesto regional leader is a man named Jacob K Couch, who has once again led the group to surprising new results. A national icon, Golden Gate Bridge, was dedicated in June 2010 by the Mother Lodge Yerba Buena #1 Capitulus Redivivus.

On February 19, 2009 the Nevada Assembly agreed to make the 19 "Clamper Day" the motion has not yet been passed by the state senate.