In February, 2010, I posted a blog entry entitled "Happy Birthday, Boy Scouts of America." I described my experiences with Boy Scout Troop 72 in Schenectady, New York. Recently, I ran across this newspaper article from the Schenectady Gazette, dated March 23, 1950:
Robert
Demarest Wins X-Country Ski Race Held at, Indian Ladder
Robert Demarest rolled in first in a cross-country ski race
in which members of Boy Scout Troop 72 participated at Indian Ladder Sunday. John Tyminski copped second place while Wayne
Spaulding placed third. Members of the
troop, sponsored by St. John the Evangelist Church, hiked to Indian Ladder
under the leadership of Scoutmaster Ray Rokovich. Carl Schaefer, adviser to
Post 72, and District Commissioner Robert Egan.
Boys on the hike were Walter and Arnold Kastarmayer. Robert and
Richard Curtis, Robert and Thomas Demarest, Peter Schaefer, David Wagner, Jack
Paulson, Edward Douglas, Stephen Spink, Thomas Vetter, William Mead, James
Murray, James Dunn, James Earley, Daniel Ryan, James Doxsee, Spaulding and Tyminski. Twenty-five members of the troop heard an illustrated
talk on conservation recently by Ellis Edgar, local photographer, who showed films
on the Adirondacks and other state-owned lands.
Jack McGowan, chairman of the troop committee,
presided at the session.
This took place almost a year before I joined the scouts. My brother Bill was there but I was too young to join. I surely couldn't have come up with all those names, but it does bring back some warm memories of many good times after I joined Troop 72.
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