The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-08-18
SCOUTS SHOW GREATEST
ACTIVITY DURING CAMP
Qualify for 102 Merit Badges
And Pass 142 Tests During
Two Weeks Encampment
MANY INCREASE IN RANK

Showing the greatest activity ever
before exhibited during a two weeks
camping trip by passing 142 tests and
qualifying for 102 merit badges, men,
bers of the Oakland Troop of Boy
Scouts returned Monday morning
from Deep Creek Lake.
Kenneth Lawton and George Stuck
qualified for Life Scout rank, while
George Kerins, Gene Nordeck, Hop
wood Wooddell, Walter Dawson and
Robert Lawton qualified as Star
scouts, both ranks subject to approx
al by the Court of Honor.
Robert Browning, Irving Broadwa-
ter, Eugene Shove, Charles Mason
and Harry Stemple became First
Class scouts, as did also George Ker-
ms, Hopwood Wooddell, Walter Daw-
son and Robert Lawton, who went to
the next higher rank. Robert Law
ton advanced from a Tenderfoot to
Star scout, with the exception of his
service in the troop, while Bob Brown
ing went from Tenderfoot to First;
Wooddell, Kerins and Dawson from
Second to Star. Those reaching sec
ond class were Horace O'Donnell,
Maurice Treacy and John Edward
Baird.
Seven members of the troop quail
fed as lifesavers, including Donald
Stemple, Jack Treacy, George Kerins,
Hopwood Wooddell, Schell Hoye, John
McIntire and Carroll Casteel. Joseph
Sollars completed most of his require
ments for pioneering merit badge, the
only one needed to make him an Eagle
scout. The first two to obtain the
canoeing merit badge in the history
of the troop were Bernard Gender,
Jr., and Lewis Jones. Gender also
passed his archery requirements,
James Lee being the only other scout
in the local organization to pass this
test in it's history.
At the concluding camp fire pro-
gram on Sunday evening, Rev. D. c.
Trimble conducted a vesper service,
after which awards were made to the
various scouts.
Robert Lawton was named as the
best scout; Schell Hoye, the
best patrol leader. The Beaver patrol,
under Hoye, was named the best pa
troll in camp, and the Fox patrol, I'M
der Lewis Jones, patrol leader, the
second best.
The troop is indebted to George D.
Sprague, of the Oakland Creamery,
for ice cream, and also to Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles D. Bosley; to E. R.
O'Donnell for a basket of tomatoes;
to Dixon's, Smouse's and McIntire's
stores for the free use of their auto
mobile trucks, and to the many who
came to camp to assist in instruc-
tional work and camp fire programs.
Tests passed since those announced
last week, with merit badges subject
to approval by the Court of Honor:
Donald Stemple, bugling and life
saving merit badges; Richard Gender,
first aid to animals; Irving Broadwa-
ter, first class cooking, nature, map
making, oath and laws, swimming
and music merit badges; Bob Brown
ing, cooking, judging, swimming, sig
mailing, nature, tree telling, mapmak
ing, oath and laws; Jack Treacy, first
aid, tree telling, 14-mile hike, nature,
badges.
Bernard Gender, Jr., archery, ca
noeing, animal industry; Robert Alt
stetter, woodcarving; Carroll Casteel,
pathfinding, woodcarving, lifesaving,
camping and first aid to animals merit
badges.
Kenneth Lawton, personal health,
machinery, athletics, camping and
first aid merit badges; Gerald Imam,
first aid to animals, cooking and
woodcarving merit badges; John Nor
gan, Judging, swimming, second class
signaling and first aid, and swimming
merit badge; Horace O'Donnell, ma
ture, tree telling, mapmaking and
woodcarving, personal health, SWIM
ming and Friendship merit badges;
Maurice Treacy, cooking LIST, judging,
oath and laws, signaling, LIST class,
nature and mapmaking.
George Kerins, mapmaking, and
personal health, woodcarving and life
saving merit badges; Laural Whip
key, cooking list, LIST and End signal
ing and swimming merit badge; Schell
Hoye, woodcarving, machinery and
lifesaving merit badges; George
Stuck, personal health, pioneering,
atheleics, first aid and public health
merit badges; Eugene Nordeck,
woodcarving, pioneering and athlet-
les merit badges; Leroy Stewart, LIST
first aid, nature, LIST signaling, ID
mile hike, mapmaking and woodcarv:-
7 ing and swimming merit badges.
Wilbur Altstetter, Judging, list
cooking, LIST signaling, nature, and
swimming and woodcarving merit
badges; Hopwood Wooddell, list cook
ing, 1st signaling, mapmaking, oath
and laws, and woodcarving, persontl
health, lifesaving and machinery mer-
it badges; Eugene Shove, judging, LIST
cooking, LIST first aid, nature, map
making, 14-mile hike, oath and laws,
and swimming, firemanship, first aid
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