The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-08-03
ScOuterS
Attended ~"
OF Scouting
Enthusiastic About
Program-125 Leaders
In Attendance
.21ST YEAR OF SCHOOL
Local Men Aided
In Search For Lost
Boy Near LaPorte

ing program, three Scouters OF
Troop 25 of this city, among group
of 125 men from several states,
rode the trail of high adventure
last week, went to school for the
training of troop manpower at the
University Of Scouting in Itasca
Park. It was the 21st year of the
Itasca school where Scouters of
Region 10 are trained.
The three are: A. w. Rosenwald,
Cubmaster, whose course was his
second year study in Principles OF
Scout and Cubmastership; H. s.
Forsyth, assistant district commits
sioner and troop committee chair
man, who studied senior Scouting;
and Franklin Vandesteeg who stu
died troop camping, acted as patrol
leader in the camping unit at the
school.
Height Of Scouting was reach
ed last week when Russ Jen-
sen, Albert Lea youth, lost and
later found In the big woods
near LaPorte, called out the 125
men at the school to join nearly
1000 searchers, to comb the I'M
derbrush in the area. At eight
o'clock last Tuesday night the
men were transported to La
Porte where they made a drive
by night through the tangled
underground with flashlights.
They searched until three in the
morning, and men were soak
ed with perspiration," Forsyth
said. On Wednesday Scouters
made two other drives In sec
lions that hadn't previously
been searched.
Tom Keane, director for senior
scouting in the United States, lieu
tenant-commander in the U. s.
Navy, said Of the search. ut was
the height of Scouting. There were
125 men fighting brush and mos
quitoes pushing on through hell and
highwater because of an ideal-the
love of one man for another -
when you consider that many
of those men do no harder work
than push a pencil, you can apprec-
late what it was for them to make
those drives through cedar swamps
where a slip into a hole meant you
were out Of sight, and tangled un-
dergrowth scratched" Forsyth
pointed out.
Because men, who are troop lead
ers, must learn the setup of the
program, the school is conducted
as a troop, Forsyth pointed out
A poll taken of the 125 men reveal
ed four clergymen, 16 educators,
four attorneys, dozens of business
professional men, and other work
ers in the business world.
Though there are fourteen
counties in the Central Mime
sofa Council, five of the nine
men of this Council were from
the Sank Valley district. Three
Of them from Sank Centre and
two from Paynesville were at
tending. "That speaks well for
ROsenwald," Harley Forsyth
said, who is leadership train
ing chairman for the district"
The close Of this years school
gives Sank Centre perhaps the best
trained personnel for its troop in
the history of local Scouting. Last
year Scontmaster Donovan Clough
attended with Art Rosenwald. The
addition of the three men this year
at the school gives them leadership
training in all the departments of
the Scouting program.
Scouters attended the school this
year from Minnesota, Montana, the
Dakotas, Wisconsin. There was
even one man from Illinois. The
addition to the teaching staff this
year Of Tom Keane, Of New York
City, was hailed as one of the best
moves in years. Mr.. Keane, who
is world authority on senior Scout
ing, has been in the business for
seventeen years. While Scouting in
its early forms came to the U. s.
from Europe, it is the U. s. that
has given to the world the Scout
ing program for the lad over fiji
teen.
Boy Scouts At Camp Nawakwa
Five Scouts of Troop IS, all mem
bers Of the Ash Can Patrol, return
ed Sunday afternoon from Avon
where they had attended a weeks
camp at Nawakwa, Central Mime
sofa Councils official camp. The
five are Doug Kohl, Junior Schmidt
Dick O'Gara, John Cotton and Bob
Rattle. Gordon Hedin left for the
camp July 30th to attend the last
period.
The boys were among AZ Scouts
and six officers who were divided
among seven tents. The arrange
ment Of the tents is in a half circle
facing the lake. One tent is for
officers.
Local boys assumed responsible
positions at the camp with Junior
Schmidt patrol leader Of tent 1;
Doug Kohl, assistant patrol leader
in tent 2; John Cotton, assistant
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