Smyrna times., 1951-04-05
HOLD ANNUAL
SCOUT DINNER
Affair Sponsored By Dover
District Held at School
Cafeteria March 20
G. w. WRIGHT SPEAKS

Scout executives and officials on
the national council, and district
council and area level, and many
unit leaders, as Well as the MEM
bership of the Smyrna Rotary Club
attended the annual scouters' din
ner meeting sponsored by Dover
District, Boy Scouts of America,
held in the cafeteria of the Smyrna
School on Thursday night. DR.. c. ].
Prickett was POSTMASTER and
chairman of the dinner committee
which included Burrill T. Mccoy,
president of Smyrna Lions Club,
and Neal Oechsler. The Smyrna
Rotary Club sponsors Boy Scout
Troop 1876, and Smyrna Lions Club
sponsors the cub scouts. Special
guests included Art Livingston,
member of the national council,
and Mrs. Livingston; Kenneth Tull-
er, area commissioner, and Mrs.
Tuller; also Weldon Burge, COM
missioner, and Mrs. Burge. Robert
D. Smith, assistant scout executive,
Del-Mar-Va Council, recognized the
unit leaders attending. Lawrence
c. Foard, chairman, order of merit
committee, presented the order of
merit to men who have served on
the district level for more than five
years: Thomas r. Newman, mayor
of Middletown, and John Burger,
Dover, camping and activities
chairman, who was unable to at
tend due to illness. There were
vocal duets by Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Everhart; group singing led
by Nelson Everhart, with Mrs.
Fred Lamb at the piano. William
E. Matthews, Jr., district chair
man, introduced Ellis K. Lecrone,
Middletown, district chairman
elect; Irwin Bomman, Milford, vice
chairman; and DR.. Ralph B. Jones,
Smyrna, troop committee chair
man; also Ernest Wilson, scout ex-
ecutive.
George w. Wright Speaks
George w. Wright, superintend-
ent of schools, took the place of
the speaker, the Rev. Thomas
Wingate, Salem, N. j., who was
unable to attend. Mr.. Wright spoke
ON the Importance of little things
in life, saying we too often set big
objectives and lose sight of small
things which count. Citing three
things making for stature, namely,
religion, morality, and education,
he was concerned with material
ism, from which we are now wit
Messing a revolt. Life is stew
ardship, and true success is mea-
sured by what we do with it," he
stated Kindness, courtesy, the
spreading of good cheer, he listed
as little things which count. The
speaker defined morality as phil
osophy, a condition of mind by
which we accept or reject those
things which make up finer living.
A clean mind in a clean body he
saw as our strongest defense. Edu-
cation is training for citizenship,
and the basic fundamentals of good
citizenship are shaped in the home,
the community, the school, and the
church, according to the speaker.
Stressing that the urge is deep in
each individual to do something or
be somebody worthwhile, he said
that man must hunger for service
to man and God. A brief, but NOV
ing and colorful, ceremony was
conducted by a group of Boy
Scouts to close the program. The
boys taking part included Walter
Luckowski, John Urian, Robert
Burge, Ronald Potter, Philip Vosh-
ell, and David Deakyne, who blew
taps. The invocation and benedic-
tion were given by the Rev. Walter
L. Beckwith, pastor of Asbury
Methodist Church.