I’ve thought about this memory for a while and wasn’t sure how or if I should include it. I decided to go ahead with what little I remember.
I’d heard of a Boy Scout troop on Algonquin Rd. and went to a meeting. There were only a few of us and I was immediately unsure about it. The Scoutmaster told us to call him “Sarge” and at the second meeting he made us do push-ups because of some transgression. I never went back because it seemed too strange and he wasn’t like any other Scout leader I had ever met.
Within a few weeks after, I found out Mr. Mitchell was the Scoutmaster of Troop 193. He lived on my road and his son Alan was my age. I joined his troop for good. He was what #Scouting should be about.
I’ve always been troubled with this memory because I don’t know if Mr. Mitchell replaced “Sarge”, if there was a separate Scout troop, or if possibly this “Sarge” was never a Scoutmaster at all.
MjL 01 May 2024, 5:32 a.m.
Every Awful Thing Twitler Has Promised to Do in a Second Term
RE: Rolling Stone article I am flabbergasted, astounded, disgusted, frightened, incensed and at my wits end as to how this is possible. How can he/they be so blatant about their clearly anti-American, unconstitutional, treasonous, militaristic coup plans and not be immediately charged and jailed for conspiracy? It is a strange strange country we are living in.
Michael T. 01 May 2024, 9:04 a.m.
I’ve felt this way since Duh-bya at least. The complete disregard for law, order and decency has become the norm in our government.
MjL 01 May 2024, 11:12 a.m.
Michael,
When I “crossed over” from WEBELOS to Boy Scouts, I wanted to be in the troop my best friend Bruce Ferguson was in. Bruce is a year older than me and was a member of Troop 43 in Creve Coeur, so that’s the troop I joined. I don’t know why Bruce wasn’t in the closer Marquette Heights troop, but maybe it was because of the situation you mentioned before Mr. Mitchell was Scoutmaster.
Troop 43 had a conflict between leaders a year or so after I’d joined, causing the troop to split in two - Troops 43 and 143. I went with Troop 143. Some time later there was another leaders’ conflict. Bruce left Scouting before or at this point. That’s when I transferred to Marquette Heights Troop 193.
I was trying to figure out when I made that transfer. Thanks to the junior high journal Mrs. Calhoun required us to keep, I know exactly. On Tuesday, September 10, 1968, I visited a Troop 193 meeting. I attended Troop 193 meetings and a campout after that, but apparently wasn’t an official member of the troop until October 8 that year – exactly two years after I’d become a Boy Scout.
Jeff, I’m actually amazed you kept that journal I don’t have many things from that time at all.
I think it was the summer of 1966 that my matriculation occurred, but I am obviously not positive about that at all. I’m also vague about whether or not we had a Troop 193 sponsor, but I seem to remember some affiliation with the Presbyterian church and/or the Lions Club.
Michael At the time, Troop 193 was sponsored (chartered) by Marquette Heights Lions Club. Being a Lions Club member, my dad was the troop’s “sponsor representative” for I don’t know how long.
The troop did meet at the Presbyterian Church later on, but I remember before that meetings being held in one of the city’s Quonset huts.
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