Historical April 1979 report or notice. Original dates, prices, program details and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Troop 98, St. Rochs elected Nolan Sanders as Senior Patrol Leader, and Virgil Wright has moved up to Junior Assistant Scoutmaster. Twelve members of the troop attended a very cold winter campout at Forest Staley Camp on February 3 and 4; and nine members hiked around Wacca Lake in Nashville, Ill. on February 24. Because of high water, swamps and automobile trouble, the hike had added interest.
On March 14, Troop 98 held a Court of Honour. The Scout Award was earned by Michael Broom, Willie Brown, Gary Johnson, Tim Pennington, and Tom Tyree.
The Tenderfoot award was earned by Courtney Bentley, Larry Irving, Chris Kleykamp, Karl Schmidt, and John Young.
First Class and Merit Badges were awarded to Sam Cresswell, Shawn Domzalski (First Aid, Reading); Chris Falk (First Aid, Sports); David George, Chris Green, George Henderson (First Aid); Conan McPheron, Jeff Peters, Arthur Pleas, Karl Schmidt (First Aid, Sports); and Sean Thomas (sports).
The Star Award and Merit Badges were presented to John Brown (sports), Brian Krippner (Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the Nation, and Citizenship in the World); Brian Stanton, and Matt Storey (Sports, Citizenship in the Community).
The troop held its pre-Camporee on March 23, 24, 25 at Camp Forrest Staley in preparation for the West District Camporee at Beaumont Scout Reservation on April 27-29.
Troop 98 meets every Wednesday at 7:30 in St. Roch’s Gym.
Rick Bender, Scoutmaster
Originally published in The Paper, April 1979.
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