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Historical June 1980 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
There’s an old saying — “when you want to get something done, ask a busy person to do it” This certainly applies to our neighborhood scout leaders. Of course, there are many reasons for someone becoming a leader, but the common thread in their fabric of leadership is that they are busy and caring people. Miracle workers they are not!
If they were, you may be sure that they never would have planned a campout on a rainy weekend, pitched tents along a skunk path, or plead for parental cooperation.
The last point is one that every leader stresses as vital to the success of a troop.
The parents’ enthusiasm and occasional assistance makes a big difference in how smoothly a troop is run. Troop committees are often the unthanked and unheralded workers who devote some time to planning and financial aid. Assistant leaders are heaven sent. Believe it or not, once in a while someone volunteers, usually because they remember their experiences as scouts and want to “give back” some of the good they took away.
This attitude prevails in the reasons why someone becomes a leader. Spouses of leaders deserve an honorable mention.
They put up with a lot of absences for meetings and campouts, “stuff” collected for future events, and the ringing of telephones. I know —I’m one!
Our neighborhood is fortunate to have thriving troops.
The following will serve as an introduction to some of our leaders: JOHN McENENY, Troop 31, Grace Methodist, is presently working with nine active scouts.
He feels strongly that scouting instills into a boy a sense of what he can do and the ability to solve problems.
John began his scouting experience as a boy scout in Troop #154, St. Mark’s, and rose to Star Rank.
He has served as a Cub Master for 5 years and has been with Troop 31 for 6 years. Despite the demanding schedule of a self-employed carpenter, John still manages to find time for his family and an occasional game of golf.
He and his wife, Faye, have two sons and two daughters. Three of the children are active scouts; Michael is an Eagle and Philip is Star Rank; both sons are in the Order of the Arrow.
HUGH C. BERTSCH, Troop 98, St. Roch’s, has been active in scouting for fifty years.
He attained the rank of Eagle with Bronze Palm and was awarded the highest honor for a Scouter, the. Silver Beaver.
He began as a ‘Scouter while attending Harvard University and has maintained an active service to youth, both in troop and district activities ever since.
A widower, he has a son and daughter and grandchildren in California.
He is a research chemist for Mallinckrodt.
Hugh usually spends his summer vacation taking Troop 98 scouts to camp.
He is a spinner of tales, and rightly so because he has travelled extensively in the United States for mountain climbing and has been on archaological tours in Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Easter Island, and Egypt, plus a photographic safari in Africa. Through the years he has shared the travel stories with the scouts. Dedication and concern are obvious in Hugh’s availability for any task he’s asked to do.
BETTY KLINEFELTER, Senior Girl Scout Troop 2886 and Cub Pack 31, Grace Methodist.
If she were to be described in two words, they would probably be Tireless and Dedicated.
It seems (even to Betty) she has been in scouting forever. Certainly the list of committees and day camps and projects she has administered and served on would be lengthy reading.
Betty has had many honors bestowed on her and one of her favorites is the Silver Fawn, the highest award for service in cub scouting.
She is outstanding in terms of the projects she has planned for her cub scouts and the programs for the senior girls.
Her scouts are expected to be responsible and hard working.
For some, the payoff has come in trips to Europe and many parts of the United States. Most of her activities have a central theme—children! How she loves them, claiming it’s the easiest thing in the world to do and she can’t understand why some people don’t fully appreciate and enjoy their own.
She has been a Sunday school teacher for many years and is the director of the Grace Methodist Pre-School.
The number of neighborhood children who had their formal educational beginning there is legion; they are a testimony to what Betty is all about.
It must be noted that she has an absolutely “Oscar”-winning husband! Oscar Klinefelter has always supported her activities.
He has painted her school, provided carpentry for Pack projects and much more.
They have two daughters, one son, and four grandchildren.
She is a member of the St. Louis School Board and spends countless hours at meetings.
Her spare time is limited but when there is some she enjoys her plants and would love to get back to photography, which she dearly loves.
VENITA LAKE, Cadette Troop 3115, is one of the concerned mothers who has given her time to scouting to insure the on-going program.
Venita works as an administrative assistant in the history department at Washington University.
Her husband, Rich, is a reading specialist at Florissant Valley Community College.
They have two daughters, Beth and Missy, who are active scouts.
Venita is a native Missourian who entered the scout program. as a youngster and had a mother who was a leader. Both as parent and as leader she has been supporting the various troops her daughters were in.
Venita admits to collecting souvenirs such as wrenched shoulders and aching muscles while going through the Ropes Initiative Course with the troop.
Not only is Venita active in scouts, she is a reliable neighborhood/community worker.
She has put in a period of service to scouting and is about to retire for a while. There is a need to replace her in this troop. Any takers?
DENNIS MATTLI, Webelos Packs 31, Grace Church, and 128, Hamilton School, is a 7th grade teacher at Hamilton School who is “high” on kids.
He has been there for 4 years and looks forward to many more at Hamilton.
Dennis is a dedicated teacher and his interests underscore this fact.
He belongs to the Association of Childhood Education and is its treasurer. Also, he is treasurer of the St. Louis Teachers Association.
When questioned about these treasurer’s jobs, he laughed and said, “I get great pleasure out of working with money, even if it has to be someone else’s.” Chess makes his eyes light up. It’s a favorite pastime and he enjoys introducing the game to scouts.
He believes in magic — the kind that happens when you let the kids do things themselves, develop their ideas, interact and share opinions. That’s magic!
MARY ALICE KRUEGER, Junior Troop 2342, St. Roch’s and Brownie Troop 2343 and Cub Pack 31.
If there were an award for “Involvement,” Mary Alice would be a likely candidate.
Although she and her husband have a young son and daughter, she has found time to contribute to scouting. Besides the local troop work, Mary Alice has been Director of Cub Adventure Camps for the past two years and will be the Director of Camp Greenwood at Heman Park for two weeks in August.
She has also worked with a handicapped troop in Pennsylvania.
The Neighborhood School has benefited by the many volunteer hours of work she has contributed to their various projects.
Mary has been an elementary school teacher and art teacher, and she is presently enrolled at Forest Park Community College in the pre-nursing program.
Mary Alice . . . you really are busy!
RICK BENDER, Troop 98, St. Roch’s, whose real name is Albert Emericus, (for the benefit of neighborhood enlightenment as to how “Rick” is derived from a name like that) has been in scouting for 35 years.
This is undoubtedly a surprise to his wife who is just a smidge and tad over that age.
He is an Eagle Scout, member of the Order of the Arrow, and very proudly, a recipient of the Silver Beaver Award.
In the early years of scouting, he worked on summer camp staffs and on a National Jamboree staff. Scouting has been a way of life for Rick.
He is the foremost exponent on “paying your dues”, i.e., returning in kind what you have received from the scout movement. Never one to preach, he is the example.
This shows up in the manner in which his scouts respond and, in fact, the way his three sons and two daughters have enjoyed and worked for scouting. Andy, Bert, and Hugh are all Eagle scouts and O.A. Vigil Members and have worked for numerous years on camp staffs and district. committees. Beth is following suit as a counselor-in-training and this year she will be a counselor. Rachel, the youngest, is also active with many challenges ahead.
Rick is a professor of education at St. Louis University and is active in University affairs.
He is the President-elect of the newly formed Faculty Senate.
He has traveled extensively through Europe on comparative education visits. Besides his scouting interests, he loves classical music, bicycling, and HANDBALL!
His regular exercise is handball— mostly at Forest Park where he is Treasurer of the Handball Club.
Although he seems like a very casual person, there is a method to his casualness.
He firmly believes that anyone, scouts, adults, or whoever, when taking on a task should see it through.
A lot of scouts will surely remember him stretched out on his hammock at a campoutwatching a task being completed!
RITA MAGYAR, Junior Troop 2342, St. Roch’s, is well known in the neighborhood and the St. Roch community.
This tiny woman is so energetic.
She has been active in scouting for 23 years and is the recipient of the St. Ann Award and Ancilia Dei Award.
Her efforts have guided many Girl Scouts to achieve the Marian Award through a year-long program of study which she patiently supervises.
She and Lou have three daughters, two sons, and three grandchildren.
Her children have all taken advantage of the scouting experience she made available to them.
Her hobbies include sewing and tending plants.
She is a Secretary/Bookkeeper for St. Roch’s Parish. Most of all she loves to work with children and meet them at their level rather than an “authority level.” Her love of children shows and the children obviously love her, too.
MARGARET WINTER, Cadette Troop 3115, Grace Methodist, was a scout as a child and volunteered her services three years ago so that her oldest child, Elizabeth, could continue in scouting.
This will be her last year as leader. . . . at least for the time being.
She and her husband, Rudy, also have two sons who enjoy scouting.
They are a closely knit family who enjoy camping together for vacations. Music and books play an important role in their family life. Margaret is a chemist by profession and is a real tribute to mothers who choose to combine a career with family.
She and her husband have been very supportive of scout activities and will, no doubt, continue to be. Many thanks, Margaret.
REGGIE BENTLEY, Pack 128, Hamilton, is also a Scoutmaster for two other troops, Troop 10-Ford School and Troop 298-Ascension Church. How, one might wonder, does someone wind up with three responsibilities like that? Well, for one thing, he’s a bachelor! Reggie is a native St. Louisan, attended Beaumont High School, Lincoln University and has a Master’s Degree from Webster College.
He worked for a while as a professional Scouter in the Northwest District and is a Career Counselor in the Providence Program.
With this interesting background, he kept seeing the need to organize troops or help out in faltering ones.
His great frustration is the lack of parent participation and support.
This is the main weakness in troops which are not successful.
For fun he loves to camp, whether with scouts or without.
He enjoys sports and music and is a free lance photographer. I wonder what he does in his spare time?
DOLORES HOEFEL, Junior Girl Scout Troop 2353, St. Roch’s, is probably best described as an enthusiastic and energetic woman who dives right into every project she undertakes.
She too had been a scout as a child and is returning favors, so to speak, for her daughter Kettie’s troop.
She and her husband, Gene, are active supporters of sons Karl and Kurt’s troop.
As a teacher at Grace Pre-School for the past four years, Dolores has established herself as a person who relates beautifully to young children . . . and they to her. Dolores readily admits to hating housework, although she and Gene have a beautiful home, which they re-habbed long before it was fashionable to do so.
Her interests are exercise oriented.
She enjoys long walks but her real expertise is in racquetball.
She is so good that she’s enough to make a grown male opponent cry. Viva Dolores!
WARREN LOVELY, Troop 128, Hamilton School, is a Bi-State Transit driver who is active in his union as Assistant Shop Steward. He’s a resident of Velda Village where he has held positions of Police Commissioner and Municipal Court Clerk. Warren and his wife are parents of 3 boys and 3 girls, ages 14 to 26. Mrs. Lovely used to get annoyed when Warren began his career as Scout Leader 16 years ago.
He recalls how he looked up at a scout meeting one time and saw her standing in the doorway.
She announced “if I can’t beat you, I’ll join you.” She has since put in 9 years as a Den Mother. Warren enjoyed his youth in the Boy Scouts and attained the rank of Star.
He feels it’s a sad thing that it is so hard to get a commitment from adults to help out.
A notable quotable of Warren’s: “An adult leader is the mirror for the youth of today of what he [the youth] can be tomorrow’.”
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Betty Klinefelter. The Paper, June 1980, page 10. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Paper, June 1980.
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