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***** TROOP 80 BSA ******* MAY 1999 *****
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BIRTHDAYS
Here are the birthdays for the month of May with their dates:
Willard Scott 7, Billy Joel 9, Wayne Benson 10, Taylor Finley 10, David Byrne 14, Carlo Garcia 20, Cher 20, Bill Haas 22, Ryan Hyde 22, Matt Babiash 23, Jack Tunnell 23, Steve Tunnell 23, Sally Ride 26, Brandon Merrill 28, Chase Tillery 30, Brooke Shields 31
PHYSICALS REQUIRED
Both Wilderness and Advancement camps require that you have a current physical on file with the troop or you won’t be allowed to attend. You can find out if you need a new one by contacting Matt Hite. New scouts need to turn one in before the next camp out.
OVER THE PASS
The troop will go over the pass as it’s “Summer Camp” in July of 2000. Time to start planning to attend this once every 6 year event. Banks has agreed to do the menus again, which worked great last time. We will most likely go over Hunchback Pass, at over 12,500 feet and is on the Continental divide. The trip will also include some free time in Durango, Colorado and a ride on the Silverton/Durango train. Don’t miss this camp.
UNSUNG HEROS
James Kone handles the “Father/Son” banquet every year, tying up all the loose ends and putting on a great show for us to end the year with. Bill Haas makes all the arrangements for our camp outs and makes sure we don’t get thrown out for trespassing.
Alan Cox coordinates our Eagle Boards of review and makes sure all the eagle applications get turned in correctly. Bob Wieck handles our re-charter each year to make sure we get everybody registered and to see that Troop 80 makes “Quality Unit”.
Without these men working in the background, the program would suffer. Many thanks for their efforts.
ADVANCEMENT CAMP
Sign-up time is running out and the money needs to be in by the CoH on May 11th. You can earn at least 5 merit badges and have fun at the same time by attending Council Advancement Camp. The dates are June 20 - 26 at Camp Don and the cost is still just $110.00 for the whole week.
Want to try something a little
different for your summer camp?
New, are two High Adventure
programs for second year campers.
ZCOPE is a program where you
actually camp at the COPE course
the whole week while training.
For the more adventurous types,
there is CRW (Canadian River
Wranglers) where you do an old
west type cattle round-up on
horseback the whole week near
Boys Ranch. Space is limited on
both programs, so contact Matt
Hite for more details
WEB PAGE
Check out the new and improved Troop 80 home WEB page. It has had over 625 visitors so far. Your patrol can earn points by adding or making their own page linked to the troop’s. Do you want to know more and while your at it get on the e-mail list, you can contact Matt at “exodus@arn.net” and look at the WEB page at http://members.tripod.com/Troop80.
WILDERNESS CAMP
The dates are July 17 thru 24 and the cost is just $75.00 dollars. To go, you must have attended 50% of the camps and meetings, have earned a rank or 5 merit badges since last year, and new scouts must be at least Tenderfoot. On the way home, we’ll tour “Old Town” Albuquerque and visit the REI store.. Parents are welcome to drive over and eat dinner with us at the Furr’s as long as they don’t try and take their scout away early. Any of our Eagle Scouts are welcome to attend Wilderness camp.
ORDER OF THE ARROW
It is an honor and a privilege to announce the newest members of Troop 80 to be elected to the BSA’s Honor Camping Fraternity. Those elected this year will need to attend the “Ordeal” at MK Brown on August 21st to complete their membership. Tres Binkley, Brandon Naylor, Jack Tunnell, Daniel Wetzel, and Randall Waddell were elected. Also elected were Chas Binkley, Adam Cox, Danny Finley, Michael Kiefer, Brent Naylor, Grant Snyder, and Chase Tillery.
FLOAT TRIP
Have you made your plans to attend? This years Father/Son float trip will be June 4 thru 6 and the cost is $45.00 dollars. Kind of expensive for a weekend camp, but this includes a rafting experience down the Arkansas river in Colorado near the Royal Gorge. Start saving your nickels now. We will be camping at the BSA’s Packard High Adventure Base. The water on the river should be great.
OUTSTANDING PATROL
Totals as of 4/26/1999
B2 Mohican 13418
C3 Arapaho 12042
B1 Apache 11685
D3 Maya 11356
D2 Erie 10079
A1 Crow 10036
A3 Cree 8470
C1 Comanche 6570
C2 Mohawk 5833
A2 Aztec 5461
OUTSTANDING CREW
E1 Ute 4775
F1 Navaho 3000
E2 Wichita 2160
SKILL STANDINGS
Arapaho 264
Crow 242
Mohican 225
Mohawk 148
Maya 131
Erie 110
Apache 103
Cree 39
Comanche 39
Aztec 10
POP CORN NEWS
The orders are in and the pop corn will arrive May 1st at the troop building with money due May 11th.. 15 scouts participated this year for “Top” salesman and earned over $3200 dollars. Top 5 in order were: Azriel Krulik $386, Chris Burris $355, Josiah Krulik $311, Kenny Reed $294, and Brent Naylor $290. One third of the money each scout earned will go to pay for their camps and they still earned great prizes.
TROOP 80 ON STAFF
Several members of Troop 80 will again be serving on the staff at this years Advancement camp. Matt Hite will be Program Director for a third year and Terry Slade will be the Camp Commissioner for a fifth year. Scouts on staff are Tres Binkley (Assistant Program), Jeremy Gilbert (Polaris Program), Brandon Naylor (First Aid ), Grant Snider and Daniel Wetzel (Scout craft ), and Abel Wilson (Aquatics). The theme at camp will be “Echoes of the Past”. Rich K. will be back again as our acting Scoutmaster and he wants to go for a new record number of Merit Badges .
TROOP LOCK-IN
The troop will be holding a special merit badge day on Saturday, May 8th. For those wanting a little more, you will be able to spend the night at the building on Friday starting at 8pmand go bowling, play games, watch movies and then eat breakfast. Cost will be $10.00 for those that want to spend the night. This is a patrol activity and you MUST have at least one adult present per patrol. Following the all- nighter, classes will start at 8am on Saturday morning
SCOUTS WIN AT TRACK
At the District track meet held in Lubbock, our scouts came through yet again. John Filipowicz (AHS) won the Varsity pole vault with a personal best jump of 14 feet and he now moves to Regionals. Evan Branum (AHS) won the JV 3200m run and Preston Snider (THS) came in third. Luke Austin (THS) finished fourth in JV 400m sprint. Michael Slade (THS) came in third in the JV shot and won the JV discuss for a second year in a row while Brent Naylor (THS) got a second in the discuss. Nice work guys.
DEAD COW BADGE
The new “Dead Cow ” merit badge was earned by a few of our scouts at the recent Haynes camp. You really don’t want the details. We had a good hike, got a little rain, and did rapelling. Tres Binkley decided he could bring down the mountain on to himself which we figured was a big sympathy play. No one got lost and the new dads seemed to enjoy the trip and may even come back for more next time.
UP-COMING DATES
Troop “Lock-in” May 7 - 8
Court of Honor May 11
Swim Night May 25
F/S rafting trip June 4 - 6
Advancement camp June 20 - 26
Wilderness camp July 17 - 24
OA Ordeal at MK August 20 - 21
Philmont Weekend Sept 10 - 12
SCOUTS ATTEND AEMB
Ever wonder what makes up the universe? Scouts from 80 decided to find out by attending the Council’s “Atomic Energy” Merit Badge seminar put on by the Pantex Plant held over 2 weeks and ending in a trek to Albuquerque Sandia Labs and Los Alamos. Those attending were Nick Worley, Chris Burris, Greg Henning, and Chase Tillery.
EAGLE SCOUTS
Troop 80 is proud to announce it’s four newest members to an elite group of the top 5% of scouts in the United States. Michael Palmer, Chase Tillery, Kyle Watson, and Brandon Naylor will be honored at the May 11th Court of Honor.
SNEED MUD CAMP
We braved the mud and cold which ended in a great weekend. Of course, Matt Hite continued his record and got lost for a third year in a row. However, he got lost the same way as last year, so he is making progress. BK thought the hike was fine. Arapaho won the Mini-Camporee. 2nd were the Mohicans and 3rd was the Crow patrol. The Crows tried out a new tent and they liked it soooo much that the Greenbar is going to try and take it over.
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Photos by JD Dobrowolski |
Littleton, Colorado. -- There were killers in the halls of Columbine High School, yes. But there were also kids like Aaron Hancey and teachers like Dave Sanders. When bullets began flying Tuesday, panicked students saw Sanders, the much-loved coach of the girls basketball team, standing in a smoke-filled hallway, urgently directing them toward an escape route. Then he was reeling, shot twice, wounded in each shoulder. He staggered through the door of a nearby classroom, where terrified kids saw him cough blood. Panic. Did anyone know first aid?
A teacher rushed to the next room, where he found Hancey, 17, a junior with Boy Scout training in first aid. Swallowing his fear, Hancey followed the teacher out of the relative safety of the room and into the awful corridor. He found Sanders in a red pool on the white linoleum floor. Hancey peeled off his white T-shirt, urging other boys in the room to do the same. Some of the clothes were made into a pillow. Other shirts were pressed into Sander's wounds.
There was a phone in the room and Hancey called his father, who used a second line to call paramedics. The elder Hancey relayed questions and advice. For the next three hours, Hancey led a children's crusade to save their teacher's life. They pressed constantly on the wounds. They found safety blankets to keep their patient warm. Gingerly, they extracted Sander's wallet and held it open before his eyes so he could see the pictures of his wife and daughters. "I'm not going to make it," one of the kids heard Sanders say. He and his fellow students kept pressing their shirts into Sander's shoulders. Hancey spoke constantly to the teacher, leaning close: "You're doing all right. They're coming. Just hold on. You can do it."
"Tell my girls I love them," Sanders breathed. Three hours passed this way. Then Hancey looked up to see a heavily armed officer slide through the doorway. "Be quiet. Put your hands on your heads and follow us out," he barked. Hancey offered to stay with their coach and teacher, Dave Sanders. "We've got to get everyone out," the policeman said. Sometime after the boy left -- it is not known precisely when -- Sanders joined the Dead.
I don't know young Mister Hancey, but I sure wish I did. I am very proud of this Scout and just as proud of his Scouters who have lead by example and provided the training he was called upon to use. Some say we are "in it for the boys" when asked about why we are Scouters. I think we are also in it for teachers like Dave Sanders.
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