Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 25 May 1933, p. 40

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To Staff of Leaders Tomore leaders have been added silice the original list of Camp Ma- Ka-Ja-Wan staff members was an- nounced.. Weldon P. Cody, scout- mi.aster of Troop Il. Wilmette, will be in charge of transportation,. super- visingal truck and barge transpor- tation. Mr. Cody is an Eagle Scout, a veteran of Camp. Ma-Ka-J«L-Wan, and has proved himself, an excellent leader of boys in his troop, it -ià stated by camp sponsors. The latest addition,to the staff is Horace S. Williamnson Who will be in chfarge of camp Indian lore, camp dramatics and pageantry, and will assist on the wat er, front. He holds an examiner's rank in the American Red Cross, raising the numlber. of examiners in camp from, three to four. Mr. Williamson bas been the field executive in the Berrien-Cass council, covering the territory around Benton Harbor and St. joseph, Mich. 1lie bears an enviable record as a scout leader, having been in charge of Wilderness Camp for Older, Boys,, and held such positions as first aid, instructor, teacher in Indian lore and Indian dancing, water front director *and director of camp pageantr.y. He will live in the family camp witli Mrs. Williamson. Both of these leaders are welcoined to the Camp Ma-Ka-Ja-Waii staff. - They both bhave a great deal to con- * tribute toward making Camp Ma-Ka- ja-Wan just that niuch finer in 1933, the sponsors state.. Correction Announced on Camp Bus Schedule ' A slight correction over lt he orig- inal announcemn.ent about the Camp, MarKa-Ja-Wart bus achedule is. now For the firat period, the bus leaves H ighland Park on Sunday, june. 18, at 6:30 a. m.,, returning on Sunday, luvi. a rrivniz in Highland Park The "or 5*uiwimin' h oie," sceoie of ;nany a gioriotis tin< te 0 amp Ma- Ka-Ja- Wan., is uiwaitinp tihe arrivai of tihe firsi contingent 0f: Boy, Scoufts îvho will ivaste as littie tinie as possible bel ore pI:wging int the ïnvting Waters of Spring, lake. The bus, carrj4ng the first-pcriod grouPý of srouts, is séhirduIcd. tarcacj htie lake on. lune. 18. SHARE SWIM TITLE] Lake Forest Boys Tie With Chicago for Region Seven Sea Scout Swim- ming Ghaoepionship Sea Scouts from Ship Lightning of Lake Forest, representing the North Shore Area counicil, tied with Chicago for the Region Seven Sea Scout Swimming championship at the final meet held Thursday, May 189, at the Shawnee Country .club i Wilmette. *Each team scored 33 points against the next cIosèst team withý 14 points. There were three individual swim- ming events and two relays. and one diving event. Lake Forest and Chi- cago split on the relays, each taking ont. Tfhe'Real Mn The traininsg a Boy Scout gets in- stills in him',outstanding qualities of courage, leadership and stamina. Such is the testirnony. of three fanious explorers, and it takes on a timeliness by the recent 1invitation of Admirai Byrd to Paul Siple w~ho, went with him ini 1928 to return agin to' ,the, Antarctic'as àa'leader, in the' new expedition. Admirai Byrd is in' a position to speak on the point of scout qualification flot onIly because of his< experience with Siple. but further because Bernt Balchern. who Memorial P-arkc cemetery. Was played , directed by Curtis E. Time was gs will meet at the Wilmette boys who n at 2 o'clock and set out Ka-Ja-Wan to collect the flowers. They were 1 teir îal sed with spiritrofthme scouts.. Tne opening was,- small and the boys could go no Announcements were given and the further. But the point is they were meeting was closed with the oath flot stopped because they wanted to- and ,aw.-Ed. Goelz, Troop 10, Wil- turn back. A Columbus could have mette Optimist club. gone 'no, farthe.r. tfromi Last Chance for Free Flashlights Saturday, May 27, marks the. last day thàt scouts can get the souvenir camp flash Ianterns free by register- ing for Camp--Ma-Ka-Ja-Wan.. Ap- proximately 150 have already been distributed, and, others are rapi(lIy. being taken- away by scouts. as they pay, their r egistration fee at sco.-ut headquarters. Camp opens only three weeks from next Monday;, consequently, scouts are busy earning, their: money and getting set for their two-week st.ay at camp. Many scouts are planning to stay al the camp seasin. or six weeks. "Scouts should flot miss the oppor- tunitv of gettinig this flashlight. de- clare the leader s. 'The moral of it is: REGISTER NOW," they add. At present, Troop 35 of Ravinia leads in troop registrations, having nine boys w.ho have registered for. camp and now, have the flashlights. Twenty-three boys froml the troop attended camp last year:.an4* they.are: trying bard to meet that record t his vear. '1roop 52 of Deerfield Presby- terian church has eight registered, while Troop il of St. Francis church of Wilmette has seven registered. and expects twenty. Troop 30 of High- land Park Rotary club anticipate having at Icast fifteen, with six actu- ally registered to date. Troops having at Ieast twelve boys and a volunteer leader registered will have .the privilege of .Selectinig the village they choose to live in at campi piloted 1 hisplane overý the South pole, was 'one of the fi rst Boy Scouts in bis native Norway. Martin Johnson has just retulrned to Africa for a venturesome Iwo years in little known corners of the once dark continent and with him

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