Soham Grammarian Spring 1961
SCOUT NOTES
We welcome Mr Hart as Scoutmaster and Mr Rennison as Scoutmaster (Seniors) to the Troop. Mr Hart came to the '60 Scout Camp as a helper and has since been persuaded to stay with us. Mr Rennison joins us from Huddersfield.
SCOUT CAMP
The troop camped at Edale in the Derbyshire Moors last year. The highlight of a very enjoyable camp must surely be the Troop's visit to the world famous, Hope Valley Sheep Dog Trials.
Most days were spent by the Troop in going for 10 mile hikes and one of the younger Scouts completed over 100 miles. Two Scouts, for their Venturer Badge, went for a 20 mile overnight hike, finishing the last seven miles in a steady downpour.
Use has been made of the winter months to concentrate on Badgework and there should be several 1st Class Scouts by the end of the Easter Term. Special mention should be made about S/S Pennick who is the proof that proficiency badges can be obtained on a large scale; he should provide the incentive to us all to try harder for those elusive badges.
Two new Senior patrols have been formed and great things are planned; meanwhile an air of purposefulness prevails which is quite promising.
P/L S/S WS
Soham Grammarian Summer 1961
SCOUT NOTES
The summer term is the term when the School Scouts become engaged in "real" scouting. During the last term two competitions have been held to assist Mr Rennison in finding the Senior Scout and Boy Scout Platt Memorial Prize Winners. The Senior Scouts have constructed two highly successful aerial runways which served to suitably impress the Boy Scouts.
'Chunky' Allen went on a Second Class hike in which he was supposed to walk 8 miles, by the time he had finished he had walked 14 miles. One of his duties had been to find out why a certain 'Frogs Abbey' was so named. In his enquiries he met two of the inhabitants, both apparently mad. It couldn't be Chunky, could it?
One Friday evening the Troop experimented and tried their hand at backwoods cooking. The results were quite promising and we savoured the delightful tastes of the Kabob, the Twist and that of an egg cooked on a twig.
We are going to Harrogate for our summer camp and soon the air on Friday night will be filled with such cries as : "Where are those pegs?", "Who's hidden the frying pans?", "If that dixie isn't cleaned soon I shall run amok" and "I'm sure there are more mallets than this."
S/S WS VIA
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