Boy Scout Troop 849

Boy Scout Troop 849

Now the thing that I also mentioned to company using six sigma you on the phone when we talked was the picture that Burt Brooks has, and its about 2 feet long and about 8 inches tall, and as I said it shows two troops, you might know the wind would be furling the flags, so you can't read the name or the number or anything, and the commanding general of Quantico at the time is sitting in a chair.

And he taught it, so we had all kinds of guys that were certified, and that was one of our strong suits when we competed.
Well, that's fine with me, because well what happened, I had the same problems after I retired, I sort of sat around and then I was sleeping late in the morning. He took half, and I took half and went on a trail with them.

Onderdonk: Not as such, not that Scouting developed. Onderdonk: And then of course, Rappahannock has now been divided into two districts. Onderdonk: Usually that's true, but we had one here for around five years, the name was Ed Fanning. I had seven Assistant Scoutmasters, and an active working committee of ten. Onderdonk: Yeah, they had those. Troop 171 Eagle ScoutsBetween 1950 and 1975 Paul Christie, Jack Ellis, Ronnie Ellis, Robert Ellis, Eddie Campbell, H. I'm hoping that Burt's going to take it apart and look and see if there's anything on the back of it. The last one down at '81, I was on the area show staff. . So I have to have something to do. (laughs) But the Merchant Marine Academy is something different, they're sort of a lot more relaxed. . Interviewer: I heard that the first three Eagles in Fredericksburg were Cornwell, Elwood Garrett, and Waldo Beck.
Interviewer: One of the things downtown, there was a marker for a Scoutmaster, Russell Ferry, of Boy Scout Troop 849, 'A friend to old town Fredericksburg and many people who visit there. org: Pieces of Our Past Oral Histories Pieces of Our Past Oral Histories Mr.

Onderdonk: Occasionally there would be an emphasis by various civic organizations for a promotion of a special event, and Scouting would be involved, invited to be involved with static displays and things like that. 1 retired as Scoutmaster in 1975, and in 1972 was the largest it ever got to, there were 85 boys in it. We used that for our summer camp for years.

Interviewer: I know also we have commissioner meetings down at Shiloh Old Site Baptist Church, and they have a troop down there, for 15 years and going, so they're one of the longer running individuals down there. Interviewer: Well, he comes from Key West. So the other I I months of the year we went camping, and we had a good time even when we got wet.

Onderdonk: I'm not sure I'm in a position to answer that, because Scouting was ongoing when I became a Scoutmaster. ' And well, that happened to be one of our big donors. Onderdonk: I'm not sure when that stopped, Tom.

After you got to high school there were other things to do, and mostly on weekends if you were on any sports team, it was much more attractive going someplace with the sports team than it was with the Scouts. ' So we went into the mess hall. Onderdonk: I might disagree just a bit.
And recently, I got a phone call from the chairman of Troop 171 asking if I would come talk to the boys and the parents after a Court of Honor was concluded. Interviewer: Do they keep you signed up? Mr.

Interviewer: Isn't that a great idea? Mr. The other 23 live away from here. We tried to vary that like we talked about, varying summer camp and things like that.

But, one thing I notice here was that the troops were primarily supported by the churches. Onderdonk: At the Fredericksburg Baptist Church, we had a troop, which got reactivated, and it began to grow. I took these guys up, and then we went to the Merchant Marine Academy, too. Onderdonk: The more exposure you get out there before the public, the more young lads see it and want to be a part of it. But, I wouldn't change any of that. A former Assistant Scoutmaster to me became a camp ranger there, and so we went up there a couple different times over the years.

You can look at the way he does things and see him as a general in the Army. Pieces of Our Past Oral Histories Ted and Toni Cunningham 12/14/2007 Tomi Lewis Reneau (Part I) 12/14/2007 Tomi Lewis Reneau (Part II) 12/14/2007 Mr. How large was your troop, anyways, just average? Interviewer: Just average. The Round Tables were held at Fredericksburg United Methodist Church. Maybe it's Christmas or something like that, but I've never really seen any of that around here.

there was a question on there: 'Were you an Eagle Scout?' Now I don't know whether that's on that form today or not.

They are oriented on the history of each church Interviewer. Which was good, it was the only true the kids really enjoyed that too. Onderdonk: Well, occasionally we would go to this council camp or we went to Roosevelt, when that was over on Chesapeake Bay before they sold it.
Now the training committee is supposed to be on top of that, but I'm not sure that Interviewer: I think we're looking for a new training chairman. She laughs now when she thinks about it.
The interview concludes with an informal discussion of local scouting and leadership efforts. And Hank Steigleder down in Bowling Green, now don't ask me to spell his last name, it's worse than Onderdonk, and Jesse Russell was down there also. Later on Bobby Jones organized the Explorer Post in the Fredericksburg Baptist Church and served with me for some years as Assistant Scoutmaster.
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Interviewer: Okay, well, I guess we were going to talk for about an hour or so, and it's about 5:00, so I am going to close off for now. And a good number of adults obviously. Did you become involved in Scouting as an adult or as a youth? Mr. "You've got leadership potential. My name is Tom Lyons, and I'm biography for jonathan kozol talking with Carlton Onderdonk who was a former Scoutmaster in the Fredericksburg area. Then later on when I went to Troop 179, I finished up, and I got my Eagle. Onderdonk: And we went to a council camp up next to Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Interviewer: I've got pictures of troops that were taken in the 1960s that were all in uniform sitting there nice. Did the newspapers cover that type of thing? Mr. , Los Angeles2/28Blue &Gold DinnerJourney Of Faith Church, 1243 Artesia Blvd.
Interviewer: Well, he was a Red Cross Certifying instructor? Interviewer: He used to do it for the adults and boys? Mr. Well, when I heard about that, because at that time we were in Chancellor, I talked to the pastor at Fredericksburg Baptist Church and told him I wanted to see the troop get back active again, and they decided that they didn't want to sponsor it at that time. Onderdonk: That is one of the fallacies, I say fallacy, it's a problem for the districtany district, but certainly our district here is when you have a turnover in professionals, all too often there is no continuity that ensures that new Scout leaders are required to get the training.

Onderdonk: I do this very poorly, twiddling thumbs.

I don't linux boot from cdrom know who troop 849 is, no one that I know around knows what it is, so can i paint corkboard I asked our Exec. I have, somewhere in my belongings, a registration card that says I was s Scoutmaster, and I was 20 years old. You're retired, I take it you've got a second job now? Mr. Onderdonk: The downside, if there is a downside, of having an enormous unit size. As long as you don't move, because they have put a lot of effort into setting up a nice place down there. What I started saying, then it slipped my mind, was that all those years, and I still do it, seven days a week, I get up at 5:00.
Onderdonk: In Troop 171, and he said,"The troop is inactive,and I want you to take over as the Scoutmaster. Interviewer: I guess personally I always liked to go to different ones and the kids wanted to go to different places. Onderdonk: Yeah, Caroline County is about as far as it went.
Another one that just passed away last week, George Scotty Blaine. They probably need to be divided into two or three Cub Packs that group for instance. Onderdonk: Yeah, but an effective leader has got to have training or he's not going to be effective very long, if even at all. Onderdonk: And we went, even when the Quantico troops were not actively involved, at that time, first lady of scat with us at that time in the Rappahannock district, we were able to use the grounds along the reservoir and all that up there, and it was some real fine camping.

In fact when my son was in Troop 171, during the Washington birthday celebration, they would issue them, as part of the festivities, a huge washer, which at that time was about the size of a silver dollar to try to throw across the river.
Just sort of fit right in on that sort of Jimmy Buffet type stuff.