Alma Cub Scouts & Boy Scouts

Alma Boy Scouts - one of the men standing is Pete Gragg

1965 Alma Cub Scouts banquet.
Ronald Meyer, Mike Weiss, David Ford, Doug Beard, Danny Shuler, Roger Purcell, and Marlin Hall.

1965 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.
Paul Launay, Raymond Launay, and David Purcell. Paul and David received Weblo badges.

1965 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.

David Ford and Jerry Chasteen.

1965 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.

1965 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.
Wilma, Carole, John D, and Floyd Purcell at table with Dolores Ford and Laverne Hall.

1965 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.
Bill & Joann Walsh with Louise Malones and one of her boys.
_______ and Darla Hall in foreground.

1965 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.

1965 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.
Danny Shuler in foreground.

1965 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.
Donna, Linda and Fern Shuler in foreground across the table from Richard, Mildred, and Roger Meyer.

Donna, Lana and Bill Beard down the table next to Sutherlands. Dena Ford is the baby down from Fern.

1965 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.

1965 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.

Getting ready for the banquet .... a bunch of Ford kids with their mom,

Evelyn Ford, and Gloria (Williams) Chasteen Welker in school kitchen.

1965 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym. Mrs. Lowry Sutherland with her baby.

"The Kinmundy Express" - March 4, 1965

1966 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.
Back row: Jerry Chasteen, Louise Malone, Wilma Purcell, and Rev. Lowry Sutherland.
Middle row: Marlin Hall, Mike Malone, Roger Purcell, Ronald Meyer, Terry Walsh, David Purcell.
Front row: Jeff Malone, Jimmy Jones, Gary Williams, Dale Ford, Doug Beard.

1966 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.
Roger Purcell, Jeff Malone, Marlin Hall, Mike Malone, Jerry Chasteen, Doug Beard, David Purcell.

1966 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.
Roger Purcell, Jeff Malone, Marlin Hall in first row, and Jerry Chasteen, Doug Beard, David Purcell.

1966 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.

Rev. Lowry Sutherland (scout leader) with Louise Malone and Wilma Purcell (Den mothers).

1966 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.

1966 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.

Bill & Nevada Deadmond, and Maxine & Jesse George.

1966 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.

Joann Walsh, Lavern Hall and Mildred Meyer in foreground. 

1966 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.

1966 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.

Fords, Purcells, and Jones at first table.

1966 Alma Cub Scouts banquet at the Alma school gym.

Roger Meyer.

"Salem Times-Commoner" - Sept. 22, 1966

Alma Has Active Scout Troop

                 Eight energetic Boy Scouts have been busy making money for their troop these past few weeks, and now Alma’s Boy Scout Troop 272 is $32.75 richer than it was.  To raise funds to carry on an active Scout program this coming year, these eager boys undertook, as their first money-making project, to sell subscriptions to the Times-Commoner and brought in 13 near yearly subscribers and seven renewals.  Roger Purcell won the $2 prize offered by Scoutmaster Jerold Mulvaney for bringing in the most.  At their last Scout meeting Wednesday night, Roger was pronounced winner for having gotten seven subscriptions.  Sponsored by the Alma Lions Club, the Boy Scout troop is going into it’s second successful year and is expecting some new members soon who will be moving up from Cubs.  These Lions are the troop leaders, although the original intention of the Lions Club was only to sponsor the troop, not to provide the leaders also.  However, since other leaders could not be found, so it was up to the Lions.  So Lions Mulvaney, Ernest Broom, and John W. Ford have taken over the leadership.  Broom and Ford are assistants to Mulvaney.

                The Scouts’ next fundraising efforts will be a bake sale next Saturday, Sept. 24, at the town hall starting about 9 a.m. and continuing until sold out.  We suspect, however, that the mothers will do the baking, although we hear that on their camping trips to the lake this summer, the boys did their own cooking.  Another money-making project in the offing soon, Scoutmaster Mulvaney said.  The boys are going to pick corn and sell it to a nearby elevator.  About 500 acres will be made available to them by two of their leaders, Broom and Ford, who are farmers.  The corn will be what is left after the mechanical corn pickers have gone through the fields.  Apparently considerable corn is missed by the pickers and the boys are invited to take the rest and sell it for what they can get.  Tractors and wagons will be donated for the collecting and hauling so the boys will have clear profit.  Meanwhile, between all these business endeavors, the boys are going on a five-mile hike and will be camping out again on the island at Forbes State Park.   They have already spent some time this past summer on the island, clearing it for a campsite, and they expect to raise a flagpole there in the near future.

                As winter approaches and outdoor activities are not so feasible, the boys want to start on some handicraft, perhaps with leather and wood.  As supplies and tools for these undertakings cost money, this is where some of the money will go that the boys have been working for this fall.   The troop meets on Wednesday nights at 7 o’clock at the town hall, and though it was raining when we were there last week, all were present but one.  Any boys in the Alma area who are interested in Scouting are welcome to join Troop 272, even if they have not previously been Cubs.

"Alma Boy Scouts: Last row, from left, Ernest Broom, John W. Ford, and Jerold Mulvaney, leaders. 

 Second row – from left, David Higginson, Larry Hall, Mike Pannell, David Purcell.   Front row – from left, James Broom, Virgil Higginson, Roger Purcell."   

"The Kinmundy Express" - Nov. 3, 1966

Alma Boy Scouts at Camp Joy - circa 1967

Back Row: Mike Pannell, Bill Thomas, John W. Ford - scout leader, David Purcell, Floyd Tockstein

Front Row: Joey Muehlhausen, James Broom, Roger Purcell, David Ford

 Joey Muehlhausen, David Ford, Mike Pannell, David Purcell, Floyd Tockstein, John W. Ford (behind them), and Roger Purcell

1967 Alma Boy Scouts.
Back Row: Jerry Mulvaney and John W. Ford - Boy Scout Leaders.
Middle Row: Mike Pannell, Floyd Tockstein, Bill Thomas, David Purcell.
Front Row: Roger Purcell, Joel Muehlhausen, David Ford.

"The Kinmundy Express" - Sept. 14, 1967

"The Kinmundy Express" - Oct. 5, 1967

"The Kinmundy Express" - May 2, 1968

Alma Cub Scouts touring Leckrone Airport in Salem - 1967

Jeff Malone, Doug Beard, Dale Ford and Ronald Meyer

Alma Scouts in Springfield  (circa 1969)

"The Kinmundy Express" - Apr. 10, 1969

1970 Alma Boy Scout trip to the Current River.
Bob Ford, Gary Williams, Scout Master John W. Ford, Dale Ford, Roger Purcell, Floyd Tockstein

1970 Alma Boy Scout trip to the Current River.

1970 Alma Boy Scout trip to the Current River.

1970 Alma Boy Scout trip to the Current River.
Gary Williams, Bob Ford, Roger Purcell, Dale Ford, Floyd Tockstein, John W. Ford.

1970 Alma Boy Scout trip to the Current River.

Floyd Tockstein & John W. Ford.  Gary Williams.

1970 Alma Boy Scout trip to the Current River.

Gary Williams, Floyd Tockstein, John W. Ford, Roger Purcell, Dale Ford.

1970 Alma Boy Scout trip to the Current River.

Floyd Tockstein & Dale Ford.

1970 Alma Boy Scout trip to the Current River.

1970 Alma Boy Scout trip to the Current River.

1970 Alma Boy Scout trip to the Current River.

     Kinmundy Cub Scouts & Boy Scouts

"The Kinmundy Express" - June 8, 1916

13 new scouts: Stafford Buswell, Duane Tomlinson, Francis Pruett, Fay Davis, Raymond Barlow, Clyde Hamilton, Lyle Hargrave, John Heaton, John Fish, Will Lyons, Don Gray, Don Laswell, Arthur Deckert, and Will Cheadle.

Scout Master G.A. Spitze;  W.F. Howell Assistant Scout Master.

1934 - J. Howard Helm's boy scout booklet; Harold A. Kaeser, scoutmaster; E.R. Lowe, Scout executive or commissioner

"The Kinmundy Express" - May 30, 1940

'"The Kinmundy Express" - June 1, 1959

Kinmundy Scouts with Jim Eagan - August 1960

Ernie Vandeveer, Mike Olden, Dwight Day, Royce McKitrick, Jim Eagan, Freddy Gammon,

John Day, Billy Art Boyd, _________, __________,  Francis Lemay, Richard Day

Kinmundy Scouts - 1959;  Garrel & James Eagan, Dale Lux

Fred Gammon

Kinmundy Cub Scouts

In back: Fred Gammon (Cub Master), Pat Blackburn & Maxine Robb (Den mothers)

Kinmundy Cub Scouts - Maxine Robb (Den Mother)

Kinmundy Scouts - trip to Cave in Rock

(The two out of uniform are Kevin Day & Richard Day)

Kinmundy Scouts with their mothers:

Freddy Gammon with Irene Gammon, Kathleen Day with John Day,

and Wanda Eagan with Garrel Eagan

Kinmundy Boy Scouts

Back Row: Bob Elston, LeRoy Allen, Jack Lee, Bill Crutchfield, Bill Olden, Freddy Gammon, Charles Crutchfield, Mike Olden

Middle Row: Ronald Grant, Phil Schooley, John Day, Dale Lux, Fred Hall, Larry Bassett

Front Row: Garrel Eagan, Ernie Vandeveer, John Grant, Chuck Elston, Billy Art Boyd

Kinmundy Boy Scouts at Camp Joy - 1961

Tim Gammon, Rick Motch, John Grant, Virgil Livesay (temporary Asst. Scout Master),

Bill Boyd, Dale Lux, Garrel Eagan, Jim Bassett

"Cub Scouts Take Train Ride" - "The Kinmundy Express" - Apr. 6, 1961

Kinmundy Cub Scouts float - 1961; Maxine Robb, Den Mother

Pinewood Derby - Apr. 7, 1977 - "The Kinmundy Express"

Back row: Leslie Stallons, David Leonard, Kevin Bragg, and Harvey Evans

Front row: Jimmy Leonard, Chuck Craig, Mike Mosely, Deon Ritter