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Accompanying note: "These 40 scouts from Troop 74 of the Big Bend left yesterday by train for Fifth National Jamboree at Colorado Springs, Colo. They will return Aug. 1."

Scouts going on the trip include, from Tallahassee: Jay Boynton, Michael G. Brown, Patrick A. Cridley, Harry Hamil, Robert M. Ingle, Dennis Long, Walter E. Melton Jr., Bruce R. Tanner, William F. Tanner, John White, Jon David Winchester, Robert Jack Ziegler, from Thomasville: Pitts Carr, Charles R. Dillinger, Roy B. Edwards, George B. Fleetwood, Prince E. Jinright Jr., Danny M. Redd, Andy Serry, Edwin A. Simons, Bart Singletary, John L. Turner IV, Charles H. Watt III, from Bainbridge: James W. Conger, Richard Crozier, Lenny G. DeLamar, Howard T. Griffin, John U. Grimsley, Jay Kres, Henry M. Metcalf, William T. Pettyjohn, Alec L. [Poltevini?], Billy W. Schultz, Thomas F. Youmans, from Tampa: Harold Aldrich Jr., from Quincy: Richard J. Gardner, and from Cocoa: Mark Elder.

It would be so interesting to hear from some of the scouts in the photo (who would be in their mid 60's now) and read what happened to them and what they went on to do in life. Hopefully this posting will get to some of them.

Camp Orchard Pond was used from 1927 to 1947, when it was sold. Summer camp operations were moved to Camp Semialachee (union of "Seminole" and "Apalachee") which was used by the Boy Scouts from 1947 to 1965. The camping was then moved to the Wallwood Scout Reservation.

Bel ragazzo .

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