1960s Elk River Old Goat Patrol
Information provided by Ray Harvey, a youth from Manchester Troop 314 in the late 1950s and early 1960s on the Old Goat Patrol:
It was, Roarin' Orin Greenwood who always had his ham radio station set up, Ernest Teasley who had worked at the lab in Chicago during the war where they developed RADAR, Buck ?, a guy who tested jet engines and Harry Dierkes, Jeff's Dad, a civil service engineer for the Air Force. The rest of them were from Tullahoma and I didn't know them. Most of them worked at Arnold Center and were friends of our family. They were on the Elk River Council and were the ones who ran our camporees.
Scouts were not allowed in their "council" campsite at a camporee except me because I was the camporee bugler. I remember going up there to play reveille and seeing them grumbling and stumbling around, making coffee in their long underwear. They never had much to say in the morning and I was always told to walk fifty paces in any direction before I played reveille so the sound wouldn't bother them.
It was, Roarin' Orin Greenwood who always had his ham radio station set up, Ernest Teasley who had worked at the lab in Chicago during the war where they developed RADAR, Buck ?, a guy who tested jet engines and Harry Dierkes, Jeff's Dad, a civil service engineer for the Air Force. The rest of them were from Tullahoma and I didn't know them. Most of them worked at Arnold Center and were friends of our family. They were on the Elk River Council and were the ones who ran our camporees.
Scouts were not allowed in their "council" campsite at a camporee except me because I was the camporee bugler. I remember going up there to play reveille and seeing them grumbling and stumbling around, making coffee in their long underwear. They never had much to say in the morning and I was always told to walk fifty paces in any direction before I played reveille so the sound wouldn't bother them.
