Boy Scouts and the Space Program

So, how do these two topics tie together? Read on…

I was in a Boy Scout troop at the North End Methodist Church across the street from the James Bowie Junior High School. I made Tenderfoot, 2nd Class and 1st Class, but became disenchanted with scouting and left the troop. I did not like the roughness of camping and eating food with sand and ashes in it. Also our scout master was imperfect.

One of the things that scouting is famous for is camping out. We had a couple of camps available to our troop. Camp Metigua (sp) was somewhere outside Silsbee and it was a primitive camp - no facilities. The better camp was Camp Urland near Woodville. I did a one week summer camp there in the summer of ’58. What I recall is living in a tent, swimming, doing a compass course, shooting .22 rifles at the shooting range, learning Morse code and swimming in both the lake and the pool. I am just not a camper.