Scouting, Volume 48, Number 5, June-July 1960 Page: 28
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TEACH
your scouts about
the dangers of
POISON IVY and
POISON OAK
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"Facts You Should Know About
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and the research involved
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Order one of these booklets
for each of your scouts.
RECOGNITION:
Aqua Ivy will also send you a
colorful poster which illustrates
various poison plants, describes
them, explains where and how
they grow.
Exhibit this poster at troop
meetings, at camp, where all
your scouts will see it.
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to the straddle roll and higher jump-
ing.
Up to that time John was just an-
other high jumper at Rindge Tech. He
occasionally bettered 6 feet, but with
no regularity. By his senior year the
straddle roll had improved his form
and he began to dominate schoolboy
competition in New England.
During the summer before enter-
ing Boston University, he toured Ja-
pan with a squad of American track-
men and won the Japanese national
high jumping championship.
In the fall, on the Boston University
campus he came under the expert
tutorage of Coach Ed Flanagan. This
good-natured man who looks like a
coach should look, dedicated himself
to John's high jumping career. After
several months of preparation, John
began a brilliant collegiate record of
dual meets followed by his first 7-
foot jump at the Millrose Games in
January, 1959. Less than a month
later he cleared the bar at 7 feet
1 !/4 inches in the national AAU
championships.
Just before the 1959 outdoor sea-
son, John's extraordinary jumping
was halted, some feared forever.
While operating an elevator in his
dorm, John caught his left foot be-
tween the car and a landing.
He lay for weeks in the hospital
while doctors performed delicate op-
erations on his torn foot—the left
one that supplied the power for his
jumping take-off.
Worry wasn't part of John's make-
up during those long weeks. When
asked if he'd be able to jump again,
John reflected his temperament:
"Maybe I will and maybe I won't.
If I thought worrying about it would
help, I'd worry. But there's no sense
in that. All I can do is wait and see."
John waited and did see — the
whole sporting world saw. Last Janu-
ary, he returned to the Millrose
Games and rolled over the bar at 7
feet iy% inches to set a new indoor
high jumping record.
In March, at the Chicago Relays,
he broke his own record by soaring
to an unheard of 7 feet 2% inches—
higher than anyone has ever been
known to jump.
At the University of Pennsylvania
Relay Carnival on April 30 he cleared
7 feet 1V2 inches to recapture the
world outdoor record for the United
States from Russia; and only outdoor
records are recognized internation-
ally.
Now three track events in Cali-
fornia separate John from the Olym-
pic games. First he must compete
at the NCAA meet in Berkeley, June
17 and 18, and then at the AAU meet
in Bakersfield, June 24 and 25.
His most crucial test will come in
the third event—the Olympic tryouts
at Stanford University on July 1 and
2. There he must jump against other
Olympic hopefuls seeking a berth
on the United States team.
Whenever John Thomas skitters
up to the high-jump bar in California
or Rome, fellow-Scouters and Scouts,
whether in stadium or TV seats, will
hold their breath until he rolls over
that bar, then give out with a cheer
for a champion jumper and Scout.
Boys' Life magazine's May issue contains
a story, "Ceiling Unlimited," about John
Thomas.
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