Scouting, Volume 48, Number 6, August-September 1960 Page: 4
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LING
RUM
These teeh-age boys could have
become a street gang, rumbling in the
canyon* of New York City. Instead
they chose to become an Explorer
post, climbing up and rappeling down
theiwstate Adirondack Mountains.
alen Drake, well-known WOR radio commentator
ecently interviewed the Explorer Advisor and moun-
eering^pcpert who led the group of more than a
n oiy^boySytffTthe heights—figuratively as well as
gazine, believing this interview has a
essage, presents it here.
ake introduces his guest.
t a man who has worked against odds in
he direction of the lives of a few boys in
k City. He is a scientist and manager of the
'Research Laboratories of D.C.A. Food Indus-
e is an expert mountain climber, and he is also
dvisor of a group of boys who are called Explorers,
ame is Paul Khan.
Paul, I understand that each Explorer post may have
special project of some kind going, and many of them
are based on a hobby.
Jt Yes, to make the program appeal to as many high-
school age boys as possible, the Exploring program has
set up specialties. We try to choose an area of interest
that appeals to these boys. Invariably this will either be
chosen by popular vote or sometimes because a man
happens to be around who is a canoe fancier, a sailor,
or, as in my case, a mountain climber.
Q Isn't that easier, because otherwise you would have
to hunt for the type of person tvhom the boys wanted.
A It certainly is easier when the Advisor, who is the
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 48, Number 6, August-September 1960, periodical, August 1960; New Brunswick, New Jersey. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth329288/m1/6/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.