Scouting, Volume 78, Number 6, November-December 1990 Page: 29
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During Christmas
holidays Scouts crowd
the Greensboro,
North Carolina, council
camp for a week of
merit badge work.
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(Left) Scout Scott Vuncannon and Camp Director Hob Shelton
prepare Space Exploration badge rocket. (Above) Camping
merit badge Scouts pitch their tent.
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At an Archery merit badge session Erik Stubblefield draws a
bead on the bull s-eye.
site offers a sprawling forest, dotted with open fields. Dirt
roads thread through the slightly hilly site, and the rustic
buildings—a dining hall, first-aid station, leaders' center,
chapel, trading post—nestle under tall pines.
One trail leads to a hillside amphitheater at the edge of a
40-acre lake and another road winds a half-mile to a large
playing field with a rappelling tower.
For the kids, one of the camp's neat features was the variety
of merit badge courses offered. Star Scout Skip Walton of
Troop 230, Greensboro, said, "What I like most here are the
different activities. And the people are very friendly, ready to
help you out in any situation."
Befitting the high-tech reputation of the "Triad" area
(Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point) were techni-
cal classes about computers and space exploration. Several
other courses took advantage of Camp Greene's unspoiled
landscape: wilderness survival, orienteering, soil and water
conservation, camping, archery, athletics, and woodcarving.
The indoor sessions ranged from first aid to sculpture and
communications to earning the new Cinematography merit
badge.
Add to that a lively spirit among the Scouts. (No one
complained about skidding around or occasional pratfalls on
the ice.)
With an indoor instruction area near the playing field,
Marvin Kiser had his Orienteering Scouts hard at work em-
ploying his lessons about compass use, making their way in
rough terrain, and laying out a 2,000-meter course.
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