Scouting, Volume 63, Number 4, September 1975 Page: 26
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Left, Alden Barber, Chief
Scout Executive, and Arch
Monson, Jr., BSA President.
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(Above) Helicopter showered eager patrol
leaders with Chinese fortune cookies stuffed
with Scouting quiz questions for them to answer.
(Right) Martha Washington and Ben Franklin, two
of many heroes of history Scouts tried to identify.
barded with Chinese fortune cookies. And yet more. True to the Bicen-
tennial spirit, American heroes from bygone days would be on hand to
chat with them. Even three great giants — Mt. Diablo, Mt. Hamilton and
Mt. Tamalpais would rumble their messages.
How do you hang a tag on such a mixed bag of events? Was it a campo-
ree, a jamborette, a camporall? I guessed, sight unseen, that it was all of
these, and more. Suffice to say, it was a new idea about to hatch, and I
wanted to collar some Scouters to fit the whys and hows of it together.
Since the Presidio is now Sixth Army headquarters for eight western
states and our Pacific and Alaskan bases, military policemen were all over
the landscape.
"Looking for a Scouters' meeting?" one of them asked, spotting my
Scout duds. "It's right up there," he said, pointing to a barracks a rock
toss away.
Within a minute I was listening to Dr. Robert Gellert, San Francisco
Bay Area Scouter and associate director of Campex-West, comfortably
swapping questions and answers with a dozen key Scouters and as many
Army men, about their roles in the next day's friendly Scout invasion.
After the usual last minute round of check-and-double-check items —
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