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Did you know the Camp Norse bell came from Mansfield?

6/20/2013

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Everyone who's been to Camp Norse has seen this bell, but did you know that it actually came from Mansfield?

The 1,200-pound bell used to call firemen to action in the old firehouse on W. Church St. in Mansfield.  When a new firehouse was built on North Main street, the bell was not moved.  Instead, it was put into storage in 1930, when the old firehouse was demolished. 

In 1945, after 15 years of storage,  the Board of Selectman looked into donating the bell to Camp Norse.  It wasn't until 1960 that the bell actually made it to camp.  There, the bell was used for emergency calls and to call Scouts to chow at the camp. 

There's more to the bell's history.  It almost disappeared forever...
Excerpt from the History of Annawon Council on the Annawon Council's website:
In 1960 the camp received a bronze bell, dated 1891.  Howard Fowler, Editor of The Mansfield News and former Council President, was instrumental in procuring the bell from the Mansfield Fire Department. It came from an old firehouse on West Church St In Mansfield. There is a picture of that old fire house in the present firehouse recreation room.  The bell was stolen from camp in the mid 60�s. The stolen bell was traced  to a junk dealer by the name of Enos in Taunton. The junk dealer's cousin was on the USS Massachusetts Battleship committee with Chief Govain. He was nervous that he may get caught up
in the theft, so he told police about the junk dealer. The junk dealer had sold it to a salvage company in New Jersey. Police located the stolen bell  just prior to it being melted down. The bell was finally brought back to camp. Used to signal chow, the bell was originally located down at  the line cabins, close to the present Leo Yell nature building, so that Chief could walk up to it
and ring the bell. When the new dining hall was built the bell was relocated to it's present location.
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What are the Most/Least Earned Merit Badges of 2012?

6/20/2013

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Bryan on Scouting, Scouting Magazine's BLOG, published a list of merit badges that shows how many were earned in 2012. Do you have any of the most popular or least popular merit badges? 

Why not help out some of those less popular ones move up a rank or two by earning them this summer?

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Scoutmasters

6/13/2013

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Since it's inception in 1923, Troop 1/Troop 17 has seen 22 Scoutmasters (two having served twice) 

1923 - Carl R.  Anderson
1924 - Wilbur Wallace Morrison
1925 to 1937 - Clarence H. Morse *
1938 to 1940- Wilber C. Fletcher
1941 to 1943 - Robert C. LaRoe
1944 to 1954 - Clarence H. Morse
1955 to 1956 - William Roger Bond *
1957 to 1963 - Robert DeLong
1964 to 1967 - Richard G. Horton
1968 - Jack MacPhee
1968 to 1970 - Robert  M. Delong *
1971 to 1972 - Edward A. Carr
1973 to 1975 - Allen L Willis Jr.
1976 - Norman J. Tompkins
1977 to 1983 - Robert C. Cormier
1984 to 1989 - Donald P. Curry
1989 to 1991 - Henry Aubin
1990 to 1992 - Richard Pupa
1992 to 1994 - Donald E. Bailey
1994 to 1998- Richard Nudd
1998 to 2004 - Ronald J. Boucher
2004 - 2007 - Rich Kelly
2007 - 2013 - Peter Ham *
2013 to present - James J Gillogly

* indicates recipient of the Silver Beaver award.
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