Assistant
Scout Master Brian Gasper interviewed on KSMU Radio. To listen to the interview
click on this link.
http://www.ksmu.org/content/view/6825/75/
Springfield News Leader
Published Thursday, October 7, 2010
Outdoors achievers
Five young men from Ozark received their Eagle Scout awards Sept. 5 in a
ceremony at the Ozark Community Center. Scoutmaster David Dooling IV
along with past Scoutmasters Alan Suiter and Chet Griffeth presented
Jason Gonder, Kyle Hagan, Michael Howard, Lucas Huck and Evan Whitcomb
the highest rank in Boy Scouts of America. Eagle Scouts Brett Durbin and
Cory Huck participated in the ceremony delivering the History of the
Eagle and the Eagle Scout Charge and Oath.
Five young
men pose for a photo after receiving Eagle Scout awards Sept. 5 at the
Ozark Community Center.
http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=201010070320
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Posted: Wednesday, May 5, 2010 12:00 am
Christian County Headliner News staff
Boy Scout anniversary celebration
Boy Scouts of America Troop 201 in Ozark will host an anniversary
celebration to honor everyone who laid the foundation that still
supports the troop today.
Boy Scouts of America is celebrating 100 years of scouting this year and
Troop 201 is celebrating more than 25 years of service to the Ozark
area.
The celebration will include troop history, a display of memorabilia,
Eagle honor roll, display of current camping gear, a word from the first
Scoutmaster of Troop 201, refreshments and a flag retirement ceremony.
Anyone involved in scouting over the past 100 years is invited to attend
and bring their memorabilia to share.
The Troop 201 Anniversary Celebration will be from 1:30 to 3:30 May 8,
at the Ozark United Methodist Church, 2850 State Highway 14 East, Ozark.
For more information contact Alan Suiter at (417) 849-1951 or by e-mail
at
asuiter@ffc.bz.
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Posted:
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:00 am
By: Emily Hoffman, reporter
emilyh@ccheadliner.com
Celebrating tradition, recalling memories and laughter were the order
for the day as Ozark’s Boy Scouts in Troop 201 hosted an anniversary
celebration fit for an Eagle Scout.
Held May 8 at the Ozark United Methodist Church, the event brought
together scoutmasters from the past 25 years, along with current scouts,
parents and community members.
“This day is all about recognizing the past,” said current Troop 201
Scoutmaster David Dooling. “The troop started in 1981 with five original
scouts and two adults and we haven’t stopped growing since.”
With just less than 40 scouts currently, Dooling said it is important to
learn from the past.
“The scouts’ values have remained unchanged since 1910,” he said. “But
there is a lot of collective knowledge in this room right now, something
every scout can benefit from.”
As the mic was passed around the room scouts and scoutmasters shared
stories of the old days and many a camping trip gone by, laughter roared
though the room as a slide show of passed highlights was shown and young
scouts looked on as Troop 201 Eagle scouts were honored on stage.
“I joined scouts when I was in the fifth grade and it was the best
decision I have ever made,” said Eagle Scout Lucas Huck. “I have made
the greatest friends I could ever imagine and I am grateful every day I
made the decision to join.”
During the ceremony, area leaders spoke of the scouts’ ability to uphold
the scout law in being trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous,
kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.
“I am very honored to share this moment with you,” said County Clerk Kay
Brown. “I can’t express my gratitude for all the young men who help me
out on Election Day. You are so valuable to the community. The attitude
you display is always of happiness and eagerness to help and you are
growing into standout adults.”
The celebration also included a troop history display of memorabilia,
Eagle honor roll, display of current camping gear and a flag retirement
ceremony.
Dooling said the troop’s anniversary coincides with the 100-year
anniversary of scouting nationwide and many Troop 201 scouts will join
the celebration during the National Jamboree.
According the Boy Scouts of American website, 100 years of scouting will
come to life at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree, July 26 to Aug. 4, as
approximately 45,000 scouts, leaders and staff from all 50 states,
territories and foreign countries will have the opportunity to live,
work and play together in an atmosphere of scouting fellowship in Fort
A.P. Hill, near Bowling Green, Va.
Dooling said the jamboree will provide scouts with yet another chance to
learn and grow something Boy Scouting is known for.
But past scoutmaster Gary Jenks said it best when he said, “I had some
of the best times of my life while in scouting and the opportunity to
work with some of the most dedicated young adults in the county.
Scouting truly makes some the greatest young men.”
Emily Hoffman/Headliner
News READY, SET, CAMP: Troop 201 took time to honor all Eagle scouts
present, above, including the young and old.
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Springfield
News Leader – Monday November 12, 2006
Eagle Scouts celebrate award,
friendship.
Three of the six members of Troop 201 have been in
the organization since kindergarten.
Susan Atteberry Smith
For the
News-Leader
Ozark — Among them, they've earned more than 200
merit badges, and, sticking together, they've probably made at least as
many memories.
Now, a dozen years since three of them were Tiger Cub Scouts in
kindergarten, the six members of Troop 201 have earned Boy Scouts of
America's highest honor.
In a court of honor ceremony Saturday at Ozark High School,
Scoutmasters, community leaders, parents, grandparents and friends
celebrated with Adam Griffeth, Mark Hall, Cory Huck, Joseph Pieczynski,
Colton Smith and Evan Wammack as they received their Eagle Scout awards.
"I used to be taller than these guys, and now they've got me by
four or five inches," quipped Scoutmaster Chet Griffeth, Adam's
father.
He and fellow Scoutmasters Alan Suiter and Stan Huck told stories
about the troop's adventures outdoors together.
Griffeth told about the time a wild turkey flew into Wammack's tent.
Suiter remembered the time an ill Pieczynski — "I don't know
whether it was altitude sickness or the Chinese restaurant" —
practically crawled up the
Rockies
on a hiking trip.
Reminiscing about the fun of growing up in Scouting wasn't the
ceremony's only purpose.
Missouri Rep. Ray Weter recognized the boys for community service.
Ozark
High School
senior Smith, for example, worked to improve the playground at a local
preschool.
"Do you realize that only five out of every 100 boys get to be
an Eagle Scout?" asked former state Rep. Jerry Bough, who knew the
Scouts as students at Ozark Junior High, where he was principal until he
retired. "And the reason? Hard work."
For the Scouts, the ceremony also marked many years of friendship. It
may be rare enough for a Boy Scout to complete the achievements needed
to reach the rank of Eagle Scout, but it may be even more rare for him
to reach that rank along with friends he's had since elementary school.
"It's almost a brotherhood," said Hall, 17, who, with
Griffeth and Smith, became a Tiger Cub in kindergarten. "If we have
a problem, we all talk about it. It's really cool."
Hall said the friendship of fellow troop members — and the
adventures they had together — kept him interested in Scouting as he
entered his teen years.
One of his favorite adventures: a 70-mile hike at Philmont Scout
Ranch in
New Mexico
.
Backpacking in the Rockies and whitewater rafting on the Colorado
River have been favorite memories of Cory Huck, 19, a
University
of
Missouri-Rolla
sophomore who, at 15, was the last to join the troop.
Burned out on sports four years ago when classmate Brett Durbin —
also an Eagle — invited him to join, Huck said he "just kind of
jumped right into being a leader in the troop," noting that
Scouting has taught him loyalty, responsibility and communication skills
he's been able to draw on in college.
And, he added, "I can go to the woods, and I can do what I need
to do to survive."
The troop has a strong chance of surviving beyond graduation at
Ozark
High School
next spring, especially since four of the Scouts plan to attend UMR with
Huck.
Adam Griffeth is one. And on Saturday, the new Eagle Scout was
already looking to his next achievement:
"Really,
I think this is something to be proud of, but it's something we can use
as a steppingstone in life."
