Boy Scout Troop 48, Memphis / Germantown, Tennessee - 80th Anniversary

Troop 48 - Germantown, Tenn. - 80th Anniversary

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Welcome to the Troop 48 80th Anniversary Blog.

Our 80th ann'y celebration will take place on Saturday June 27, 2009 at Faith Presbyterian Church in Germantown, Tenn. It will begin at 2 p.m. with an afternoon of fellowship, reminiscing and displays of memorabilia from our 80 years. At 6 p.m. it will progress into dinner to be followed by live musical entertainment and remembrances. The dinner will be catered by our ASM, Richard Ralph, of the Serial Grillers Memphis B-B-Q team.

The event is being chaired by Edgar Provine and Barry Moore, both former Scoutmasters of the Troop.

Tickets are $15.00 per person payable to Troop 48. If interested please send a note to the below address so that we can contact you.

If you would like more information please drop us a line or visit the Troop's Web site: Troop48.org

Be sure to view all of the photos which are posted by decade. Scroll down to the bottom to get to the Archive to see them all.

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80th Anniversary Celebration - June 27, 2009

2:00 pm – 6:00 pm - Meet and Greet Fellow Scouts

6:00 pm - Dinner and Presentations
7:30 pm - Entertainment and Fellowship

Faith Presbyterian Church

8816 Poplar Pike Germantown, TN 38138

For updates on the celebration and photos from your youth visit the following website: http://www.troop48anniversary.blogspot.com/ and for Troop news visit: www.Troop48.org

Comments from Alumni

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From Jim Weatherly, father of Matthew:

Congratulations Troop 48!

I have many fond memories of taking part in Troop 48 activities. My son, Matthew, and I enjoyed the many camp outs to places I had never heard of such as Pinnacle Mtn. State Park and Ouachita Forest. Matthew is living in Denver now and still camps out in the Rocky Mountains. More than that, we were privileged to be part of the great tradition of Troop 48.

I will be working today but just wanted to pass along my congratulations!

Jim Weatherly

From Tony Bertasi, father of two Eagle Scouts and former Troop Treasurer - 5/27/09 - Brian, I will be out of town on June 27th at a family wedding and will be unable to make the celebration. My heartfelt thanks to you and many others who have made Troop 48 so successful in helping so many young people. It has certainly made a lasting impact on the lives of Anthony and Elliot. Anthony is at UTK in pre-med and is taking classes in summer school in Knoxville. Elliot just graduated from GHS. He was VP of the Student Body and graduated 12th in his class of 403. He will be going to UTK on scholarship. He plans to go the law school. Best Wishes, Tony

From Newton E. Cook - 2/21/09 - Ed Provine and I have a long history at Troop 48....way back in the 50's....My dad was once Scoutmaster...Wonderful years and lots of good people.....I moved from Memphis in 1969 to Ohio for my job and lived there until I moved to Florida in 1997 to work awhile and then retire (my sons lived in Florida since the 1980's. I now live in Tequesta (45 Poplar Rd. Tequesta, FL 33469 phone 561/339/0243) which is about an hour north of Ft. Lauderdale to help you locate it...Watching my old college Memphis University play UTEP as I right this...and like a lot of old Troop 48 people, I an a South Side grad...and made my 50th reunion a year or so ago...Good to see the Troop is still doing good work.

From the 1930's

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Photo from a page in the scrap book of James Moore (father of Barry Moore) from the 1930's. It shows Eugene Church of Troop 48 and James of Troop 4 looking at various knots used when they were members of an emergency services corps while scouts.

Photos from the 1940s.

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Photos from the 1950s.

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Photos from the 1960s.

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1969 Camporee
1969 Camporee

1969 Camporee

1969

1969 Southland Mall Scout Show with Mr. Moak

1969 Troop Meeting

1969

1969 - Charles H. Church presenting his namesake award

1969

Kia Kima S.R. - 1969

1969

1969 Troop Meeting

1969 Southland Mall Scout Show

Kia Kima S.R. 1968

Kia Kima S.R. - 1968

1968

1968 Southland Mall Scout Show

Barry, Glenn and Dr. James Moore at KKSR - 1968

1968 Southland Mall Scout Show

Kia Kima S.R. 1968

Kia Kima S.R. 1968

Kia Kima S.R. 1968

Kia Kima S.R. 1969

Photos from the 1970s

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Mel Rivers Rutherford, Mr. Ralph Moak, Daryll Kengott

Troop 48 at Covenant Presbyterian Church.

With Gene Scobey, currently ASM for the Troop.

Photos from the 1980s

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Kia Kima S.R. 1987
1987
1986

1984

1983

Troop in front of the cabin at Camp Currier. (It was dismantled in 1983.)

(Photo out on temporary loan.)

Troop in 1983 w/ Messrs. Barry Moore, Edgar Provine and Ralph Moak.

George Dumas cooking with his patrol at Enid Lake in the early - mid 1980's.

Troop 48's log cabin at Camp Currier sat at the top of "Little Suicide Hill" for many years until the council determined cabins were unsafe. It was built in 1931 and dismantled in 1983.

Photos from the 1990s.

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Scoutbase 1992

Pinnacle Mtn., Ark. 1990

Boxwell S.R. 1990

Boxwell S.R. 1990

Eagle Scout Eric Schmidt goes hot air balooning with Jim Brandt at the controls (c. mid 1990's)

Troop 48 on top of Sugar Loaf Mtn., Ark. (c. mid-1990s.)

Here's the program for the 70th anniversary. It shows the cabin on the front and the patch we gave out on the back.

Photos from this Century

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Photos from our January, 2009 backpacking trip at Ft. Pillow, NHA.

At the end of hiking on Saturday. Messrs. Issing, Moore, Lemoine and Ralph with the Scouts.

Heading out on Sunday morning.

Photos from our February 2009 trip Backpacking in the Sipsey Wilderness of Alabama:

The Phoenix patrol crew along the trail on Saturday morning.

A view along the trail looking at the Sipsey Creek.

The Sinti patrol crew.