Transcript
Don Bremer
18:59:23
No audio. Give me a second. Let's see if I get there you go.
Jim Carr
18:59:27
Here
Don Bremer
18:59:29
I'm here
Jim Carr
18:59:30
All right, you can hear us?
Don Bremer
18:59:32
I can hear you.
Jim Carr
18:59:33
John, you're in outer space. Hi, Don.
Don Bremer
18:59:36
I am. Well, being a computer guy, I thought that I would at least, you
to do something fun in the background
But you could tilt the camera down a little bit. I'm looking at mostly the skylights, I guess. There we go.
Jim Carr
18:59:48
Yeah
I'm over here, but hi
Don Bremer
19:00:00
Howdy
Jim Carr
19:00:02
I haven't seen you in a long time. It does. This call or I don't know. I don't have contact info for him. Okay. Yeah, we have to dig up some. Don is Ken Goodwin going to be on the call
Don Bremer
19:00:05
Yeah
I did not see an okay from him, but anybody who has that link who would just get on right now
Would be able to do so
Jim Carr
19:00:27
Okay. Do you have input it to him.
Better late than never.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah, the patient. I would just passing out some of the
information that I have that I just really quickly dug up, not very quickly, but the original
Don Bremer
19:00:52
Oh, good
Jim Carr
19:00:53
Yeah
The original
Don Bremer
19:00:58
The Wicker Park, yes.
Jim Carr
19:01:02
They think the guy in the top hat, I think that's Calvin Coolidge. I think that's Calvin Coolidge right there. I'm presuming
And this is kind of what we stumbled on
About 40 years ago when we figured out how old the troop was, we stumbled on this picture from the Historical Society.
And then you can see the scouts are here on the bottom
In a campaign cat hats. And you see the one that says Maury? Yeah. Well, Maury, Maury Cray wrote this letter, and he was probably the
Kind of the instigator. You can read his letter, which we got
from him in
I think it was 1987
At the 60th anniversary. Don, were you in the 60th
Don Bremer
19:02:00
I was. We were in a
Jim Carr
19:02:01
It would have been
Don Bremer
19:02:05
The white
Jim Carr
19:02:05
Lansing KSC it was at.
Don Bremer
19:02:09
Okay, yep, there it was. Yeah
Jim Carr
19:02:13
Anyway, that letter he wrote, pretty neat. Just
Don Bremer
19:02:17
Right there
Jim Carr
19:02:21
He says about camp ads. I wonder if it is still there. Yeah.
Don Bremer
19:02:29
So, yeah, that was the 60th.
Jim Carr
19:02:32
Who's that?
That's asking about he was like the founding. In those days, the kids kind of formed their own troops. Oh, they used to join individually in the early days. They didn't have troops, especially rural areas, once there was.
Right, right. And he talks about it. He wanted he and some of his friends wanted to form a troop
And,
They journeyed, as he phrases it, to downtown Hammond
physical office
And met with his scout executive.
And he told them they had to have like they need one more boy and then they had to find their own scoutmaster. So they went back to Munster Public School
which in those days was called Munster Public School was the old
You remember linear school or linear. It was just Munster Public School.
And my mom went there, and she always said to everybody said, well, what school do you go? She went to public school? And they're like, what school she was a public school because it didn't have anything. That was the name of the school. And so they went back. That was years later, probably when they started building the other school
And the other schools are, I believe are built in the mid 1950s
Elliott and Lanier.
But anyway
We probably have a host of
You probably have a lot of pictures from that era
Don Bremer
19:04:13
I do, and in fact, that's all the ones that are on the website right now
Jim Carr
19:04:16
Oh, gotcha. Oh, this is the 60th. And which website is this?
Don Bremer
19:04:19
Yes.
Troop533.org
Jim Carr
19:04:28
And just making sure
Don Bremer
19:04:28
By the way, Abby, was that your child that I was talking to originally
Jim Carr
19:04:31
Yeah
My child
Don Bremer
19:04:40
You, I said that there's a back and forth, that somebody started a shadow one using Google websites or something like that. And they wanted to grab all these pictures, but I'm 100% sure that they don't
Jim Carr
19:04:49
Okay.
Don Bremer
19:04:55
who or what are they are
Jim Carr
19:04:58
That's almost certainly Rafael. I had no idea what you guys are talking about. Yeah, no, that made a troop website last summer. Oh, yes. It was his like little pet project. Yes. Yeah. Vincent told me about that. I think he was
Fooling around with him on that. Like, yes, I'm sure messing around.
Yeah, I guess, okay, I do kind of know. Sorry, I'm sort of into this letter
Don Bremer
19:05:24
Yeah, give me a second here
And
Let's see
Jim Carr
19:05:33
Okay, your dad had written to a lot of them
Don Bremer
19:05:34
There we go
Jim Carr
19:05:36
Could you make that screen expand it? Yeah, I'm not too literate here. So you tell me what to do. Got it.
Don Bremer
19:05:48
That was when he asked who I was, and I'm like, oh, you know that I found the website, the former troop website has not been updated since like three years. I'm like, yeah, because that's Mr. Powell if you vaguely remembered the name, couldn't find it.
Etc, I need you to see if I could update the website, which I definitely offered my assistance on teaching them, but yeah, I'm not going to give up control of it
Randomly.
Jim Carr
19:06:15
Right. Yeah
I think
I don't know, I'm just interjecting.
Go ahead. I think we need a Facebook
Page that is open to the public that we can put on like what's up monster that says, please share any memories you have of troop 533. You even just say looking for members to at least give this your name and
Yes. An address that we can put you on the list. But I think like knows the presence of 533 and would be happy to
Don Bremer
19:06:49
Yes.
Jim Carr
19:06:55
say, hey, they got in a canoe, my house flooded, and brought me water, whatever. Cool story, you know, cool stories like that. It's always… Oh, yeah. Well, like these, I mean, would be done, what I was saying, I was… Abby and I had kicked this around a month or so ago
talking about, you know, trying to gather stories and gather information, and now with a website, you know, we don't necessarily have to print everything, we can just post stuff.
And kind of put a book, you know, put a book together, if you will, and have it all online.
Don Bremer
19:07:23
Yes, we have a tree
Yes, yes, I totally agree with that. And I could do that, make it into a PDF, make it into whatever we need to. That is
Jim Carr
19:07:39
There you go.
Don Bremer
19:07:39
No sweat
Jim Carr
19:07:41
I think I have an actual newspaper clipping of this.
I have a lot of stuff. I just have to go through it and find it. I mean, I
Quitly look today
I printed some stuff off
Even on the bottom of that.
I think there looks like there's so these are
So this is, I believe, the latest list that I have of Eagle Scouts
And it goes back to
It goes back to 2020 to Dan Blue. So all's we got to do is pick up from Dan Blue forward, which shouldn't be too difficult.
But
Don Bremer
19:08:32
This guy
Robert William Russell, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
Jim Carr
19:08:42
My son, there's his group in 13.
Danielle Spencer, Jacob Eldic, Calvin
Who is the first ego?
Do we know?
Don Bremer
19:08:56
That would be
Jim Carr
19:08:57
Robert Hill
Don Bremer
19:08:58
Robert Hitch
Jim Carr
19:08:59
Robert Hinton, William hit 1939, 1943. And how this transpired is one, Bob Cashman came up with a lot of them and then in the 60s, I had a bunch of them
Don Bremer
19:09:02
Yep.
Jim Carr
19:09:15
And then, but what happened is when the console merged
One of the Scouts Executive board here was pretty diligent about getting in there and making sure they didn't throw stuff away, and one of the things they were going to throw away is the book
handwritten book of Eagle Scout. So what they did is they Pdf'd it, and I've got a PDF, and we went through that and found all the original book, did they? Oh, no, somebody has it. Somebody has it, alright. But he PDF'd it, so a lot of people have it now
I mean, APDF, the whole book. That's right.
And again, historically, whether everybody knows it, it really started as troop 33. It then became troop 133.
And I believe for a very short time was 233, and then it became 533. And that's because when they kept all the consuls kept merging, other troops had the same numbers. So that's why they kept changing the numbers.
Now, I have a picture here that I ran across, which is interesting, and it just goes to show you, but it's a picture of troop 133.1.
You see, other troops spawned off of
33, that's in the 1960s.
In fact, one of the scoutmaster there was honored with a bench behind the scout office by his scouts. I went to that dedication and his name was
Logston
And I know his son Paul logs in
Anyway, they were from troop 1331. Interesting. I'd never heard this part. And I mean, true Munster used to have approximately 6 or 7 troops
Oh, yeah, oh yeah oh yeah there was a there was a troop at Lanier. There was a troop at Elliott, which was us. There was a troop at Eads, there was a troop at St. Luke's. It used to be on the corner of the Lutheran Church and the corner of Fisher and
Hitman Avenue
And there was, of course, St. Thomas More
But there were a number of troops
And
What?
All right, so I have… I have, I mean, content. I'm sure some of you, I have contact information for Ken Goodwin.
Ron Robbins through the Lions. Really? Yes, Ron. Jim House through the Lions Club.
An old scoutmaster Charles after Ken. Can't remember his last name
Then Mr. Shelton as well.
So
Don Bremer
19:12:08
Dr. Kim
Jim Carr
19:12:09
I can start gathering
This information contact. I've got old
Sheets and copies of true kids names and parents names.
Phone numbers, contact information, kind of stuff like that
Probably going back maybe 15 years.
Don Bremer
19:12:32
Charles Morgan
Jim Carr
19:12:33
Morgan, you said
I think
Don Bremer
19:12:37
Charles Morgan
Jim Carr
19:12:38
He's a nice guy. Yeah, it was Charles Morgan. Charles Morgan. That's right.
Don Bremer
19:12:38
Yes
Jim Carr
19:12:45
So there is a list also in addition to this, there's also a list of scoutmasters. Isn't there, Don
And we have a list of measures
Don Bremer
19:12:54
Yes.
Let's see.
Jim Carr
19:12:58
Is there a set of organizations like what are we doing with all this information? Well, first of all, let's go back to
your idea of a Facebook, I'm not
Facebook person, are you? I mean, is somebody up face and they can set up a Facebook
Facebook pages are ridiculously easy to set up. Well, do you want to be the Facebook?
Don Bremer
19:13:19
Yes, like, right here, like, you want to set one up now? Create a new group. What do we want to call it?
Jim Carr
19:13:24
I don't want to be the person, but I think it's a good way to reach multiple generations. Yeah, no, I agree. That's going to be the easiest place to send
Don Bremer
19:13:36
Okay, here's the real question
Jim Carr
19:13:38
The two places would be the easiest place to send people to… for information would be the website, and let's use Don's website, because his is 2533.org, so it's pretty easy. Perfect. And then Facebook
Yeah, with that. And then I think with Facebook, you know, I'll just tell you my opinion. This is 100 years for any organization is to me phenomenal because not one person, two people, or even 10 people could
stuck around that long, obviously. So for an organization to keep going, not that it didn't have its low moments, okay, because it did, but
My point is, I think it should be a community celebration type of thing. I think we, you know, probably if we have a Facebook connecting to the Munster
What do they have? Is it called monthly Facebook or something? WhatsApp month or there's a bunch of them. There's a bunch of different ones. I mean, you can connect into some of those. The thing is, is whoever's going to be putting together that Facebook page needs to make sure they're also, like, very
Very good moderator for it to… for anybody that, you know, decides they're going to want to, you know, do some bashing
To scouts. So you gotta make sure we police that. That's a good point. Yeah, because it's, you know, maybe there's a delay on post or posts need to be approved before. Post approved by the admin, you know, just… just to be safe, you know, obviously the
Scouts in general have had issues
I know they're working on
That, but we just got to make sure because
We don't want it to turn into, you know, it goes into a public page and all of a sudden you just have nothing but a bunch of people
Who probably were never even in scout start saying stuff. Absolutely. Yeah, I yeah
Don Bremer
19:15:38
I do have one question. I'm going to be setting it up right now. I have a question, though. Are we setting this up as a troop 533 website or a Troop 533 anniversary website Facebook group?
Jim Carr
19:15:49
Let's what does an animal
Yeah
Don Bremer
19:15:53
Anniversary? All right, beauty
Jim Carr
19:15:55
Yeah, I think we have a private group for the troop itself. The public will be just the anniversary one.
Or should we do something more that, you know, instead of anniversary, maybe something like 533 historical. Reunion
Well, because that, you know, you have… it's like a one-time… I don't want to make it a one-time thing, I want to make it something that's maybe ongoing that can be used to
The Facebook. Yeah. Well, it must change the name later. I don't do Facebook. Is it secure when people are I mean, if they're given some contact information on that Facebook page, is it secure? Their address or email or phone numbers? They can message the page. They can message like a private message. If you post it, then you're posting it for everyone. But you can message the page privately
And then only the admins will be able to see it.
But if there were going to be like Mr. Carney talked about earlier, like multiples sort of things. If there was like one community celebration where we could give to the community, kind of like
Right.
I don't know, like, they could
I don't even know. Well, you do because it's 100, I would think we would want to do multiple things for the whole year. Yeah. And we also talked about, not at this meeting, but we talked at about future meetings of having the scouts come too
The scout import. Yes, definitely. You know, there's a lot of things to obviously go through here and brainstorm with. But I think one, yeah, you got events
And I say it in plural
I know the trooped or trying to book Camp Betts, but then if you really wanted a community thing and older people, you got to have something here. And at dinner, I think
is the way to go
Now, I think we need to keep that dinner reasonably priced so families can come, so it's not just an adult thing. And I think we could do some shopping and stuff with that
I think we could
probably fairly easily to do some fundraising with some local businesses to be able to accommodate, you know any expenses we had and then again, the the contact ahead of time, you know, to get out there as soon as we can
about trying to get information, stories, all kinds of things, so we could put a book or booklet together. That definitely, I think, would be Facebook, right? Yeah.
Facebook or the
Or maybe the multiple kind of events going on. And I mean, kind of see what the kids want. I mean, I'll give you some ideas. I mean, one thought was when I was a scout in 533, we had a 4th of July
float
When I was Scoutmaster, we had about the same float. It was a Boy Scout float. It was, you know, a tent and a canoe, and… but it kind of, you know, but
some sort of something special on the 4th of July parade, maybe, because they do it anyway, but something special. But again, some of that up to the kids what they would want to want to do
And then I think one other thing you got can throw all the
All general things into play would be memorabilia, you know, a patch is a hat, a patch is a hat, a t-shirt, you know, I mean, I think and my thought too was a patch or two microch
The other thing I was thinking too is a lot of times what they do is throw that out to the scouts to design. Now it could be they could design one thing or several things.
And again, they don't have to be the artists. You kind of turn that over to the vendor. Oh, Cal pack
We get the same, you know
Okay, so you're thinking the kids involvement should be like
I use the word artistic, but sure packet
Well, one of the things for all the kids important might be either whether you did a contest or just ask the kids to come up with a design, or anybody, I guess anybody could, but you know I would hope we could get a pretty quality thing out of out of the Scouts, and more or less just the idea is not necessarily the art itself
The art itself could be to the
Right. Experts on that. But I mean, all 3 of those things, the neck or juice kits are big in the neckerchiefs again now
Jim Carr
19:20:59
And the anniversary, or excuse me, the best necker chips with the ribbons around the ax. That whole packet was amazing. I don't know if you guys talking about the anniversary packet? Yes.
Yeah, that was like 3 years of well but you know I think if we just keep this ball rolling, we'll be fine. It's on that Thunderbird that
Well, I was a lot of you know Alvin's morning and yeah, Mo and
Yeah. It was pretty good about a dozen people. And then it grew because then we had activities and stuff that we had to fill in on and it was, we had health and safety and all kinds of other things we had to cover at camp beds too
Yeah, that was that was a nice
Really nice packet.
The Buckeye is cool. Yeah
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you know, doing the whole patch thing as fundraising as well.
You know, like, some of them I've noticed what they do is they tear them, they teared them out. They have a generalized patch
Then they made, like, a we'll just go generic and say there's a bronze bordered one, a silver bordered one, a gold boarded. Right, right. And they just get smaller and smaller and smaller, and the price just simply just goes up and up and up for whomever wants to do. And
Or you could have multiple patches, or you could also do
Peace patches, if you had multiple events
That's a fun idea.
Like, the segment ones that go around, like, 5 right or the pie ones, you know, I call them pi ones, you know, we have a triangular, and they all fit together into a big bag. What did they… I wonder what the patches back in 33 days, like, looked like.
Between these 2, I think more
Yeah, Abby, I just want to go out and I need all the historical patches and the ASMO
Yes, every single one of them
Okay, so as far as the kids go, it probably has a prototype too
I'm sorry.
Current committee chair Craig Thompson has agreed that there could be
19. That if we can come up with a position
That is
Through my dance. Really?
But he was inhuman.
So, I mean
I mean, are we going to have like maybe a main evening, a main weekend? Like, you know, I could see myself, I could see like the lion shelter and community park. We're grilling out
Maybe having Strax cater some stuff in. I mean, Erminger's around still
Okay. He's a lion. Okay. We've got the Lion Social Center right there. We need a kitchen, refrigerators
You know, if everybody's coming into town for something you know
you know, maybe a big barbecue kind of thing out that way.
I don't know if we want speakers or history. Somebody definitely should have see over the time, you know, in in the 60th was a we was a pretty big deal because we hadn't done anything.
And we had it at KSC
And I got programs and stuff for that. The 75th
They had at a dinner at St. Thomas More.
And if we had Pete Visklowski, the congressman be the speaker
Whatever. I'm big into the steel mills. Yeah, no, I know. Well, and he was congressman forever. And I don't my point there when I went like that, I mean political, I don't know. But but
I still think, well, one, another thing, just and we could, I'm sure, get this done easily. We can, I'm sure, get a proclamation from the town
You know, at a town board meeting, and I'm sure they'll do a proclamation. I mean, I can't imagine that they wouldn't
But but I would like to see it promote scouting in general, too. I would also think, I think it'd be a good idea to invite
Participation in whatever
St. Thomas More, the Cub Scout packs
you know, have it include them, too. Again, depending on what activity you have, and again, I think a picnic's a good idea. I do think a dinner is a good idea too. I do because it's a little
Jim Carr
19:26:08
You don't have the weather to attend with. But they've done picnics too. And then I don't know if the troop was moving forward on that camp out at they wanted to reserve the whole camp and it was my understanding that was a
Probably going to be a problem because they were talking about the second weekend of June, which
With NL in white and some of the other parties. The first weekend of June is reserved. I'm pretty sure the whole thing? Yes. Craig says it's reserved. What is the date on that? Because it would be cool if it was June 14th. It's the third through the 5th, which the reason they're trying to move it is that's graduation weekend for Munster trying to get the second weekend but we have the first weekend no matter what
The whole thing. Yes. The whole kit and caboodle. Yes. According to whoever Craig's been talking to, we have all of bets for June 3rd through 5th.
Whatever the first weekend is.
That Sunday is Monster Graduation and Craig's kid is one of the ones graduating
I mean, we figured out if they need to, they can leave Saturday night, though.
Yeah, I mean, the goal is to move it to the next weekend, but as of right now, we have the first
But
anniversary was, like, a day
It was just a day. It was we the staff went up on Friday night. It was just a day. Yeah, we expected older people to come in. They did. I mean, people came from all over the place.
And then it wraps up. Oh, that's cool. Look, you're already on it.
Yeah
Don Bremer
19:27:54
Huh?
Jim Carr
19:27:58
I mean, it could be just a day.
The younger folk want to see the troop couldn't camp out, but for the activities for
Let's say the previous scouts. And maybe families being able to come across yeah yeah
While we were debating offering it up for former scouts that wanted to come. Dan just said, if we do that, we need to talk to that could be a problem council because they might want us to like
Close one of the legs of you know Bets has the two legs of campsites. Maybe we might have to close one of them off and be that one's youth only. You cannot pass this if you're not.
Well, the problem might be… the problem might be for weekend camping, might be registration. You might have to be registered.
Oh, to keep overnight. Yeah, definitely. I mean, you might have to be ready about youth protection. But we just did it for the day. So for the day you you would be okay. Yeah
I hope I am
I don't know. I don't know. I'm supposed to hear the truth. Yeah, did you do the SYT? Yeah, did you do this special training? On May 30th. Yeah, I have to take it.
Now you'll have to do it. So what now? You're you're they've changed the name of Syp. And the deadline full one to do just the it will not count. 30
That was very explicitly told that full. Yeah. Designation somewhere when you see the main page right and then what happens after that? Then you are state
to be around children. No, I need to have a refresher. I mean, if you don't do it, but you had my PT. You can just do, like, the 25 minutes and all right, if you did it last year
I think, yeah, I think. Okay, so yeah, you got to get on there and do it like this week.
Okay. The 30th.
And if you didn't get an email about you have until May, then I'm wondering if you're even registered.
If you register
That would be awesome.
supposed to be registered through the troop. Usually, yeah, there's a certain number of people that get carried. No, the last couple of years, though, I didn't get information. I mean, I understand for a while they were paying, and I don't want them to pay for me. I mean, I want to pay my own. I don't want the troop to
But
You're covered, you're covered here.
Well.
I don't know
Well, I have to be registered because I still access my
I still registered, you know, when I register for events like the early fellowship last weekend, I registered for that. Oh, sure. And I so I have to be registered. Yes, you have to be registered
What are you registered in 533? Well, that's it should be, because that's the only place that I've ever been registered. I've never registered anywhere else. I have
For some reason. I mean, I didn't I think there's an enlarge or something. I don't know, but I've never done yet large or any of that. Okay.
Anyway, all right
Checking that.
Don't forget thing on the list, right?
Can we go back to the kids for a minute?
So Craig Thompson did agree that it would if we could come up with. I said liaison to Don, and he was like, that's a weird word to use
But I didn't know what else to call it, but if we had like a position
For two scouts
That is the go between Mr. Thompson will count it as
what did they call? Not service hours, but position of responsibility. Yes, thank you.
And the thought there, too, was because we kind of wanted somebody to be permanently on their work. It's just said SPL, they could change midway a couple of times. August
Yeah. So
But that sounds kind of what's the what's the training again named SL
Jim Carr
19:33:04
And you are registered with the troop. Okay, thanks for checking. No problem.
He didn't create a scoutbook ever though, so… Did you ever never created a scoutbook account?
Okay, all I have is appendic. Do you have his number?
Don Bremer
19:33:25
While you're doing that, I haven't either
It would be nice, if I got one.
Jim Carr
19:33:28
Okay
I got you. I'm gonna hit invite again.
You haven't registered with the troop yet. But you have registered large. I re-sent him the invite to scout.
Don Bremer
19:33:37
Please
Jim Carr
19:33:40
Okay. Thank you.
Don Bremer
19:33:41
I have.
Jim Carr
19:33:44
I mean, I can help you out with that if you need.
If you need help doing that. Okay. Yeah.
I've been clicking on everything just to know what's what and how to get to where I need to get to, etc. I mean, I get all the truth emails. I get all the true emails like something I get, I even get the, you know, but when you log into Scoutbook now, that's where you're going to go for your SYT training. Okay. And that's how you're going to
You know, you can do everything. It's like right on your likebooknow.com. Scoutbook, yeah.
No, no. No, no. Scout book
It's ugly scoutbook.scouting.org.
Yeah, but if you were just a scouting.org. Or just Google scout book. Yeah, I was just saying you'll get to it. It's not all right
Another thing on this week. It's not difficult. It just
Did you, were you able to send him an invite? Who are you? Are you a horrible. I know some of my charter organization. You're also pending. I'll send you another invite too. You have a charter.
Don Bremer
19:35:00
Yo, me? Are you gonna send one to me?
Jim Carr
19:35:03
Okay, are you Regin? Because I signed up for the Lions back in, like, 2001.
You should have an email also inviting you to join Scout Walk.
I reset them both. Cool. All right. So Don, where exactly are you registered?
Don Bremer
19:35:28
As it shows, no current registration.
Jim Carr
19:35:31
He's already in it. But you just currently went to where are you with him? You're in Wisconsin.
He's in Minnesota. He's Minnesota. Okay, so you went to your local council office and filled out an application
Don Bremer
19:35:41
Meet Minnesota
No, I just went online.
Jim Carr
19:35:50
Oh, you went online? Oh, is it online? You do it online, yeah. So I think we need your signature
Right?
Don Bremer
19:35:58
You need my signature?
Jim Carr
19:35:59
No, Mr. Halsey. Yes. To get you into 533, right? Isn't that I should be registered. No, no, get done into 533. Yes, right? Is that how it works? I really don't know. You have the paper application to someone else and they handle it. Don was one of those that
kind of carried. Okay, but he's not currently. I know the the last, I don't know 5, 7 years have been rough with carrying the
Four or five people
You know
You know what I mean? But maybe for this, you know, for obvious and just get everybody in. Yeah. If that's okay.
Okay.
But I'm pretty sure it needs
Somebody's signature. Yes. Oh, one of them. If there's multiple, who else do we need to ask?
You got any ideas? Well, I think one of the scoutmaster and myself, and then I think whoever's at scout office, right? Yeah
Okay, we have to find 2 more people to re-register.
Because there's a patch you could get
The alumni maps
I kind of knew that was going there. Is that how that's working? Is your dad still registered? He is not. See? There you go. Because he finds the computer stuff very difficult. So you're going to do it for him. Got it? You know, unfortunately, I know a lot of the older folks
just stop because of the YPT. They just
Couldn't do it. They just didn't know how to think it would be lovely if we found more of the elderly folk. I don't know if there's other… Yeah, they run a giant suppose out there, Ron Robbins is out there. John support registered
I don't think. Getting aside, can they… can they run an SOIT class. But if we did, like, that would be easier for… Meet up Mr. Carr's office. We're going to go through the training, and, like, somebody who is computer literate
Just runs it, right?
Yeah, but how do you envision that they have done this at roundtable because back in 2017, I did it at a round table. And they just somehow did it everybody. So everybody in the office knows how to make that
We can make it happen. That's what I'm saying. I thought, I don't know. POLO. Yeah. He was on my wood bag. He's a fun guy
Anyway. Because, I mean, it would be, you know, if you think about it, you'd have a classroom setting, you'd have a computer set up on a board, and you'd just run the videos, you have everybody who's physically take the paper test
You know, go over things beforehand. Alliance meeting and just teach like 40 of them. I can't do it. No, but regular though. I'm not going to be there. Because most of them can't hear where she is.
We'll turn the captions on.
Right? Two, we do need to celebrate the Lions. Of course, the Lions Club, we're older than the Lions Club, but I think originally
Yeah. Originally, I believe the Chamber of Commerce might have been the
So the lions will be celebrating their 90th in 2028. Okay, a year after you guys. So
So did it work that way back then, where there was a chartered org
You said the Chamber of Commerce. I don't know. I don't know if there was. Because, again, if you go way back to… in scouting, boys joined individually through the national. They just signed up. Okay. And then they kind of formed their own units, and a lot of rulers didn't have units, because there weren't units.
But that would have been in the early, you know, 1910, 19
15, something like that.
Sharding orgs have been around for a long time. Okay. Because again, I think through some of this in here, it talks about that maybe the chamber was the first one maybe and the chamber just last year, I think, celebrated its 100th. Yeah, it was a troop or the fire department and the chambers
Last year, the things they had. Yeah, the banners. Banners yeah I think 4 million 25. Oh, cool. Okay.
Jim Carr
19:41:00
But like I said earlier, too, I think we could approach some businesses. And we have some scouting contact with some businesses, including, I think, I believe we could even maybe get community hospital.
Well, Dave Wicklund is the chairman of the board and has been for a long time. He's an Eagle Scout, not from 533.
But obviously he's very, very, he was on the is the council
attorney and on the board forever.
And and again, you know, I think we could help subsidize some of the a lot of the things
you know.
You know what I was thinking about, too, just jumping back to a dinner too, is I don't know how expensive
The caramelite only, you know, and gee, they're pretty reasonable. Very good food, and they're a good… that's a good-sized hall.
The church next door, the Ukrainian church. Oh, maybe. Sells them on Friday. Oh, did they? I didn't even
He's got all good details. Yeah. I mean, it's right string from your dad's. Noticing just yesterday, the window at that church is just beautiful. Anyway, it is. You know, I just noticed it recently. Has it always been lit up at night
So I don't think it was lit up at night. But it is at night. What do you think you might need from the Lion's Club
I don't know why you're asking me. I don't know. I look to be in charge. She volunteered. No, I was very good at getting balls rolling. That's
But yeah
She gets the ball, throw that out there. I can start working on them.
Well, I think definitely we do a community
Events
Like at community park out there, that idea was great. Yeah
partnership. I do think we involve them as much as we can, too. I think, too, in addition to the I think
Whether it's an adult or the scouts or both, come do a presentation at one of the lines during the 100th year, so a year from now
But I also think we sort of
Rotary and all the clubs, including the town. Again, I think we just got to
I think it'd be a big push for scouting in general. You know, I know that might be a little more than the troop wants to bite off, but
I think the other thing I was thinking about, or we just did for the Thunderbird Society, this threefold
Nice little brochure. I think it would be nice to do a little brochure for the troop
And maybe as soon as possible and get it out there this summer so that there again we could get some input of names and stuff. So I'm gonna go back to some of the some of the stuff about. Is that, I believe something is creating like a pamphlet about the true plan. So I think that would be a good one. Let's pass the scouts
Maribel department. Okay.
It's one of the ones I've done recently. I want to say it's communications. I don't know. I don't remember. They haven't started so many recently
I was thinking about that one last night.
was that,
You know, it's not too expensive. I mean, forget what we paid for these, but
You know, you put some pictures in and
Do some different things with it. Oh, sure.
Yeah, I was going to mention before, because obviously this stuff always takes time and takes time produced. And then marketed and sold is the patches, the Niagar chief of hat maybe you know obviously once we have a logo or design, it could be printed onto jackets on demand, you know what I mean? Stuff like that just to make it
Nice. Is this
Is this you
No, I'm H-U-L. Oh, yeah, yeah. H-H-A-L was World War II, the general Naval General
Let's just grab the top of my
Oh, so this is something that's brand new. Oh, no, the society's been around for about four years, but the brochure is new. You're going to do a camp museum. That's pretty cool. We're trying, yeah, we're looking at building, we've raised quite a bit of money. People don't want to give money to the council
So this has been quite a benefit and
Jim Carr
19:46:07
You know, yeah, we've
done quite a bit already. Like I said, the bridges, some of the awnings and some of this stuff, but yeah, we were looking at building a new training post and and
Don's going to town here, by the way. Yeah, I'm sure. It's awesome.
Don Bremer
19:46:25
You've already got Mark's like
Mark's already on there.
Okay.
Jim Carr
19:46:33
Okay.
I do like this and I do like the kids. That's a great idea.
I mean, do you think the kids would be willing to distribute this throughout the town to door to door
That's where it gets door to door. Do we want them doing that, or we want them doing like the patch fundraiser.
You know what I mean? Something that's more of a collectible
It's a big push. That's, you know.
I'm just asking from the
Jambo. What's his name? Drew. He's, you know broken down one time. We were talking a little bit about that and those the patch things. He goes, they sell and they sell out, especially when you make those limited ones
Well, the only difference is hatch collecting, and I'm not a big patch collector, but what they tell me is, you know, when you're… when I have a lot, but only because I've been there. Because I'm old.
You know, the collectibles only are usually regional, national stuff. They're not usually even local council even, let alone true. Okay. But, you know, not to say they
That people don't do it, but it's just not as big of a deal as national memories and Philmonts and stuff like that, or the Arrow, the national meetings, and
The section meetings that stuff. Yes, but when it starts to get more and more local, then it's not quite as collectible. But but there again, and you could, if you again, you could do that participation patch
Like, staring at my Facebook page.
Don Bremer
19:48:27
There you go, okay.
Jim Carr
19:48:30
Okay.
Don Bremer
19:48:30
Because you're already on there.
Jim Carr
19:48:32
I saw you put it out. Other troops who have celebrated their 100th
sort of recently, and we could kind of well, not that I'll be honest, I don't know of anybody in the old Hamid Council. Oh, no, I mean, like, around the country. Yeah, sure, and there's some in Chicago, some of the… and people, there's
troops in Chicago that have had hundreds. I bet there's stuff on Pinterest. I'm sure there's stuff on Pinterest.
But I mean, for the patches, I mean, all that stuff probably we have a year on because you probably don't want to wouldn't necessarily want to start distributing that stuff maybe. But you could be ready to go on some of that. Right. That's the thing. It's just and I think
You know, we need to peer
Just kick around as many ideas. And I think as big as you want, and then we narrow it down once we get ideas and who wants to be involved and
Your Scout opinion is probably the neck of chips they don't care about. No, they really don't. Our boys hate to wear them. You know, which is weird because it's like, you know, I go with Vincent to the National Jamboree. Meetings
Every boy there has her neck or teeth on. And for a while for a while there weren't neck or teeth weren't that popular, but all of a sudden the last couple of years they've become quite popular. Every meeting these boys all have them on. Like all the others, all the other troops that are there because it's part of a big contingent going. And it's just like a little squish
Boots, like the dumpling thing, or the needle thing that would be big. Yes, exactly. So there's these little, like… Are you talking about the stress thing? Yes, they're little stress things, and the kids go crazy. Really? They're
They sell them for like 20 bucks. They're like$ 10 to$ 20 I have a sign that can do those. Yeah, but if we did, like, the boot plastic boot. Yeah, those kids, well, at least the troop, maybe for the
I don't know if the public, but maybe little kids would want them. And then
when they get it, then you give them
Join a scallop bracelet and or be a scout bracelet and
Where to join or something. I don't know. Representation, maybe roll them out at the 4th of July parade. Now you're talking. I mean, I mean, we've got you've got the night out against crime for this year coming up. We could do a thing. We should have a booth out there. Yeah, absolutely. Which we I think we
There's going to be a Scout one, but we, you know, we should be advertising 100 year makes you have some maybe some banners made up. That's what I was just saying. It's probably not too early
What? Okay. We've been talking for bringing new flags because we still have the old council name on our troop flag.
- Oh. So we started talking about new ones. Do you guys know how to do… how to get new flags? Oh, there's just a website.
Yeah. You just order them. Yeah, just new flags for… I have, too, the old, I have the old, I know somebody that's on a computer right now that used to donate flags
Yeah. Oh, really?
Right, Don
Don Bremer
19:52:11
Yep.
Absolutely
As Jim can attest, I would be
Jim Carr
19:52:15
If we need any kind of flight
Don Bremer
19:52:18
Yeah, as Jim would attest, I would be haunted if I didn't keep going with that. So what do you need?
Jim Carr
19:52:24
Okay, you're out of it. Let's go back. The centennial flags that Herbert Bremer.
Memorial flag. Do we still have them physically? Don't know because they had them at all the 4th of July, yeah, yeah. That's what all the thing we need to, we need to try to make sure we get or collect any of
You know, older paraphernalia. Well, and I think I told her I've got boxes of ribbons, boxes that we've taken off the flags. I have the old wool
Troop 533 flag. Yeah, I'm just saying, whatever event or whatever nylons. Alright, I'm just brainstorming. Should bring that up. But when we do either the community thing or, like, the vets thing, it would be cool if we had
Each decade
And the flag, maybe, from the decade, and then, I don't know, there's all kinds of fun things that Scouts used to do that we can't do anymore, but maybe we could do a presentation of it. Like
They've used to build cool like really huge. We just came across again a lot of the rifles at Camp Beds.
lot of the old talking about a lot of the old Cammy Council executive board have have latched on to a history of the Council, and we actually have a huge history of the Boo Buckeye
Which is quite interesting, although
politically correct now, I don't know. But
I don't know, I don't get too wound up in that. I mean, we just it's a story. Yes. You know, I present it as a history thing and a story type of thing. Oh, yeah. Was it me?
So if we want to do a 100 year flag or multiple flags
Let's get that started. But you came up with it. What we might want to do pretty soon would be a banner, because you could use… begin to use those as promotionals, and all the way through, you could start seeing it, you know, we need to have, hey, we're getting ready for, you know, Munster's
you know, the true 100th anniversary, if you were in the troop
You know, but you could use the banners at the events, you can use the banners at the parade. I have some banners for the X1 Adventure, which the Scouts are more than welcome to use. It says, like, welcome to the Great Adventure, which I still fits.
That was fun. I do, you know, but you know I'd be more than willing to to donate the banners and come up with some sort of design for it. Do you know anyone that can design a banner
Yeah.
The flags are really easy.
There's a website on the scout thing. You literally just, yeah, because they're all the same. And you just fill out what you want on you just collect the 100th year emblem and they put the emblem on there for you. Yeah, we've always, I think, I think the lines of time for the 533
troop number chartered institution, city, town, and State, and then council name.
All right.
We are missing some people who should probably be in the scene.
And that was her list.
Well, I was just writing down
People that would have
information as to
Thanks, Tony. Well, just names and maybe contact information of past scouts, past adults
That kind of thing. So Ken Goodwin, well, you got Don here. John Sikora, Ron Robbins, run Ron Robbins was a scoutmaster.
I don't think 533. That's another truth that used to exist. They used to be a 283 in Presbyterian at the Westminster. Oh, okay, okay. But I think I could be
because the robins are originally from Munster. Yes. They, I believe they might have been in the troop. They probably were. I know Gary, too.
Yeah.
thinking of some sort
Yeah, we need to… we had talked to trying to, oh, I know what I was going to say. So Jim Haas and all those guys, and I'm trying to think of the other ones. They all go. There's still a dozen of those or 15. All those guys, they go
Jim Carr
19:57:29
Watson and they still going? Yes, they're going. Yes, they've toned it down somewhat, but they're going to Europe this year. Yeah, it's Colorado, whitewater rafting, I think. They have said they've toned it down a little bit
I like it green instead. Yeah, I heard there was neuropathy in somebody's feet, so I don't know if they're hiking.
We're still hiking. Oh, wow
That looks pretty cool.
Don Bremer
19:58:03
Pretty quick,
The 80 years is still on there and I'm going to get rid of that right now.
Jim Carr
19:58:09
Yeah, that's a cool looking banner though.
Looks like it's designed already. Like working on this like for three years? I don't know. I agree.
Don Bremer
19:58:25
No, I just made it.
Jim Carr
19:58:25
What?
I get green. I mentioned this last year
Don Bremer
19:58:27
I just made it
Jim Carr
19:58:30
To
Yeah. No, Danny. Dan. Yeah, I've been trying to put bugs in their ear because I'm a was a fireman and last year was the 100th year. It came and went and they did nothing. And it
I think embarrassing that an organization is not around that long and you just don't do anything. And like I said, and I think the kids would get a big charge out of this. Yeah.
Well, that's what I said to Craig, I'm like, I don't know if anybody's doing anything. It might already be happening. I just don't know. Since last year, so we got things rolling. That's how that's got reserved. I just kept bugging and cracking like
Yeah, you got anything going? Well, like, I am. He's like, I don't know. So
Okay, sorry if I'm stepping on anybody's I don't know. Are you willing to talk to people? That's fantastic. I'm willing to be here and send emails. Okay, that's whatever you need, but you can absolutely, you have all the connections. I'm horrible with names.
I know no one. I have a car. If you're not a current scout, I probably don't know.
Even the current, there's a couple ones I'm like, huh
Well, I don't know. That's what I was thinking. I'm like, I don't know if there's already events planned, but it doesn't seem my 60th year in the troop. Wow
You want to cook next? You want to cook? No, I offered multiple.
It is. Well, your dad's got a long time in, too. He's gotten longer. He's not actually, like, technically registered.
But it's still in his heart. He still does things.
Should have, yeah, it should have we should have carried him
Yeah, I know I know a lot of people, the newer folks don't want to carry the people, but it's a huge asset. And when I say carry, I don't think you necessarily have to even pay for them. They'll pay for themselves. I don't think financially, yeah, just invite them to
I know it makes the charter a little funny looking, but well, you have so many adults. We have more adults than we have. Yes. Oh, I'm sure.
Or if not, we're within like five. There's a ton of adults registered.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's why we're an active troop. Yeah. I think that's why it lasted for 100 years because it just keeps rolling along and is a little bit older input. Then you got a lot of newer input
And I think that's why it's continued to roll.
Yeah
So any of the events or whatever that we're doing, you know, is it something that we want to make sure that we invite all the troops that are here in Munster to come to the… Well, I think you mean an invitation, I mean, whatever.
But I do think we have to kind of narrow down
With true
Because again, we don't… I, too, would… I don't think we want to do anything that would harm the troop.
or conflict with the truth
For events or anything like that, of course. So you know what kind of events do we want to do, and what would be our preferential
You know, events. But like I said, I think you could have multiple events. You know
representation at the 4th of July parade, representation at the night out against crime.
For those events or just
Well, that's kind of things we just do anyway. Yeah, it is. But I'm just saying that we got we need to make sure that we're we're putting it out there about the 100th, making sure there's some kind of an you know a conveyance of information. That's the only reason I was thinking about the brochure then it's out there for people to take
They could fill something out, send it back in and or also refer them to the, you know, have some old pictures of when you were on your when you were at 530, you know, 530 or earlier and
you know, just information
To add to it can be a QR code on it. Hey, post your pictures on the Facebook page. You know, be sure to tag the people's, you know who's in it, you know just just a more historical avenue, a map, you know, a trail, so to speak, a trail of
Scouts
Speaking of there been like meetings
of a community group or okay. We could never get enough people to actually make a meeting. Gotcha. Okay, no one wanted to take charge
Jim Carr
20:03:37
For this. No, I just talked at the committee meetings. We haven't actually had specific meetings for those because then I'm thinking, are we missing people from
was willing to be part of. She didn't want to run it, but she's like, I'm willing to be part of that. That's what I said. I mean, let's put it out there. What? What if are you
At least co-chair? You know what? I would really, really love to be historian.
I'm a nerd. I want to go to Munster Library and sit with microfilm and find everything I can find. And I would like to go to like Kanchun or somebody at the historical society and sit and look through dusty old boxes
Think of my parents attic boxes and like Tylenol.
That's kind of my jam.
I think if we make it like a bunch of separate roles instead of having just one person in charge, we'll be fine. Okay. I'm willing to do stuff. Kristen was willing to do stuff. You're willing to do stuff. Like
We won't necessarily have one person, but if you split it up into smaller pieces, that's the point.
I mean, I'd be willing to co-chair it, too, but… I mean, just to help out. But again, I'm not
that connected with the troupe. And I don't want to, you know
Be a weird old guy showing up. Yeah, right, what are you guys doing? Look, if you need anything input-wise from the scouts out of a meeting, just let me know. Same here
Qualified
Well, we need
We need to scout master book
Or committee chair or both. The key three.
What are the key three?
Getting Josh to slide up. Not sign up, but make a meeting. I'm slightly concerned about. Yeah, he would
He'd be willing to help. My concern is him making the meeting. Who is that? Josh? He would make it. If he gets called out on fire calls a ton, like he may have our committee meetings, and… That's the only… yeah, you're right. So, sometimes I know that people want to be involved, except I don't know if he'd actually physically make it
You know
Yeah, I'm kind of surprised he didn't
But it is Mother's Day. It's kind of a weird day, maybe. And I think he was at a conference this week. I'm not sure when he got back. Oh
So there was a work thing, too. That's why he didn't make Wednesday's meeting
Yeah, I talked about Wednesday. No. I did. I had a conversation.
Hey, Don.
Don Bremer
20:06:41
Yeah
Jim Carr
20:06:43
On the website, can you
put and again, I just throw the idea out there. I don't know how to do it, but can you put something out there where you can sign on and submit
you
What the man that was laying there with no shirt? Yeah. Or don't ask those questions. Submit contact information and stuff.
Don Bremer
20:07:08
You mean like this? First name, last name, email, phone, and how many friends you can bring along?
Jim Carr
20:07:12
So I would like
I'm just gonna ignore it. Okay, then. I do have, like, I've been digging through those dusty old boxes, and I have found quite a few Polaroids, but I wouldn't know how to get them
Don Bremer
20:07:15
Okay.
Jim Carr
20:07:27
Into the computer. Well, yeah, my take is you just take a picture of them. They're shiny. Well, I have a lot, a lot of slides because in that day I wanted to share it with the parents, and the only way we could do it was with slides
So an absolute, but I don't know how you get slides and there's a way into Google Drive into something
So there is a
I shouldn't be in my phone with your cold point. What Dasher? For the food. Oh, for the kids. That's right, we have kids at home. I guess you're supposed to feed them
Well, Mother's Day, he's the dad. His problem, not yours. Yep
All right, they got
I know Dan will be involved with this too. Yeah.
Empathy causing trouble this weekend
So my wife used a company, you know, old pictures, old
Yes, they exist. What was that company? Yeah, I mean, they send you a box, and then they send you a where everything goes into with a cloud or we could actually do the slideshow. What do you have up there, Don
Don Bremer
20:08:57
The scan and slider! I'll get it if you just send it, I can… I'll get it
Jim Carr
20:08:57
What is that
Yeah. I mean, I've got a scanner. I mean if there's like people that have like the old camcorder videos and
That could be all converted to a digital thing? Oh, I would always, I don't think it's correct, but Ken always said he was. He said he stayed long enough to be, he was Scottmaster running in the background
I'm assuming yes he doesn't before he moved away, he didn't pass anything to you. This is how they did it
You think it's boring? I don't know, I like the… You know what, I did come across
Glenn Miller was a scout mister, a couple of scout masters after me.
I have a scouting friend, my ordinary advisor who's 90 years old. He's still alive my advisory driving around and everything. He's incredible, incredible. Anyway, they have a breakfast
Get together and Glenn Miller goes and Glenn wanted to get rid of all the scout stuff.
So they gave me boxes and I have a bugle, which I'm presuming it was the troops bugle
And it's an official Boy Scout bugle engraved and everything. Eat up, eat the heck. I don't know, I don't think so. But that would be cool, like an adequate. Yes. Well, and I think I told you, too, I have old
They used to have critter races where you
Okay. After some sort of critters and race them. Well, then they would at the camps, and then they would give you an award. And it's just a hand-carved, you know, written thing. I have tons of those. Not tons, but I have several different
Things Klondike Derby, first place trophies, which again are just
legacybox.com. Yeah, so they send you a box. You put all this stuff in it
Pictures you need
Don Bremer
20:11:05
Or you could just send it to me, I'll be cheaper.
Jim Carr
20:11:06
Yeah.
Okay
Don Bremer
20:11:09
How about you send it to me and I'll be cheaper
Jim Carr
20:11:11
Alright.
Well, I'll have to, you know, like, again.
it was your era, you know, of being a scout. I've got trays and trays and trays of them. You know, it's
The big thing is, of course, is identifying who's on the pictures. I mean, it's… Well, those would be pretty easy because Don would know when Don and I would probably know those. Some of the other ones, maybe not so much. I did have
Don Bremer
20:11:28
Yep.
Jim Carr
20:11:40
I don't know if I printed one up, but I did have a photo, and I don't know where I came from, but a Scoutmaster from the 50s, and it was the senior patrol leader, the new Scoutmaster and the old Scoutmaster standing. It's a beautiful picture
Some that are, 50s from the pop
But and I have, you know, absolutely tons of
You know.
True.
This one isn't very big. Oh, this is the 75th anniversary. Can I see?
Here's a better one.
There you go
There's an anticipation of a promotional pancake breakfast. Wow.
We don't even have a year
No, I could tell you what year I was a scout master. Here's Ted Smith. Did you know Ted?
Yeah. Actually, that's how I knew Ted. Ted was in the 1960s. He was the institutional representative for the Lions Club. Oh, was he? And but every and everybody knew him
He used to every time we had a camp out, he would hook us up with some meat
Smith and Brooke
Don Bremer
20:13:29
Yes
Jim Carr
20:13:32
Here was the newspaper where it was.
12
You know, they always give the… you know what I mean
Well, that was for the newspaper, huh? This was our first new trailer. So did you guys already go through all the microfilms at the
Library
Who's that?
Oh, your dad's name is on here. Your dad's name is on here. You know, I think he was.
Oh, wow.
He could have been. They may have donated the trailer
Although the trailer, they may have donated the funds for the trailer. The trailer came from one of our scouts. Oh, Larry Cheilman, I could probably find him. I know I've got connection for him. Do you? I was thinking of that name. Yeah, I got
Don Bremer
20:14:37
Thank you.
Jim Carr
20:14:42
These parents still live over there too. Yeah
Mr. Kyleman broke a chair at my mom's house the other day.
As in Larry or
Mr. Not Larry. No, not Larry. Senior.
Anyway, yeah, I mean, I got to get a trash can.
Let's get a trash can.
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Here's test. Okay, wait. So I did ask the question, but I don't know if I heard the answer. Did you already go through all this stuff at the library
No. No, I'm not going to the library or the historic. I mean, for this stuff. No, this is all just from you. And people giving me stuff. I'm like, I'm like, I'm friends with him, and Facebook, and
I'm friends with this guy on Facebook and
Well, the Mr. Sikora. I think brought a bunch of
Now he's another guy. He would have a lot of pictures. Yeah, he would have a lot of money. Yes, the thunder. Yeah
Could I like, could I, I would love to like interview these people. Mark Sakora. There's Mark. He's got 25 years.
And he takes really good pictures. Yeah, there's Hamlin, Hamlin, Watson
I mean, that's, you know, blue, all of them, husks, all of them, you know.
He just lives right over. I got his address and contact right on Schreiber and Fairway.
Again, I have a lot of the… I just have to look through the list and
You know.
So some of them passed away.
I have
And there's like
Oh, this is the picture is where maybe we can. He says that do something like this again for the times. Have him put a on Facebook. Compared to the modern version. It's called Facebook. Yes, but you got to remember you have a lot of older
I get the Wall Street. But
Are you?
You're here already. We have your contact info. All right.
It is fun. Like, I gotta say, I'm in the Rado Rangers 50th
Reunion and that page is so much fun.
They have people from like every generation putting up pictures. And stories it's just really fun to see. Hey, Don.
When you tell him
Don Bremer
20:17:53
Yeah
Jim Carr
20:17:55
You know, somewhere to look to see it's the Philmont Rialto, you said the Rialto program? Riado
Don Bremer
20:18:04
Ray Otto. Yeah, she's been posting it and I've seen it, yes. I was just going to bring it up
Jim Carr
20:18:04
Yeah.
That would be some… that would be somewhere good to
to model yeah it is
Don Bremer
20:18:16
Right
Jim Carr
20:18:18
So it's not like
Don Bremer
20:18:19
Right, let me
So go here, I can search. There we go
Jim Carr
20:18:25
Did you do Rihanna?
Done
Don Bremer
20:18:28
I did not
I was trail crew.
Jim Carr
20:18:32
Aha
Don Bremer
20:18:34
You cash money
Jim Carr
20:18:35
I never got, I never I had a contract one year to work.
Right, decided to do something else that year. I printed this up, but
Don Bremer
20:18:41
Yeah.
Jim Carr
20:18:45
This is from the 533-1 and 133.1, but they were apparently sponsored by the Lions Club too. And I think they were.
Is there a history of the Lions Club? Like or something?
Yeah, better interview Ron Robbins real quick.
Okay, I'm not sure who's that why Gary's Robin's wife contacted me this year, and I didn't think he was new
Well
Two years ago. Oh, okay. Yeah
Very questionable, but very fun sounding old scout your bash.
Don Bremer
20:19:32
Oh, Ken's going! Ken's coming in.
Jim Carr
20:19:35
Can's coming in.
All right.
Don Bremer
20:19:37
Yeah.
Jim Carr
20:19:43
Ken
Can you hear us, Ken?
Don Bremer
20:19:50
You're muted
Jim Carr
20:19:54
Unmute yourself.
His mouth is moving.
I could.
Don Bremer
20:20:04
Let me see, I'll see if I can unmute him. I can ask to unmute
Jim Carr
20:20:11
The old boot
Ken Goodwin
20:20:13
Okay, did you get me?
Don Bremer
20:20:15
Hey
Jim Carr
20:20:15
There we go. How are you?
Ken Goodwin
20:20:19
I'm doing fine. I'm on my phone, so you are, let's just say, incredibly small.
Jim Carr
20:20:28
Well, you either got my text or my email
Ken Goodwin
20:20:32
I got the email that came through
And I was looking at it going, well, that was nice. They sent me a text for an email for a meeting that started an hour ago.
Jim Carr
20:20:45
We're still brainstorming. We're trying to gather people.
Ken Goodwin
20:20:50
Okay, well. Hi.
Jim Carr
20:20:55
Well, was that a good phone number for you, the 775-1718?
Ken Goodwin
20:21:01
775 yeah 1718 is me.
Jim Carr
20:21:05
Okay, all right. And we got the good email. All right, we got one verified.
So do you have
I want to say you have a list of maybe contact
older scouts
For… I don't know, did we put something together 10 years ago?
Ken Goodwin
20:21:35
Well, actually, Melissa mentions that she's got all the materials from when we did 85 and 9
Jim Carr
20:21:42
Okay.
Ken Goodwin
20:21:44
I don't have a list of the scouts. Everything that we had would have been back in the day that would have been in Troopmaster
And
I mean, that had… used to have
Backups that would have had older scouts, but
For what we have now, why gee.
And even the thing is, even if I could get into Troopmaster, I don't know if they'd have have something. I'm for years I had kept
Jim Carr
20:22:23
I don't think so.
Ken Goodwin
20:22:24
Kept some backups of it, but when I got a new computer, I said, I haven't accessed this for five years or whatever and
So I canned it. And we hadn't used Troopmaster either.
Jim Carr
20:22:37
Yeah, well, I don't think we use Troopmaster anymore. I've never heard of it.
But I know Don's putting together a Facebook page for the anniversary.
Right now
Ken Goodwin
20:22:53
Okay.
Jim Carr
20:22:55
I'm not sure how to, if you have any kind of information from Melissa
To dump that into the Facebook page, I'm not quite sure.
Myself
Ken Goodwin
20:23:09
I don't know, because, I mean, she said she's got this stuff, exactly what it is and what it contains. I…
I'm afraid I do not know
Jim Carr
20:23:19
All right, all right.
Ken Goodwin
20:23:21
But it would give you… I mean, certainly what we did at those times.
I mean, we did
Like, I know one of them was… we did it at
the park when we had the flying
The flying pig
Jim Carr
20:23:41
Explain that, please
Ken Goodwin
20:23:43
I'm sorry?
Jim Carr
20:23:44
Can you explain what the flying pig is?
Ken Goodwin
20:23:48
I think it was… it might have been our 85th and it was it coincided with the anniversary of 100 Years of Munster. So we combined the celebrations and we were at Memorial Park in the shelter there
It was the day we dedicated the memorial to Sean Blue
Shame blue
And it
started to rain heavily with high velocity winds
And we… part of what we were cooking was we were doing a pig roast, and we had tried to get the
out of the way at the time, and it it got loose from our grip
Jim Carr
20:24:39
One of the tent posts, I think, took off in the almost
and went through the shelter roof, if I recall, the brand new shelter
Ken Goodwin
20:24:49
Yes, it did.
Yeah, we core sampled the roof
Jim Carr
20:24:53
Yeah.
Ken Goodwin
20:24:56
Yeah, I remember seeing that and going, who put that stupid vent there?
Before I realized what had actually happened
So yeah, it got incredibly windy, and
Jim Carr
20:25:09
Hmm.
Ken Goodwin
20:25:11
I forget one of somebody connected with the troop had all the audio equipment and
It got damp
Jim Carr
20:25:23
Oh, no.
The idea of a dinner sounds great. Yeah.
Ken Goodwin
20:25:28
Well, in the past, I mean, the first one of these that I was involved with
was the 75th
And we did a dinner that time at St. Thomas More
Jim Carr
20:25:44
Right.
Ken Goodwin
20:25:45
I don't know if you've got some of the even older guys
Oh, shoot.
Dentist that's on Indianapolis, right across
Jim Carr
20:25:59
Yeah, Jim Hamlin
Ken Goodwin
20:26:01
Yeah, Jim Hamlin. There you go. Jim
Jim Carr
20:26:02
Yeah, yep. And he's known. Yeah, he's around.
Ken Goodwin
20:26:06
Jim was involved in some of the earlier ones
So was Julius.
Jim Carr
20:26:14
And Julius Balanco, yeah
Ken Goodwin
20:26:17
So they'd have things back at least from, I think, the 70th, because I think they did like a lobster and a surf and turf type thing.
They went all out
Jim Carr
20:26:31
I'm I'm down for that.
Ken Goodwin
20:26:33
Okay, I've got to ask, since I can't… the picture is dinky, who I recognize Steve's voice, I recognize Jim's voice. Who else do I have in the room?
Jim Carr
20:26:45
Abby Hogavine, Cashman Hogavine
Ken Goodwin
20:26:49
Okay, yeah, we've met.
Jim Carr
20:26:50
Hello. Yes.
Brian Hogavain, Abby's husband.
Ken Goodwin
20:26:56
Okay, welcome.
Jim Carr
20:26:58
But I'm Stacey Rush. I'm a committee member of the troop now
Ken Goodwin
20:27:03
Okay.
Well, cool. Thank you. I was wondering if we were going to do anything for the 100th. Melissa had even asked about it.
I've kind of figured y'all were doing it, but
Well, I'm down in North Carolina, so
Jim Carr
20:27:19
Wow, that sounds nice. Yep. Which meeting? So we're just throwing some ideas out and it's brainstorming. Yeah, that's
Ken Goodwin
20:27:21
Yeah.
Okay, well, I mean, you did
Jim Carr
20:27:28
Oh, yeah.
Ken Goodwin
20:27:30
Where we did the 95th and Community Park, as I recall
That would have been the last one
Jim Carr
20:27:37
And that was not the pig flying one. No, that was not.
Ken Goodwin
20:27:39
Well, that was not the pig flying one. Like I said, that was okay, the 80th
Where's the pig flying?
Jim Carr
20:27:47
There was one out there at the at that new park across from the tracks
Also too
What's that park across on White Oak across the tracks
Oh, Stuart Perks? No, across the tracks on White Oak. White Oak White Oak Park, right?
Ken Goodwin
20:28:12
Across the track.
Jim Carr
20:28:13
The one with the soccer fields and
Ken Goodwin
20:28:19
The one by Fair Meadows Church
Jim Carr
20:28:20
It's quite… it's by Twin Creek. Yeah, we call it the twin. It might have a technical name. The kids play baseball there. We call it twin.
Ken Goodwin
20:28:29
Okay, well, whatever.
Jim Carr
20:28:30
Don't ask me. Kristen was down the street from it.
Okay. Widow Park, and there's twin creek Park. There's like a bridge. It connects the two, two.
Ken Goodwin
20:28:41
Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's when we had the big, oh, the sound system that I forget the guy's name now that he had
Jim Carr
20:28:52
Yeah, right, right. Okay, so this was the 95th, so there was a 95th party.
Ken Goodwin
20:28:58
Yeah, that one, I think, was the one in Community Park.
Jim Carr
20:29:02
I got fooled me through computer folders that have the different ones so I can see what's in them. This is an old hat for you. You just like because I've been around. I'm old.
Ken Goodwin
20:29:14
Well, and I know I've got some of the booklets from before
Jim Carr
20:29:18
- H
Just within like this, or a different kind of program programs again, or okay
Ken Goodwin
20:29:25
Yeah.
Okay, Melissa said she has found her files.
Jim Carr
20:29:28
I don't
Ken Goodwin
20:29:34
I don't know if there's someone that could email us to say who you wanted maybe those to be sent to, because that would give some of the background of what they did for
Jim Carr
20:29:43
Where are you?
Ken Goodwin
20:29:46
Two of the things
Jim Carr
20:29:49
You can send them to me
Ken Goodwin
20:29:51
Well, if you do, let me get with Melissa here and you can give her your email address.
Jim Carr
20:29:58
Okay.
Oh, you will give her yours
Ken Goodwin
20:30:01
No, I'll come in here.
Jim Carr
20:30:07
Oh, no.
Ken Goodwin
20:30:07
Hello?
Jim Carr
20:30:08
Hello. Hi, Melissa.
Ken Goodwin
20:30:12
Hey, how are you guys?
Jim Carr
20:30:13
Good, how are you?
Ken Goodwin
20:30:15
It's been a while, so I found, hang on, let me go back to it. I found my folders for the 85th and the 90th birthday
That includes things like
Well, let me go back to the 85th
The 85th would be the ad that was put in, I don't know where it was put in. This has been too many
Well, maybe it was in the newspaper. The Evite that was sent out, the list of finances, we got sponsors from Meyer, and they got us
and Strax and they got us, helped us pay for a lot of the main food, the name tags stuff, birthday deals, I got all that from 85 and 9
Again, the invitations, the map, I think that one was in White Oak Park
And Signup Genius was used for that one. And we kind of kept a list of the RSVPs. I have email addresses
Again, this was 2017. So I mean, I can basically
Jim Carr
20:31:35
Okay.
Ken Goodwin
20:31:36
Zip both of these folders and send them to somebody, if that would be helpful.
Jim Carr
20:31:40
Sure, go ahead.
Just give her… Okay. Send it to Brian, B-R-I-A-N
Ken Goodwin
20:31:48
Yes
Jim Carr
20:31:49
Hoagovine HOOGE V-E-E-N
At hotmail.com
Ken Goodwin
20:32:03
Okay, B-R-I-A-N-H-O-O-G-E-V-E-E-N at hotmail.com.
Jim Carr
20:32:10
Correct.
Ken Goodwin
20:32:12
Okay, and it's going to come from MELROWGO
Melrogo at gmail.com
Jim Carr
20:32:20
All right.
Ken Goodwin
20:32:21
Okay, I'll give you back to Ken. Take care. Bye.
Jim Carr
20:32:25
Thanks. Thanks
That's pretty cool. Yeah, that's
Ken Goodwin
20:32:31
Oh, yeah.
Jim Carr
20:32:32
boatload of information. Yeah, absolutely.
Ken Goodwin
20:32:37
She's incredibly organized. Thank goodness.
Jim Carr
20:32:39
Yeah. Now we see who did it in the past.
Ken Goodwin
20:32:48
Yeah, so, I mean, having the guys that did, you know, even the even earlier ones than Melissa was involved with could, you know, they could give you some insights. But I think just me personally, something to celebrate the 100
Yeah, it would be nice to have maybe a dinner, and certainly a program
For
Giving some of the history of the troop
Maybe a couple people talking about testimonials about what it meant to them.
That just kind of comes to the top of my head.
Jim Carr
20:33:25
- H
Good
All right
Ken Goodwin
20:33:36
Hey, I was able to make the picture a little bit bigger. I can almost see you now.
But the other things, I mean, where to have it anymore up there? I don't know. You all live there.
Jim Carr
20:33:53
Yeah. We haven't even gone that direction yet.
So
We're to have it
Ken Goodwin
20:34:01
You know, if you've got contacts at
You know, somebody that would have a hall, you know, whether it would be St. Tom's or one of the other churches that might be there that would be willing to give a steep discount.
Or
Jim Carr
20:34:21
How about to though, a question for everybody, really. If we had a dinner
What time of the year would be the best time of the year to have the dinner?
That's a good question. To be able to, and Ken, this kind of shoots to you and maybe you can participation from out of town do you think too? I mean, considering, I mean, you got graduations, you got holidays, you got
You know, vacations, and then you got out-of-town people. So, I'm just wondering what would be the best time of the year to do it.
Ken Goodwin
20:34:59
Wow
I mean, that's somewhat depends. I mean, someone like myself who's retired, we've got a little more
Flexibility, so to speak
Jim Carr
20:35:13
Yeah
Ken Goodwin
20:35:15
Versus, okay, say both of my sons who are down here. I mean, they both work.
So, I'm trying to find time to get up there. That's… that's gonna be a little tough
Jim Carr
20:35:22
Got it. Thanks
People want to be with their families. Yeah, but I don't want to be with my family. Your 533 family. I mean, first thing you come to me would be either like a late summer
Yeah. Or a fall. When is homecoming?
Ken Goodwin
20:35:47
Yeah, I mean, that's kind of where I would go. I would think part of me goes, I think you'd want to avoid during school
Jim Carr
20:35:47
October
It's maybe a late
Ken Goodwin
20:36:00
You might do real well for getting people, obviously, that are in the Munster area or local, but if you're trying to get folks like, okay, my boys
If their kids are in school, it's going to be very hard for them to, you know, leave.
Jim Carr
20:36:16
Right
Ken Goodwin
20:36:17
So, if you get it, say, right after school has ended, I'm not sure about right before school starts because anymore it seems you've got camps that are going nuts, you know, band camp, football camp
Jim Carr
20:36:27
Who does really
Ken Goodwin
20:36:33
You know, whatever
Jim Carr
20:36:34
I mean, if you were to if you're talking before school now, it has to be would have to be like
early August, like the first weekend of Aug, right? Yeah, probably the 15th or something, right? Yeah
Yeah, I could tell you.
Ken Goodwin
20:36:49
Both or when school started the Wednesday after Labor Day
Jim Carr
20:36:52
Yeah, me too, me too. Early August. That's why I say it's so hard to early August is not a bad idea. Then you have
Most people have done their vacations
Most all the other, you know, events that usually happen within scouting itself is kind of
You know, the main stuff is, you know June, July.
Early August would probably be ideal. Yeah, because, I mean, you know, for… for us, we've, you know, sea base and National Jamboree, and that sort of lions dinner. That's always in August
Why don't we just go inside
Coincide with the steak fry. Yeah, you'll have tons of people there.
Oh, I mean, not for the dinner, for like a community
Let me
Ken Goodwin
20:37:47
Okay, Brian, Melissa says the files have been compressed and sent. So
Jim Carr
20:37:52
All right, thank you.
Well, it's something that we don't have to come up with it, but I just think that's something if we're going to have a banquet or a dinner, we're going to have to get on the radar with somebody
early the one in October that they get off
Ken Goodwin
20:38:12
Yeah.
particularly if you're going to try and get a hall, because you know and if you're going to do it early August, you may want that because of weather and heat
Jim Carr
20:38:13
I didn't seen with
August
I mean, we do a June right when the kids are out of school, but that's where I don't know what the plan is for next year, but like they're doing C base. The troop is doing sea bays
And like, that's graduation, and then, you know.
Oh, it's crazy, man.
Ken Goodwin
20:38:52
Well, you're not going to get everybody
Jim Carr
20:38:55
No, no, yeah. So wait, what could it go? They're too close. Is it too close to do one one weekend and one that want to go on vacation. Munster for a week
Yeah. Well, again, I think it's something we need to look at just beginning of August. I mean, I think that
The state part is a separate entity. The calendar for this year, not last year. No, next year, 27th. Last weekend in July 1st of August.
Yeah, that's what I would usually, the girls trip usually does second week of, I mean, first week of July, roughly for summer camp. The boys do the week after. We did end of July, beginning of August. Correct. That would be best. I'm looking at the wrong calendar, so… Oh, there it is. I have received the email
I mean
It'll be following
Ken Goodwin
20:39:49
Okay, great. Brian says he got the email.
Jim Carr
20:39:53
Thank you. All right.
Ken Goodwin
20:40:02
I mean, certainly the other thing is to determine how formal you want it to be. The 95th was relatively informal
Jim Carr
20:40:09
Right.
Ken Goodwin
20:40:13
The 75th was pretty formal. I mean, I know we had a bunch of politicians that came
Jim Carr
20:40:22
Right.
Ken Goodwin
20:40:22
Came
Jim Carr
20:40:24
Well.
Ken Goodwin
20:40:24
So
Jim Carr
20:40:25
I was thinking
More of a sit-down dinner, but and so little not really formal, but it's got to be affordable for a family is what I'm thinking because
Ken Goodwin
20:40:34
Yeah.
Jim Carr
20:40:36
you know, it's one thing to have, you know, two adults come, but it's a whole different thing. I think you almost have to have a family price. And again, I… we were talking, I mean, I would hope, too, we could underwrite some of this with sponsorships and stuff. You know, jumping to the sponsorship, I was thinking
there too, we could sell a sponsorship for the whole year. In other words, they would… that sponsor, whatever they paid, let's say$ 5,000, just
And they would be the… in other words, they would be on the banner, they would be on every event, and then you could have smaller
sponsors for… yeah, yeah, for a brochure, for whatever, and then you could also have sponsors for each event, and so forth, and… and have it
tailored all the way down. Because, again, I think
I hate to throw a number out there, but I can't imagine that we couldn't raise at least, you know, we're could run into some issues with the council and that, but I'm not worried about that either.
Ken Goodwin
20:41:41
Yeah, well, you've got an in with the council.
Jim Carr
20:41:43
Well, not anymore. Not anymore. But
Ken Goodwin
20:41:47
I mean, what is the target audience that you want to have attend? Is it former scouts, former leaders
Current scouts
Jim Carr
20:41:56
Well, we definitely want the current scouts involved. For sure. And then we do want former leaders, former scouts, you know. The other theme for full month this year for the staff association, their theme is homecoming
And I love that as well. It's like so sweet.
Everybody come home. We could and I'm just throwing this out there. You could tie it to scouting, though, like
You know, back to camp or something of that nature, do a scouting yeah yeah come visit.
Pull out a trash can. Yeah
It's been
All right. Yeah. Well, maybe
kind of getting late. Do you want to schedule another meeting and maybe maybe Abby, you and I can get together and put together some sort of minute thing. Oh, yeah. Dan, you want to invite for the next meeting or
Ken Goodwin
20:43:01
I guess I don't mind being there if you want me to be. If I can make it, I'd be happy to try and help. But obviously, all I'm going to be doing is giving you things that likely you can think about because from here, I don't know that I'm going to be able to offer much
Jim Carr
20:43:01
He just wanted me to
Ken Goodwin
20:43:19
Practical assistance other than my opinions.
Jim Carr
20:43:22
Okay, all right, well, why don't we throw you on the next meeting invite. One more, and just in case the new leadership has questions as to
Previous events, I guess.
Ken Goodwin
20:43:37
If you want previous events, I mean, in the planning stage, Melissa would be the person to have answers on that one.
Jim Carr
20:43:42
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm putting Melissa's contact information.
Ken Goodwin
20:43:52
Well, this also suggested Chris Ashcraft, since she helped plan before.
Jim Carr