[Philmont] Just A Boy Scout

Sorry, John.
 
Billy Tubbs was coach at the university of oklahoma, not Oklahoma State (The
State University).
 
Dale Grantham
OSU Class of 75.

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From: Philmont@troop47.com [mailto:Philmont@troop47.com] On Behalf Of John
LeBlanc
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 3:12 AM
To: Philmont List Member
Subject: [Philmont] Just A Boy Scout

With reference to stiring up a pretty good quiet weekend banter about the
Mountains of Oklahoma, let me say that all I ever wanted to be in life was a
Boy Scout.
 
One of the things I really enjoyed in Scouts was playing revelle on the
bugle. Revelle invokes people to do things, like get up in the morning even
though still half asleep.
 
So, I played revelle via email and surely did provoke some responses. All
were good hearted and that is good because good hearted is how the challenge
to Oklahoma and it's Indian wastelands was meant. Not harm or deragatory
intended.
 
It's also unique that a response came from a Hanson headed for PTC. My
Scoutmaster was a Hansen, Einar Hansen to be exact. And he went to Philmont
long, long ago for training also. wood Badge. The very first Wood Badge at
Philmont which was the second taught in the USA. And if I ever get to do
the same, I'll take his beads out of my top dresser drawer and wear them as
my own as he suggested I do long, long ago.
 
The first Scout trip I took was in the summer of 1957 with Mr. Hansen to
Oklahoma
 
The purpose of the trip was to attend the Indian Pow Wow in Anadarko. Well,
when we got there the Indians went on strike and refused to Pow Wow. There
were Indians sitting around everywhere doing nothing but just sitting around
doing nothing.
 
Now to be shot out of the saddle, my Scoutmaster, Einar Hansen took
advantage of the moment and we did a lot of interviewing and visiting with
Indians. He was a great student of American Indian lore and all that
surrounds it.
 
Also included in the trip was a ride through the Wichita Mountains and the
nearby buffalo refuge. Of course we had to take pictures of buffalo and not
from a distance as we did not have long lenses back in those days.
 
We used our Scout stalking skills to get close to the buffalo and get some
good photographs without so much as an offhand glance from any of them.
Later on we located a rather doscile looking longhorn steer in the prairie
country of Oklahoma no less. We decided that we needed a close up
photograph of him also. He was not as laid back as the buffalo were and we
all made a sprint to our Scoutmasters Kaiser Manhathan automobile post
haste.
 
Then we traveled over to the Arbuckle Mountains, another Oklahoma pseudo
pset of mountains.
 
So, on my first Scout trip I made it to virtually all the mountains Oklahoma
has to offer.
 
And just to show you that I have charity in my heart, for the Oklahoma State
fans, many years later, we, my alma mater and me, loaned you Billy Tubbs for
a few years of comic enjoyment around the basketball court and if that isn't
enough a year of my old high school classmate and neighborhood chum, Jimmy
Johnson.
 
So there you have it. Oklahoma is dear to my heart and I cherish the fact
that none of you took the bait and ran with a foul hook and got your
feelings hurt when I jabbed at you a little. It was meant to test yoru
awakeness, not stirr your aire.
 
As Calvin Gray tells it, I'm just an old coon ass who don't care what you
call me just so you call me when it's time to eat.
 
And since it's almost breakfast time on Monday morning, it's about time to
eat. Have a nice week.
 
John LeBlanc
 
 

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