JUNE 2015 VOLUME 38, NUMBER 3 PAID NM ® Permit 8 T HE M AGAZINE OF T HE P HILMON T S TAFF A ss OCIAT ION ® CIMARRON HIGH COUNTRY U.S. POSTAGE Non-Profit Organization check us out! www.philstaff.com Chope Phillips, son of Waite Mission unites (PSA) Association Staff Philmont The and present— staff—past Philmont the adventure, purpose of serving the the for Scout Ranch heritage and experience of Philmont Boy Scouts of America. and the and Genevieve Phillips, dies Our Mission at 97. See story on page 20. 17 DEER RUN ROAD CIMARRON NM 87714 HIGH COUNTRY®—VOLUME 38, NUMBER 3 JUNE 2015 in this issue ED PEASE, EDITOR from the president MARK DIERKER, LAYOUT EDITOR columns RANDY SAUNDERS, AssOCIATE EDITOR BILL CAss, COPY EDITOR The year moves on and sometimes continuing the great traditions of high DAVE KENNEKE, STAFF CONTRIBUTOR 3 from the prez KEVIN “LEVI” THOMAS, CARTOONIST we (I am guilty, too!) take for granted adventure found at Philmont. 4 from the editor all the preparation and hard work by Here is how you can step up your CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: ROBERT BIRkbY, DAVID CAFFEY, 13 ranch roundup - dowling Ranch Management and Staff to get support for the PSA as we point to the BILL CAss, GREGORY HObbs, WARREN SMITH , MARK STINNETT, MARY STUEVER, STEPHEN ZIMMER 14 ranch roundup - philmont @ noac ready for the 23,000 Scouts and Scout- future: ers who will pass through the gates and ONTRIBUTING RITERS ATHY UBBARD EE UCKSTEP 15 ranch roundup - heirloom orchards C W : C H L H head for the trails this summer. Making STAY ACTIVE - Renew your mem- COLLEEN LESTER JASON MASCITTI DAN MILLER LARRY MURPHY MARK STINNETT 16 ranch roundup - rocs and tct sure the Philmont Training Center, Base bership and encourage others to do the 19 next generation Camp and all the Backcountry camps same. Recruit your friends to join. © 2015, THE PHILMONT STAFF AssOCIATION, INC. ® are cleaned, stocked, staffed and ready GET INVOLVED - Join in on PSA ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. HIGH COUNTRY IS THE OFFICIAL 26 mort’s gorp MAGAZINE OF THE PHILMONT STAFF AssOCIATION® is a huge undertaking. The complex Reunions and Regional Events. Become year-round operation of the Ranch re- part of a PSA committee. articles quires hours of planning, training and SUPPORT PHILMONT - The Santa PHILMONT STAFF ASSOCIATION® execution. Fe Trail Campaign, one of the most BOARD OF DIRECTORS 6 psa news - rayado & rocs As current and former staffers, we important expansions ever at the Ranch JOHN MURPHY, PRESIDENT 9 psa news - at the summit have each played an important role in is under way. Philmont has asked the COLLEEN NUTTER, VICE PRESIDENT, MEMBERSHIP building Philmont to be the best place PSA to join them and help raise funds TIM ROSSEISEN, VICE PRESIDENT, SERVICE 11 psa news - summer reunion WARREN SMITH, VICE PRESIDENT, DEVELOPMENT it can be. Making a difference! Leaving for this project. ADAM FROMM, SECRETARY 20 chope phillips 1918 - 2015 your mark! It is fun to look back and MATT LINDSEY, TREASURER 25 staff amigos reflect on our times there, but it is just The Santa Fe Trail Campaign will NATIONAL DIRECTORS: AMY BOYLE, KEN DAVIS, BRYAN as important to look to the future. I had include expansion for the Philmont DELANEY, CATHERINE HUBBARD, LEE HUCKSTEP, DR. 28 psa merchandise AN ILLER TEVE ICK the pleasure of being at the Ranch in Museum and Seton Memorial Library D M , S R 30 philmont history REGIONAL DIRECTORS: NORTHEAST - KATHLEEN SEITZ, April to see Kevin Dowling announced building, new parking, the PSA Service RICK TOUCHETTE 32 a time below the tooth CENTRAL - MITCH STANDARD, PHIL WINEGARDNER as the new General Manager. Let me Center, and the Waite Phillips Service SOUTHERN - ANNE MARIE PINKENBURG, DOUG WAHL 35 ptc 2016 tell you, Philmont is in great hands. Of Station replica and historic vehicle col- WESTERN - NANCY STICKELMAN, MICHAEL WAGGONER 36 ptc - plc course, it was bittersweet as we had to lection. This project will create an Edu- JIM LYNCH, IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT wish John and Janice Clark well as they cational Center and new arrival point MARK ANDERSON, PHILMONT STAFF ADVISOR move on. We definitely will miss them, for visitors to the Ranch. More impor- EX OFFICIO MEMBERS: EMERY CORLEY, LEGAL ADVISOR, other but know both they and Philmont have tantly, it will highlight the location of DOUGLAS FASCHING, TECHNOLOGY MANAGER great times ahead. one of the most important collections RANDY SAUNDERS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 5 bulletin board Speaking of the future, while I was of books, documents, artifacts and re- DOLLIE O’NIELL, OFFICE MANAGER 25 87714 pride there in April, Mark Anderson showed search of Northern New Mexico culture our Board of Directors the new staked and history. As we move forward with 37 trail talk PSA® FELLOWS location for the Seton Museum and our portion of the campaign in the com- 39 rangering BOB HARVEY FELLOW Library expansion which includes a ing months, be thinking about how you PAUL AND MARY JANE HARVEY Cover art by Alan Polt new location for the PSA. YES! We will can join in with the PSA and continue GLENN A. FOWLER FELLOW be moving our office to become part being a significant part of the future of BRUCE BARNES of the expanded Philmont Educational Philmont. GEORGE A. BULLOCK FELLOW MEMBERS ONLY ACCESS WILLIAM D. BRYCE Center!! Moving here will increase our JOE DAVIS FELLOW USER NAME: FLUMECANYON visibility and put us in a better posi- John Murphy BILL CASS tion to support the Ranch. I could not PSA President JOHN A. MAXBAUER, JR. FELLOW PASSWORD: ponilcamp ANONYMOUS be more excited as we look forward to VOLUME 38, NUMBER 3— JUNE 2015 VOLUME 38, NUMBER 3— JUNE 2015 2 from the prez 3 from the editor same position for several years. But the earliest seasonal staffer to eventually in- vade the ranks of management was Bob Knox, who worked summers at Philmont For the great majority of our members, providing. Our response has been to in the late 1940s. After various stints back at the ranch, he eventually served as High Country magazine is the Philmont increase the number of pages per issue Ranch Superintendent in the 1970s. Staff Association. While the PSA has (from 32 to 40 over the last five years), Philmont is a better place because of the service each provided. dramatically broadened its reach and to add limited special edition online- the scope of its service through the only issues (covering writing and years, most of us maintain our primary photography by the seasonal staff), and contact with the Ranch by way of the to add occasional single-issue special BULLETIN BOARD little magazine that has over time be- editions which allow us to address Upcoming PSA® Events come central to Philmont communica- a particular subject in much greater tion and the PSA brand. depth. PSA Weekend at the Summit – June 19-20, 2015 Summit Bechtel Reserve, Beckley, WV So, those of us who make up the With this issue, you will note design Contact Lee Huckstep at [email protected] or Dan Miller at [email protected] PSA’s Publications Committee are very changes which have been on the discus- careful whenever we consider changes sion table for some time. Their intent PSA Summer Reunion – July 10-12, 2015 in the magazine. We survey our read- is twofold: to give High Country a fresh Philmont Scout Ranch ers (and occasionally our non-readers) look without substantially changing its about the content, the format, the “look distinctive feel, and to “buy” ourselves PSA Summer Trek – July 12-18, 2015 Philmont Scout Ranch and feel” of High Country. We consider another page for content by condensing new content ideas, add new writ- much of the material formerly found PSA Fall Phestival – October 2-4, 2015 ers, shift some columns and/or other in the masthead and on the Table of Des Moines, IA material from the magazine to the PSA Contents page. Contact: Jason Mascitti at [email protected] website, and all very carefully. We think we held on to our tradi- PSA Autumn Adventure Trek – October 11-16, 2015 Our surveys show broad support tion and moved us forward at the same Philmont Scout Ranch for both the content and the layout of time. We hope that you agree. Please Contact: Steven & Cynthia Truemper at [email protected] the magazine – and while the commit- let us know, and please continue send- tee takes satisfaction in the approval, ing us your ideas for the future. Many the very satisfaction causes us to be of you will already have recognized perhaps even more cautious in consid- ideas you sent us through the years ering modifications. About the only incorporated into the pages of our *THE SUMMER OF ’65* message for change that we received favorite little magazine. Thank you for consistently was that our readers your continuing help and support. Request for Articles wanted more of what we were already The August 2015 issue of High Country will focus on Philmont’s “Summer of ‘65.” And while that season is most remembered for the flooding Phil-Trivia Correction at Fish Camp, the impact was felt throughout the Ranch. If you have a story – flood-related or otherwise – about the “Summer of ’65,” we’d like to see it. If In our last issue, we reported that Dave Kenneke, Philmont’s new Facilities Super- you don’t yet have it written, but would like to submit a concept for intendent, is the third person to rise from the ranks of the seasonal staff to one of consideration, we’d welcome that also.