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Th ank you for complying We also ask that you keep in mind the importance of with our fi re restrictions in conserving water, especially during this drought period. PHOTO OF THE WEEK: PTC Silverado John McKnight snapped this order to keep Philmont a safe Be aware of how much water you use and think of creative portrait of a cast member of opening night campfi re on Saturday, June 8. place. ways to conserve it. Bronze Caster Captures Philmont’s Past Mary-Kate Smith working on a more realistic piece: a statue glad she did. Staff Writer of Ernest Th ompson Seton, a founder “We went into the Seton Museum,” of the Boy Scouts of America. Seton’s she said. “I didn’t know who Seton was, For Susan Norris, life at Philmont collection of books, art and personal but … when I went into that room, was inspired by history. eff ects are housed in the Philmont the library, it really literally was like an But history was not set in stone. It Museum and Seton Memorial Library. epiphany moment. I thought, ‘I’ve got to was cast in bronze. Norris met John Clark, the General fi nd out more about who this person is.’” Norris, reputable painter and Manager of Philmont, while living in Like Norris, Seton was an artist, a sculpture, has lived in New Mexico for Raton and asked for tour of Philmont. naturalist and a hunter. the past 18 years and moved to Cimarron “I asked him if he would give me a She was inspired greatly by his nearly a year ago. Her gallery displays a tour because I had lived in Raton for all painting “Triumph of the Wolves” which sleek array of animal sculptures, pottery those years and had never really been to once hung at the 1893 World Fair and and paintings. Her art focuses largely Philmont,” Norris said. “I don’t know why created considerable controversy because Local Artist, Susan Norris, draws inspiration for her art from her hunting experiences. Norris has been on Safari twice in Africa on nature and animals with a unique I wanted to do that.” it portrays a human getting eaten by a and has even decorated her studio with an African theme. KEVIN curvilinear and humorous style. Norris said she has no idea why she wolf. BOUCHER/ PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER Recently, however, Norris has been went to Philmont that day, but she is very Continued on Page Four, Bronze @Philmont PhilmontScoutRanch.org Philmont Scout Ranch 2 | PhilNews Friday June 21, 2013 PhilmontScoutRanch.org

News aNd June 14-June 21 Saturday 22 Sunday 23 Monday 24 Tuesday 25 Wednesday 26 Thursday 27 Saturday 29 8 p.m. 8 p.m. 8 p.m. 5:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 9 a.m. Photo team Movie Night: The Playing dodgeball Philmont Coffee PTC Western BBQ Yoga @ PTC Small “Man of Steel” trip Day hike to Abreu; Blues Brothers @ @ Baldy Pavilion House @ Staff Fry to Trinidad, CO; meet @ SSSAC Baldy Pavilion Dining Hall 6 p.m. meet @ SSSAC Editor-in-Chief Pro-Scouting 8 p.m. interest reception Tye-Die and Owen McCulloch @ Villa Philmont Smore’s Night @ 7 p.m. Baldy Pavilion NPS Manager PTC Western Bryan Hayek Dance

PhilNews Editor Amanda Push Weather Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, PhilNews Writers June 21 June 22 June 23 June 24 Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny Partly Cloudy Joe Bruner High: 88 High: 87 High: 87 High: 84 Hope Kirwan Low: 48 Low: 48 Low: 48 Low: 46 Katie Landeck Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Mary-Kate Smith June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 Sunny Sunny Sunny Sunny Photography Manager High: 83 High: 83 High: 83 High: 83 Katy Mooney Low: 50 Low: 50 Low: 50 Low: 50 Photographers Ramblings from Kevin Boucher Corrections Kaitlyn Chaballa In the article “Maintaining “Some people never learn the art of PhilNews is Donovan Cole an Equal Experience,” the compromise. Everything is either the Old Wrangler Cassidy Johnson CHQ Maintenance Manager now accepting was spelled Fred Cribbet. His black or white. They do no recognize, Tim Morgan last name should have been or will not concede, that the equally submissions to be David Spitznagel spelled Cribbett. printed in future Connor Spurr If any other corrections important color gray is a mixture of are seen please notify black and white.” issues. Photo Lab Lead the PhilNews Editor by emailing philmontnps@ Matthew Martin philmontscoutranch.org or --Waite Phillips Either I-Camp or I-Camp it to News and Photo Photo Lab Techs Services. email any articles Zack Sherrard you wish to be Ryan Willson Photo of the Week Contest considered. Please Marketing Manager Submit your Photo to News and Photo Services and have it featured in PhilNews submit all articles Anika Lavios by Friday to be

Marketing Staff During a summer that will be filled with remembering the history of Philmont, we in the following Vincent Haines at PhilNews are excited to be starting a new tradition. Starting in the next issue, each Friday’s issue. PhilNews will feature a staff-generated photo of the week. Any current Philmont staff Lead Videographer member and PTC family may submit a photo. The picture must have been taken at Philmont or on Philmont used property this summer and be BSA-appropriate. Entries Email: Brandon Cardwell can be submitted in person at News & Photo Services, via I-camp, on a CD or flash drive philmontnps@ or by an email to [email protected]. Please include your name, your Videographer department or camp and a caption that includes information about where the picture was philmontscout Lyndsay Dean taken. Photos must be in .jpg format and at least 200 dpi. Philmont will retain the rights ranch.org to use any photos submitted. Contact Photography Manager Katy Mooney or PhilNews editor Amanda Push with questions (575-376-2281 ext. 1246). PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org Single Digits | Friday June 21, 2013 PhilNews | 3 Mark’s Minute: A Special Thank You

Saturday 22 Sunday 23 Monday 24 Tuesday 25 Wednesday 26 Thursday 27 Saturday 29 Mark Anderson Waite Phillips wrote, “Far and away the best 8 p.m. 8 p.m. 8 p.m. 5:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 9 a.m. Director of Program, Unit 2 “Regardless of ability prize that life offers is the Movie Night: The Playing dodgeball Philmont Coffee PTC Western BBQ Yoga @ PTC Small “Man of Steel” trip Day hike to Abreu; no one individual can chance to work hard at Blues Brothers @ @ Baldy Pavilion House @ Staff Fry to Trinidad, CO; meet @ SSSAC During the past accomplish and complete work worth doing.” Baldy Pavilion Dining Hall 6 p.m. meet @ SSSAC 10 days, Philmont anything worthwhile I know that during Pro-Scouting 8 p.m. Scout Ranch has put in without direct or indirect these challenging times interest reception Tye-Die and place many emergency cooperation from others.” we have had to work hard @ Villa Philmont Smore’s Night @ procedures as we reacted During our to ensure that each of us 7 p.m. Baldy Pavilion to the Whites Peak Fire emergency operations are safe and that each PTC Western that began on June 13th the importance of “direct participant is safe and that Dance as a result of a lightning and indirect cooperation” we fulfill the expectations strike. has been essential. I offer of an adventure at our Every one of us as my sincere appreciation special “pile of rocks.” members of the Philmont on behalf of our entire To accomplish this we Staff has played a part Philmont Community to have had to work hard. I in these important each of you for the role know that you share my operations. Every crew that you have played. feelings that our “work is participant and every It has been exciting to worth doing.” Philmont Training Center share these experiences I am honored to join participant has been given together. you in this endeavor. through your efforts the Earlier this summer Again, thank you for Philmont Adventure that I shared a quote from serving as a member of they anticipated. Theodore Roosevelt: the 2013 Philmont Staff. SAMANTHA WAIDLER/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHY MANAGER 2011 Ramblings from Who’s the Next Inspired Artist? Are YOU the next Inspired Artist? As part of our popular exhibit, The Gift of Inspiration, the Philmont Museum is hosting an art competition the Old Wrangler open to all 2013 summer staff. All forms of media and techniques are welcome including: painting, drawing, photography, ironwork, sculpture, mixed media, textiles, woodwork …you name it. While the first deadline has pasted there are still TWO left; July 5th and July 25th. Don’t dally, get that ART Paul Grasse • The major users of hay in! Special Projects Manager, are the horse and burro The day after each deadline, we will place the winning piece on exhibit, where it will remain for the following Unit 201 herds in the summer three weeks. On August 5th we will announce the overall winner and that piece will go back on exhibit from months. August 16th until the show closes in January 2014. • Approxiamately 90,000 Our only requirements are that it fit within a space 16” wide X 36” tall. Of course we also ask that your piece In order to be a complete acres of Philmont is not produce any “unpleasant odors” during the show. staff member, it is important classed as range or If you have any questions please contact the Philmont Museum. for you to be as knowledgeable grazeable woodland. Good Luck! about Philmont as possible. The Most of the remainder following is a list of facts and is classed as timber figures which may be pertinent. If land. Properly managed other questions come up throught pre-commercial and the course of the summer, don’t commercial thins are hesitate to ask the apropriate practiced on our timber person. lands. • The Eagle Nest water is • Contrary to much delivered to the fields environmental rhetoric, near Headquarters properly managed through a 10 mile long livestock grazing is not ditch and pipeline from detrimental to the land the Cimarron River. and is usually beneficial. • The farm crew produces • It is estimated there are all the hay used by 750-1,500 deer, 500-600 Philmont livestock. elk, 40-60 antelope and • About 250-350 tons 100-150 bears on Philmont of hay is produced at as well as numerous other Philmont yearly animal species. Artwork by Dawn Chandler, Philmont Staffer 4 | PhilNews Single Digits | Friday June 21, 2013 PhilmontScoutRanch.org Owen’s Corner Continued from Page One, Bronze

“I can identify with him,” Norris. “At inspire people in the turn of the century to put a painting helping us to fund up like [that]… was pretty gutsy … He the expansion,” was trying to tell a story … It’s like we Werhane said. don’t always win. Those are wild animals. The original We are part of the natural world, and we maquettes are are part of the food chain.” housed in the The painting now hangs in the Seton Library. Philmont Museum and Seton Memorial “A set will Library and is visited by thousands of be given to people Scouts each year. who are the highest “I just kind of researched him, and donors,” Librarian then decided on my own that I wanted to and Museum staff do a sculpture of him,” Norris said. “There Robin Taylor said. were no sculptures of him anywhere. And “That’s the whole so I came up with an idea.” idea.” Norris presented her idea to Boy According to Scout and Philmont officials. The idea Werhane, having evolved from a creating life-sized bronze the maquettes and statue of Ernest Thompson Seton to three commissioning the full-sized figures: Seton, a Boy Scout life sized statues KATY MOONEY/PHOTOGRAPHY MANAGER and Lobo the Wolf. Lobo the Wolf was a has been nothing prolific killer of cattle that Seton was hired but beneficial Owen McCulloch • Freshman orientation/Grad to capture and kill. to the Museum Associate Director of School orientation/official school “Lobo will be off separate,” Norris Expansion Project. Susan Norris molds a sculpture of a giraffe. Norris plans commitment to add the piece to a series depicting animals in humorous Program, Unit 4 said. “He is integral in Seton’s story “It’s already poses. KEVIN BOUCHER/ PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER • Accident/injury/death/ because it did change him. He was a been a wonderful Every seasonal staff member has family emergency different person after that experience, but addition, and it’s already been a great world. I think he made a big change. He signed a Letter of Employment with Top Worst Reasons for leaving it’s not part of the Scouting story. It’s just benefit to advancing the funding of helped change our world. I mean look at an agreed upon start and end date. Philmont Early (these are all real, and part of Seton, and it’s very important to our facility,” Werhane said. “Sometimes Scouting. Look how big it is, and look at Occasionally, a date must be changed – they were all marked “Denied -- Not A his story. Lobo had to be part of that.” there is nothing like having a three- what it does and look at the values that but to do so obviously changes the kind Valid Reason”) When Norris presented her ideas, dimensional piece sitting right in front of it teaches here to this day … I just think of service we are giving our customers 1. I’m getting a ride with she made maquettes, or miniature you to anchor a desire.” he did a lot of things that changed a lot of if we have fewer staff, and we take this another staff member (even though versions of each figure, rather than just Werhane feels owning the maquettes people’s lives.” seriously. Date changes do become their contract ends showing them preliminary sketches. will help the donors stay connected. Norris did a large amount of research. part of your permanent employment before mine) “I just said well, ‘I’m not going to “It’s a daily reminder of their “You are trying to project and record, so be sure you only change your 2. My school said I had to be give them a drawing. I’m going to give connection not just to the Boy Scouts portray the personality of that person, not end date if you have to. back early for registration (but the them a sculpture because there is nothing but also to the founders and Ernest just a picture,” she said. “You are trying to Remember that This Is A Real Job! school doesn’t start for two weeks). like going into a meeting and wowing Thompson Seton,” said Werhane adding. show in the sculpture or painting the spirit • Early Leave Requests must be 3. I need to see my girlfriend/ them with that,’” Norris said. “I always “Actually, they were really an influential of that person. That’s challenging, but I like submitted with the required signatures boyfriend/family/dog before I start believe in going one step further and part of just getting this approved.” challenges.” to CHQ by July 31. Submissions past school. going the extra mile because if you really For Norris, the Seton, Boy Scout Werhane said the Museum staff that date will not be considered, and 4. My mom said she needs time want something that’s what you have to and Lobo pieces are different from other helped her with her research. will be automatically denied. to do my laundry. d o.” commissioned pieces because she has a “We’ve given her images...and clothes • Requests for Early Leave 5. My family has a vacation The three bronze strong connection to [to work with],” he said. “Last summer we prior to August 10 must include a letter planned. sculptures, which have “I always believe them. provided her with not only the model, of resignation. 6. My apartment contract starts been commissioned, in going one step “The thing about but also the clothing for the Scout in her • You must provide on August 15th (but school didn’t start will stand in the front the Seton piece is it’s maquette, so that uniform was all our documentation supporting your until plaza outside the further...if you really something I came (1915 Boy Scout) uniform.” request. September) expanded Philmont want something that’s up with,” Norris said. Norris expects the statue to be • Any request submitted will 7. I have to get my retainer Museum and Seton what you have to do.” “They didn’t come completed in a year and a half. She be processed for the date requested – adjusted. Memorial Library. looking for me. I’ve got encourages Philmont visitors and Scouts even if the request is marked “Denied 8. I’m going to go hiking with According to the passion for it.” to come see the statue in her studio as – Not A Valid Reason”. friends. David Werhane, Philmont Museums Norris sees Seton as an unsung hero she works on it throughout July 2013. Acceptable Reasons for leaving 9. I have to readjust to lower Director, Norris decided to do the piece at and a pioneer. “I want to be active with Philmont,” Philmont Early altitude before school (from Dallas). exactly the right time. “He was a very controversial person Norris said. “Philmont has been really, • Your Letter of Employment 10. I need to sleep. (That is what “They saw the remarkableand a free spirit which probably didn’t really good to me. You have to remember says so classes are for.) opportunity of using these sculptures make him very popular with a lot of I came in, and they didn’t know me from • Five days prior to the first Early Request Forms can be not only here at the museum to promote people,” Norris said. “People who state Adam … I said, ‘I believed in this so day of school (we do check academic picked up at Camping Headquarters – the museum but also in the world of the their mind and stand up for their beliefs much.’ I just went ahead and said I want calendars) Seasonal Personnel desk. capital campaign … as a thing to help aren’t always popular, but they change the to do this.” PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org Philmont Training Center | Friday June 21, 2013 PhilNews | 5 Continued from Page One, Bronze PTC Looks for Ways to Further Science, Technology, Integrate Education Engineering Hope Kirwan help of mentor. and Math Staff Writer One of the PTC’s conferences, “Introduction to STEM,” offers Sarah Burgess The Philmont Training Center participants an opportunity to learn Conservation Coordinator (PTC) hosted two conferences for the more about serving as a NOVA for STEM STEM program the week of June 6, counselor or mentor. However, the 2013. second conference, “Taking STEM This 75th summer at Philmont STEM stands for Science, to the Next Level,” focuses on how to we have a unique opportunity as Technology, Engineering and implement STEM on a district and a staff to promote an important Mathematics and is not just a program council level. Designed for people initiative called STEM. Everywhere belonging to the Boy Scouts of more involved in the program, The STEM crew poses for a group photo. STEM stands for Science, we look at Philmont, it surrounds us. Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and was hosted at PTC America (BSA). Organizations across participants and faculty are looking for during the week of June 6. When you stop to think about how a the country are looking for ways to ways to incorporate STEM throughout tomahawk flies, which way the pulley better incorporate the different fields the Scouting experience. we need more scientists if we want to “Its all about service, its all about of a rock climbing rope supports you of STEM into their programs. “We realized that the STEM keep our standard of living. We can not making a difference. And that’s what or why it takes water longer to boil “STEM is a hot topic nowadays,” NOVA program is more than just the afford to fall behind in this competitive Scouting is about: it’s about service to at elevation—you are thinking in a said Richard Stone, PTC Faculty for NOVA awards; STEM is really the w or l d .” others.” added Meredith. STEM frame of mind. This summer the STEM conferences. “There’s a lot of grand experience,” said Stone. Not only are the disciplines of The two STEM conferences I need your help to think of all the organizations out there that are offering To participants like Dr. John T. STEM found within the Scouting hosted by PTC focused on both ways Philmont Scout Ranch already STEM activities or they’re putting Meredith, many areas of STEM can program, the principles of the Scout learning the materials, but also on promotes this learning experience and some type of a resource out there that be found within the existing Scout Law can be found within STEM ethics. hands on activities, a very similar the new levels we can rise to as a staff are supporting STEM activities.” activities. “If you look at what the Scout Law structure to the NOVA program for team. The BSA’s STEM program began “[The STEM disciplines] are has, those same characteristics apply to Scouts. Please I-Camp me your ideas, last July, along with the creation of already in many respects part of a good scientist, to a good engineer, to “We’ve done a lot of inclass suggestions, questions and each of the the NOVA Awards program. The Scouting education and Scouting a technologist, to a mathematician, to activities, particularly on rockets, we ways YOU think the ranch exhibits NOVA Award is available to Cub culture, its just that we need to a medical professional,” said Meredith, launched those that this morning. But STEM initiatives. The most creative Scouts, Webelos Scouts, Boy Scouts emphasize them, draw a light to them an Emergency Physician. “They are I think one of our really great activities ideas from each department and each and Venturers. It focuses on learning and their importance,” said Meredith. fundamental to our professions in was just the classroom discussion backcountry camp will be published skills in each area of STEM. Scouts “STEM education is becoming much service. All of those professions are itself,” said Meredith. in the PhilNews throughout the can achieve a Super NOVA Award that much more important as we go on service related and service leadership The STEM conferences this week summer. Let’s shape a legacy for the requires an in depth study with the as a nation. We need more engineers, professions.” Continued on page 9, Education next 75 years and beyond! Keeping Family in Program Hope Kirwan program, a five day trek in Philmont’s “Because they get to choose,” said Staff Writer Backcountry for kids over the age of 14. Wolanin. “I think its gets them more However, the PTC also encourages involved and more passionate about For the children of the Philmont kids to consider participating in the what they get to do for the week.” Training Center (PTC) and Philmont Broncos program because the variety of The participants in the Broncos participants and staff, the Broncos activities available and the opportunity program agreed that the variety of program is a way to make the most of for a more family oriented week. activities was one of the highlights of the their week spent in God’s Country. “A lot of the people at PTC have program. The Broncos program at PTC is their kids go on the Backcountry treks, “There are so many different things designed for 14-18 year old boys and but we provide a lot more activities here,” to choose from, the history is great, and girls. The participants are primarily said Melissa Nurre, Group Leader. “It’s a you get to connect with people because the children of the attendees of PTC great option to stay with their families.” everybody’s here for the same reason,” programs. New this year to the Broncos is the said Elizabeth Miller, 15, a Broncos The Broncos allows boys and girls opportunity to learn shotgun shooting, participant. Bronco Participants at PHilmont Training Center think outside the box while engaging in a fun COPE course challenge on Wed June to participate in activities around PTC as well as an all day trek to Harlan, which Participants in the Broncos 12. The Bronco program consists of 14-18 year olds whose parents and the Ranch, including horseback hosts activities like burro racing. program certainly have fun, but they are are in enrolled in training center courses. KEVIN BOUCHER/ riding, fly fishing, geocaching and disc Similar to the Silverados program, also learning a lot. PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER golf. Participants can also elect to take a the Broncos participants get to choose “They can learn something they’ve learn more about Philmont’s history, through the many activities that are tour of Cimarron or go on a half-day or what activities they want to take part never tried before,” said Kenzy Sorenson, the Broncos’ participants can attend a offered on the Ranch. Shotgun shooting all-day trek in Philmont’s Backcountry. in. According to Wally Wolanin, Group Group Leader. “They get to do exciting historical tour of Cimarron, including and horseback riding allow participants Many of the families that come Leader Coordinator at PTC, this allows things that only Philmont can provide.” the Old Mill, the St. James Hotel and to have new experiences, while activities with parents who attend or teach at the kids to be more engaged in the In addition to attending a local art gallery to learn more about such as COPE allow them to build PTC participate in the Mountain Trek activities offered. interpretive Backcountry camps to the area. Kids can also learn new skills valuable teamwork and leadership skills. 6 | PhilNews Backcountry | Friday June 21, 2013 PhilmontScoutRanch.org Finding the Roots of Scouting at Zastrow Mary-Kate Smith it’s kind of a big deal,” said giving guided tours of called the yellow course, a new whole crew Staff Writer Program Counselor Will the museum. A large orienteering course, cobbler cooking, Penisten. component of the museum tours, naked-eye astronomy and As Scouts use a map and compass to Wood Badge, an museum is the patrol the rededication to Scouting ceremony. find their way through orienteering and advanced training course shovels which line the White said the new orienteering geocaching courses at Zastrow, they find for adult Scout leaders, upper interior walls of the course, which they expected to have up not only the program’s path, but also their is now offered through cabin. These shovels, used and running between June 16 and 17, will way back to the roots of Scouting. local councils rather than in Wood Badge, once be a big hit with Scouts. He also explained “Zastrow is different because it at Zastrow. However, the served as service symbols that the Dutch oven cobbler program has focuses on [the basics of] Scouting,” history remains. for each patrol. been improved since last summer. Adam White, Zastrow Camp Director, “I think Zastrow has “Before campers “In the past, there have only been said. “You know, a lot of the other camps a ton of history, so it’s really started showing up, we three types of fruit they can pick from have programs that … have to show cool that we can engage tore the museum to and two types of cake mix,” He said. “This the interpretation of how they relate to the youth in the unique Zastrow staff Garrison Priddle teaches Scouts from Crew pieces, and we rebuilt year we’ve added to that. There is a total Scouting. Zastrow is the physical and the history of Wood Badge,” 609-D-01 how to use a GPS device on Monday Jun. 10 at it,” White said. “We are possibility of 1,225 different … cobblers practical application of their Scouting Penisten said. “I think also Zastrow. Scouts have the opportunity learn how to use a working with Dave over they can make.” GPS through geocaching. CONNOR SPURR/PHILNEWS skills.” our variety of programs just PHOTOGRAPHER at the Seton to figure out While cobbler cooking is a fun Originally the five core values and kind of lends itself to a good what kind of stuff we night activity, some programs, like the principles of Scouting included: cooking, experience for the Scouts.” rooms, now staff bedrooms, to improve can pull out of that basement … There is rededication to Scouting ceremony, are camping, first aid, orienteering and As Philmont celebrates its 75th the museum. tons of Wood Badge stuff and Scouting more solemn in nature. pioneering. At Zastrow, Scouts focus on anniversary this summer, Zastrow “Everything you see at the museum stuff down there that we’d love to get on “The rededication is for last day the initial principles. celebrates two additional anniversaries we’ve found scattered throughout this d i s p l ay.” camps only,” White said. “It’s a great way to The land around Zastrow was once the 100th anniversary of the Russian lodge,” Program Counselor Austin According to White, the Zastrow encompass their entire trek … It is really a owned by a Russian immigrant, but when immigrant Paul Zastrow purchasing Deheck said. “Some of them were in these programs work to reconnect Scouts reaffirmation of their Scouting oath.” Philmont acquired the land the Zastrow his land from Rayado Colonization rooms that they used for these patrol not only to the history of the camp but With each ceremony, each cabin was built as a Wood Badge training Company and the 100th anniversary of meetings. Nobody ever saw them for also to the original five basic points of program, each artifact and each troop center. the founding of Wood Badge in England years until we kind of broke them out and Scouting: camping, cooking, orienteering, the Zastrow staff has worked hard to “From 1949 until about 2000 pretty in 1913. hung them up and stuff.” pioneering and first aid. dig down to the roots of Scouting to much all the national Wood Badge This year the Zastrow staff cleaned This year for the first time, the Their programs include a Gps promote leadership, fellowship and the training was done here at Zastrow, so out old artifacts from Wood Badge locker Zastrow Program Counselors will be geocaching course, an orienteering course five core values of Scouting. Teaching Search and Rescue at Carson Meadows

Mary-Kate Smith hidden through the meadow that Mitchell. Staff Writer they follow until they find a ‘victim or It takes a minimum of four patient’ that has injury that we made,” people and a maximum of eight to The porch posts framed a said Matthew McElroy, a Program carry the litter. A dummy is sent over stunning view of the Tooth of Time, Counselor from Tuscaloosa, Ala. the crevasse rather than an advisor to while the staff members of Carson Keegan said it takes a while to ensure safety. Meadows worked to teach about create realistic looking fake injuries. At night, troops participate in safety, search and rescue. Instead, they use a piece of plastic to litter races in which they will put Camp Director David Keegan mark the injured area. someone in a litter and carry them said Carson Meadow hosts an “We can do broken legs, up and over obstacles. average of six crews per day over the lacerations, bruises,” he said. “We are going to have a time course of the summer. Each crew After finding their “injured” board, and it’s going to have the order will go through a search and rescue advisor, the Scouts treat the “patient.” of who’s the fastest of the crews,” lesson at the camp. For the program, “They use their first aid skills McElroy said. crews are required to search for and to bandage them up, and then carry As a staff project, the Carson rescue an advisor who has been them in the litter,” said McElroy. Meadows employees are working to given a fake injury. “Then we go to a ropes course, and build a flag pole out of a tree they cut Scouts from Crew 609D1 carry a stretcher on Tuesday, June 11 at Carson Meadows. Carson Meadows’ program is search and rescue. “We do a five minute briefing they remove the advisor … We put in down and debarked. Staff members CONNOR SPURR/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER and then send them out,” Keegan a dummy and go over a crevasse with work hard on this project and show said. the dummy on the litter.” excitement for other lessons they will perspective on a lot of things,” he it .” The skills these crews learn They use a system of ropes to have a chance to teach this summer. said. Beyond their beautiful porch during search and rescue at Carson send the dummy over the crevasse Mitchell hope to make an McElroy looks forward to view, the staff at Carson Meadow Meadows not only provide a fun on the litter. For many Scout troops, impact. teaching Scouts. recognizes the need for search and program but also give them skills placing an advisor in the litter is the “If you can touch base with the “I have a search and rescue rescue. Through their programs they needed to save lives. most challenging part of the course, kids, you really make an impact on background,” McElroy said. “I feel hope to teach Scouts skills needed to “We are going to have clues said Program Counselor Taylor them and that changes their whole that more people should now about save lives. PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org Backcountry | Friday June 21, 2013 PhilNews | 7 Abreu Family Portrait Mary-Kate Smith McLane said. “I love the farm chores, integral part in build up the Santa Fe trail Staff Writer and I love the pump organ too.” in this area,” Tritt said. “Without them, it At night the Abreus host a Mexican probably wouldn’t have developed the The Abreu family played an dinner for Scouts. way it was.” instrumental role in the development “We are the only camp that has a Lucy Baker, a Program Counselor of the Santa Fe trail in the late 1800s Mexican type theme with the dinner and who portrays Sofia Abreu, explained and early 1900s. Many of the family the adobe,” Hoss said. “We represent a that her character fits this type of role. members are buried in and around family that still comes around and visits. “I don’t normally live here,” Baker Philmont and Kit Carson property You can still find the Abreu’s in Springer said. “I’m a teacher, and I just came back in the Rocky Mountains. However, and Raton and all around the area.” to help building the house. I am not today their legacy still lives on through It is clear that the staff at Abreu married. I’m a sister.” the Philmont staff who portray their feel strong connections with their Baker said they show Scouts how characters. characters. they live and what they do on a daily The Abreu staff camp works hard “I’m the wife of Raymond, and this basis. to research and portray the Abreu is Raymond and Gertrude’s home,” Hoss “We teach them how to milk family. Abreu is meant to embody the said. “Basically I’m the matriarch of this goats and take care of the burrows and lifestyle of the ranching homestead the area. Everyone else is here helping us get chickens,” Baker said. Abreu’s lived on a hundred years ago. our home ready to become a working Tritt said the two female goats Camp Director Julia Hoss portrays R an c h .” are named Pippa and Fiona. They get the family matriarch Gertrude Abreu. Hoss plays the role of hostess and milked twice a day at 8 a.m. and between She explained that Scouts come to visit explains the history of the home and 5 and 6 p.m. their home to experience the lifestyle of family. “We’ve been pasteurizing the goat the Abreu family. The original house burned down milk and drinking it or making it into “We give tours of our home,” Hoss in the 1930s and the Cantina now pudding,” McLane said. said. “We do adobe brick making. We stands where the home once was. It Goat milking is just one piece of have our Cantina, which is the most was originally a wooden home but was what made the Abreu home and camp popular. We have a garden and then rebuilt in adobe. such a special and historical place. we have our farm animals, and that According to McLane, the staff sat “It’s a really beautiful camp,” Tritt includes milking goats.” down after doing research and divided said. “When no one is talking and the During the day, the Abreus sell up the characters. wind isn’t blowing, you can hear the root beer at the Cantina, take care of Nathan Tritt, the Cantina Manager birds chirp and the river flow. It’s a very the chickens and the burro and give who portrays James Santiago Abreu, pristine area right here.” tours of their home. Merideth McLane, said all of their characters are real people At Abreu, life is about both a Program Counselor portraying Nelly from that era. A lot of the in-laws who interpretation and family. Pearson Abreu, plays the old pump lived in the surrounding area would “We are portraying a family, but organ in the cabin. come stay with the Abreu’s during the we all already are like a family as a staff,” Members of Crew 609-D-01 socialize on Monday, June 10 at Abreu’s “I’ve always wanted to live on summer and help work the ranch. Hoss said. “It is just taking that family cantina. Participants have the options to play games and buy a farm, and this is kind of like that,” “All of these families played an and showing the Scouts our family life.” refreshments there. CONNOR SPURR/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER

Scouts from Crew 609D1 carry a stretcher on Tuesday, June 11 at Carson Meadows. Carson Meadows’ program is search and rescue. CONNOR SPURR/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER 8 | PhilNews Base Camp | Friday June 21, 2013 PhilmontScoutRanch.org The Hot Shot on the Range The Supplier of Katie Landeck “I was hooked,” said Swalls. feels strongly that guns are not Staff Writer As the resident gun expert, inherently dangerous. it’s Swalls jobs to keep the guns “Guns are not violent,” said the Backcountry Every day for hours in good repair, help with training Swalls. “It’s a tool, just like a Katie Landeck with rusty red boxes line every upon hours, Ryan Swalls, the and safety procedures, and look hammer is.” Staff Writer inch of available wall space, before Backcountry Warehouse Specialist for ways to potentially improve He continued, “I see guns spreading into the middle of the Shooting Sports, fixes guns. the programs. as mechanical artwork. The When staffers in theroom. There are foam noodles, Swalls’s position is new at “It’s a great program already,” engineering behind them and Backcountry find themselves in tripods, clothes, cleaning supplies the Ranch this year. Prior to the said Swalls. “But shooting sports how they work is amazing.” sudden need of a pastry knife, they and anything else the camps might creation of it, permanent staff, who are such an important part of Swalls has taken a somewhat know there is one place they can need. worked other jobs at Philmont the program that they needed unusual path to gunsmithing. always turn to: the Backcountry In the center of the Warehouse but knew about guns, handled the someone who was really dedicated In high school, he shot small Warehouse. is a 10 foot tower of stacked brown maintenance. bore competitively. He “Sometimes boxes. Each box While the system then went to Norwich interesting has the label of was perfectly functional, “I see guns as mechanical University, the nation’s things come up,” “Our goal is that a different camp Associate Director of artwork. The engineering oldest private military said Julie Vigil, they don’t need on it. Program David O’Neill school, for college hoping the Assistant “The camps thought it could be behind them and how they to be an officer one day. Backcountry much. But things can count on improved upon and came He continued to Warehouse happen.” typically two up with the idea to hire work is amazing” pursue his interest in Manager. “We’ve visits a week,” a gunsmithing student guns taking a job as a been asked for a said Blue Price, from Trinidad State rifle range instructor at melon baller, yoga mats and a pastry the Warehouse Manager. Junior College. That student was to them.” his local Boy Scout camp during knife.” Near the loading dock, a wire Swalls. Swalls focus is on the safety the summer of his freshman year. The job of the Backcountry shelf holds the items that are heading “David O’Neill met one of of the guns. Instead of having staff However, his plans got derailed Warehouse is to supply staff in out to the camps that day. It’s a my teachers at the SHOT Show work on the guns in the field, he when he learned he was medically Backcountry with everything they new addition to the warehouse to in Las Vegas and talked about the wants to do the repairs himself. disqualified from joining the need to get through the summer. streamline the process. possibility of getting a student “I fix guns. That’s what I do,” military. The list of supplies ranges from The biggest item that goes out down here to help out. My teacher he said. “When I send it out, I am After graduating Norwich, items essential to program, like to the Backcountry is paperwork; then asked me if I was interested,” certifying that it is safe to shoot.” Swalls spent the next decade gunpowder, to items essential for however, the Warehouse will supply said Swalls. “He asked me if I was Every gun has its own unique hopping from job to job. comfort, like shower curtains. the Backcountry staff with anything an Eagle Scout. ‘Yes, of course.’ problem that Swalls fixes. He also He taught English in The bulk of the supplies go out reasonable they ask for. ‘Are you interested?’ ‘Yes, of routinely cleans the guns. Korea, then worked as a private with the staff during scatter, making Occasionally, the Warehouse course.’” “I’ll take one gun a week contractor in the Middle East. the first few weeks of the season does not have the item the As a Boy Scout, Swalls (from the camps) and go through After a few years there, he a hectic time in the office as the Backcountry staff is looking for, never had the chance to come and clean it top to bottom,” he returned to the States where Warehouse staff organizes and packs which can lead to some interesting to Philmont. In fact, when he said. he worked a string of odd jobs up equipment. adventures. talked to his teacher about the job Every week, Swalls tries including office management, in “We were really busy getting “Sometimes it’s hard to get opportunity, he didn’t even know to visit each of the gun camps the oil field, as a security guard everything ready to go out. I had supplies,” said Vigil, who has worked where it was on the map. -- which are Harlan, Sawmill, and in construction. Then, he a lot of caffeine,” said Backcountry in the Warehouse for the past five After a quick Google search, Miranda, Clear Creek, Black returned to Korea where he taught Warehouse staff Josh Faber, who is years. “When the Iraq war started it he discovered Philmont was only Mountain, Ponil -- at least once to English for another five years. working on the Ranch for the first became hard to find the things we 60 miles away. check on the guns and make sure It was in Korea that Swalls time this summer. “But it was a lot needed to support the gun program. Five days after learning about the program is safe. realized he needed a change. of fun.” “And one year, we needed the position, he was taking a tour Swalls, who helped with “Last year, it hit me that I Because the first shipment out shower curtains, and Walmart of camp. training the staff in safety, was trying to find a career,” Swalls to the camps is didn’t have any said. “And being a rifle range the biggest one, “Sometimes because we had instructor was the most fun I it’s crucial that the bought them ever had. So between that and my Warehouse gets it interesting things up already,” she propensity to fix things, it hit me right. said. out of nowhere that I should be a “Our goal come up. We’ve been However, gunsmith.” is that they don’t asked for a melon with skill and One year later, he was need much,” said just a bit of luck, enrolled in the gunsmithing Vigil. “But things baller, yoga mats and the staff was program at Trinidad State Junior happen.” able to solve the College. And when a pastry knife.” problem every “I love it,” said Swalls. “Every those things time. gun that comes in has a different happen, the Backcountry Warehouse So the next time that elusive issue.” is prepared. watermelon baller appears in your He added that he feels “so Located next to the Mail Room, Backcountry shipment, be sure to lucky” to have the opportunity to the Warehouse is a labyrinth of thank that Warehouse staff for all of work at Philmont this summer. supplies. Shelves filled to their limit their hard work. PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org Base Camp | Friday June 21, 2013 PhilNews | 9 Brand New Service at the TOTT

Katie Landeck Once he finished branding the people for any item that Staff Writer equipment of the more outgoing is damaged during the Scouts, he looked to find the branding process. With a sizzle, Tooth of Time ones that were holding back. Ivey is practicing Traders Branding Specialist “Give me that hat,” Ivey told daily, however, and Andrew Ivey pushes the the a Scout, offering him a big smile. did successfully Philmont brand into a piece of The Scout, taken aback, brand his own wood, causing a short burst of handed over the hat to a very Nalgene twice flame. A few staff members at excited Ivey. on his first day the Snack Bar Patio watch as he “I’m going to put the working. practices. Philmont brand and the a crazy There are a “It’s a brand new job,” said S on this,” he said while cooling few things Ivey Ivey. “Get it? Brand.” off the crazy S brand on one of will not brand, Ivey’s goal is to make the the numerous pieces of wood like human interpretive position “iconic,” a spread out on his table. The heat skin. Other place that serves as a welcome of the brand hit the wood and items that make to the Ranch and an even better caused a small tongue of flame the “no” list are send off. to appear. staff ID tags and When one of the first crews When it was ready, he Scout’s hiking came to the branding station, carefully branded the inside boots before their Ivey made no attempt to control of the Scout’s hat, creating a trek. Any branded his enthusiasm. Slipping into a permanent crazy S. boots should be Texas accent, he urged the crew Hats are Ivey’s favorite thing waterproofed before they to give him their belts and hats. to brand. They are easy and hit the trail. “Does it cost anything?” one “everybody loves them,” he said. Currently, Ivey has the Scout asked. The list of items Ivey is Philmont brand and the crazy S “Shoot no. It doesn’t cost a willing to brand are as follows: brand, which is registered to the thing,” he replied as he branded hats, belts, Eagle cups, wood, Boy Scouts of America. Using pencil.” reduces the weight of people’s a leather strap and handed it to shoes, cell phone cases and the edges of these brands, Ivey Branding was added to the packs, as they no longer have a different Scout. Nalgenes. can brand initials and other TOTT this year to give campers to carry their belt with them to One by one he branded the But be warned, Ivey is new designs. and staffers who do not visit Beaubien, Clarks Fork or Ponil. belts of eager Scouts, all the at this, and some items, such as “I’m pretty good at one of the branding camps, the Branding will be available while chatting about history and Nalgenes, can be easily damaged. doodling,” Ivey said. “And the chance to get their gear branded on the Snack Bar Patio from 10 the trek the crew has planned. The TOTT will not reimburse idea is that you hold it like a and see the process. It also a.m. to 6:30 p.m. daily. Continued From Page 5, Education have prompted a lot of productive experience. Th is week’s focus on STEM discussion and ideas for the future of at PTC also featured a STEM trek, the STEM program in Scouting. which was attended by six Philmont “We’re bringing people from Rangers. across disciplines together, and across “[Th e STEM trek] is really about the country,” said Jay Malmstrom, a fi nding those teachable moments. Mathematician serving as faculty for Obviously enjoying Philmont is a the “Taking Stem to the Next Level” wonderful thing, but instead of just conference. hiking, getting sweaty and throwing “You get a great cross pollination tomahawks, you can hike, get sweaty, of ideas together. Th ese conferences are throw a tomahawk and then discuss a great opportunity for that.” why does it fl y the way it does.” Besides providing great facilities With discussions and activities for an annual conference, Philmont at the PTC’s conferences, participants off ers many great opportunities to learn have a positive outlook for the future about and experience STEM related of the STEM program within Scouting. topics. Astronomy, paleontology, “I want to support what Boys geology, and ecology are just some of Scouts of America is doing with the the fi elds that are incorporated into STEM initiative and I want to make the program off ered at Backcountry this a success within Scouting and camps. within the community,” said Meredith. Now the Ranch is beginning ‘[I’m] glad I came. I’ve learned a lot, I’m Branding Specialist Andrew Ivey (left) brands a guitar owned by Advisor Jeff Offi cer from Crew 610R1 on Monday, June 10 on the Snack Bar patio. Ivey is Philmont’s fi rst ever Branding Specialist to explore how to better highlight gonna take a lot back to the council, and for the Tooth of Time Traders. TIM MORGAN/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER these STEM aspects in the Philmont we’re going to make things happen.” 10 | PhilNews Base Camp | Friday June 21, 2013 PhilmontScoutRanch.org Welcome to Philmont Operation Behind the Katie Landeck Philmont Experience Staff Writer Joe Bruner water board to learn the most up-to- Whenever the Welcome Staff Writer date information on Backcountry Center’s staff hears a car pulling water sources. Once check-in is into Philmont Scout Ranch’s gravel complete, the next day the crew is driveway, they get a little excited. Every summer, Logistics must often times transported to a drop-off “We go out to the car to meet keep track of all 1,100 staff members in the Backcountry, which Logistics them,” said Welcome Center Staff as well as 22,000 Backcountry also runs. Melissa Orzechowski. “We start participants that come through All transportation to and around welcoming them the minute they Philmont. To do this they manage all Philmont is managed by Logistics. hit Philmont soil.” the trek planning, transportation and They schedule trips to turnarounds Once the crew has had a radio communication. and Rayado, and make sure chance to get out of the car and Of the three responsibilities, participants have rides to Philmont, stretch, the Welcome Center staff trek planning is the most visible, if they are unable to travel with their helps to get the crew oriented, Welcome Center staff greet the first crew of the summer as they according to Logistics Manager Tom crew, or if they missed transportation. asking them about their trip and arrive at Philmont on Fri., June 7. Crew 608G drove across the Giugni. Staff members meet with In the 2012 summer season, country by van from Indian Waters Council, of South Carolina. TIM where they are from. MORGAN/ PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER crew advisors and crew leaders to go Philmont’s Logistics department “The best part is that we meet over important information for the made a total of 361 trips, which a lot of different people,” said process could take up to half an processing time, the Welcome trail. totaled 31,000 miles. This was just Welcome Center Staff Steve Camp. hour. Center has also put a lot of Each crew is given a map that from picking up individuals from “When a good Texan crew comes The Welcome Center has emphasis on their appearance. identifies food stops, dry camps and nearby airports and the Raton Train in, that’s always special.” Camp is completely revamped their Day Up until a few weeks ago, the other important stops on the trail. Station. Along with transportation, from Arlington, Texas. One procedures, creating more inside of the Welcome Center After marking up the map, the crew vehicles must communicate via radio, Up until this year the Silver stations for crews to check into looked like a shed. The wood was leader and advisor go to the Logistics’ Continued on Page 15, Operation Sage Staff Activity Center was in and connecting the crew to their unfinished and the walls were charge of the Welcome Center. Ranger faster. bare. But at the urging of last year’s “It’s a really smooth system,” So the staff took it upon SSSAC Assistant Manager Floyd said Welcome Center staff Clay themselves to redecorate. They Broussard, the Welcome Center Campbell. “As soon as crews stained the wood and painted became its own department this arrive, they’re moving.” the upper half of the walls a sage year. The paperwork the crews green. They ordered professional “The split gave us our own need to fill out has been cut in photo prints to decorate the dedicated staff,” said Welcome half to help further expedite the walls with and got a good coffee Center Manager Tom McKinney. process. And when the staff has machine. “I couldn’t ask for a better crew of the opportunity to plan something “We have the best coffee in folks.” ahead of time, whether it’s Base Camp,” Orzechowski said. Now their own department, stamping the 75th Anniversary Ever welcoming, the staff at the Welcome Center is working to Passports or assigning tents, they the Welcome Center encourages make the experience better than do it. other staff members to drop by to ever for the Scouts, starting with “We are preassigning the tents pick up a copy of your Philmont getting crews to their tents faster. as many days ahead of time as we passport or just to chat. “It’s taking usually less than can,” said McKinney. “All we have “If we are awake and the Mike Doty, Logistics II, logs all radio chatter on Thursday June 6 in the radio room at the Logistics office. Logistics tracks all radio 10 minutes to get a crew through,” to do is show them where they are.” door is unlocked, it’s coffee time,” communications to keep a paper trail for future use. KEVIN said McKinney. Last year, the In addition to speeding up McKinney said. BOUCHER/ PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER

$15 Haircuts Every Wednesday

Every Wednesday at Philmont, Ruben’s Barbershop is offering $15 haircuts for men and women. Ruben will set up his barber shop at Philmont’s Silver Sage Staff Activity Center. He will be set up and ready by 7:30 a.m., and will stay into the afternoon until the last person comes. No reservations are required, and cash payment is preferred. PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org Ranch | Friday June 21, 2013 PhilNews | 11 Logging Philmont’s Timber Harvest The Bear Joe Bruner the market used to be better.” uses is to log in small sections during season of it being harvested,” Seeger Staff Writer Philmont used to log the forest different seasons. In this effort, the said. indiscriminately, cutting down all the Ranch works with the Conservation Once the perimeter has been Necessities Philmont’s logging operation trees that were good for sales. In the Department to map the perimeter of determined, the acreage of land that Hey all! is relatively small scale, pulling in Backcountry, this is visible as clusters the logging area, so that Philmont can was logged can be calculated and hundreds of thousands of board feet of trees growing at exactly the same keep track of the impact on the land. recorded. Philmont has a record of We hate to be a bear, but every year, and has been around since height. The problem is it aesthetic This past spring, the loggers went all the acreage covered since logging we want to make sure your the mid-1990s. disruption: it is a visible sign of human through on either side of Crater Lake. resumed in 1994. summer is as bearable as Logging was once an annual interference. According to Ricklefs, 3-4 loads came From the beginning, the possible. We know that you practice for Philmont, but ended in the To prevent that problem, off the hill a week throughout the ranch and conservation department are smarter than the average 1970s and 80s. Philmont does two things. season. have harvested and mapped 5,374 bear, but bear in mind that In that time the forest “grew First it makes sure every sale is a Now that the spring is over, all acres across Philmont. mistakes can happen. And out of hand,” according to Ranch selective cut. For this, Philmont has logging has been suspended for the The amount logged the past that a fed bear is a dead Superintendent Bob Ricklefs, so hired a forester as a consultant. Before summer. GIS Coordinator Zach Seeger 19 years may seem like a lot, but in bear. Please don’t leave out Philmont has started the practice again. logging takes place, he marks the trees can go out with teams to start mapping reality Philmont has been conscious your picnic baskets, or any Logging resumed in 1994 when that will be cut, because not every tree the perimeter of the logging season, so of how much is grown every year, and smellables for that matter. The Philmont talked to the Governing fits the standards. Some are too old and that they know roughly what areas have to not approach the limit. bears should only be eating Board of Conservation Issues to try are dying. As a result the wood will not been logged near Crater Lake. “Philmont grows 500 million bear-ies and other natural and restart a logging operation. The hold up for commercial needs. Finding the logging perimeter board feet each year,” said Ricklefs. stuff. You may think they are tricky thing about logging and selling The standards to correct forest involves manpower and technology. “But we only take out a couple bearly there, but the amount it commercially, according to Ricklefs, practices are determined by the “One person will stand on a stump hundred thousand each year. We of bears at Philmont can be is there are no major sawmills in New Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), of a freshly logged tree, while the others make sure to stay well under what is overbearing. If you see a bear Mexico. which Philmont is part of. To be a go out to find the next one,” said Seeger. growing.” please remember to turn in a In addition, to be sold member, an organization must follow This pattern continues, marking This concern is in line with bear report. Remember only commercially, the timber must be 9 the standards it creates, which extend the land as they go, until the perimeter Philmont’s conservation stance in you (and all of us) can prevent inches in diameter or bigger. from proper water usage policies to of the area has been determined. trying to develop for the future, as bear violations. “We used to log smaller materials how to avoid illegal logging. “The process is easier the quicker well as maintain the Philmont land for for other projects,” Ricklefs said, “when The second method Philmont it is done. We prefer to do it within a future generations to come. The Bear Researchers

Mike Doty, Logistics II, logs all radio chatter on Thursday June 6 in the radio room at the Logistics office. Logistics tracks all radio communications to keep a paper trail for future use. KEVIN BOUCHER/ PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER 12 | PhilNews Meet the Chaplains | Friday June 21, 2013 PhilmontScoutRanch.org Chaplain’s Corner: Continued Training: Meet the Chaplains First Round Sign-Up

Father Dennis Continued Training sessions are educational courses taught primarily by Ranger Leadership to improve the experiences our crews receive. They are held in the Walcutt Room of the SSSAC 6-7 p.m. every night of the summer. All staff members are welcome Catholic Chaplain and encouraged to attend. Courses such as Geology, Flora and Fauna, Astronomy, GPS use and Navigation and Stove Maintenance are all taught. Each session is conducted twice to catch as many staff members as possible. If you are interested in teaching Continued Training session, contact Eric Martinez, Associate Chief Ranger, ext. 1222. Remember to stop in to visit with Eric at least 7 days before your first night of presenting to discuss your plans.

Dates Topic RTs 6-19 & 6-21 Astronomy 1. Baden Piland 2. James Cox 6-22 & 6-24 Geology 1. Caleb Burns 2. Justin Fletcher 6-23 & 6-25 Leave No Trace 1. Matt Leberknight 2. Angela Memory 6-26 & 6-28 Advisor Development 1. Michael Wimsatt 2. Chris Zapple 6-27 & 6-29 Crew Leader Development 1. Andrew Boyd 2. Jac Cottrell 6-30 & 7-02 Wilderness Pledge/Guia 1. Katie Heiss 2. Sarah Johnson Father Dennis O’Rourke. MATTHEW PROKOSCH/PHILNEWS 7-01 & 7-05 Philmont History 1. Matthew Hauser PHOTOGRAPHER 2012 I’m Fr. Dennis, and I’m happy to Since I started there in January of 2006, 2. Lauren Berger return to Philmont for my 23rd time! I we have started a Boy Scout Troop 7-06 & 7-08 Group Dynamics/Conflict 1 . Anne Coglianese started in 1986 at the Training Center (already eight Eagle Scouts), a Venture Resolution 2. Nick Deacon and worked as conference faculty for Crew and a Cub Scout Pack. It is truly a seven summers. The first time I was a Scouting parish. There is another priest Base Camp Chaplain was in 1995. I’ve there full-time. I also have been able Uniting Past and Present Philmont Staff missed two summers since then. to find a priest from India to come to This is a wonderful place, as you all replace me during my Philmont stint. “From the beginning, [the PSA’s] members helped to the Conservation know. My time this summer is only a little Hope Kirwan concept was not to just be for former department with several programs in I have been a priest for 33 years over 3 weeks, but I’m happy to be back. Staff Writer and am currently a pastor at St. Gabriel’s My experiences at Philmont have staff only but for the current staff the Backcountry, including work on Church in Cave Creek, Ariz. - about allowed me to be with some amazing as well,” said Randy Saunders, the contaminated streams in the affected a 10-hour drive from here. I’ve been people over the years. Many have The Philmont Staff Association Executive Director of the PSA. area. The largest project so far was in coming up every summer since 1999 become good friends. It is a wonderful (PSA) continues to serve Philmont Any current or former Philmont 2008 when they raised $1,000,000 to to open the Catholic Chapel, about a opportunity to work with great Scout Ranch as it celebrates its 40th staff or Philmont Training Center build the Silver Sage Staff Activities week before most of the staff arrives. chaplains from other faith groups. Other year. faculty member is eligible for Center. It is a great trip. I usually spend about than our evening religious services, only Ned Gold, a previous Ranger and membership in the PSA. Membership The PSA’s most recent addition 6 hours at the Ranch, then head back occasionally are there denominationally Backcountry staff member originally fees are primarily for the production to the Ranch was a contribution to to Arizona. For the past few years, my specific issues we need to handle. from Santa Fe, N.M., had the idea to of High Country, the PSA’s newsletter build the Hardesty Casa Central, a new 90-year-old uncle has joined me for the I am consistently impressed start the PSA while on staff in 1959. that is published every other month. advisor meeting room that is new for road trip. He loves it as well. with the quality of the seasonal staff. “Well, it took me 7 more years Through new efforts by the this summer. You may have noticed the initials At no time is it uneasy to hold good before I could write the proposal,” said PSA to be more sustainable and cut The Hardesty Casa Central “V.F.” after my name. My bishop in conversations with any staff member Gold. “But it was evolving all along.” membership costs, members now have was just one tier of the PSA’s Capital Phoenix has appointed me a Vicar and I am made to feel welcome any place On September 17, 1973, Gold and the option to receive a digital copy of Campaign for Philmont. In addition Forane. That means that I am his official I go while at Philmont. You people are several other former staff members High Country instead subscribing by to the new center, the campaign representative in a geographical area of amazing! You have so much to give and signed the PSA’s constitution at the mail. will go towards staff and participant the diocese call a Deanery or Vicariate. in giving you are blessed by God, and so Villa Philmonte. The PSA has completed many scholarships, wheelchair accessible Mostly it means more work! bless others. I am also impressed with Gold and the other former service projects for Philmont since its restrooms in the Philmont Training St. Gabriel’s is a good size Catholic those who come to hike this wonderful staff members created the PSA as a start in September of 1973. In 1999, the Center Dining Hall, and refurbishing Parish with about 1600 households. place. The vast majority are prime They range from senior citizens, to examples of the goodness of youth, of way for previous Philmont staff to organization raised $300,000 to build Backcountry cabins in the Living young families with children… and our country and of the BSA. stay involved at Philmont, especially the Staff Dining Hall that is still used History program with period everything in between. We always have I’m happy to be back, even for such through connecting with current staff today. appropriate furniture. something going on for all age groups. a short time. members. After the Ponil Fire in 2002, PSA Continued on Page 14, Uniting PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org Administration| Friday June 21, 2013 PhilNews | 13 Stocking and Shipping Supplies: Keeping Issue Two Philmont Filled Sudoku

Joe Bruner prepare crates fi lled with supplies Answers Staff Writer the staff will need to live out in the Backcountry. Easy Every summer, the “Each staff goes through the Merchandise Warehouse works de-hantaing process before they hard to keep the rest of Philmont live in the cabins at the camp,” said running, whether it is to deliver Merchandise Warehouse Clerk Josh offi ces supplies to Base Camp or Ford. “And so we supply them with living necessities to Backcountry. the necessary things like masks and Th e Warehouse is occupied gloves.” with requests every day, but is Th e Warehouse supplies particularly busy just before the cooking equipment and other living start of the summer season. goods such as toilet paper. Besides Joshua Ford, Merch Warehouse Clerk, and Eugene Gonzales, Merch Th e Warehouse is also busy the Backcountry, however, they Warehouse Clerk, move supplies around the Merchandise Warehouse. at the beginning because many have to supply materials to Base Merchandise Warehouse provides almost all non-food supplies to Philmont. departments are placing large Camp as well, such as offi ce supplies DONOVAN COLE/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER orders for the season, and they or tools. Compared to the old printer individual staff members can place must work to meet those requests Before shipments and packing however, that is a relatively small orders too, according to Ford. For Medium too. Th is keeps the Warehouse are processed in the early summer amount. example, if someone runs out of busy gathering supplies to get all season, the Warehouse must make “Th e old printer had printed laundry detergent, they can stop at departments ready for the summer. lots of copies for all Philmont over 8 million forms,” said the warehouse, place an order for it “I like to make a big order to arrivals, regardless of whether they Cardemas. and pay at the front desk. stock up the Warehouse usually are staff or participants. When not printing forms for Th e Warehouse also gets all once a year,” Senior Merchandise Philmont recently staff and participants or preparing packages delivered to it. Every day Warehouse Clerk Leonard Montoya replaced the printer at the for the Backcountry Scatter, the they make a run to the Mail Room said. beginning of the 2012 summer Warehouse is kept busy with daily to drop them off for delivery. As it stocks all the supplies for season. Th e new printer has already requests for supplies, all the way “Anything that has to do with Philmont, the Warehouse plays a big printed over 1 million forms since from toilet paper to batteries. packages, we deal with it,” said Ford. role with the Backcountry scatter. then, according to Merchandise Oft en times a department places Th ey have a second warehouse For all 34 staff camps, they Warehouse Clerk Darrel Cardemas. an additional order for supplies, but Continued on Page 14, Stocking Diffi cult

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“[The Backcountry staff] do PSA serves Philmont’s former and such a great job of presenting that current staff is through the Silver lifestyle,” said Jim Lynch, the current Sage Award, awarded to individuals PSA President. “We want to help them who made a significant contribution preserve that.” working or volunteering at Philmont. In addition to maintaining the This summer’s recipient will be Gene Ranch and its facilities, the PSA also Schnell, the current Backcountry strives to serve those who work at Distribution and Support Manager Philmont. The organization began who has served 29 summers at giving out scholarships in 2005, and Philmont. since then has awarded $96,500 for The PSA provides many seasonal staff members to pursue opportunities for former staff to stay higher education. This year, the involved at the Ranch. In addition PSA plans on awarding $50,000 in to hosting a summer reunion, the scholarships, which seasonal staff can organization also works with Philmont apply for until August 31. to provide former staff the opportunity The PSA also provides scholarship to participate in a five day trek. This opportunities for those participating year the Celebration Trek has 120 in both the Rayado and the ROCS participants. programs. The scholarships began as a As a way to directly connect Program Director Joe Davis signs the Philmont Staff Association Dedication in Septeptember 1973 way to provide Scouts the opportunity with current seasonal staff, the PSA at the Villa Philmonte. The dedication officially started the PSA. PHOTO COURTESY OF RANDY to participate in these programs and created the Staff Amigos program. SAUNDERS eventually come to work at the Ranch. Members can choose to sponsor a nice toilet paper, “diet enhancements” founders, these acts of service to social aspect was always secondary.” “[The PSA was] kind of helping department or Backcountry camp, such as cookie mixes and candy and Philmont Scout Ranch are the reason For more information on to grow Philmont’s staff and we still do then send the group letters and even “other diversions” like squirt guns and that the PSA was formed. becoming a Staff Amigo or the that today,” said Saunders. care packages. Some suggested items coloring books. “The major thrust of the PSA was Seasonal Staff scholarships, visit the Another great way that the include “upgraded staples” such as To Ned Gold and the other to serve Scouting,” said Gold. “The PSA’s website at www.philstaff.com.

Continued Connect to Past, From PRESENT, Page 13, and future Philmont staff with the… Stocking PHILMONT STAFF ASSOCIATION Look forward to: devoted to large packages and items ordered in bulk, which is also the High Country magazine, year-­‐round events, PSA water bottles and other items, “spillover warehouse,” according books about Philmont history , and lore Seasonal Staff Scholarships, and more!!! to Ford. This is where the Backcountry staffs go to pick up their supplies It’s just $15.00 for a year’s membership! during scatter. It is also where extra items for Base Camp are stored, I-­‐Camp this form to the PSA or stop by our office next to the Beaubien Room at PTC. such as mattresses for the tents. Between the two Warehouses, SIGN UP NOW!!! www.philstaff.com the staff consists of six people, some of whom are first year Name: ______Position/Dept.: ______employees with Philmont, and other returning for their tenth. MailingAddress: ______City, State, ZIP: ______The Merchandise Warehouse keeps the rest of Philmont running Birthday: ______Email: ______smooth to make sure the Philmont Signature: ______MARK HERE FOR PAYROLL DEDUCTION (through July 31): _____ experience comes alive to each participant that comes through. PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilNews | 15 Features | Friday June 21, 2013 Continued From Page Philmont Staff Association 10, Operation Announces Second which Logistics also manages. Logistics Manager of the Logistics’ third role is to manage Communications Department, is the radio room. Filled with radios a previous Camp Director and has Annual Writing Contest and maps, this room is alert 24 hours worked at a number of Backcountry a day in the case of an emergency, camps. Th e Philmont StaffStories of the Philmont Rangers.” Lawrence, Walker Percy, Willa whether it’s a fi re or a lost camper. “Th is is my seventh season. ... Association (PSA) is holding its “Last year we got a lot of great Cather, and Zane Grey are just a To help keep track of who I wanted a diff erent challenge. I just 2nd annual writing contest for submissions, and I’m hoping that few of the great novelists who have is going where across Philmont, want to try diff erent things,” she said. Philmont’s seasonal staff members. this year we’ll get even more,” used New Mexico as a setting for Logistics records every conversation Whether they are new or Th e deadline for submissions Smith said. fi ction. over the radio by hand. they have been around Philmont is July 20. Th e Philmont Staff Th e Philmont Staff Association Smith off ered this advice to “Some describe us as the brains for many years, the Logistics Association will announce the Writing Contest will recognize a those considering submission. of the operation,” Giugni said. department has a staff with a variety winners on August 3. Winning winner in the following categories: “Philmont has such obvious beauty While Giugni does not of experience. entries will appear in “High Adventure Story: Has and because we love it so much, it necessarily agree, he does think that “We’ve even got a worker who’s Country,” the magazine of the something strange or unusual is too easy to fall back on clichés people “choose to work at Logistics been here all the big anniversaries,” Philmont Staff Association.happened to you or someone you and sentimentality,” he said. “Th e because it helps give a broader view of said Giugni. “Th ey have been Composers of winning entries will know at Philmont? A near miss trick to writing about Philmont the Ranch operations for the future.” here for the 25th, 50th and 75th also receive a gift certifi cate to the or close call? A dream realized – – especially when you’re writing Logistics is run by a total of anniversaries of Philmont.” Tooth of Time Traders. or deferred? A crazy day-off road for people who already know 21 staff members. Five of them are Logistics has impressive Th e judges for the contest trip? Let us hear about it. about Philmont -- is to take what returning staff . Th e returning workers numbers standing behind it, in will be a panel made up of the Spiritual/Personal Memoir: is familiar and somehow make Program Director Joe Davis signs the Philmont Staff Association Dedication in Septeptember 1973 include Rangers and Ranger Trainers, miles driven, trips prepared and in Publications Committee of the From Henry David Th oreau to it new. Th at’s what will catch the at the Villa Philmonte. The dedication offi cially started the PSA. PHOTO COURTESY OF RANDY as well as Program Counselors and years of experience. Philmont Staff Association. John Muir to Annie Dillard, judges’ attention.” SAUNDERS Camp Directors returning from the It continues to manage all the Warren Smith will chair the panel. the “green world” has provided All submissions must be Backcountry. Scouters coming through Philmont, Smith is a past editor of “High powerful settings for refl ection submitted by email, as a Microsoft “We’ve got some good whether it is to transport people to Country” and a writer for WORLD on spiritual matters. What has Word attachment to an email. experience,” said Giugni. Base Camp or track crews’ progress Magazine, one of the nation’s Philmont taught you about your Email all submissions to wsmith@ Cassandra Rokita, Assistant through the Philmont experience. largest news magazines. He has life or your God? worldmag.com by midnight, also written or edited 10 books, Poetry: All forms welcome. July 20, 2013. Please limit all including “I Wanna Go Back: Fiction: Lew Wallace, D.H. submissions to 1500 words. 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Russell’s Sundries Philmont’s 75th Anniversary “For all the little things you forgot to pack.” Bringing the Ranger Spirit to Philmont 31083 Highway 64 Hope Kirwan the end of the Wagon Train This spirit of educating Staff Writer program and decreased the Scouts continues within the Cimarron, NM 87714 crews that participated in both Ranger Department as it There are 34 Backcountry the cavalcade and burro packing celebrates its 56th year as a 575-376-2502 staff camps, 35 different treks programs. part of the Philmont program. and almost 130,000 acres to The new system was Steve Weis, Associate Chief explore, but every crew at disastrous for the summer of Ranger, believes that teaching Monday- Saturday 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Philmont shares one experience: 1956. Although most crews were and helping the youth leaders Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. the presence of a Ranger to help composed of older Scouts and is the most important task for a them begin their journey across had adult leaders Ranger. the Ranch. with them, Rhea “I think L. Martin Pav Letich Studio However, the Rangers have and the rest of “I think the main the main not always been a part of the the Philmont staff [role of a Ranger] [role of a Fine Art in Oils and Pastels Philmont program. quickly realized Ranger] is During the late 1940s, that Troops is empowering the empowering Philmont and Regional Landscapes Philmont had three starting Base needed more crew leader.” the crew Camps that crews were divided guidance when leader,” among. camping at the said Weis. Come in and check out our selection of affordable prints. In addition to the original Ranch. “Building up leadership within Base Camp at Ponil, there was In 1957, Rhea decided an individual that they carry We are now creating unique Wind Bells a camp at Carson Maxwell and to bring back the policy of throughout the rest of their trek Cimarroncito. assigning a Philmont staff and hopefully bring back home.” 429 E 9th Street (1/2 block east of Village Hall) | 575-635-2829 Each crew was assigned a member to each crew. However, However, this emphasis www.lmartinpavletich.com | [email protected] Philmont staff member from these Rangers would only stay on empowering the Scouts one of these camps to guide six of the 12 days in the crew’s would be nothing without the them through the entirety of trek. This schedule was in place Rangers’ attitude. To Ned Gold, their trek. until 1962, when Rangers began this enthusiasm is how the The Philmont staff members leaving on the morning of the Ranger Department has defined of the 1940s were mostly teenage fourth day, allowing Philmont to itself from the creation of the volunteers, so the Ranch host even more crews. program. recruited a large staff to be able The summer of 1957 marked “There’s no question that the to accommodate the growing the beginning of the Ranger Rangers definitely bring a spirit number of troops that came to Department that is still a vital to Philmont, to the campers, to the Ranch. part of the Philmont experience. the advisors and to the other In 1955, Jack Rhea became Jack Rhea was not the staff,” said Gold. “I think it’s the the new Director of Camping only man that played a pivotal toughest job on the Ranch, but and began making changes to role in developing the Ranger the best job on the Ranch.” the way that Philmont facilitated Department at Philmont. The Ranger Department campers. Clarence Dunn was appointed has undoubtedly changed the Rhea decided to begin the first Chief Ranger and was Philmont experience. Instead paying staff very influential of crews being led along their members, in the spirit entire trek or left to fend for which meant “I think that of the Ranger themselves, today’s Rangers give not as many Philmont is more of Department. the Scouts the knowledge they could be hired. “He was a need to lead a successful trek. However, a learning experience father to all of “[Without the Rangers,] I the incentive of for everyone...” the Rangers,” feel like it would be just another a salary caused said Ned Gold, camping trip, especially if the many college a Ranger under adults kind of ran everything,” students and professionals to Dunn beginning in 1959. “Just said Weis. “I think that Philmont apply to work at the Ranch. [the way he carried himself] is more of a learning experience Because of the decrease in staff caused us to respect him.” for everyone, even the advisors.” that Philmont could hire, Rhea According to Gold, Information on the creation decided that each group would Clarence Dunn was very of the Ranger Department was go on their trek unattended, innovative and always seemed found in I Wanna Go Back with the staff serving as “Roving to be contemplating. A teacher by Warren Cole Smith. This Rangers” that would checkup from Texas, Dunn was crucial in text and many others about on crews throughout their trek. educating the Rangers on how to Philmont’s history are available This change brought about instruct the participants. in the Seton Memorial Library PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilNews | 17 Features |Friday June 21, 2013 Philmont’s 75th AnniversarySustainability at Philmont Bringing the Ranger Spirit to Philmont Katie Landeck Staff Writer This spirit of educating Scouts continues within the As part of the Boy Scouts’ Ranger Department as it Outdoor Code, a good Scout is celebrates its 56th year as a “conservation minded.” Being part of the Philmont program. conservation minded is more Steve Weis, Associate Chief than just participating in a Ranger, believes that teaching three-hour clean up project, it’s and helping the youth leaders taking small measures everyday is the most important task for a to reduce your impact on the Ranger. environment. “I think While at Philmont Scout the main Ranch, try taking these six simple [role of a steps to reduce your impact on Ranger] is the environment and the Ranch. empowering Conserve Water Conservation Sustainable Resource Specialist Kevin Rowe loads cardboard boxes from the CHQ dining hall into a cardboard bailer the crew For those of you who haven’t on Friday, June 14 in the Administration Complex. Cardboard is leader,” heard, Philmont is in the middle of collected from both the CHQ and PTC dining halls two to three said Weis. the worst drought since the Dust times a week, bailed, and then taken away to be recycled. CASSIDY “Building up leadership within Bowl, making is a particularly JOHNSON/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER an individual that they carry important to conserve water this throughout the rest of their trekyear. your teeth and shaving. If you see of water, oil and other resources and hopefully bring back home.” One of most effectiveany leaky faucets, report them to by changing one seventh of your However, this emphasis measure you can take as a staffer maintenance. diet.” on empowering the Scouts is to reduce your shower time, Go Meatless For a Day But don’t worry, you can still would be nothing without theaccording to Conservation Raising and shipping a pound have bacon the other six days of Rangers’ attitude. To Ned Gold, Sustainable Resource Specialist of meat uses a lot of natural the week. this enthusiasm is how theKevin Roe. resources. According to the Water “We’re not taking away your Ranger Department has defined “You want to be taking seven Education Foundation, by opting bacon,” said Roe. “We love bacon “It’s wasting electricity,” said Even better than recycling is itself from the creation of the minute showers or less,” said Roe. out of one pound of beef, you can t o o.” Wilder. “If no one is using it then reducing, according to Wilder. program. “Rinse off. Lather up. Then rinse save more than 1,000 gallons of Clotheslines why is it on?” “Reducing is the first one “There’s no question that the off again.” water. Dryers are huge energy But it’s not just lights that because it is the easiest and more Rangers definitely bring a spirit If turning the water off And according to suckers, accounting for about 5 are wasting electricity. Phone effective,” said Wilder. “If you do to Philmont, to the campers, to between rinsing and lathering Conservation Sustainable percent of all energy use in the chargers, game consoles and have to buy something make sure the advisors and to the other seems like too cold of a prospect, Resource Specialist Matt Wilder, average American household. laptop chargers are all “vampire it is recyclable.” staff,” said Gold. “I think it’s the try setting an alarm on your skipping meat is not that hard. “There is no such thing as an electronics” and use electricity Carpool toughest job on the Ranch, but phone to make sure you limit “I had pretty awesome energy efficient dryer,” Roe said. even when they are turned off. Whenever you need to catch the best job on the Ranch.” your shower to seven minutes. breakfast this morning with no So while at Philmont, To kill the vampires, plug all a ride to Cimmarron or even to The Ranger Department In addition to cutting back meat. I had potatoes, eggs, yogurt, try skipping the dryer. The of your electronics into one power Taos, think about carpooling has undoubtedly changed the your showering time, be sure to cereal and some fruit,” he said. Conservation Department has strip and unplug the power strip or taking the bus. Even better, Philmont experience. Insteadturn off the water when brushing Roe added, “You save a lot clotheslines and pins available to when you are leaving the tent for instead of driving to Cimmarron of crews being led along their those who want to them. the day. think about walking the Santa Fe entire trek or left to fend for Cons will help you string the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle trail. themselves, today’s Rangers give clothesline up next to you tent, The three R’s have long been “Take some time and enjoy the Scouts the knowledge they giving you a semi-private place to the poster child of sustainability. the hike,” Roe said. need to lead a successful trek. dry your clothes. The idea is simple. Reduce what If you are making a longer “[Without the Rangers,] I “It will save you 75 cents,” you use, reuse what you can and trip, post your plans on one of the feel like it would be just another said Roe. “Plus, your laundry will recycle what you can’t. bulletin boards in the SSSAC to camping trip, especially if the smell mountain fresh.” “It gets thrown around a lot, see if anyone else needs to get to adults kind of ran everything,” Opting out of the dryer will but that is because it’s important,” the same place. This way you will said Weis. “I think that Philmont also help to keep your red shirts said Wilder. have somebody to enjoy the ride is more of a learning experience looking fresh for longer. A n d In Base Camp, everything with and chip in for gas. for everyone, even the advisors.” don’t forget, always do full loads except glass can be recycled. And, remember the bus to Information on the creation of laundry and to buddy up with Plastics with the labels one Cimmarron is free. Gas is not. of the Ranger Department was a friend when possible. through seven can be recycled For more information on any found in I Wanna Go Back Turn Off the Lights at any of the recycling stations of these tips, to get a clothesline by Warren Cole Smith. This While we are on the subject located around Base Camp, and or to offer suggestions, visit text and many others about of energy use, don’t forget to turn corrugated cardboard can be the Conservation Department Philmont’s history are available off the lights when you leave a recycled in a white trailer located or send an email to philmont. in the Seton Memorial Library A map of Base Camp’s recycling centers. room. behind the Dining Hall. [email protected]. 18 | PhilNews PhilmontScoutRanch.org Features | Friday June 21, 2013 PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilNews | 19 Recipes | Friday June 21, 2013

Chicken Fajita Pizza

Ingredients 1 packet of Taco seasoning or Fajita seasoning 1 lb. (2) boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1/2-inch pieces 1 packet of pizza crust dough 1 can of tomato paste 1 diced tomato 2 cups Cheddar and/or Mozzarella Cheese 1/2 cup chopped bell pepper 1 15 oz. can black beans, drained 1/2 onion, cut into thin slices Sour cream, optional

Directions 1. Prepare pizza dough according to directions on package. While the dough is rising, follow directions on seasoning packet to prepare chicken. 2. Place crust on baking sheet or pizza pan. Spread tomato paste over crust; top with chicken, cheese, tomato, bell pepper, black beans and red onion. 3. Bake in preheated 400°F oven 15 minutes, or until cheese is melted. Serve with sour cream, if desired.

Recipe adapted from thecomfortofcooking.com

Reviews for Chicken Fajita Pizza Churros “The Chicken Fajita Pizza is the perfect blend of a classic Italian-turned-American Ingredients dish suffused with spicy Southwestern flavor. An easy 9 on a scale of 10.”- Joseph Canola oil for frying Mocharnuk, Ponil 1/2 C. plus 1 Tbs. sugar 1 tsp. cinnamon “The Chicken Fajita Pizza is one of the best things I have tasted. I really enjoyed the 1/2 C. or 1 stick butter extra cheese on it. One a scale of one to 10, I would give it a ten. Daniel Perginger, 1/4 tsp. salt - 1 C. all-purpose flour Tooth of Time Traders 3 eggs

Queso Dip Directions 1. Add enough oil to a large saucepan or deep skillet to come to a Ingredients depth of at least 2 inches; heat to about 350 degrees.

1 lb. (16 oz.) VELVEETA®, cut into 1/2-inch cubes 2. Mix 1/2 C. sugar and the cinnamon together on a large plate. 1 can (10 oz.) RO*TEL Diced Tomatoes & Green Chilies, undrained Combine remaining sugar, butter, salt and 1 C. water in a saucepan over high heat, and bring to a boil. Turn heat to low, and add flour, Directions all at once. Stir constantly until mixture forms a ball, about 30 seconds. 1. Mix ingredients in 2-qt. microwaveable bowl. 3. Remove from heat, and beat eggs one at a time into mixture, 2. Microwave on High 5 min. or until cheese is completely melted, stirring after 3 min. stirring until smooth after each addition. Spoon dough into a pastry bag with a large star tip (or simply drop spoons full of batter into 3. Serve with assorted cut-up fresh vegetables, crackers or tortilla chips. oil). Press strips of dough about 4 inches long into hot oil. Cook as many as will fit comfortably at once, turning as they brown, 5-10 minutes each.

4. Remove churros from oil, and drain on paper towels , then immediately roll them in cinnamon-sugar mixture. Serve hot or warm.

Yield: 1 dozen 4- to 6-inch churros 20 | PhilNews PhilmontScoutRanch.org Entertainment | Friday June 21, 2013 Art & Entertainment World News Parade Marks Queen Elizabeth Lawyer: Miguel Inviting Lawsuit Shrinking Soaps Vie for Daytime II’s Birthday Over Fan’s Injury Emmy Awards Angel Fire

Associated Press By Anthony McCartney By Beth Harris AP Entertainment Writer Associated Press Endurance Race LONDON (AP) -- Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her birthday LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) The 2nd annual Angel Fire Endurance Race is being Saturday with traditional pomp and woman who was kicked by Miguel -- It’s survival of the fittest among held in Angel Fire June 22nd into the 23rd in the town and circumstance, followed by a visit to during a Billboard Music Awards shrinking soap operas at the Daytime the surrounding National Forest. The race will have three her husband in the hospital. performance continues to suffer Emmy Awards. distances: 50 Kilometers, 50 Miles, and 100 Miles. Anyone More than 1,000 soldiers, cognitive difficulties and has yet Sunday’s ceremony pits the only interested in running can register on Ultasignup.com. The horses and musicians took part in to receive any assistance from the four remaining soaps still airing on deadline for registration is June 19th. the parade known as “Trooping R&B singer nearly a month after the broadcast networks against one Philmont is also one of the major sponsors of the race this the Color,” an annual ceremony the incident, her attorney said. that found new life on the Internet. year, which includes stocking two backcountry aid stations marking the queen’s official Doctors continue to evaluate Top-rated “The Young and the and manning an aid station at Monte Verde Lake. Race birthday. Khyati Shah’s injuries, but the Restless” takes on last year’s winner With Prince Philip unable exchange student from New “General Hospital,” `’Days of Our support coordinator Diane Nelson is looking for volunteers to attend the celebration as he is Zealand has memory loss issues Lives,” `’The Bold and the Beautiful” to help feed, water, reload and encourage runners at the lake recovering from abdominal surgery, and has been unable to sit for and online refugee “One Life to Live” aid station for this race. The station would need volunteers the queen invited her cousin, the final exams, attorney Vip Bhola for best daytime drama honors. for shifts of three hours from the evening of Friday the 21st Duke of Kent, to accompany her in said in an interview Thursday. Among daytime talk shows, “The until the conclusion of the race on Sunday the 23rd, probably a vintage carriage. He said despite efforts to find Ellen DeGeneres Show” had a leading midday. This would include early and overnight shifts. The monarch’s actual out more about rehearsals for 11 nominations. If you are interested in volunteering and supporting the birthday was on April 21, when Miguel’s performance and seek “Good Morning America” race and runners, please contact Diane Nelson at the Infirmary she turned 87. help for his client, representatives weather anchor Sam Champion, along or call extension 1237. for the singer and the awards with HLN network’s A.J. Hammer The race is also open to spectators, so stop by and support show are practically daring him and Robin Meade, host the ceremony Beauty Queens Vie for Miss USA to sue. airing live at 8 p.m. EDT on HLN. local runners and friends! Crown in Las Vegas Miguel’s representatives have said Miguel is concerned By Hannah Dreier for Shah’s well-being and reached Associated Press out to Bhola to see if they could help. LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A group Bhola said while he’s talked of 51 beauty queens from every U.S. with Miguel’s attorney, no state and the District of Columbia assistance for his client’s medical are preparing to smile and strut bills or other expenses have been their way toward the 62nd Miss offered. USA title. Reigning queen Nana Meriwether will relinquish her ‘Man of Steel’ Takes Flight with crown and the posh New York $125M Debut apartment that comes with it and usher in her successor during the By Derrik J. Lang competition Sunday evening at the AP Entertainment Writer Planet Hollywood hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip. “Man of Steel” leaped over Most of the competitors will be box office expectations in a single quickly sent home. weekend. Contestants will be whittled to The Warner Bros. superhero 15 after the event’s opening fashion film earned $113 million in its show with judging decisions based opening weekend at the box office, on competitions and interviews according to studio estimates done during the week before the Sunday. telecast. The remaining contestants The Superman tale starring will vie for the crown in three Henry Cavill and Amy Adams arenas: swimsuit, evening gown earned an additional $12 million and interview question. from Thursday screenings, bringing Contestants cannot have been its total to $125 million. Original married or have children, and they expectations for the film ranged must be younger than 27. from $75 million to $130 million. PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilNews | 21 News | Friday June 21, 2013 Art & Entertainment World News U.S. News North Korea Proposes High-Level Turkish Police Crack Down on Bear With Head Stuck in Jar is Bites Derided as Unreliable Affirmative Action Ruling Talks with US Revival of Protests Rescued in PA in Court Contest: Race Vs. Class

By Jean H. Lee Associated Press Associated Press By Amanda Lee Myers By Justin Pope Associated Press Assoicated Press AP Education Writer ISTANBUL (AP) -- Thousands JAMISON CITY, Pa. (AP) of defiant protesters attempting At least 24 men convicted In post-Great Recession PYONGYANG, North -- Four central Pennsylvania to converge on central Istanbul’s or charged with murder or rape America, which is the bigger Korea (AP) -- North Korea’s residents said they used only Taksim Square on Sunday based on bite marks on the flesh barrier to opportunity - race top governing body on Sunday a rope and a flashlight during were kept away by police firing of victims have been exonerated or class? proposed high-level nuclear a wild chase to rescue a young repeated rounds of tear gas, as the since 2000, many after spending A decade ago, the U.S. and security talks with the bear whose head had been stuck government maintained a hard line more than a decade in prison. Supreme Court kept the focus United States in an appeal sent in a plastic jar for at least 11 against rekindled demonstrations. Now a judge’s ruling later this on race as a barrier, upholding just days after calling off talks days. Across the city, Prime Minister month in New York could help the right of colleges to with rival South Korea. The frightened but powerful Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s supporters end the practice for good. make limited use of racial The powerful National bruin fell into a swimming gathered in their thousands for a A small, mostly preferences to ensure a diverse Defense Commission headed pool at least twice during the campaign-style rally as he sought ungoverned group of dentists student body. But in a ruling by North Korean leader Kim ordeal, according to a report to galvanize his base after weeks of carry out bite mark analysis due this month, the court is Jong Un issued a statement Saturday in the Press Enterprise anti-government protests left his and their findings are often key widely expected to roll back through state media proposing of Bloomsburg. But the group international image battered, and evidence in prosecutions, even that decision. Such an outcome “senior-level” talks to ease eventually yanked off the jar and exposed deep rifts within Turkish though there is no scientific would shift attention more tensions and discuss a peace set the animal free. society. proof that teeth can be matched toward a less constitutionally treaty formally ending the “I thought, `No one is going Police in uniform and plain definitively to a bite into human controversial practice: giving Korean War. to believe us,’” said Morgan clothes sealed off Taksim Square skin. a boost to socio-economically In Washington, a Laskowski, 22, the bartender at and adjacent Gezi Park, which DNA has outstripped the disadvantaged students, National Security Council the Jamison City Hotel and a riot police cleared of thousands usefulness of bite mark analysis regardless of race. spokeswoman said talks with member of the impromptu bear- of peaceful protesters in a swift in many cases: The FBI doesn’t If that happens, it would North Korea would require wrangling team. operation Saturday evening. use it and the American Dental reflect more than just a more that it comply with U.N. Area residents first spotted Crews worked through the night Association does not recognize conservative makeup of the Security Council resolutions the 100-pound bruin with its to remove all traces of a sit-in it. justices. Over the last decade, and live up to its international head in a red jar on June 3, but that started more than two weeks “Bite mark evidence is clogged social mobility and obligations. it eluded game wardens. The ago and became the focus of the the poster child of unreliable rising economic inequality Foreign analysts expressed animal was attracted to the strongest challenge to Prime forensic science,” said Chris have shifted the conversation skepticism over the North container because it appeared to Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Fabricant, director of strategic on campuses and in the Korean proposal, saying the have once contained cooking oil. his 10 years in office. litigation at the New York- country as a whole. impoverished country often “He put his head in, and had based Innocence Project, which As a barrier to calls for talks after raising a problem,” said Mike Jurbala, helps wrongfully convicted opportunity, class is getting tensions with provocative Sunni Extremists Blow up Shiite 68, another rescuer. “He’d have inmates win freedom through more attention, while race is behavior in order to win Mosque died in a couple more days.” DNA testing. fading. outside concessions. The rare proposal for talks By Jamal Halaby between the Korean War foes Associated Press follows months of acrimony over North Korea’s defiant AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- launch of a long-range rocket Sunni extremists blew up a Shiite in December and a nuclear test mosque in a village in eastern in February, provocative acts Syria stormed by rebels earlier that drew tightened U.N. and this week, another sign of the U.S. sanctions. The U.S. and growing sectarian hatred in the South Korea countered the country’s civil war, activists said moves by stepping up annual Sunday. springtime military exercises They said al-Qaida’s affiliate in that prompted North Korea to Syria carried out the destruction. warn of a “nuclear war” on the It showed the determination of Korean Peninsula. extremists to drive Shiites out However, as tensions of the village of Hatla in the subsided in May and June, Deir el-Zour region near Iraq. Pyongyang has made tentative Last week rebels battled pro- overtures to re-establish regime militiamen there, killing dialogue with South Korea more than 60 Shiite fighters and and Washington. civilians, according to activists. 22 | PhilNews Sports | Friday June 21, 2013 PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilmontScoutRanch.org Sports EASY Rask too Tough for Chicago in Bruins Beat Blackhawks 2-1 in Overtime Phil Mickelson Leads After 3rd Boston’s 2-1 OT Win Round at US Open By Jay Cohen By Nancy Armour AP Sports Writer By Doug Ferguson AP National Writer AP Golf Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Daniel Paille CHICAGO (AP) -- After giving up a scored at 13:48 in overtime and the ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) -- For all goal and withstanding another 18 shots in Bruins shrugged off a sluggish start to those runner-up finishes, with so the first period Saturday night, the Boston beat the Chicago Blackhawks 2-1 on much heartache chasing the major Bruins goalie, Tuukka Rask, may as well have Saturday night and even the Stanley Cup he covets, Phil Mickelson has never hung a “Not Open” sign on his net. While finals at a game apiece. had a better chance to win the U.S. he stymied the Blackhawks, his teammates Three days after a three-overtime Open. regrouped and found enough offense for a thriller in the opener, Boston and Chicago It’s the first time he has ever 2-1 overtime victory that sent the Stanley once again were tied after regulation. The had the outright lead going into Cup finals to Boston tied at one game apiece. Bruins then turned up their play and the final round. Of the nine players Rask finished with 33 saves, including finally cashed in after goaltender Corey within five shots, only one has the stopping Game 1 winner Andrew Shaw cold Crawford had singlehandedly kept the experience of winning a major. And in OT. Game 3 is Monday night in Boston. Blackhawks in the game. Tiger Woods went from contender to middle-of-the-pack by matching American League his worst U.S. Open score as a pro. Despite a bogey on the final AL East W L GB hole at Merion - the 18th was so Boston 42 28 - tough it didn’t yield a single birdie Baltimore 39 30 2.5 in the third round - Mickelson was NY Yankees 37 30 3.5 the sole survivor to par Saturday Tampa Bay 36 32 5 with an even-par 70 that gave him a Toronto 31 36 9.5 one-shot lead over Hunter Mahan, Vacation House for Rent AL Central Steve Stricker and former Masters Detroit 37 28 - champion Charl Schwartzel. Cleveland 33 33 4.5 Scout Leaders and families are invited to enjoy Kansas City 32 34 5.5 Woods Matches his Worst US a relaxing vacation house less than 23 miles DIFFICULT Minnesota 29 35 7.5 Open Round as a Pro Chicago Sox 28 36 8.5 from Philmont. AL West By Jim Litke Oakland 41 28 - AP Sports Writer Texas 38 30 2.5 Four bedrooms with full amenities. Seattle 30 38 10.5 ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) -- Tiger ONLY $595.00/week LA Angels 29 38 11 Woods made birdie at the first hole, only Houston 24 44 16.5 to watch his day go racing downhill from there. Call Ed at: 575-447-6364 National League By the time it was over, Woods skidded to seven bogeys and a 6-over- East W L GB par 76 Saturday, tumbling down the Atlanta 40 28 - leaderboard and matching his worst round Washington 33 33 7.5 as a pro at the U.S. Open. That left him 10 Philadelphia 33 36 8.5 strokes behind third-round leader Phil NY Mets 24 39 13.5 Mickelson, the only player under par at Miami 20 47 20.5 the short but devilishly tough Merion Golf Central Club. St. Louis 44 24 - Despite leading the PGA Tour in Cincinnati 41 28 4 putting in recent weeks, Woods needed 36 Pittsburgh 40 28 4 putts on the severely undulating greens. He Chicago Cubs 28 38 14.5 blamed his inability to gauge the speed of Milwaukee 28 39 15.5 those baffling putting surfaces for his three West days of uneven play - and he was right. Arizona 37 30 - Woods is tied for third in fairways San Francisco 35 32 1.5 hit and 22nd in reaching the greens in Colorado 36 33 1.5 regulation. But he’s averaged 32 putts per San Diego 33 34 6 round, which left him tied for 53rd in the LA Dodgers 29 38 7.5 field of 73 players. PhilmontScoutRanch.org PhilNews | 23 Games | Friday June 21, 2013 EASY MEDIUM

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Participants look to see the smoke from forrest fires south of Philmont property on Thursday, June 13 at Base Camp. Although having not crossed onto Philmont, the South Country programs and staff have been relocated, causing many crews’ itineraries to change. CASSIDY JOHNSON/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER

Abreu Camp Director Julia Hoss updates Base Camp on which crews her camp will help Scouts are relocated to Base Camp tent city due to the relocation from the Whites evacuate during the first day of the Whites Peak fire on Thursday, June 13 at Abreu. Peak fire on Friday June 14. The 600 participants and staff of south country was All crews, staff and livestock were safely relocated. KATY MOONEY/PHILNEWS relocated within 6 hours of the fire starting. KEVIN BOUCHER/ PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHY MANAGER PHOTOGRAPHER

Smoke from the Whites Peak fire looms over Urraca Mesa on Thursday, June 13 at Base Camp. CONNOR SPURR/PHILNEWS PHOTOGRAPHER