February 2020 February 2020 Scouting in America Lord Robert Baden-Powell, British February Birthdays Oakview Holler army officer and writer of military June Isbell 2/4 manuals, became famous for establishing the Boy Scout Benjamin Hooker 2/12 Oakview Park * 110 Hood Road, Greenville, SC 29611 * (864)412-8990 Association in Britain in 1907. The Mike Orr 2/22 scouting movement crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and the Boy Scouts A Giant Leap for Humankind of America was founded by W.D. This month we will enjoy an extra day, transforming 2020 Boyce on February 8, 1910. Veteran of The Month into an extraordinary year. Every four years, an extra day, called leap day, is added at the end of February. This W.D. Boyce became personally invested in Carroll Maxwell was a track star the scouting movement during a trip to London extra day is built into the year to ensure that our calendars at Hendersonville High School in in 1909. One foggy night he became lost on a remain aligned with Earth’s movement around the sun. Hendersonville, NC. He could run London street, and a boy came out of the gloom Our modern calendars have 365 days, but Earth takes the 100-yard dash in 9.8 seconds to guide him back to his hotel. Boyce attempted 365.2421 days to make it all the way around the sun. to tip the boy, but the boy refused, declaring in 1964. He also had excellent The ancient Egyptians were the first civilization to calculate that he was a Boy Scout and was simply doing times for the 220- and 440-yard Celebrating February that our cycle of days and nights did not align perfectly with dashes. Carroll was next on the the calendar year, but it wasn’t until Julius Caesar’s reign a good deed. Boyce was so impressed with this during the Roman Empire that anything was done about it. Unknown Scout, as the boy came to be known, track team at Brevard College. Library Lovers Month The University of Maryland then that he returned to London and went straight For millennia, calendars were loosely based on human recruited him to their track team. However, he struggled to the Scout headquarters to learn more about observations of the lunar cycle. Extra days, weeks, and the scouting movement and secure a copy of with academics and coincidently was drafted into the Black History Month even months were added at random to make up for Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys manual. army in 1966. His Mom wanted him to defer his service seasonal discrepancies. Julius Caesar was fed up with the and go to the Baptist College of Charleston, but the Men Only Breakfast inadequacies of such calendars based upon a 10-month Upon Boyce’s return to America, he did not find college was not yet completely built. Therefore, Carroll solar year. In 46 BC, he enlisted astronomer Sosigenes it so easy to charter his Boy Scouts of America. February 7 decided he should go ahead and do his patriotic duty. to modify the calendar to include 12 months and 365 days. Boyce was a newspaperman and entrepreneur. He did his basic training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina January and February were added as the final two months Rival newspaperman William Randolph Hearst and then at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Carroll was then Taco Tuesday of the calendar, with the leap day added as the final day of attempted to beat Boyce to the punch when he shipped out to Karat, Thailand where he served as a the last month of February once every four years. Julius founded the rival group of American Boy Scouts, February 11 wheel vehicle mechanic. As you may recall this was Caesar named this the Julian calendar after himself. an organization that would last only until 1918. during the Vietnam War. There were two red alerts It was with the help of Edgar Robinson, a YMCA because some unidentified planes from the North flew Valentine Craft The Julian calendar was hailed as a tremendous organizer from New York City, that Boyce truly February 13 improvement, but it was still not perfect. The solar year began the work of organizing a national scouting over their base. Thankfully, they never got hit. Because there were not enough replacements, Carroll served is only .2421 days longer than the calendar year, not .25. movement. In a flurry of meetings, Robinson Adding an entire day every four years added 11 extra extended time. In 1968, his time was finally up, and he convinced a variety of disparate scouting groups Valentine’s Day Party with minutes to each year! After hundreds of years, the Julian returned home and went to technical College to receive to band together under the banner of the Boy Elvis calendar veered weeks from the solar year. Like Caesar job training. After that he went to work for Kimberly- Scouts of America: the Woodcraft Indians of February 14 before him, Pope Gregory XIII decided to fix this problem. Connecticut, the Boy Scouts of the United Clark. Carroll said, “I went in six feet up and came out In 1582, the Pope created his Gregorian calendar. It was States, the National Scouts of America, the six feet up not six feet under. I figure the Lord had a still a 12-month, 365-day calendar with an added leap day National Highway Patrol Association Scouts, purpose for me to go in and a Presidents’ Day: U.S. every four years, but the Pope went further. He decreed and the Boy Pioneers. When the Boy Scouts purpose for bringing me out.” Carroll February 17 that leap years would not occur on years evenly divisible of America opened their national office in New Maxwell, thank you for serving in the by 100, excepting those divisible by 400. For example, York City in June of 1910, they had 2,500 leader United States Army and the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but applications from 44 states and over 150,000 Congratulations on being our Mardi Gras Party the year 2000 was. Pope Gregory XIII’s calendar is still in potential scouts. Thanks to the efforts of Veteran of the Month. February 25 use today, but it is still not perfect. Mathematicians note Robinson and Boyce, the American scouting that after another 10,000 years, someone will have to movement had finally begun in earnest. Leap Year Day create a new calendar once again. February 29 February 2020 Dior’s “New Look” Beef and Bean Chili From Your Valentine February Resident of The Month A casualty of World War II was Our Resident of the Month is This month we have a delicious beef and bean chili On February 14 each year, sweethearts celebrate fashion. With the rationing of from Ann Huff. We served it last month for lunch Christine (Kit) Galphin. Kit was materials and anxiety over Valentine’s Day by exchanging cards, chocolates, born and raised in Greenwood, with salad and a baked potato. and other tokens of love. But do these sweethearts radicalism, civilian clothing styles South Carolina. She is the know who they are celebrating? The true identity became austere, utilitarian, and 1 Tablespoon of Vegetable fourth of five children. When of St. Valentine is murky and there are differing practical. Women no longer wore Oil Kit was a girl, her father, a stories detailing his role in the church and the silk or other fancy fabrics, and they 1 medium Onion -chopped acts that inspired the popular holiday bearing police officer was killed in the gave up accessories like boning for 1 ½ lbs. of ground beef his name. line of duty. Her Mom went corsets and (browned and drained) back to work as a telegraph zippers. For the first time, women wore trousers! 2 Tablespoons chili powder Competing stories depict operator and Kit got her first The British government went so far as to pass 1 teaspoon cumin St. Valentinus (the Latin version job in a five and ten store. She was only twelve. Later, austerity regulations. Footwear, textiles, and ½ teaspoon of pepper of the name) as either a priest Kit studied to be a nurse for three years at Anderson clothing brandished the CC41 logo, signifying that ½ teaspoon of pepper from Rome or the Bishop of Memorial Hospital. She then went to work for a doctor it conformed to 1941 regulations for “Controlled 1 teaspoon of sugar Terni during the reign of Emperor in Greenwood. While she was working, she met Henry Commodities.” Perhaps no city suffered more Claudius II. Legend has it that Perin Galphin who became the love of her life, and than Paris, the world’s fashion capital. Not only 1 Tablespoon of Worchester Sauce Valentinus aided Christians who was it occupied by the Germans, but fashion 2 16 oz cans of diced tomatoes they soon got married. Kit continued to work, and they were persecuted under Claudius II’s houses were forced to shut their doors. So, (one with peppers one without) had two girls Wendy and Pamela. Kit has fond reign. Eventually, Valentinus, too, was put under on February 12, 1947, when French designer 2 16 oz cans pinto beans memories of their vacations sat Myrtle Beach- laying house arrest at the home of Judge Asterius. It Christian Dior debuted his “New Look” line at (1 with white beans) out in the sun, building sandcastles, taking walks on the so happened that Asterius had a blind daughter. the Paris fashion show, he both saved Parisian beach, hunting for shells and going out to eat.