FF ALU TA M S N T I N A I S O S P O THE C Y I A N T A I M O E N H T MPSAA ’ LANTERN S LIGHT by the Many Point Staff Alumni Association EST. 1985 Vol. 27 Issue 1 FALL 2012 Message from the This Issue 1 - Message from the President 2 - Beginning Doctor Care President 3 - Where Are They Now? 4 - Contributing Members Thanks any Point Scout Camp had the evening. Overall, it was an honor to another record year in 2012. With work with each staff member this past 5 - 2012 TC Song Lyrics Mover 4,300 Scout participants, the summer. 6 - 4,363 Scouts in 2012 summers continue to be getting more and This year, we have added some new 7 - Many Point Chronicles more exciting. Not only is it getting exciting things to the Alumni. We’ve launched 9 - Cute Baby for current staff, the Alumni Association a new website, which is continuously continues to improve its outreach and 10 - The Tradition Continues... being updated, and have introduced an connection to Alumni members. Thank electronic payment method for making you. your contribution. Upcoming Events This year, I was able to take some time Enclosed with this letter, you have from my full time job in Medina, MN to Thursday, December 27th, 2012 received some annual contribution work at camp for a few weeks. During supplies. Please join the team of over MPSAA Holiday Party Many Points 3rd Week, Alumni Dan 180 members who contribute each year. Check Facebook and the Website Williams, Andrew Bickel, Scott Scheiller Any contribution amount to the MPSAA and I hosted the All Things Wilderness Friday, April 19th, 2013 directly impacts the program that our Response Program….a great success. Spring Fling - Location TBD staff delivers to the thousands of Scouts Some traditions we have reintroduced each year. Thank you for your continued Thursday, August 1st, 2013 is the Hootenanny held at the Jolly support. Hootenanny 2013 at the Jolly Fisher- Fisherman. If you missed out on it this man - Michael Kuklok, MPSAA President year, make sure to set some time aside Friday, August 23, 2013 to Sunday, for it next year. It was August 25th, 2013 a great time to listen to Alumni Campout, Ten Chiefs, Many some older and newer Point Scout Camp tunes from our talented group of guitar players on staff. Another tradition that is on its third year is the LumberJack Rendezvous held in Ten Chiefs. Since the week is lighter, we bring all Scouts from all camps to Ten Chiefs, and have a good ole LumberJack themed competition. This year featured even more events like log rolling, a corn feast (yes that is a Hop on www.mpalumni.org to canoe) and an evening sign-up on the secured site to slideshow of the different Photo: Cooking Corn on a Canoe - Scott Kuhlamn, 2012 get email updates. activities throughout this world for Rusk, who didn’t need to feed the children. Beginning Doctor Care at Rusk: Well it was wonderful for the family. Meals were furnished - three meals a day. And we had only to walk Many Point Scout Camp up through the woods to the dining hall to be served those meals. They were xcerpts from an interview on 7-30- if as you can imagine. I heard about this good meals and we had fun hiking up 12 “Many Point” and I called up somebody and back. E With Arnold S. Anderson, M.D. in the Many Point office and it came up that they had an opening for a doctor the Arne: We went up there for ten years. a prominent pediatrician in the Twin 1950 to t960. Cities. He started the St. Louis Park last two weeks of the camp. So I applied Clinic (now Park Nicollet) and founded and got the position. It turns out that the staff people were very the Minneapolis Childrens Hospital. He So we went out to Many Point, and it congenial. Wonderful group of people to is a distinguished graduate of the Mayo was beyond our wildest dreams. They meet with - a lot of teachers were staff Clinic and of the University of Minnesota provided us all our meals. They provided people at the camp. We would have so- Medical School. For his contributions to us a row boat. We could sit down on the cials out at the family camp, I think every Scouting, he received the Silver Beaver dock and fish, and go swimming, things Saturday night, where we would have a Award. like that. It amounted to about one hour a little dance, and a talk by Wint Hartman, who was Director at that time. Wint gave and Rusk Dalton Anderosn met Arne day of work, what they called “sick call,” and to be at the camp for emergencies 24 us the history of Many Point, and he was Anderson when they were students at St. - to my way of thinking - a very, talented Olaf College. She is the mother of their hours a day. But we didn’t have that many emergencies, actually. man. Because he talked about the strategy ten children, six of them Eagle Scouts, of Many Point. Of course the strategy of including Many Point staff member Tyler We went out there and it was like we went Scouting was primarily character building Anderson, who died in L973 in an auto to a dream, because when we vacationed of boys of that age, and then giving them accident just before his 18tr birthday before that, we vacationed in a tent. And an education of things that they weren’t [see Meller, Bill, “Anderson, TYLER” in they provided us an Adirondac cabin, taught in school. What was essential for A Biography of Buckskin Area Campsite a very nice place to eat, sleep, read and living: the Scout Oath and Law and that names. pp 7-8. Many Point Staff Alumni things like that. They also provided us type of thing. So we went to family night Association. 2011.) worked in the Many three meals a day, which was just out of Point Conservation Lodge by E. Daniel Eckberg, PhD, worked in the Many Point Conservation Lodge (‘54), was Field Sports Director (including the rifle rangeJ [‘55J, and Pioneer Area Director [‘58). He was a teacher and administrator in the Hopkins, MN Public Schools for thirty-five years. rne: We came up here (MN) on July Afirst 1950. We had an office which was on the back porch of an old duplex in Hopkins. My colleagues gave us a stipend of $400 per month to run the practice on, and also to pay for the house and feed the children. And Rusk was, of course, busy taking care of the children - she had her hands full with three little boys. I wanted to Photo: Rusk Anderson (left) and Arne Anderson (right). July 30th, 2012. Arne, Camp Doctor in have a vacation that sum- the 1950s started Park Nicollet and founded the Minneapolis Childrens Hospital. mer, but couldn’t afford 2 things and Wint talked about the strategy Dick Raile [Ed. Note: Chief of Pediatrics I also developed a questionnaire for the of Many Point, and teaching boys char- - Hennepin County Medical Center), John parents, which answered everything we acter and knowledge they should have. It LaBree [Ed. Note: U. of M. Professor of needed to know. I was concerned about was very well thought out. It really gave Internal Medicine & Cardiology). the camp examinations done everywhere. you the purpose of Scouting. To my way Dan: You said sick call was about an hour They were so quick, the whole Scout of thinking Scouting has been the best long? Troop would come to see a doctor and boy-development institution that I’ve run they didn’t take any history of real conse- into. Arne: About an hour long in the morning. quence. So I got a way of taking a history And then we’d have some lacerations and One of the main ideas of the camp was in which I had five or six questions. One things like that. We always went back in that they were going to have these troop was immunizations. Two was any chronic the afternoon to see how the two to three sites, and it was to teach the boys to live in diseases. Three would be any medications patients we had in the little hospital (health a community and be self-supporting. they were taking. I don’t know what the lodge) were doing. other two were. I figured out that these The children enjoyed it tremendously. I Dan: How about poison lvy? would cover anything. And that gave us a remember we had a lot of socials on the very good pre-camp health evaluation. beach. Breaking the watermelon. I forget Arne: Poison Ivy was rampant. That was what they called watermelons. most of what we had. The preventatives Dan: Did you ever have to send any prob- they had developed before I came there lems to the hospital in Detroit Lakes? Dan: Deevils! was that after they had been out in the Arne: The only people we sent in were Arne: The next year, the Director asked woods, they had to go swimming before Scouters, older people. One scouter had a me to recruit doctors. Of course, Rusk had they had supper. And when they went heart attack and another had appendicitis. tremendous enthusiasm, I had tremendous swimming they had a Fels Naptha bath.