Notes from John Risk

  1. Camping schedule 1988 - 1989

    2. Sept, 30 - Bane Place (aka Bain Place)
    Oct. 14 - Work Weekend overnight in the scout room.
    Nov. 11- Raven Rock State Park
    Dec 9 - Camp CHerokee, near Yanceyville
    Jan 14 - Mount Rogers (Alternate: Hanging Rock) - memory serves that the alternate trip was taken
    Feb. 24 - Marrow Mountain
    Mar 17 - Camp Campbell, Kerr Lake
    Apr 14 - Carolina Beach
    May 20 - Deep River canoe Trip (Alternate: Kerr Lake) - alternate was taken
    Jun 16 - Shining Rock Wilderness (Trip was canceled)
    Jul. 16 - Summer Camp Raven Knob
  2. Committee meeting October 10th 1988 indicated the return of "scout bucks" as an incentive program. This had been used successfully the year before (1987-1988). (an interesting note: I have read about scout buck recently (year 2001) in council news. I guess they somehow heard of Troop 9's old program.) (The Troop "scout buck" program died after 88-89). Eagle Scout ceremony for Aric Herndon & Yan Herndon, September 24th 1994.  This is the picture you have on the web!
  3. Brian Risk's Eagle Court of Honor, Nov. 23rd 1993, showed the following history and the Scoutmaster Dates

    4. May 1986 - January 1989 Roger Connor - 2.5 years (note: Roger was scoutmaster before 1986..)
      Brian advances from Scout, to 1st class.
      Camping trips to Kerr Lake, The Bain Place, and colonial Williamsburg are mentioned
      A wilderness survival shelter is built at the Bain Place
      Pat Rothwell makes Eagle
    January 1989 - July 1990 Sankey Blanton - 1.5 years
      Brian advances to Star
      The great pumpkin sale was a success - (boys picked and sold a trailer full of pumpkins as a fund raiser)
      Troop 9 donates $125 to Thompson Children's Home in Charlotte
    August 1990 - July 1992 Tom Proctor - 2 years
      Brian earns Life
      Troop starts a series of Merit Badge Classes
      Troop takes its first Caving Trip (lead by future scoutmaster Ernie Patterson, and Bill Mattocks)
      Chapel of the Cross undergoes construction.
      John Herndon becomes district commissioner
      The Popcorn era begins
    August 1992 - August 1993 Ernie Patterson - 1 year (Note: Ernie was scoutmaster beyond Brian's scouting years)
      Troop takes 3rd Caving Trip
      Troop transitions to a backpacking Troop.
      Church construction ends and Troop moves into the expanded space.
      Troop ushers at Chapel of the Cross on Scout Sunday
      Troop participates in  ABC sale resuming a previous tradition. This was the 1st year on the parking lot patrol.
      Andrew Turnier Makes Eagle
      Brian Risk Makes Eagle in July - Ceremonies scheduled for November.
    Here is a list of Scouts that were involved in Brian's road to eagle (Not necessarily inclusive of all scouts)
      Andy Yowell, Neil Hutcheson, Pat Rothwell, David Lewis, Andy Walker, Keith Wiley, Janso Earhart, Yan Herndon, Andrew Turnier, Chris Patterson, Brad Diamond, Chris Andrews, Chris Fitzgerald, Nathan Magilow, Jeff Newell, Gabe Sonnenberg, Bran Nash, Andy Harris, Jeff Copeland, Philip Daluge, John Hinds, Mike Walker, Brian Walker, Aric Herndon, Dallas Alford, Tristan Chaika, Jake Mattocks, Brian Stynes, Charlie Collicutt, Brady Lloyd, Jeff Peace, Ben Kudler, Caleb Hyde.
    Adults listed:
      Kathy Newell, Gary Wimberly, Doris Walker, Bill Turnier, Genet Hutcheson, Floyd Earhart, Bill Mattocks, Stephen Stanley, John Herndon, David Chaika, John Risk, and the four scoutmasters, Roger Connor, Sankey Blanton, Tom Procton, and Ernie Patterson. Lyman Ripperton re-entered the activity of the troop in April and May with cub scout visits, and administered the Eagle Oath, and Eagle Charge to Brian in November at his Eagle Ceremony
  4. Old newsletter showed a trip to wilson creek on 29-31 October 1994 and another showed Lloyd's farm on 17-18 september 1994
  5. In a letter dated Sept. 26th, 1996, Bob Chase the Senior Warden informs us that we are to lose 2 of our 4 patrol rooms to accommodate administrative needs, and storage space, and indicated that this could be reviewed in the future. Permission to use the phone in the room closest to the stage was granted, as a compromise.
  6. In a letter dated Dec 11th, 1996 Janet Turchi, Senior Warden, Turned down a request to establish a reserve fund for special Boy Scout needs. This was to have been named after Henry Haslach, a recently departed parishioner who took special interest in troop 9. The church indicated that they researched other Troops and found that those Troops administered their own funds independently of the charter organization. "Accordingly we encourage you to move ahead in this direction, which will still benefit Troop 9 without unnecessarily complicating the parish books." The church returned personal checks donated to the fund to John Risk, and Sankey Blanton. No alternate memorial was pursued by the church. Boy Scout Troop 9 operates without reporting financial matters to the church.
  7. Trip Descriptions 98-99 showed trips to Parker's Creek at Lake Jordan in september, Parron Woods in november, Kerr Lake Bike Trip, and the Orange District Camporee location not given.