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The "Opportunity Knocks" column series on Eagle Scouts and high adventure.
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from KTUL.com Tulsa - A local man was honored Saturday for decades of service to a Tulsa Boy Scout troop.When Scoutmaster Bill Shaffer first became a part Troop 26, he was just a boy himself. His life has revolved around mentoring young boys ever since.Shaffer began leading the group in 1969, and 40 years later, more…
OK. I'm back. It's been a hectic summer. Lots of stuff going on. I'm trying to catch up but its been tough. Troop 26 tried a new summer camp this summer. Camp Pioneer in Mena Arkansas. Everybody had a great time.
Isn't it funny what we remember? Memories become so embedded in our lives that sometimes we forget that they may or may not be true. Sometimes what we think is absolutely true, is not. Sometimes the stories we tell around the campfire, when based on incorrect information assumed to be facts, becomes true in the…
I'MMMMMMMMMMMM BACK!!!! After several months absence, I'm back on track and getting ready for another year.This Opportunity Knocks is about making Eagle. Lots of scouts don't. I didn't. I wanted to but I didn't.This in no way takes away from the millions of kids who made it to Life, or Star, or to First Class…
I AM AKELA, MIGHTY CHIEF" It's time for Opportunity Knocks #83. Another year. More plans. More new members. More sons of former members returning to go down that familiar trail already blazed by their dads. It seems appropriate that we begin this year with an Opportunity Knocks about our Arrow of Light Team.
OK. I thought OK#81 would be the last one for 2007. It wasn't. This one is. Actually, I have had these thoughts running around in my head for several days and thought it might be a good thing to send out one more Opportunity Knocks for 2007 since I missed a month or so in…
This will be the last Opportunity Knocks for 2007. I just wanted to take this opportunity to send all of you out there in the extended Troop 26 family, a note of thanks for what you have provided for me personally.
This will be the last Opportunity Knocks for 2007. I just wanted to take this opportunity to send all of you out there in the extended Troop 26 family, a note of thanks for what you have provided for me personally.
It's been awhile. Things just kept coming up. I so apologize to all those who wait religiously each week for the Opportunity Knocks to come out. And for those who worry that I have died or become incapacitated, that hasn't happened yet.
This is more of an announcement. It gives me great pleasure to announce that a Troop 26 scout has been elected Chapter Chief of the Eagle Chapter of the Ta Tsu Hwa Order of the Arrow. Congratulations to Eagle Scout Zach Vetal, former Troop 26 SPL, who was elected last night at the October Eagle…
THE DI VINCI CODE, TROOP 26 STYLE OR "THE LOST SENIOR PATROL LEADER" It's interesting what we remember. And after years and years, how much of it is accurate. I had the opportunity to ask myself that question last week.
75. AN AMAZING NUMBER!!! This coming Monday Troop 26 celebrates an amazing achievement. We will be inducting my 75th Senior Patrol Leader into office. 75 Senior Patrol Leaders. An uninterrupted chain of young men who have been elected by their peers to run Troop 26 since 1969.
We just returned from Medicine Mountain Scout Camp in South Dakota several weeks ago. I've had a chance to reflect on the trip and I wanted to let all our scouts and leaders, and especially our alumni, know a little about how I felt.
TWENTY YEARS AND STILL KICKING!!! Troop 26 just returned from our second summer camp of the 2007 summer. We went to Medicine Mountain Scout Camp in South Dakota. Camping in the Black Hills. American legends abound with stories of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull and General Custer.
It's been a couple of weeks since I've written an Opportunity Knocks. Things just kept popping up. I do write these at work and there are times that I just can't get to it. Thanks for all your E-mails asking what happened.
Memorial Day. Not my favorite holiday. Memorial Day never fails to stir memories of what might have been. I think a lot about my dad. A life interrupted. A life unfulfilled. The sadness of it really gets to me sometimes.
This coming Monday, May 21, an extremely important "Opportunity" will be made available to our members, parents, and guests. Mr. Arles Cole, a US Armed Services Veteran and Pearle Harbor survivor, will be addressing our troop. This is a wonderful activity, especially with Memorial Day right around the corner, and we encourage parents to attend…
I recently received an E-mail from a past Troop 26 Scout, Shane Anderson. I sure was great to hear from him. He was an Eagle Scout back in 1991. I was just sitting here in my cubicle waiting for a call back from an Insurance Company and I re-read his E-mail.
Several weeks ago I did an Opportunity Knocks featuring one of the medals in our medal program. It was the Mark Herhold Camping Medal for excellence in camping. I am following up on that OK with the second one in the Medal series.
This is Opportunity Knocks #70. I can't believe I've done seventy of these little trips down memory lane. But they have been fun. I'm not getting tired and I plenty more stories to tell. Last week I did an OK on the Mark Herhold Camping Medal and I think I mentioned that I would follow…
We just had a Court of honor for our first four Eagle Scouts of 2007. We are so proud of them because they have worked hard to get to this point in their lives and they are actively continuing a great tradition.
Last weekend was the highlight event for many members of the Ta Tsu Hwa Lodge of the Order of the Arrow. That was the weekend that the Lodge's Vigil members assemble to confer on a number of their brethren the title "Vigil Honor Member".
I had lunch with a guy today who took his son to a different troop. He said that he had heard that Troop 26 "broke all the rules". Of course I asked what rules we broke. He couldn't answer that.
Ladies and gentlemen. It's been over two weeks since my last Opportunity Knocks. It's been a little hectic here at the hospital and I apologize for not writing on schedule. I'm glad to report that I'm not dead. I was just very busy.
I'm a Viking!!! That's what I heard last Monday night at Troop Meeting. A brand new scout. "I'm a Viking". The Vikings are our oldest continually running patrol, started in 1969 by soon to be Eagle Scout Jimmy Smith. A lot of the new Scouts joined that patrol during that first two years.
Presenting for your reading pleasure, Opportunity Knocks #64. I can't believe I have been doing this for 64 straight weeks. I hope I'm not getting repetitive. Today's OK#64 is entitled "The View". This last Tuesday night, I was honored to attend the Indian Nations Council Eagle Banquet, held at the Summit Club downtown.
