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36 foreign nations. The club has actively supported

the Rotary Foundation Health Hunger and Humanity Program by contributing to the Polio Plus program. The Rotary Club has continuously helped in all community betterment projects. It continues to be an active force. S - Rotary History

- David Carmack W -BLC

BRUNSWICK INNER WHEEL The Brunswick Inner Wheel, an auxiliary of the Brunswick Rotary Club and composed of Rotarian wives, was organized in 1947 for the purpose of fostering service and charitable projects. Some of their goals have been realized through participation in County health programs including serving as volunteers for Red Cross Bloodmobile community and high school visits, providing transportation for residents to the Public Health Clinic, and assisting with TB X-ray and patch test programs in past years. Each fall, home-baked cookies and ice cream are provided for all residents of the Montevue Home and at Christmastime individual boxes are packed for each Brunswick area resident there. Other Inner Wheel activities have included helping with the Brunswick Library, collecting eyeglasses for the Lighthouse for the Blind, collecting redeemable coupons for an orphanage, starting in 1967 a Junior Inner Wheel Program of high school senior girls, and sponsoring a troop when the Girl Scouts were first organized in Brunswick. S - Inner Wheel History W -BLC

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Brunswick's local Boy Scout Troop 5 organized around 75 years ago. It grew parallel with a secret club for older boys, O.G.F., Old Glory Forever, which was led by Rev. Luther Martin of the Brunswick Presbyterian Church. Their cry was "O.G.F. Boom!" The Boy's Club bulletin No. 1 for January 1919 explains that the group was suffering from a "large attack of success, like a growing boy too big for his clothes but with not enough money to buy a new

suit." The bulletin had a page devoted to Boy Scout activities. Names mentioned were Tommie Tucker, Alfred Mills (Bets), David Hogan, Carlton Smith, John Funk, and Lewis Rice. Rev. Luther Martin was succeeded by Mr. G. A. Hood, who became the first scoutmaster of old Troop 2. Charles Utterback was the next scoutmaster. Out of this beginning the Boy Scouts in Brunswick developed from a national movement that had begun in 1910. Under Mr. Utterback there were four patrols, one senior patrol leader, two junior assistant scout masters, and one scoutmaster, 37 in all. Later the troop became No. 5. Exhibits and demonstrations of scouting activity were a part of their program. One excursion involved setting up a camp near the tunnel at Lander. Charlie Utterback had, according to the 1939 yearbook, 58 members in his trip. At this time Donald Darr was cubmaster at the Methodist Church (Md. Ave.) with 20 members in an unchartered group. Charlie Utterback created a camp for boy scouts above the Potomac River across from Harpers Ferry, along the Canal Road. After the scout camp lost its leadership, it became a camp of the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Church, serving Maryland, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. In 1947 Charlie was designated a Silver Beaver. Jerry Shewbridge, Nickie Bums, and Howard Foreback were long time leaders when the American Legion sponsored Scouts. Bill Care led the Air Scout group. He took scouting seriously; since the scout motto was "Be Prepared," he used to carry two compasses and two knives in case he lost one. H. Austin Cooper is a lifetime Scout, having joined in 1923 and continued into adulthood. He has earned the Silver Beaver award with a threepalm pin, a fifth-year pin, Red Heart, and Life Saving pin. Nickie Burns is still an active Silver Beaver. In 1987 the National Capitai Area Council observed its 50th anniversary. Thirteen counties and Washington belonged, FSK District, and Brunswick district, having become a part 40 years earlier. Today's Boy Scouts, Brunswick Troop No. 277, are direct descendants of the Boy's Club begun by the Rev. Luther Martin. The present troop of 22 members is led by Mr. Robert Ward, who has had fifteen years in scouting, thirteen as Scoutmaster, and three assistants. Other individuals who have given their time and efforts to scouting are Dr. Wayne Allgaier, Wayne Moler, Mrs. Judy Bacorn Harrison Malone,

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