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 1                          HOUSE RESOLUTION

 2        WHEREAS, Boy Scout Troop  31  in  Oswego  was  formed  in
 3    January  of  1927  under  the  sponsorship of the PTA (Parent
 4    Teacher Association); and

 5        WHEREAS, The first Scoutmaster was John L.  Clayton,  who
 6    was  also  the Superintendent of Schools in Oswego; the first
 7    scouts that  were  registered  were:  William  Brown,  Howard
 8    Clayton,  John  Collins,  Harlan Collins, Robert Henley, Will
 9    Lamb,  Melvin  Parkhurst,  Franklin  Pearce,  Harlan  Peshia,
10    Stanley  Peterson,  Allan  Schlapp,  Gerald  Seaton,   Norman
11    Whitney, and Merrill Wolfe; and

12        WHEREAS, The sponsorship of the troop continued under the
13    PTA  and  the  High  School  until  1933 when Maurice Hachlin
14    became the Scoutmaster and the  American  Legion  became  the
15    sponsor;  in 1934, Mr. Harold Manning became the Scoutmaster,
16    and he continued in this role until 1937 when Mr. Norm Hulsne
17    assumed the role of Scoutmaster until 1939, when  once  again
18    the  PTA  became the sponsor, and Mr. Ford Lippold became the
19    Scoutmaster; in 1942, Mr. John Luttich became the Scoutmaster
20    and continued in this capacity until  December  of  1945;  in
21    January  of  1946, Mr. Richard Young (Eagle Scout) fresh from
22    the Marine Corps became the new Scoutmaster,  a  position  he
23    held  until  1950;  in  1951,  Mr.  Lippold  again became the
24    Scoutmaster until December of 1956; and

25        WHEREAS, In January of 1957, Mr.  George  Akerlow  became
26    the new Scoutmaster and the sponsorship was once again picked
27    up  by  the  PTA  and  the  High  School; in 1960, Mr. Howard
28    Dannenburg assumed the Scoutmaster  position  which  he  held
29    until  1969; in 1965, the troop had grown so much that it was
30    necessary for a new troop to be formed with some of the older
31    scouts helping to form the nucleus of boys Troop 63 under the
32    sponsorship of the American Legion; in 1967, the  sponsorship
 
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 1    of  the  troop  was assumed by the Oswego Presbyterian Church
 2    and continues to the present day; in 1970, Mr. Charles Schalz
 3    became the 12th Scoutmaster; in 1973, Mr.  Del  LaGow  became
 4    Scoutmaster  and  continued  in  this  role until December of
 5    1983, at that  time  Mr.  Howard  Wesley  became  Scoutmaster
 6    through  1986,  at  which  time  Mr.  LaGow once again became
 7    Scoutmaster and continued until 1993; Mr. Greg Lambke  became
 8    the  new  Scoutmaster  in  1994  and continued until 1997; in
 9    1998, Mr.  LaGow  assumed  the  Scoutmaster  position  on  an
10    interim  basis,  and  in  1999  Mr. Neal Schilling became the
11    Scoutmaster and continued in this position through 2001; and

12        WHEREAS, Since the Troop's formation, they have  averaged
13    an  Eagle  Scout  every  one and one half years; in 1929, Mr.
14    Merrill Wolfe and Mr. Harlan Peshia became  the  first  Eagle
15    Scouts in the troop; and

16        WHEREAS,  The  young  men  of  Troop  31  have gone on to
17    distinguish themselves  in  all  walks  of  life;  there  are
18    schoolteachers,  businessmen,  two United States Navy Academy
19    graduates, a career officer in  the  United  States  Army,  a
20    Chief  Judge  of  the  Circuit  Court,  a  States Attorney, a
21    Pharmacist,  three  Police  Officers,  an  author  and  noted
22    naturalist, lawyers in environmental law and national  forest
23    rangers;  and  almost 85 percent of all Scouts that have gone
24    through Troop 31 have gone on to  higher  education  in  some
25    form; therefore, be it

26        RESOLVED,   BY   THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES  OF  THE
27    NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,  that
28    we  commemorate  75  years  of  scouting  in  Oswego  and the
29    contributions the scouts' of Troop  31  have  made  to  their
30    community over the years; and be it further

31        RESOLVED,  That  a  suitable  copy  of this resolution be
32    presented to the Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 31.