Ingersoll Scout Reservation Staff Alumni

Today I've been working on the staff rosters from the 1990s. One of my plans for this site is to get all of the staff rosters from 1965 to today neatly arranged, organized, and generally looking good.

Of course, this takes a long time -- with one person at the wheel.

(Did you see how I tried to induce a little guilt trip there? Boom. You're now compelled to help because you know there's more where that came from.)

So, friends, I could use some help -- some more help, to be honest, because I appreciate all of the help from staff colleagues (whom I worked with) and staff strangers (whom I didn't, unfortunately) so far. Thank you, thank you.

What I'm working on, and want to finish by the end of the week is the 1990s. Step one is to make every roster look the same. 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994 are done. 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 are not. Please help me make the latter five look like the former five. Don't know how? Go to, say, 1991, click the edit tab at the top of the page (assuming you're logged in), and see how it's done. Simple.

If you find yourself with ample motivation, each of the individual staff members linked on the rosters need to be created or edited. This will take a while, but it's braindead easy work. You're essentially going to make everyone's page look like Steve Rhodes' page.

I've been working on the rosters... forever, really, and it will good to bring it to a close, so we can see what our shared camp history looks like. My goal is to get all of the roster pages and all of the linked staff member pages finished by next Sunday 7 March. Thanks for your help.

David Lane sent me an email recently announcing that ISR is hosting a Centennial Staff Reunion on 10 July 2010. That's the centennial of the Boy Scouts of America, not the camp. FYI, etc.

I don't think I'm going, but I still recommend that you go. It will be a blast, I'm sure. Why am I not going? It sounds like I might be angry or annoyed at something, doesn't it? That's not the deal.

Prior to hearing about this reunion, I was making plans with a few other camp friends to go to camp a week or two before the summer camp season started. The centennial reunion sounds like a good time -- but it sounds like a frenetic, program-based, do a hundred things in a day or weekend time.

Do you know what I -- we -- want to do? I want to sit in a tube, on the Cedar Creek, letting in at the Indian Ford Bridge, smoking a cigar, doing absolutely nothing. I want to wander out to the Far East side of camp, to Beaver Bend, to the prairie grass field, and sweat like an idiot while cutting weeds with a hand weed whip. I want to walk the camp from side to side, up and down, with a camera. I want to go to Hickey's Billiards in Abingdon and sit on a stool. If all of this takes less than three days, it's going way too fast for me.

So, maybe I can be convinced. Maybe.