Q: The Boy Scout Jamboree newspaper for 1953

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Q: The Boy Scout Jamboree newspaper for 1953

Legg inn av KirGo » 26 mar 2007 02:25:59

I apologize if this is not the appropriate place to ask this. [I have NO
clue where else I COULD.]

My mother is in her 80s. Her brother died nearly three decades ago. In
addition to searching our family tree, she is trying to write up detailed
'life stories' of those that she knew well.

She recently discovered that her brother had won a free plane flight back
in 1953 for (apparently) some writing or presentation to the Boy Scouts.

She tried contacting the Boy Scout museum in Texas only to find that the
1953 issue of their paper that might contain the answer to her question
was the ONLY year around that time that they did not have available.


So... her question is: How did 13 year old Bill Monahan win the Boy Scout
Jamboree prize of an across-country flight in a jet plane in 1953?


She said that she would pay $25 to the first person who could
definitively get her this information (possibly with a scan of the paper
if possible, or other source), and her e-mail address for that response
is: Patmonaghan522@aol.com

Again, if this is not an appropriate place to ask this, I sincerely
apologise.

Thank you VERY much for any assistance with this.

~Kirgo

Bruce Remick

Re: The Boy Scout Jamboree newspaper for 1953

Legg inn av Bruce Remick » 26 mar 2007 02:41:01

"KirGo" <kirg@spamex.com> wrote in message
news:Xns98FEDE54065C5kirgspamexcom@207.115.17.102...
I apologize if this is not the appropriate place to ask this. [I have NO
clue where else I COULD.]

My mother is in her 80s. Her brother died nearly three decades ago. In
addition to searching our family tree, she is trying to write up detailed
'life stories' of those that she knew well.

She recently discovered that her brother had won a free plane flight back
in 1953 for (apparently) some writing or presentation to the Boy Scouts.

She tried contacting the Boy Scout museum in Texas only to find that the
1953 issue of their paper that might contain the answer to her question
was the ONLY year around that time that they did not have available.


So... her question is: How did 13 year old Bill Monahan win the Boy Scout
Jamboree prize of an across-country flight in a jet plane in 1953?


She said that she would pay $25 to the first person who could
definitively get her this information (possibly with a scan of the paper
if possible, or other source), and her e-mail address for that response
is: Patmonaghan522@aol.com

Again, if this is not an appropriate place to ask this, I sincerely
apologise.

Thank you VERY much for any assistance with this.

~Kirgo

If you could post the name of Bill Monahan's hometown newspaper in 1953, and
the month he won the prize, maybe someone here might have access to a
searchable online edition of that paper and would be willing to search it
for mention of the event. If it's a very small town, the local library
would be your best bet. If it's a major metropolitan city, I doubt the
story would have made it. However, sometimes human interest stories like
that get picked up by news services and are distributed nationally. In that
case, narrowing down the exact date of the award (or the flight) would make
it easier for anyone attempting to do a search.

Bruce

singhals

Re: Q: The Boy Scout Jamboree newspaper for 1953

Legg inn av singhals » 27 mar 2007 01:35:07

KirGo wrote:

I apologize if this is not the appropriate place to ask this. [I have NO
clue where else I COULD.]

My mother is in her 80s. Her brother died nearly three decades ago. In
addition to searching our family tree, she is trying to write up detailed
'life stories' of those that she knew well.

She recently discovered that her brother had won a free plane flight back
in 1953 for (apparently) some writing or presentation to the Boy Scouts.


There is a Boy Scout newsgroup ... you might check that out;
some of those Scouters were probably AT the '53 Jambo and
kept the papers. ;)

(Google: US Scouting Service as a phrase)

Cheryl

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