SCOUTS LEARN ABOUT COLONEL WHO MADE MEN.Byline: Dennis McCarthy Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
The Boy Scouts fidgeted in the pews of St. Michael's and All Angels Episcopal Church Episcopal Church, Anglican church of the United States. Its separate existence as an American ecclesiastical body with its own episcopate began in 1789. Doctrine and Organization in Studio City on Saturday, wishing they were just about anywhere but here in a crowded church on a bright, sunny afternoon. It was prime playtime they were giving up to pay homage to the memory of an old man none of them knew personally. A man named Col. Rhodes Dawson, the founder of their Boy Scout Troop 139, who had died last month at age 106 in his North Hollywood home. He had been a colorful, historic old soldier, the boys had been told - raised on a wild horse ranch The Wild Horse Ranch is the original of the two legal, licensed brothels located on the property of the Wild Horse Adult Resort & Spa at 1000 Wild Horse Canyon Drive in northeastern Storey County, Nevada, USA. on the Rio Grande in Texas, where his parents sold horses to the U.S. Cavalry at the turn of the last century. He was off to join the Army in 1915, where he saddle-broke horses in Oklahoma, rising quickly through the ranks later as an explosives expert. Teaching explosives to the legendary Lawrence of Arabia Lawrence of Arabia: see Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence of Arabia T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935), legendary hero, led Arab revolt against Turkey. [Br. Hist.: Benét, 572] See : Adventurousness in World War I and serving as chief engineer on the Burma Road under Gen. Joseph Stillwell in World War II. Retiring from the United States Army Corps of Engineers The United States Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE, is a federal agency made up of some 34,600 civilian and 650 military men and women. The Corps's mission is to provide military and civil works engineering services to the United States, including: A remarkable man who was still spry An application framework from Adobe for building rich Internet applications using HTML. Spry takes the tedium out of writing AJAX code and also includes routines for creating animation effects and building widgets. For more information, visit http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry. and active up to the century mark of his life, he climbed mountains and spent almost every weekend at the Sherman Oaks Galleria Sherman Oaks Galleria is a shopping mall and business center located in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California at the corner of Ventura and Sepulveda Boulevards in the San Fernando Valley. Locals colloquially refer to the mall simply as "the Galleria. recruiting boys to join the Boy Scouts of America Noun 1. Boy Scouts of America - a corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training . Recruiting them to be the kind of man he had been. Self-reliant and a leader. That was the colonel's resume, but it barely scratched the surface of the man. The eulogies from the men who sat in this church with the boys Saturday would do that - the men who had been Scouts under the colonel decades ago, when they were boys. And like a good mystery book or scary movie, the stories began to reel the boys in. They stopped fidgeting and began to listen intently as men who are leaders in their career fields today began to talk about what it was like being a Boy Scout under the colonel. Doctors, lawyers, professionals from all fields talking about how tough he was, how he breached no insolence in·so·lence n. 1. The quality or condition of being insolent. 2. An instance of insolent behavior, treatment, or speech. Noun 1. , and everything had to be done by the numbers. How he would rip the leadership patch off your shirt for the merest infraction Violation or infringement; breach of a statute, contract, or obligation. The term infraction is frequently used in reference to the violation of a particular statute for which the penalty is minor, such as a parking infraction. INFRACTION. of rules, how he expected - no, demanded - total discipline and respect. ``One day, I was so mad at him, I blurted out, go to hell, sir,'' said one of the colonel's Scouts, who is now a doctor in Bass Lake. ``He looked down at me sternly, and replied, `Well, at least you addressed me properly.' '' The boys laughed. Wow, that colonel was really something, the looks they gave each other said. Others talked about the colonel ripping loose buttons off their uniforms and throwing their mess kits away for fooling around. But through all the tough words, the softness always came through at the end. The last line of every eulogy was always the same. The colonel made them men. When it was all said and done, when their Boy Scouting years were over, every one of these Scouts walked away better, stronger individuals for the discipline. Walked away with a place in their hearts for the colonel that was so strong it would bring them to this church 30 and 40 years later from all over the country to eulogize eu·lo·gize tr.v. eu·lo·gized, eu·lo·giz·ing, eu·lo·giz·es To praise highly in speech or writing, especially in a formal eulogy. eu the man with tears in their eyes. As he drove a car full of the boys home after the memorial service was over Saturday, the man who has taken the colonel's place with Troop 139 smiled as he listened to them talk in the back seat. ``They were excited about looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the colonel's name in the history books when they got back to school, and talked about how strict Boy Scouting was back then compared to today,'' said Troop 139 Scoutmaster Steve Field, a special education teacher from Glendale. ``They weren't happy about having to be there when the service began, but by the time it was over and they'd heard all those stories and seen the tears, they'd gotten a better idea of what it means to be a Boy Scout than anything I could tell them.'' Dan Kubelka agrees. The Cleveland High School teacher has a son in Troop 139 and was one of the colonel's closest friends toward the end of his life. The colonel would have liked the scene Saturday, he said. Oh, he might have walked down the aisles once or twice to tell the boys to sit up straighter or to make sure all their buttons were buttoned. But he would have winked and smiled at their parents behind their backs, whispering that a little discipline never hurt anybody. Just ask the boys who were Scouts under him 30 and 40 years ago. MEMO: Dennis McCarthy's column appears Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. |
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