A diorama from the past; 1955 and Cub Scouts

[Wickersham Humble]

This is a 'kit diorama' supplied by Standard Oil for our Cub Scout Den; mom Ida Grace Humble was the job forewoman!  I'm the geek on the right, top row.  Why is the F4U bombing the site?  The Cessna I was building went GB on me (age ten) and mom insisted that some survey aircraft be depicted, per the instructions, so it was available.

Were those the days? 

Wicky, seventy years later...   L to R: accountant, Forest Ranger, hippie, teacher, and Secret Service Agent (at Reagan's near-assignation) later. Mom teacher, also.

[espo]

See what Scouting has prepared you and your Troop Mates for in life. 

[Wickersham Humble]

I was an enthusiastic Scout; got to 2nd Class in BSA, but our Scout Master's dry cleaning business went belly up, and he emigrated to a new locale to try again.  A badly crippled 20-year-old Eagle Scout tried to keep old Troop 32 together (Alturas, CA) but it was about 1959, and it just dried up. I was troop bugler.

We had Buffalo Patrol; leader was Robert Hight, the uncle and namesake of Force Funnycar driver, Robert Hight.  He had the fastest car in our little burg (Pop. 3000) with his '62 Plymouth Sport Fury; my '55 Chevy could hold him in first gear, but I was giving away 100 cu-in. and it wasn't any race.  Funny Hight's dad, his little bro, raced me in his mom's '61 Imperial 413 (well, I had hopes...) and lost that too. He got a '64 Max Wegde; family was rich.  Still in touch with Robert the uncle.

Yeah, Scouting, five seasons of USFS fire-fighting, and then the Army... I got an MA in Art/Education, then taught Kindergarten.

Wick

[sidcharles]

that's some Norman Rockwell posing, it is.