relating to my dad, Larry Teshara (Mr. T)
Uncle Zeke, "Blue Cards"! "Get ON With It!!!" , (the horror story of) Murphy's Gulch, (the order of the arrow story of) Eagle Eye, Citizenship Merit Badges (in the Community, Nation, World), Communication Merit Badge, 3 chairs for Camp Royaneh (a pun on 3 cheers), Selling uniforms from the back of the Vanagon, Eating it's it's from the Trading Post, the M and M game, and, of course, being thrown into the pool! There was also a thing for a time called the Larry Teshara / Art Sawada friendship grove. As a commissioner, he gave brief camp history lessons/anecdotes, in the morning. When the staff gathered around the campfire, he would lead the song beginning "When the dreary hours of Winter pass away"...
more personal memories: Little Zeke, King Cairn, working on math notebooks in the Chief's Room, Molly the Mop. Dad threw me in the pool when he found out I was playing along with a prank to make him think I was bloody and injured. Kind of a mean thing to do, in retrospect. I was worried about my watch getting wet. I also remember bunking with him, and falling from the upper bunk while asleep.
I'm planning on going to the dedication ceremony there on 8/21, of the Larry Teshara Scoutcraft building, built with donations from his Troop 351 (of which he was the Scoutmaster). I forget which Troop he was in, as a youth. I'm going with my mom, who is kind of the High Priestess of the Cult of Larry, lol. I don't think dad ever told her the Murphy's Gulch story, though (which, to me, is a little weird).
No comments:
Post a Comment