Description:
This photograph supplied by Clair Evans for a Oct. 21, 1978, article in the Enquirer and News, documents the construction of Camp T. Ben Johnston on Sherman Lake near Augusta. Evans described a group of "Kiwanians, Rotarians, lawyers, doctors and businessmen — the greatest cooperative effort we'd seen" who pooled their efforts to develop a camp suitable for the growing number Boy Scout troops in the area. Johnston, for whom the camp was named, served as scouting's chief executive in the area for more the 27 years, retiring in 1950. The Boy Scouts consolidated regional camping activities to site nearer Kalamazoo in the mid-1980s and returned the Sherman Lake land to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. That land would eventually become the site of the Sherman Lake YMCA.