Building Camp. T. Ben Johston, circa 1922

dc.date.accessioned	2019-09-25T15:58:13Z
dc.date.available	2019-09-25T15:58:13Z
dc.date.issued	0000-00-00
dc.identifier.uri	http://dspace.willardlibrary.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/1000000567
dc.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.	en_US
dc.format.medium	4x5 BW negative
dc.subject	boy scouts Sherman Lake YMCA	en_US
dc.title	Building Camp. T. Ben Johston, circa 1922	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.description.envelope	SCOUT CAMP T. BEN JOHNSTON 10/21/78 HISTORICAL - EARLY 1920'S BATTLE CREEK KIWANIANS, ROTARIANS, LAWYERS, DOCTORS AND BUSINESSMEN.. "POOLED THEIR EFFORTS TO DEVELOP A CAMP SUITABLE FOR BOY SCOUTS...
dc.description.photographer	Submitted
dc.description.taxonomy	Recreation/Leisure\|Camps, campgrounds	en_US