Three Great Ways to Commemorate Yawgoog’s 100th and Build Toward Its 200th The Yawgoog 100 Endowment Fund In order to protect and build upon the legacy of Yawgoog as a “Scout Adventureland, Forever,” Rhode Island Boy Scouts has created a “Yawgoog 100” Endowment Fund. Gifts to this million-dollar fund will be permanently restricted with […]
Yawgoog Alumni Association Members, Our 100th season will be here soon and the planning for our celebrations continues to develop. Thanks to your continued generosity, YAA will again provide Yawgoog with pieces of critical infrastructure to support the program. YAA projects for 2015: Yawgoog Emergency Alert System – this project will provide mass communications across […]
Paul Choquette Jr., Yawgoog 100th Anniversary Committee Chairman, says things are heating up as the group plans the camp’s 100 year anniversary celebration. Activities to mark the event will begin this May during the 100th camping season and continue into 2016. The members of the growing committee meet more frequently now that the 100th Camping […]
In 1927, Calvin Coolidge was president, the U.S. Marines were sent to Nicaragua, Babe Ruth hit his first of what would be 60 home runs for the season, and “Ain’t She Sweet?” by Ben Bernie hit No. 1 on the singles chart. It was also the year Charlie Johnson first attended Camp Yawgoog. Johnson, who […]
Hey, Doug Sherburne – looks like one of our Yawgoog Alumnus came through with identification of some of the people in the photos you sent. Mal Salter, who recognized himself in the photos, identified the other guys he knew. The tall man in the white t-shirt to the left is Mal Salter, who was Waterfront […]
ARCHER, DR. ROY “PAT” (Escondido, CA) 1953 – Pat writes: I was Scoutmaster of Troop 649 Escondido, CA for 38 years. Largest and most active troop in San Diego Council. I have 42 SM’s and 148 boys have earned Eagle Rank during 38 years. I was a Three Point Scoutmaster Provisional Troop in 1953, Assistant […]
Twenty-four-year-old Vincent Criscitelli of Enfield, Conn., learned about volunteering, helping others and working with young people during four years as a staff member at Camp Yawgoog, and these skills have stayed with him. Criscitelli — who won a staff scholarship in 2014 — started as a Tiger Cub, and made Eagle Scout in 2010. “My […]
