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MAY 29 TH, 2014 John Clark General Manager/Direcor of High Advenure, Uni 1 Welcome o God s Counry, beer known as Philmon! For many of you, his is your firs ime in he Land of Enchanmen. For ohers, his is a reurn o Scouing paradise. Regardless of your job or ile, he goal is sill he same: o deliver he safes and bes oudoor program for our Scouing families. Our promise is o deliver wilderness advenures ha las a lifeime. You are he mos imporan par of delivering ha promise. Every summer, when I si down o wrie his, I have ried o say he same hing differen ways. I always comes ou he same. People come o Philmon for various reasons, I am sure you can idenify wih ha. As I wach our paricipans come and go, I ofen wonder if we me heir expecaions? Since you are on our fronline of program delivery, PHILNEWS 76 YEARS did we help you mee your expecaions? The goal of our managemen saff is o say yes o boh of hese quesions. Please share wih us your ideas of how we can do his bigger and beer, I would appreciae your feedback. This summer you will be challenged and esed. You will probably ge we, cold, lose some sleep, be sore from hings you have never done and have more blisers han you have had in your life. However, my guess is wihin a few monhs of reurning back o college and he real world, you will forge all of ha. Philmon has a way of making he bad days go Coninued on page 5 OF PHILMONT Reurn o Scouing Paradise Sharing he Journey Regardless of your job or ile, he goal is sill he same: o deliver he safes and bes oudoor program for our Scouing families. Mark Anderson Direcor of Program, Uni 2 Welcome everyone! Throughou he spring as applicaions are reviewed and leers of employmen are prepared, I am always impressed wih he remendous amoun of alen ha each of you will share during he The combinaion of all of your alens and passion will ensure ha we are able o fulfill he expecaions of each paricipan boh a he Philmon Training Cener and in he various backcounry camping programs. This summer we will welcome he 1 millionh backcounry paricipan! This should happen BANQUET ISSUE Saff Opening Program Deailed Schedule 1:30 p.m. Saff gaher a Greensward of he Villa Philmone near he pond; please bring sunscreen, rain gear and a waer bole 2 p.m. Saff Opening Welcome wih leadership Inroducions and welcome back aciviies 3:15 p.m. Divide ino assigned 25 saff groups for small group discussion 5:45 Ringing of he bell a he Opening Saff Dinner a Camper Dining Hall 6 p.m. Opening saff dinner a he Camper Dining Hall Samanha Waidler/Phoography Manager 2011 someime in he early par of July. o an expeced 22,400 during he We ended 2013 wih a oal 2014 camping season. of 987,375, jus 12,625 shor of 1 John Updike said, You canno million. Our summer numbers help bu learn more as you ake have grown from 196 in 1939 he world ino your hands. Take i during he firs camping season Coninued on page 5 7 p.m. Chapel services in he following radiions: Proesan, Caholic, Jewish and LDS 8 p.m. Gaher a Baldy Pavilion a he SSSAC for keynoe speaker Bob Birkby, auhor of he new BSA Field Book Samanha Waidler/Phoography Manager 2011 9:15 p.m. Music and fellowship a Baldy Pavilion

2 PhilNews Thursday, May 29, 2014 NEWS AND PHOTO TEAM NPS Manager Bryan Hayek PhilNews Edior Amanda Push PhilNews Wriers Sco Allen Dallas Elmore Kyle Nuer Eme Ramirez-Blood Phoography Manager Erin Irwin Phoographers Kailyn Chaballa Morgan Cour Chrisine Henri Cassidy Johnson Sephen Maurer John Michell Behany Nilson Phoo Lab Lead Imara Chew Phoo Lab Techs Collin Anderson Peer Friendland Markeing Manager Jessica Micheli Markeing Saff Dominic Baima Lead Videographer Gabe Marchei Videographer Connor Black PhilmonScouRanch.org Thursday, 29 Friday, 30 Saurday, 31 Sunday, 1 Monday, 2 Tuesday, 3 Wednesday, 4 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. SSSAC Blood Drive Aims and Mehods a PTC Assembly Hall 5:30 p.m. Horse deparmen/ program counselor of wesern lore camps cookou a Mark Anderson s house May 29-June 11 Inro o Leave No Trace a Baldy Pavilion 7 p.m. Driver Training a PTC Assembly Hall Aims and Mehods a PTC Assembly Hall 1:30 p.m. Inro o Leave No Trace a Baldy Pavilion (second opporuniy) 6:30 p.m. Living Hisory Town Hall Gahering a Baldy Pavilion Living Hisory Skills Day a Rayado A Fish Experience a Baldy Pavilion 11:15 a.m. Old Mill Tour; mee a Welcome Cener 5:30 p.m. PTC Buffalo BBQ a PTC Greensward 7 p.m. PTC Counry Dance a PTC Assembly Hall 1:30 p.m. All saff gaher on Villa Lawn 7 p.m. Camp Direcor s Campfire a Ranger Rendevous Closing Campfire a Beaubien Area Thursday, 5 Friday, 6 Saurday, 7 Sunday, 8 Monday, 9 Tuesday, 10 Wednesday, 11 8 a.m. Scaer Day One 7 p.m. Driver Training a PTC Assembly Hall 8 p.m. Ranger Campfire a Closing Campfire area 8 a.m. Scaer Day Two Aims and Mehods a PTC Assembly Hall 8 p.m. Telluride Film Fesival a Hardesy Casa Cenral 8 a.m. Scaer Day Three CHQ Saff Dining Hall opens for supper 8 p.m. Saff Snack Bar Even 8 a.m. Firs crews arrive Backcounry opens for hiking Useful Philmon Acronyms Tooh of Time Traders opens for season a regular hours When one visis Philmon for he firs ime, i is easy o recognize ha he Ranch has a unique vocabulary. For hose visiing or working a he ranch for he firs ime, i may be a lile confusing a firs, bu forunaely is easy o pick up on. Here is a guide o Philmon s mos commonly used acronyms and lingo. ACD: Assisan Camp Direcor ACR: Associae Chief Ranger Baldy: Baldy Pavillion (for evens), M. Baldy, or Baldy Camp CD: Camp Direcor Chief: Chief Ranger CHQ: Camping Headquarers Cio: Cimmaroncio Cons: Conservaion GIS: Geographical Informaion Sysems HAB: High Advenure Base HOD: Head of Dean HOmE: Heaven on Earh I-Camp: Inercamp mail IW: Indian Wriings NAYLE: Naional Advanced Youh Leadership Experience NPS: News and Phoo Services OATC: Order of he Arrow Trail Crew Trek PJ: Phillips Juncion PhilSAR: Philmon Search and Rescue PTC: Philmon Training Cener RO: Ranger Office ROCS: Roving Oudoor Conservaion School RT: Ranger Trainer SSSAC: Silver Sage Saff Aciviies Cener Swapbox: A place o rade unwaned food TC: Training Crew TOTT: Tooh of Time Traders TP: Trading Pos The Val: he Valle Vidal Valle: he Valle Vidal Lae arriving saff raining (conduced Monday hrough Wednesdays hroughou he summer) 10 a.m. Valle Vidal Camp Meeings a Ring Place Lae arriving saff raining (conduced Monday hrough Wednesdays hroughou he summer) Lae arriving saff raining (conduced Monday hrough Wednesdays hroughou he summer) Fire Level Warning Aenion all saff! Despie having rain he pas several days, Philmon experienced a below average snow and rainfall over he pas winer. A few fire resricions are currenly in place across he ranch. As a resul, saff and paricipans are prohibied from doing he following: Seing off fireworks Smoking excep for in designaed areas Making crew or saff campfires Saring open fires Thank you for complying wih our fire resricions in order o keep Philmon a safe place. We also ask ha you keep in mind he imporance of conserving waer, especially during his drough period. Be aware of how much waer you use and m w c p n m e w a a s y w l f h s v a m n w c b h n h i n I

PhilmonScouRanch.org PhilNews 3 Thursday, May 29, 2014 A Job Well Done The View From up Top Seve Nelson Comproller, Uni 3 The monh of May is one of y favorie imes of he year. The eaher has changed, he leaves are oming ou, bu mos imporanly, he Philmon Saff begin o arrive. We ge o see friends from revious years and we ge o mee ew people ha are filled wih ha amazing enhusiasm ha will ake his year he bes ever. You ach have numerous alens ha ill be pu o work o bring abou grea Philmon experience for ll he people who come here his ummer. Those alens, along wih our skills and enhusiasm, are ha will make his summer he wilderness experience ha lass a ifeime for our paricipans. A few weeks ago, I had he anasic opporuniy o ravel o Cusco, Peru wih a medical umaniarian expediion. We pen en days raveling o remoe illages in he mounains of Peru o give medical nd denal care o people who, in any cases, do o have access o ha care. I as ruly a lifehanging experience. I was able o e par of a group ha served his umble and graeful people. I was given hugs from umerous people who waned o hank me for being here o elp. I was again able o learn he mporance of serving ohers. Is ha o wha we do here a Philmon? hope ha you consanly remind yourself ha he rewards you will receive are from serving ohers: paricipans, leaders and our oher saff members. A he end of our rip we were forunae o be able o ravel o he famous sie of Machu Picchu. I was A few weeks ago, I had he fanasic opporuniy o ravel o Cusco, Peru wih a medical, humaniarian expediion. amazing o be a ha incredible sie and ry o undersand he civilizaion ha occupied hose mounains. While here, we were able o climb he mounain Waynapicchu, he famous mounain you see in many picures of Machu Picchu. We climbed up hundreds of seps ha had been painsakingly carved ino he mounain side. Talk abou amazing rail building skills. As we reached he op, he view was incredible. We were looking back down a Machu Picchu, he mounains surrounding i and down ino he Sacred Valley. Tha view made me hink of many hings, one of which was vision, Have you hough abou wha kind of saff member you wan o be? Kay Mooney/Phoography Manager 2012 Coninued on page 5 Chris Sawyer Associae Direcor of Program, Uni??? Welcome o Philmon! Working here has augh me a grea deal, bu my mos imporan learning experience was wih my firs crew as a Ranger. We had hiked up Bonio Canyon from Old Abreu and were approaching our desinaion for he nigh, Lookou Meadow. Before reaching camp, a hailsorm came over he ridge. We scurried o he ouskirs of he meadow and ook cover in he rees. I remember no knowing exacly wha o do, bu we ook ou he dining fly and se up a makeshif sheler. Afer he rain slowed, we hiked he res of he way o camp, se up our ens and prepared dinner afer which he rain sared again. I had waned o ake my crew o wach he sunse from Craer Peak, bu we rereaed o our ens. As I was wriing a journal enry abou our day on he rail, he weaher began o clear. I dropped my pen, checked he clouds and quickly gahered everyone o begin hiking. As we neared he op of Craer Peak, he sun was sinking ino he mounain and filled he horizon. I was gorgeous. There was a sense of calm and renewal ha lef us silen. Even as srangers, we developed a common rus and connecion ha nigh. I had been able o share one of my favorie places wih hem jus as i had been shared wih me many years before. On he way back, everyone alked abou he nigh s amazemen. Despie being exhaused, we sa and alked in he meadow while waching he sar-filled sky. Before going o bed ha nigh, I wen back o finish he journal passage. I wroe abou he fulfillmen of sharing ha momen wih my firs crew, and seeing he look in heir eyes as he colors changed. I wroe abou how siing in he meadow wih hose eigh Scous and wo advisors made me feel compleely a home. I wroe abou being confiden in knowing ha I had done my job well. The closing line of he enry read, I ve go he bes job in he world. These are all hings ha I hope you will have he opporuniy o feel, boh a Philmon and when you reurn home a he end of he Enjoy each day, bu remember o use every one o hink abou wha seps i will ake o land a job ha will make you happy in he fuure. Think abou your ineress, your skills, your srenghs and how hey migh line up in a way ha will se you up for success in life. Our goal is for you o lead happy and fulfilling lives so you can say you have he bes job in A few weeks ago, I had he fanasic opporuniy o ravel o Cusco, Peru wih a medical, humaniarian expediion. he world and make a difference in i a he same ime. We are all here for he same reason. Do whaever i akes o share our love for Philmon and he oudoors wih each person you mee. They will appreciae your unwavering work ehic, be inspired by your unmached enhusiasm and remember your genuine ineres in heir lives.

4 PhilNews Thursday, May 29, 2014 PhilmonScouRanch.org A Million Momens David O Neill Associae Direcor of Program, Uni 5 Welcome back saff! I is once again ime o embark upon anoher epic journey, oherwise known as a summer a Philmon Scou Ranch! The husle and busle of saff in raining, ens popping up in Ten Ciy, crews compleing projecs all over he ranch and now he rain are all wonderful signs of he hings o come in jus a few shor weeks. As we move ino he 76h year a Philmon Scou Ranch, we have much o be excied for. Our newes backcounry camp a Mecalf Saion will now be open! The rails have arrived, ies are on he way and consrucion coninues on he faciliies ha will re-creae he life and imes of he Cimarron and Norhwesern Railway. Bu, before you can even ge o Mecalf, you have o pass hrough he Chase Ranch, which is also now a par of he program offerings a Philmon in 2014. Beween he wo, he Norh Ponil will be very busy wih many new and exciing aciviies for housands o enjoy! Probably he mos imporan momen we ge o celebrae his summer, however, is he milesone of he millionh paricipan a Philmon Scou Ranch. How exciing is ha? To hink a million ohers have had he advenure of a lifeime in hese mounains is almos mind blowing. Think of he many kinds of momens ha hose million people have been hrough: momens of challenge, joy, inspiraion, advenure, pain, leadership, fun he lis goes on and on. Think of your own special momen a Philmon. To hink a million ohers have had he advenure of a lifeime in hese mounains is almos mind blowing. Wha was ha like? Wha do you remember? Wha keeps you coming back for more each and every year? An old friend of mine recenly reminisced of his ime a Philmon. He wroe: I go addiced (o Philmon) in a way ha is beyond comprehension o anyone who has no experienced i firshand. I have never been anywhere else, before or since, across his whole world, ha I feel as alive and relevan as I feel in hose mounains. Tha lile 214 square mile pach of he souhern Rockies is 100 percen responsible for everyhing ha is good and righ in my life oday. I can never repay ha deb. Think of he momens ha he experienced ha caused him o be able o wrie hose words 25 years laer. Think of he beauy of he mounains, he program, he saff, he friendships and experiences Erin Irwin/Phoography Manager he mus have had. Think of your own experiences and how hey have inspired you. Now, hink of how you can do he same hing for he 23,000 paricipans we will see his Le s make i a grea summer and fill i wih a million wonderful momens! An Amazing Journey David Werhane Museum Direcor Greeings and welcome Philmon saff! I hope you re all ready for an amazing journey. Afer sevenysix years, Philmon is sill full of surprises. Wih he help of our neighbors in he Ponil Counry, we have over 244,000 acres of opporuniy: sunses over Rayado Canyon, dinosaur racks, massive elk herds, snow covered peaks of Baldy and Lile Cosilla and lefover relics from Naive Americans, froniersmen and miners. Bes of all, le s no forge ha infecious smile on a camper s face as he finally makes i o he op of ha ridge, spar pole or campsie. This year you will be a par of a season larger han iself. By Augus, you will have become woven ino a million life changing experiences, a million hikes and a million Philmon memories. I will go by fas, so make plans now! I s a big place and some of i, like he Chase Ranch, will be a new experience for all of us. Confused abou how, why and wha we do on some of hose oher properies in he Ponil counry? Come o he Museum and cross he fence ino our exhibi, Parners on he Ponil. I guaranee i will help clear up hose someimes confusing deails. Why i jus migh even inspire you o venure norh and hike he hisoric Cimarron & Norhwesern Railway or sroll hrough a savannah ype Ponderosa fores, or perhaps even learn he value of wildland sewardship and good neighbors. As always, I encourage you o ake in wha Philmon and he Philmon museums have o offer. Tour he Villa, explore he Rayado Selemen, discover he hisoric Chase Ranch, come o he museum and dive ino our hisory. And don forge he Seon Memorial Library: i s your resource so come in, check ou a book and go read i in our naurally li, 137,000 acre reading room. Kay Mooney/Phoography Manager 2012 This is your summer, enjoy each momen, creae memories and don forge o share hem wih ohers! Bueno suere!

PhilmonScouRanch.org PhilNews 5 Thursday, May 29, 2014 A Sense of Curiosiy Andrea Wason Associae Direcor of PTC Program, Uni 7 Greeings from he Philmon Training Cener! Wha an exciing summer awais as we celebrae he 1 millionh Scou a Philmon Scou Ranch. One million! This is an incredible milesone and as we reflec back on 1 million lifechanging wilderness experiences, I know Waie Phillips would be proud of wha Philmon Scou Ranch and he Training Cener has become. When you look a he hisory of Philmon, you see an evoluion of program ha consanly seeks o push furher and do hings beer. I reminds me of wha Wal Disney once said, We don look backwards for very long... we keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new hings because we re curious and curiosiy keeps leading us down new pahs. This curiosiy is a criical elemen in he success of Philmon programs and I hope each of us can find ways o be more curious his Our curiosiy will ensure ha we coninue o mee he needs of he nex 1 million Scous who will come o Philmon. Le s ask ourselves how we can do our jobs beer. Is here a beer way o do his ask? How can we beer serve our guess? How can we exceed heir expecaions? The lis can go on and on! Share your ideas wih your supervisor and be par of aking Philmon s programs o he nex level. Smiley Blanon said, A sense of curiosiy is naure s original school of educaion. Our curiosiy will ensure ha we coninue o mee he needs of he nex 1 million Scous who will come o Philmon. To quoe Alber Einsein, I have no special alens. I am only passionaely curious. I hope you come have fun a PTC his summer! PTC has served as he Naional Training Cener of he Boy Scous of America since 1950. In fac, Waie Phillips dreamed ha his Philmon ranch would be he home of voluneer raining for he Boy Scous. He also waned he opporuniy for families o come and experience Philmon ogeher. He saw he joy ha his wife and daugher had a Philmon and knew ha Philmon wasn jus for he rugged advenurer. Waie fel srongly ha families who experienced Philmon ogeher would be beer for i, jus as his family was. I is wih his coninued vision ha we embark on anoher exciing year a PTC. Kay Mooney/Phoography Manager 2012 Everyone is welcome o come over o PTC and ake par in our evening programs: Monday is cobbler nigh a he Eas and Souh Ten Ciies. On Tuesdays, our buffalo barbecue akes place a 5:30 p.m. on he Greensward, followed by he Kwahadi Indian Dancers and hen a Wesern Nigh dance a 7:30 p.m. in he Assembly Hall. Wednesday evenings, we feaure he classic Boy Scou movie Follow Me, Boys a 7 p.m. in he Assembly Hall. Thursdays, he one and only Wannabe Band will play on he Dining Hall Veranda, and a sar sudy a he Program Bowl a dusk. Our Opening Program is on Sundays and Closing Program is on Fridays. The Craf Cener is open and available for saff as well. I has exciing new projecs including ceramics, leaherwork, mosaics, incredible ie-dye and so much more! Check ou he flyers in he SSSAC for a full lis of he fun PTC has o offer each week. I look forward o meeing each and every one of you. See you on he rail! Coninued from Page Three: View From up Top no our eyesigh, bu he vision ha we mus have in order o be successful in our endeavors his Have you hough abou wha kind of saff member you wan o be? Have you picured yourself being successful in whaever job you have his summer? Of course we have, bu as I hough from he op of ha mounain, I could see many hings and we need o envision ourselves going furher han we may hink we need o. We need o go he exra mile o serve ohers. From here, we will be able o see and go furher. One final hough on vision and service: Some of he world s Coninued from Page One: Sharing he Journey reverenly, for i is an old piece of clay, wih millions of humbprins on i. This is my hope for you his I know ha you will each learn new hings as you embrace your 2014 advenure. As you begin he raining process, do your bes o prepare yourself. Engage in every aspec of raining. Pracice and evaluae your effors and commi yourself o a summer of learning. Each day we can do he job beer, no only because we have praciced i again bu we have Coninued from Page One: Scouing Paradise away. I s par of he magic! The lifelong friends and memories you will make, he sunses and sunrises you will experience, he mounains you will climb, he sorms you will see pass and he spiri of our paricipans ha you will encouner is all ha you will remember. Some of he world s greaes feas were accomplished by people no smar enough o know hey were impossible. greaes feas were accomplished by people no smar enough o know hey were impossible. May each of you have an incredible summer, doing amazing hings ha will bring you and he ohers you serve joy and happiness. And may you have he vision o ruly see how incredible you are and o see how much you can do. found addiional ways o improve our skills and enhance our delivery. This summer, your memories will be added o hose of he firs million backcounry paricipans. Your finger prins will become par of he legacy. Wih reference we should each begin his journey. Togeher we will help each oher and each paricipan experience a personal ransformaion as we ake par in he advenure and grow while meeing he challenges of he rail. I look forward o sharing he journey wih you! Presenly, we are planning for over 22,500 o paricipae in backcounry programs, over 4,000 a PTC, he opening of our 35h saff camp, Mecalf Saion, and we are saring our firs summer a he Chase Ranch. Congraulaions in helping us wrie a new chaper in he hisory of Philmon Scou Ranch!

6 PhilNews Thursday, May 29, 2014 PhilmonScouRanch.org Mee he Chaplains Chaplain s Corner Le me share wih you a modern day urban legend. I is a nice sory and one ha carries a valuable moral lesson: people should no make snap judgmens based on a person s iniial appearance or demeanor. Read i and enjoy. As a Philmon chaplain I give you his sory wih grea love and admiraion for wha you do and who you are individually and collecively as he 2014 Philmon saff. Afer you have read his sory, I have one favor o ask: le s rea everyone we mee his summer as children of a loving God, wih respec, couresy, and friendliness. Remember, people will forge wha you say. People will forge wha you do. Bu people will never forge how you made hem feel. God bless each of you his The Gingham Dress Kay Mooney/Phoography Manager 2012 Elder David Wilson LDS Chaplain and Chaplain Coordinaor Happy 76h anniversary Philmon! For 2014 I have been given an exciing opporuniy o serve as he Church of Jesus Chris of Laer-day Sains (LDS) Chaplain and his summer we have he opporuniy o see he millionh Scou come o Philmon! When I am no a Philmon I am somewha gainfully employed a a non-profi organizaion specializing in energy efficiency, conservaion, and susainabiliy in he housing and consrucion indusry. I am an Eagle Scou and have received boh he youh and adul religious awards for he LDS faih. Hey, I even have hobbies ouside of Scouing and Philmon (gasp!). I grow orchids, I am a Professional Associaion of Diving Insrucors (PADI) cerified scuba insrucor, a cerified USA Track & Field official (USATF), as well as a recenly cerified Wilderness Firs Aid Insrucor. I am a PADI cerified scuba insrucor, a cerified USA Track and Field official and a Wilderness Firs Aid Insrucor. When no a Philmon, I call Orem, Uah my home. A Philmon his year, I have he blessing o have wih me my very paien wife Charlene o help me be a beer person. As a las poin never fear rue believers as in years pas, I shall srive o coninue o assis he CHQ Dining Hall saff wih he creaion of creaive eggs on Friday mornings (Fla Egg Fridays) hroughou he I look forward o meeing and working wih all of you his A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun hreadbare sui, sepped off he rain in Boson, and walked imidly, wihou an appoinmen, ino he Harvard Universiy Presiden s ouer office. The secreary could ell in a momen ha such backwoods, counry hicks had no business a Harvard and probably didn even deserve o be in Cambridge We d like o see he presiden, he man said sofly. He ll be busy all day, he secreary snapped. We ll wai, he lady replied. For hours he secreary ignored hem, hoping ha he couple would finally become discouraged and go away. They didn and he secreary grew frusraed. She finally decided o disurb he presiden, even hough i was a chore she always regreed. Maybe if you see hem for a few minues, hey ll leave, she said o him. He sighed in exasperaion and nodded. Someone of his imporance obviously didn have he ime o spend wih hem, and he deesed gingham dresses and homespun suis cluering up his ouer office. The presiden, sern faced and wih digniy, srued oward he couple. The lady said: We had a son who aended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. Bu abou a year ago, he was accidenally killed. My husband and I would like o erec a memorial o him, somewhere on campus. The presiden wasn ouched. He was shocked. Madam, he said gruffly, We can pu up a saue for every person who aended Harvard and died. If we did, his place would look like a cemeery. Oh, no, he lady explained quickly. We don wan o erec a saue. We hough we would like o give a building o Harvard. The busy presiden rolled his eyes. He glanced a he gingham He loved Harvard. He was happy here. Bu abou a year ago, he was accidenally killed. dress and homespun sui, and hen exclaimed: A building! Do you have any earhly idea how much a building coss? We have over seven and a half million dollars in he physical buildings here a Harvard. You can easily judge he characer of ohers by how hey rea hose hey hink can do nohing for hem. For a momen he lady was silen. The presiden was pleased. Maybe he could ge rid of hem now. The lady urned o her husband and said quiely, Is ha all i coss o sar a universiy? Why don we jus sar our own? Her husband nodded. The presiden s face wiled in confusion and bewildermen. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Sanford go up and walked away, raveling o Palo Alo, Calif. where hey esablished he universiy ha bears heir name, Sanford Universiy: a memorial o a son ha Harvard no longer cared abou. You can easily judge he characer of ohers by how hey rea hose hey hink can do nohing for hem. Chapel services begin Friday, May 30 a 7 p.m. They will coninue each nigh a Camping Headquarers unil Augus 20 wih he following services offered: Jewish, Caholic, Proesan and Church of Jesus Chris of Laer-day Sains.

PhilmonScouRanch.org PhilNews 7 Thursday, May 29, 2014 Philmon Jargon Backcounry Baldy Pavilion Basecamp Camp Direcor Chaplain CHQ Compass Conservaion COPE Hiking essenials HOmE I-Camp Inerps Moun Baldy NAYLE OATC PhilNews PTC Radios Rangers Rayado ROCS Search and rescue Single Digis Swapbox Ten Ciy Tooh of Time Trading Pos Trek Valle Vidal Villa Philmone Warehouse Connec o Pas, PRESENT, and fuure Philmon saff wih he PHILMONT STAFF ASSOCIATION Look forward o: High Counry magazine, year- round evens, PSA waer boles and oher iems, books abou Philmon hisory and lore, Seasonal Saff Scholarships, and more!!! I s jus $15.00 for a year s membership! I- Camp his form o he PSA or sop by our office nex o he Beaubien Room a PTC. SIGN UP NOW!!! www.philsaff.com Name: Posiion/Dep.: Mailing Address: Ciy, Sae, ZIP: Birhday: Email: Signaure: MARK HERE FOR PAYROLL DEDUCTION (hrough July 31):

8 PhilNews Thursday, May 29, 2014 PhilmonScouRanch.org Erin Irwin/Phoography Manager Will Burge, Camp Direcor a Apache Springs, pracices using a fire exinguisher during Camp Direcor Mainenance Day Training on Thursday, May 22 a he PTC Buser Brown Building. Erin Irwin/Phoography Manager Philmon saff and sudens of he Wilderness Firs Responder (WFR) course respond o paiens of a mock lighning sorm during a hands-on scenario on Monday, May 19 a he Sockade.