Trivia Challenge

Troop 72 Trivia Challenge

The Trivia Challenge ! Do you know the answers to these ?

Q #1. When (what year approximately) was Troop 72 founded ?

Q#2. How many Troop 72 Scouts have become Eagle Scouts?

Q#3   Name our current Council, our prior Council , and the year the name was changed and our current Troop
           number & our original Troop #

Q#4  How many Father & son teams have both earned their Eagle badge in Troop 72?

Q#5 How many twins/ triplets and brothers became Eagles ?

Q#6  Name at least 4 Scoutmasters of Troop 72 .

Q#7 Troop 72 has it's home in a community called Roychester. Where did the name Roychester come from ?

Q#8 Troop 72 is known as the Troop from Overlook Hills. Where did the name Overlook Hills come from ?
          ( ie: what else had the name Overlook Hills? )

Q#9 What bird/ animal was once raised on the land that Troop 72    now calls home.
          The Community House once housed them and also had stables for horses.

Q#10 What event a plane and fire truck as part of a Troop 72 camping adventure ?

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1.   Troop 72 was founded in 1934 - in 2009 the 75th anniversary.   Troop 72 was originally called Troop 1 - but there was another Troop 1 at Abington Presbyterian Church. When the Willow Grove Post Office rearranged there were 2 Troop 1's in the same area - so Troop 1 Roychester/Overlook Hills became Troop 72.

2. Find that on this site - click here.

3 Cradle of Liberty now - was Valley Forge Council. Philadelphia & the Suburbs joined together (circa 2000?) Our Troop was originally Troop 1 --- But Abington Presbyterian was Troop 1 - so they changed it to Troop 72 ---- ( later when 72 had too many boys - Council divided 1/2 & 1/2   & the other troop was 720)

4. The Rems family - two sons and a dad were Eagles.

5. The only triplets were the Frey boys - two of whom were Eagles. The Marins and the Bateman boys were twins and to find all the bothers click here.

6. Ed Holland was 1st Scoutmaster while it was still Troop 1 - Others include ( from someone's memory ) Jack McGuiness - Earl Grolock   -- Don Orcutt --   Ed Zorn - Joe Fletcher-- Tom Smerke   -- Rick Bateman - Jim Webb   ( if you know others - let us know!)
( Tom Smerke became effective Scoutmaster when he was 18 - Joe Fletcher   was still listed as official Scoutmaster because Tom was too young to sign on . The troop soon became too big - close to 80 kids . So they formed Troop 720 & split the boys 50/50 )

7. Roy & Chester they were Frazier's sons . The Frazier Farm is where the Roychester Community house is. Someone thought Roy & Chester also became the builders/developers of the area...(??)

8. The main house of the estate, on the land where the Roychester Community House   now sits , was the Frazier family farm - called Overlook Hills . The farm went from Old Welsh Rd to the Pennypack Creek and from Huntingdon Pike to 611 .   The main mansion is on top of the hill on Frazier Ave - The Gate house was on Welsh Rd . The big hill was called Horse's Heaven . Carriage horses were buried there . 5 stage coach lines came together in that area - that's why they built Willow Grove Park there . The Farm where Our Lady Help of Christian's now sits, was Davidson's Farm - the main house of that farm was the house next door to the church . The Davidson's were active scouters in 72.

9. The Community House was a barn originally. Overlook Hills Farm raised turkeys - as well as having horses.

10. To liven up a training session on a camping trip, scout leaders had an old wrecked airplane hauled on a trailer to the camping area. The boys were to pretend they had been in a plane wreck, that they had certain gear with them and to figure out how to survive. A Delmont ranger was asked to invite the local fire dept. to come so it would seem like a real re-enactment - so the fire personnel put on a training demo for the campers.   The airplane did get quite a few double takes from motorists as they drove up 63 with the fuselage on the trailer.

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