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 '''In Hallmark.'''  Gordon wrote the following of his schooldays and time in the Boy Scouts. (click [[1940 Scouts]] for more about this troop)
-'''20 HALF DAYS OFF SCHOOL.'''   I enjoyed my schooldays during the war.   Another job that some of us boys had was to go potato picking, for any farmer who wanted us.   We had a permit from the school for this.   We were allowed 20 days half days off per year.   The only farmer brave enough to employ us was Mr Reg Tilbury (click [[Reg & Lucy Tilbury]] for more about Reg) who lived at [[Parslows Hillock]] (down the lane from [[The Pink and Lily]]).   We boys would cycle from Lacey Green to the farm, and had a very enjoyable afternoon away from school.
+'''20 HALF DAYS OFF SCHOOL.'''   I enjoyed my schooldays during the war.   Another job that some of us boys had was to go potato picking, for any farmer who wanted us.   We had a permit from the school for this.   We were allowed 20 days half days off per year.   The only farmer brave enough to employ us was Mr Reg Tilbury (click [[Reg & Rose Tilbury]]) for more about Reg) who lived at [[Parslows Hillock]] (down the lane from [[The Pink and Lily]]).   We boys would cycle from Lacey Green to the farm, and had a very enjoyable afternoon away from school.
 '''A HOLIDAY JOB WITH THE BODGERS.'''   Another job, which I was landed with during school holidays in wartime, was to cycle to Hampden Woods, where the chair bodgers had turned thousands of chair legs over the years.  My oldest brother and I would have to work one end of a cross cut saw, while a man was at the other end.   This was hard work, which I did not enjoy very much.   My brother, being older and stronger than me, was allowed to hold the handle of the saw, while I was a yard away, pulling on the end of a rope.

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	Gordon May was one of the first five writers and researchers on [[The Local History Group]].		Gordon May was one of the first five writers and researchers on [[The Local History Group]].
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		+	Gordon reported on occasion in [[Hallmark]] for the [[Methodist Chapel, Lacey Green]]

	'''In Hallmark.''' Gordon wrote the following of his schooldays and time in the Boy Scouts. (click [[1940 Scouts]] for more about this troop)		'''In Hallmark.''' Gordon wrote the following of his schooldays and time in the Boy Scouts. (click [[1940 Scouts]] for more about this troop)

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 [[Albert & Sarah Hickman]] lived in [[Turnip End Cottage]] at [[Turnip End]] about 500 yards down a woody stony lane.   The house had no electricity or gas.   In the winter 1947 I was detailed, as one of the scouts, to go and live there.   It was so cold that it froze the hot water bottle.    I always had to get up very early to break the ice and feed the chickens and rabbits, before running home for breakfast and then on to school.
-'''NEAR THE PUBLIC TELEPHONE.'''   In 1953, aged 20, I was sent to sleep at my grandparents in Portobello Row, where I used to deliver medicine.    My grandmother was very ill, and if needed, I could run to the public telephone.  The back room of that cottage was another place where my hot water bottle froze.
+'''NEAR THE PUBLIC TELEPHONE.'''   In 1953, aged 20, I was sent to sleep at my grandparents [[Fred & Clara Rixon]] in [[Portobello Cottage no 4]], where I used to deliver medicine.    My grandmother was very ill, and if needed, I could run to the public telephone.  The back room of that cottage was another place where my hot water bottle froze.
 '''POT SHOTS AND SCRUMPING'''

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 Gordon May was one of the first five writers and researchers on [[The Local History Group]].
-Gordon wrote of his schooldays and time in the Boy Scouts. (click 1940 Scouts for more about this troop) which was pubished in Hallmark as follows :-
+'''In Hallmark.'''  Gordon wrote the following of his schooldays and time in the Boy Scouts. (click [[1940 Scouts]] for more about this troop)
-'''20 HALF DAYS OFF SCHOOL'''
+'''20 HALF DAYS OFF SCHOOL.'''   I enjoyed my schooldays during the war.   Another job that some of us boys had was to go potato picking, for any farmer who wanted us.   We had a permit from the school for this.   We were allowed 20 days half days off per year.   The only farmer brave enough to employ us was Mr Reg Tilbury (click [[Reg & Lucy Tilbury]] for more about Reg) who lived at [[Parslows Hillock]] (down the lane from [[The Pink and Lily]]).   We boys would cycle from Lacey Green to the farm, and had a very enjoyable afternoon away from school.
-I enjoyed my schooldays during the war.   Another job that some of us boys had was to go potato picking, for any farmer who wanted us.   We had a permit from the school for this.   We were allowed 20 days half days off per year.   The only farmer brave enough to employ us was Mr Reg Tilbury (click [[Reg & Lucy Tilbury]] for more about Reg) who lived at [[Parslows Hillock]] (down the lane from [[The Pink and Lily]]).   We boys would cycle from Lacey Green to the farm, and had a very enjoyable afternoon away from school.
+'''A HOLIDAY JOB WITH THE BODGERS.'''   Another job, which I was landed with during school holidays in wartime, was to cycle to Hampden Woods, where the chair bodgers had turned thousands of chair legs over the years.  My oldest brother and I would have to work one end of a cross cut saw, while a man was at the other end.   This was hard work, which I did not enjoy very much.   My brother, being older and stronger than me, was allowed to hold the handle of the saw, while I was a yard away, pulling on the end of a rope.
-'''A HOLIDAY JOB WITH THE BODGERS'''
+'''THE MEDICINE RUN.'''   From the age of twelve in 1945, until I left school, one of my jobs was known as the “Medicine Run”.   I had to miss a bit of school to carry out this job.   Every Thursday evening, after school, I would travel to some of the outlying districts of the village to collect empty medicine bottles.   Some of the homes I visited were the Hickman family ([[Albert & Sarah Hickman]]) at [[Turnip End]], Mr. Redrup, a cripple, living at the bottom of Lacey Green, and two families in Portobello Row.  I had permission from the school to take time off on Friday mornings to catch the Mr [[Farmer's Buses]], which ran from the Church end of Lacey Green to Princes Risborough, where I went to Dr Edward’s surgery (Old Cross Keys).
 '''Every bottle the same.'''  Dr. Edwards always looked out for me, and took me straight in to fill the medicine bottles, as he knew I had to get the return bus back to school.   Then on Friday evenings or Saturday mornings, I would have to go round to deliver the medicines to the families concerned.   One day at the doctors, when I was collecting the medicine, I peeped through the curtains.   It appeared to me that he took some grey powder, mixed it up with some water, and poured it into all the bottles.   I thought it odd at the time, that they all had the same medicine!
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 [[Albert & Sarah Hickman]] lived in [[Turnip End Cottage]] at [[Turnip End]] about 500 yards down a woody stony lane.   The house had no electricity or gas.   In the winter 1947 I was detailed, as one of the scouts, to go and live there.   It was so cold that it froze the hot water bottle.    I always had to get up very early to break the ice and feed the chickens and rabbits, before running home for breakfast and then on to school.
-'''NEAR THE PUBLIC TELEPHONE  '''
+'''NEAR THE PUBLIC TELEPHONE.'''   In 1953, aged 20, I was sent to sleep at my grandparents in Portobello Row, where I used to deliver medicine.    My grandmother was very ill, and if needed, I could run to the public telephone.  The back room of that cottage was another place where my hot water bottle froze.
 '''POT SHOTS AND SCRUMPING'''
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 Mr Redrup, who lived at the bottom of the village was to me a little old man, bent double, who used two walking sticks.   He used to tell me stories of the First World War when he was detailed to go and find German snipers.   He said how difficult it was to hit a man a mile away.   I found him very interesting, as he had a no 3 garden gun, which he let me use to take pot shots.   He had a lovely apple tree in the corner of his garden, near the school.   A lot of boys went ‘scrumping’ there
+'''''Research note by Rosemary Mortham''''''''From an early age Gordon attended Lacey Green [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Methodist_Chapel Methodist Chapel]''' and as an adult, he held several church offices.   When the building was closed in 2001, he had been a member for 70 years, 37 of them as Super-intendant of the Sunday School.
 '''Gordon also played football and cricket for Lacey''' Green for many years.
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 '''For the whole of his working life''' he was employed in the retail trade in High Wycombe.
-Click the following for articles written by Gordon
+Click  [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/2008_Harold_May 2008 Harold May]. where Gordon wrote his brother Harold's obituary
-Research Note.   [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Dennis_Claydon Dennis Claydon] and Gordon May were life long friends.
+[https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Dennis_Claydon Dennis Claydon] and Gordon May were life long friends.
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 Gordon May was one of the first five writers and researchers on [[The Local History Group]].
-Gordon wrote of his schooldays and time in the Boy Scouts which was pubished in Hallmark as follows :-
+Gordon wrote of his schooldays and time in the Boy Scouts. (click 1940 Scouts for more about this troop) which was pubished in Hallmark as follows :-
 '''20 HALF DAYS OFF SCHOOL'''

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 '''THE MEDICINE RUN'''
-From the age of twelve in 1945, until I left school, one of my jobs was known as the “Medicine Run”.   I had to miss a bit of school to carry out this job.   Every Thursday evening, after school, I would travel to some of the outlying districts of the village to collect empty medicine bottles.   Some of the homes I visited were the Hickman family ([[Albert & Sarah Hickman]]) at [[Turnip End]], Mr. Redrup, a cripple, living at the bottom of Lacey Green, and two families in Portobello Row.  I had permission from the school to take time off on Friday mornings to catch the Mr. [[Farmer’s bus]], which ran from the Church end of Lacey Green to Princes Risborough, where I went to Dr Edward’s surgery (Old Cross Keys).
+From the age of twelve in 1945, until I left school, one of my jobs was known as the “Medicine Run”.   I had to miss a bit of school to carry out this job.   Every Thursday evening, after school, I would travel to some of the outlying districts of the village to collect empty medicine bottles.   Some of the homes I visited were the Hickman family ([[Albert & Sarah Hickman]]) at [[Turnip End]], Mr. Redrup, a cripple, living at the bottom of Lacey Green, and two families in Portobello Row.  I had permission from the school to take time off on Friday mornings to catch the Mr [[Farmer's Buses]], which ran from the Church end of Lacey Green to Princes Risborough, where I went to Dr Edward’s surgery (Old Cross Keys).
-'''EVERY BOTTLE THE SAME'''   Dr. Edwards always looked out for me, and took me straight in to fill the medicine bottles, as he knew I had to get the return bus back to school.   Then on Friday evenings or Saturday mornings, I would have to go round to deliver the medicines to the families concerned.   One day at the doctors, when I was collecting the medicine, I peeped through the curtains.   It appeared to me that he took some grey powder, mixed it up with some water, and poured it into all the bottles.   I thought it odd at the time, that they all had the same medicine!
+'''Every bottle the same.'''  Dr. Edwards always looked out for me, and took me straight in to fill the medicine bottles, as he knew I had to get the return bus back to school.   Then on Friday evenings or Saturday mornings, I would have to go round to deliver the medicines to the families concerned.   One day at the doctors, when I was collecting the medicine, I peeped through the curtains.   It appeared to me that he took some grey powder, mixed it up with some water, and poured it into all the bottles.   I thought it odd at the time, that they all had the same medicine!
-'''A PRESENT OF HALF A CROWN.'''   I did this job until I left school.   On the last morning, I said to the doctor, “This is my last run, as I am leaving school”.   He gave me half a crown (now equal to twelve and a half pence).   A few years later, when I was taking a group of children to Sunday school at the [[Methodist Chapel, Lacey Green|Methodist Chapel]], he came by in his car.   He got out, wanted to know how I was, shook my hand and wished me well.
+'''A present of half a crown.'''  I did this job until I left school.   On the last morning, I said to the doctor, “This is my last run, as I am leaving school”.   He gave me half a crown (now equal to twelve and a half pence).   A few years later, when I was taking a group of children to Sunday school at the [[Methodist Chapel, Lacey Green|Methodist Chapel]], he came by in his car.   He got out, wanted to know how I was, shook my hand and wished me well.
 '''1947.  A FROZEN HOT WATER BOTTLE.'''    (click [[1947 A Bitter Winter]] or more about 1947).
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 '''From an early age he attended Lacey Green [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Methodist_Chapel Methodist Chapel]''' and as an adult, he held several church offices.   When the building was closed in 2001, he had been a member for 70 years, 37 of them as Super-intendant of the Sunday School.

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	[[Albert & Sarah Hickman]] lived in [[Turnip End Cottage]] at [[Turnip End]] about 500 yards down a woody stony lane. The house had no electricity or gas. In the winter 1947 I was detailed, as one of the scouts, to go and live there. It was so cold that it froze the hot water bottle. I always had to get up very early to break the ice and feed the chickens and rabbits, before running home for breakfast and then on to school.		[[Albert & Sarah Hickman]] lived in [[Turnip End Cottage]] at [[Turnip End]] about 500 yards down a woody stony lane. The house had no electricity or gas. In the winter 1947 I was detailed, as one of the scouts, to go and live there. It was so cold that it froze the hot water bottle. I always had to get up very early to break the ice and feed the chickens and rabbits, before running home for breakfast and then on to school.
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		+	'''NEAR THE PUBLIC TELEPHONE '''
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		+	In 1953, aged 20, I was sent to sleep at my grandparents in Portobello Row, where I used to deliver medicine. My grandmother was very ill, and if needed, I could run to the public telephone. The back room of that cottage was another place where my hot water bottle froze.
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		+	= 1947 Jobs for a War Time Boy =
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		+	=== From Lacey Green History ===
		+	click [[Wars]] for local details of the Boer War, WW1, WW2, & The Cold War
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		+	Gordon May born 1933 at [[Darvills Hill]], (click [[Gordon & Vera May]] for more about Gordon) wrote about 1947:-
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		+	'''A FROZEN HOT WATER BOTTLE.''' (click [[1947 A Bitter Winter]] or more about 1947).
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		+	[[Albert & Sarah Hickman]] lived in [[Turnip End Cottage]] at [[Turnip End]] about 500 yards down a woody stony lane. The house had no electricity or gas. In the winter 1947 I was detailed, as one of the scouts, to go and live there. It was so cold that it froze the hot water bottle. I always had to get up very early to break the ice and feed the chickens and rabbits, before running home for breakfast and then on to school.
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		+	'''POT SHOTS AND SCRUMPING'''
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		+	Mr Redrup, who lived at the bottom of the village was to me a little old man, bent double, who used two walking sticks. He used to tell me stories of the First World War when he was detailed to go and find German snipers. He said how difficult it was to hit a man a mile away. I found him very interesting, as he had a no 3 garden gun, which he let me use to take pot shots. He had a lovely apple tree in the corner of his garden, near the school. A lot of boys went ‘scrumping’ there.
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		+	'''20 HALF DAYS OFF SCHOOL'''
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		+	I enjoyed my schooldays during the war. Another job that some of us boys had was to go potato picking, for any farmer who wanted us. We had a permit from the school for this. We were allowed 20 days half days off per year. The only farmer brave enough to employ us was Mr Reg Tilbury who lived at [[Parslows Hillock]] (down the lane from the Pink and Lily). We boys would cycle from Lacey Green to the farm, and had a very enjoyable afternoon away from school.
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		+	'''A HOLIDAY JOB WITH THE BODGERS'''
		+
		+	Another job, which I was landed with during school holidays in wartime, was to cycle to Hampden Woods, where the chair bodgers had turned thousands of chair legs over the years. My oldest brother and I would have to work one end of a cross cut saw, while a man was at the other end. This was hard work, which I did not enjoy very much. My brother, being older and stronger than me, was allowed to hold the handle of the saw, while I was a yard away, pulling on the end of a rope.

	'''NEAR THE PUBLIC TELEPHONE '''		'''NEAR THE PUBLIC TELEPHONE '''

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	Gordon May was one of the first five writers and researchers on [[The Local History Group]].		Gordon May was one of the first five writers and researchers on [[The Local History Group]].
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		+	click [[May]] for others in this family
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		+	click [[Wars]] for local details of the Boer War, WW1, WW2, & The Cold War
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		+	Gordon May born 1933 at [[Darvills Hill]], (click [[Gordon & Vera May]] for more about Gordon)
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		+	'''20 HALF DAYS OFF SCHOOL'''
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		+	I enjoyed my schooldays during the war. Another job that some of us boys had was to go potato picking, for any farmer who wanted us. We had a permit from the school for this. We were allowed 20 days half days off per year. The only farmer brave enough to employ us was Mr Reg Tilbury (click [[Reg & Lucy Tilbury]] for more about Reg) who lived at [[Parslows Hillock]] (down the lane from [[The Pink and Lily]]). We boys would cycle from Lacey Green to the farm, and had a very enjoyable afternoon away from school.
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		+	'''POT SHOTS AND SCRUMPING'''
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		+	Mr Redrup, who lived at the bottom of the village was to me a little old man, bent double, who used two walking sticks. He used to tell me stories of the First World War when he was detailed to go and find German snipers. He said how difficult it was to hit a man a mile away. I found him very interesting, as he had a no 3 garden gun, which he let me use to take pot shots. He had a lovely apple tree in the corner of his garden, near the school. A lot of boys went ‘scrumping’ there.
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		+	'''A HOLIDAY JOB WITH THE BODGERS'''
		+
		+	Another job, which I was landed with during school holidays in wartime, was to cycle to Hampden Woods, where the chair bodgers had turned thousands of chair legs over the years. My oldest brother and I would have to work one end of a cross cut saw, while a man was at the other end. This was hard work, which I did not enjoy very much. My brother, being older and stronger than me, was allowed to hold the handle of the saw, while I was a yard away, pulling on the end of a rope.
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		+	'''THE MEDICINE RUN''' by Gordon May
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		+	From the age of twelve in 1945, until I left school, one of my jobs was known as the “Medicine Run”. I had to miss a bit of school to carry out this job. Every Thursday evening, after school, I would travel to some of the outlying districts of the village to collect empty medicine bottles. Some of the homes I visited were the Hickman family ([[Albert & Sarah Hickman]]) at [[Turnip End]], Mr. Redrup, a cripple, living at the bottom of Lacey Green, and two families in Portobello Row. I had permission from the school to take time off on Friday mornings to catch the Mr. [[Farmer’s bus]], which ran from the Church end of Lacey Green to Princes Risborough, where I went to Dr Edward’s surgery (Old Cross Keys).
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		+	'''EVERY BOTTLE THE SAME''' Dr. Edwards always looked out for me, and took me straight in to fill the medicine bottles, as he knew I had to get the return bus back to school. Then on Friday evenings or Saturday mornings, I would have to go round to deliver the medicines to the families concerned. One day at the doctors, when I was collecting the medicine, I peeped through the curtains. It appeared to me that he took some grey powder, mixed it up with some water, and poured it into all the bottles. I thought it odd at the time, that they all had the same medicine!
		+
		+	'''A PRESENT OF HALF A CROWN.''' I did this job until I left school. On the last morning, I said to the doctor, “This is my last run, as I am leaving school”. He gave me half a crown (now equal to twelve and a half pence). A few years later, when I was taking a group of children to Sunday school at the [[Methodist Chapel, Lacey Green\|Methodist Chapel]], he came by in his car. He got out, wanted to know how I was, shook my hand and wished me well.
		+
		+	'''1947. A FROZEN HOT WATER BOTTLE.''' (click [[1947 A Bitter Winter]] or more about 1947).
		+
		+	[[Albert & Sarah Hickman]] lived in [[Turnip End Cottage]] at [[Turnip End]] about 500 yards down a woody stony lane. The house had no electricity or gas. In the winter 1947 I was detailed, as one of the scouts, to go and live there. It was so cold that it froze the hot water bottle. I always had to get up very early to break the ice and feed the chickens and rabbits, before running home for breakfast and then on to school.
		+
		+	'''NEAR THE PUBLIC TELEPHONE '''
		+
		+	In 1953, aged 20, I was sent to sleep at my grandparents in Portobello Row, where I used to deliver medicine. My grandmother was very ill, and if needed, I could run to the public telephone. The back room of that cottage was another place where my hot water bottle froze.

	'''He attended [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Lacey_Green_School Lacey Green School]''' from the age of 4 to 14, throughout the 2nd World War, and he belonged to the Local [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Boy_Scout_Troop. Boy Scout Troop.]		'''He attended [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Lacey_Green_School Lacey Green School]''' from the age of 4 to 14, throughout the 2nd World War, and he belonged to the Local [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Boy_Scout_Troop. Boy Scout Troop.]

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 click [[May]] for others in this family
-'''Gordon May''' born 1933 was brought up by [[George & Doris May]] at Darvills Hill
+'''Gordon May''' born 1933 was the son of [[George & Doris May]] at Darvills Hill
 '''Edna Vera Pink'''  born ?
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 Gordon May was one of the first five writers and researchers on [[The Local History Group]].
 '''He attended [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Lacey_Green_School Lacey Green School]''' from the age of 4 to 14, throughout the 2nd World War, and he belonged to the Local [https://laceygreenhistory.com/w/index.php/Boy_Scout_Troop. Boy Scout Troop.]