By Lucy Kerley
When the new Girl Scout camp at Ross (O.) is dedicated Sunday the Lloyd Saxton family will not need a guided tour to become aquainted with it.
Mrs. Saxton was chairman of the campsite committee when the Girl Scouts started talking about their need for another camp. Mr. Saxton (he’s as interested in scouting as she is) accompanied her to possible sites, all over this area.
She was president (until she retired last week) when the present campsite was chosen and she watched the lake grow and the camp develop. The buildings are not yet finished, but enough is ready to put the camp right to use. Winter and spring rains filled the lake ahead of schedule.
One of the objectives for the new camp was a place large enough for family camping. And family camping was a subject on which the Saxtons are an authority. Mr. and Mrs. Saxton, son Jerry who is graduating from Woodward High School this spring, and daughters Judy and Debbie have camped together all the way to Cape Cod and from there to their summer home at the Finger Lakes.
They plan a short vacation together at their summer home, but this year’s camping will be done as individuals. Jerry will be a camp counselor at Matrina until near time for him to enter Purdue. Judy will be the right age for the Girl Scout Round-up in Colorado Springs and Debbie will spend her camping season at Butterworth.
Debbie’s Brownie troop is “flying up” this week and Mrs. Saxton will become a leader again when it is reorganized as a Girl Scout troop in the fall. This will be Mrs. Saxton’s fourth experience as a leader.
The Saxtons have been camping in various parts of the Ross campsite. And they plan to do much of their boating and swimming there now.
The new camp won’t have a name until Sunday. Only one person knows what it will be and that is the narrator, Morton Gusweiler, who will announce it as part of the dedication ceremony. Guided tours at 2 p.m. will be followed by a dedication service at 4 and a flag ceremony at 5 with punch and cookies (Girl Scout cookies, of course) completing the afternoon.