Participants in 1937 National Jamboree

South Plains Council

P. B. Shannon was a Scout in  in a troop in Levelland, Texas who went to the Jamboree.  The photo was sent to P. B. Shannon by George Mahon who was the representative from Lubbock at the time.  Photo provided by Shannon's Eagle Scout son, Patrick L. Shannon of San Angelo.
 
SOUTH PLAINS AREA COUNCIL
ITINERARY FOR ALL JAMBOREE
DELEGATES

June 24th - Leave Post, Texas via Santa Fe  12:37 PM
                 Arrive SIaton 1:20 PM
                 Arrive Lubbock 1:40 PM
                 Arrive Amarillo 4:40 PM
                 Supper in Canadian, Texas

Juno 25th - Arrive Kansas City  7:00 AM ,
                 Leave Kansas City 7:40 AM
                 Arrive Chicago via Santa Fe 8:30 PM 
                 Leave via B & O for' Washington D. C. 9:15 PM

June 26th – Route through Cincinnati, Ohio
                  Arrive Washington D. C, 4:55 PM
                  Dinner at Jamboree Camp

June 26th to July l0th - National Jamboree Camp
                  Address all mail as this:
                  John Doe:
                  Troop #24 or #25
                  Section N Region IX
                  National Jamboree Camp
                  Boy Scouts of America
                  Washington  D. C.

July l0th - Leave via B & 0 from Washington to New York City 6 :30 AM
                  Arrive New York City 11:58 AM, July 10th 
                  Headquarters--Piccadilly Hotel until evening of July 11th--9:00 PM
                  Leave New York City 9: 15 PM--July 11th

July 12th - Arrive Buffalo 7:30 AM at New York Central Terminal
                  Tour Niagara during day. .
                   Leave Buffalo at 9: 40 PM - July 12th

July 13th – Arrive Chicago  7:40 AM - July13th at M. C. Station
                  Transfer to Santa Fe Depot.
                  Leave at 10:00 .AM enroute Chicago to Kansas City on Santa Fe.
                  Leave Kansas City - Midnight - July 13th
July 14th - Arrive Amarillo 5:15 PM
                  Leave Amarillo 6 :30 PM
                  Arrive Lubbock 10:00 PM

PLEASE SAVE THIS COPY FOR FUTURE REFERENCE

This pamphlet was used to promote the Jamboree in the council.  Cost of Jamboree was $85.00

In addition to the $85 Jamboree cost, his uniforms and equipment would cost another $11.35

A Scout-Parent picnic was held at Camp Post on June 22, 1937

Following the Jamboree the council had a "First Annual Jamboree Banquet"
held that September at the Hotel Lubbock.  Here is the program.


The information for this page came from the estate of the late Van Greene of Troop 22, Lamesa, Texas.  His son, Bob Greene, gave the information to Greg Nauert of Lubbock.

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