Participants in 1950 National Jamboree

South Plains Council

1950
We have just started this section on the Jamboree participation by the Scouts and Scouters of the South Plains Council.  Below you will find the leadership of those Scouters who led the two Troops from the South Plains Council to the 1950 National Jamboree. They stayed in Section 15.

Troop 33
W. A. Wood, Lubbock, Scoutmaster
L. B. Hagerman, Slayton, Assistant Scoutmaster
John Norcross, Lubbock, Assistant Scoutmaster

Troop 34
John Lott, Post, Scoutmaster
Huston Hoover, Littlefield, Assistant Scoutmaster
Robert J. Salem, Sudan, Assistant Scoutmaster

Other Jamboree Troops:

1937 - Troop # unknown.  Go HERE for photo of participants and other mateial.
1981 - Troops 776 & 777
1985 - Troops 785, 786 & 787
1991 -  Troop 1530
1997 - Troop 1636  Go HERE for list of participants

As more information becomes available, we will post it on this page.

Elmo Letbetter's 1950 National Jamboree Diary

E. Ray Smyth's 1950 Jamboree Journal

Some photos of 1950 National Jamboree



Last updated:  May 22, 2006
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