ABOUT TROOP 623
Boy Scout Troop 623 has been chartered by the First Congregational Church for over 92 years. We are part of the Southwest Michigan Council with offices located in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
The troop currently consists of thirty-four youth and thirteen adults. We meet at the First Congregational Church on Monday nights from 7:00 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. We meet year round except for Mondays with holidays.
The troop raises money by selling popcorn and setting up a food booth at the Tri-state Regatta each Labor Day as well as the Triatholon in St. Joseph parking cars and in 2011 we also began setting up food booth for the bridgman fall Festival. Our service projects consist of providing some yard work for the church in the spring and fall and providing service to other churches, schools and the community. We also do an annual Highway Clean up and do a clean up/conserveration project before leaving from a weekend campout.
Our troop participates in campouts at state parks as well as the periodic district/council Camporees. We also like to throw in the occasional High Adventure. In the past we have taken backpacking trips to the Manitou Islands out in Lake Michigan; visited the Air Force Museum, in Ohio, the National Scout Museum when it was in Kentucky and gone white water rafting in West Virginia. Troop members have participated in and been staff members for the last five National Jamborees.
If you asked the scouts what activity they like the best, they would tell you that it was being the Governor's Honor Guard on Mackinac (pronounced Mack-i-naw) Island. Mackinac is a small island that was used to guard the straits between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. The Island was very important during the War of 1812 and the nation's fur trading period. Today the island is a popular tourist attraction with a historic fort, several historic buildings and a national cemetery. There are no motorized vehicles on the island and all travel is done by foot, bicycle or horse drawn carriage. Each week, during the summer, fifty-six youth from a Boy Scout or Girl Scout Troop act as the Governor's Honor Guard. President Gerald Ford performed this duty when he was a Scout. Duties consist of raising and lowering all the flags on the island and acting as guides at the historic buildings. Troop 623 has been proud to perform this duty for the last fifty years, only second to one other troop from Detroit. The above picture is our troop logo. Visit our Mackinac page to see pictures of past Honor Guard contingents and for other Mackinac links and information.
Boy Scout Troop 623 is located on the southeast shore of Lake Michigan in St. Joseph, Michigan. Our chartering organization is the First Congregational Church of St. Joseph. To whom we thank for supporting our efferts.
This site was designed for the purpose of letting people know about our troop and allow troop members to get important information about upcoming events. Turn to the About Us page to find out more about us.
Click here to go to the First Congregational Church of St. Joseph website!
Meeting Agenda
February 27th
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T623_Feast_2011.pdf
Scout Sunday letter.pdf
2011 Corn_Maze.pdf
Klondike.pdf
Planning campout 2011.pdf
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Thank you.
Three of Troop 623 Scouts represented our troop against the girls. By about 30 seconds the Girl Scouts won. Next time we will have more Boys so we will sdo even better :)
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Boy Scout Advancement
If you have any questions about advancments please contact your
Scoutmaster
Advancement Chair
or
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Youth%20Transfer%20Form%202011.pdf
Winter Equipment list.pdf
New%20Scout%20Application%202011.pdf
TroopGuidebook.pdf
Nicholas "Cole" Orsillo (2011)
Blake Dansfields (2011)
Spencer Lemley (2011)
Nicholas "Nick" Pisarsky (2010)
Raymond Reagan (2009)
Kris Klassen (2009)
John D Dansfield (2009)
Seth Foote (2009)
Eric Buckleitner (2006)
Alexander J Lesher (2006)
Gregory R Belanger (2005)
Matthew T Langlois (2005)
Eric M Beidler (2002)
Joshua L Cohen (2002)
M Timothy Murphy (2001)
Craig Dangler (2/00)
Brad A Pschigoda (1999)
Joel Dereck Smiedendorf (98)
Jonathan Paul Hadl (1998)
James Pabis Jr. (1997)
Benjamin J Rimes (1997)
Jon A Weber ( 1992)
Jeremy Hadl (10/91)
Randall H Hall (1985)
David M Kraklau (1984)
Richard C Prince (1984)
Michael J Corsello (1983)
Michael J Siebenmark (1981)
Joseph R Soucek (1981)
Milton A Agay (1980)
Jeffery M morse (1980)
David Hoyh (2/80)
John "Tom" Carter (1979)
Eugene E Jarvis (1979)
Earl A Morse (1978)
James M Fitch (1977)
Charlie Miller (1973)
David Benson (1972)
Jeff L Karsen (1972)
Thomas H Goodgamee Jr (72)
Jim Barton (1972)
Thomas A Barton (1971)
Brian Berndt (1970)
Charles C Greim (1969)
David E Leland (1968)
Chris L Karsen (1968)
David N Gelesko (1968)
Gregory W Parrett (1967)
Charles Leathers (1966)
John Runyan (1964)
William Shaffer (1963)
Dennis Hudson (1963)
Jim Bronfenbrenner (1961)
William Preston (1960)
Thomas R Lininger (1960)
Anson Lovellette (1958)
Ray Coulombe (1955)
Ellsworth Holden (1941)
Robert Emery (1941)
Bill Callendar (1940)
Stephen Upton (1939)
David Upton (1937)
Wayne Davidson (1934)
Rowland Caugherty (1934)
Foster Campbell (1934)
William Crow (1933)
Donald Campbell (1932)
George Gast (1932)
Francis Fashner (1932)
Philip Upton (1932)
1916 to 1931
Norman C Dutt
Leo Garlanger
Marshal Brennes
Paul Howes
Lawrence Plym
George Contolis
Alex Hunziker
Activities scheduled for 2012 at the 2011 planning campout:
Fundraisers/Special Events
2012 activities that we have completed:
Activities scheduled for 2011 at the 2010 planning campout:
•November 19-21 Thanksgiving Feast
•December tbd Christmas Party
•January Klondike (not yet on Council calendar)
•February tbd Chicago Museum - South shore
Train
•March tbd Merit Badge U
•Rock Climbing - Climb Kalamazoo
•March or April Caving/Spelunking
Blue Springs
•May tbd Bike Kalhaven Trail
•June mid to late Summer Camp - Camp Gerber
•July tbd Mackinac
•August tbd nothing definite - maybe Weko
Beach
•September tbd Baseball in South Bend
•GEO Caching
•October tbd Planning meeting for 2012 Camp
Betz?
•November 18-20 Thanksgiving Feast
Other ideas/goals for 2012 and beyond
•Camp near Appalachian Mountains
•Patrol Camping
•Sea Base
•Washington DC/Smithsonian
•Merit Badges as a troop
•Manitou Island
•Camp LaKota in Defiance, OH for Summer
Camp
•Additional ideas always welcome, bring to
Troop meetings
2011 activities that we have completed:
•Rota Kawin Thanksgiving feast
•Holiday party at Stevensville bowling alley
•Klondike in South Haven at North Point camp ground
•Merit Badge university well attended
•Spelunking trip was a good time and would like
be attended again (Blue Spring cave, southern IN)
•Adopt-a-Highway
•Weko Camp out and Nuclear Science MB
•Crop Walk at Church
•Bike Kal Haven trail
•May 16th regular meeting attended
by Senator Proos
•Court of Honor held in June all but
2 scouts attended
•NYLT was attended by Ben Agay
•Fence Painting
•Bear cave canoe campout
•Flag Retirement with the elks
•Silver hawks baseball outing
•Mackinac
•Summer Camp H. Roe Bartle
•Summer Camp Gerber
•Steelhead Triathlon fund raiser
•Lake Charter Township Fall Festival fundraiser
•North point camp out
Still to come:
•Picnic
•adopt a highway
•Planning campout
•Corn Maze
•Thanksgiving Feast
•Troop holiday party
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