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BSA Biennial
Gathering
Looks Forward
To the Nineties
BY ERNEST DOCLAR
Photographs by Brian Payne
Baltimore Scouters, led by chairman Henry Rosenberg and Lucy and Joe Jacobs,
superbly supported the biennial meeting. (Left, bottom) Georgina and Tim Bugg
(even Lauren) of Waycross, Ga., enjoy the city s tourist attractions.
Baltimore-the star-
Spangled Banner City!
Premier port of the Revolu-
tionary War, berth of the an-
cient, 38-gun frigate Constellation.
Birthplace of Babe Ruth, home of
Edgar Allan Poe and H.L. Mencken,
Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Fort
McHenry, remembered as Francis Scott
Key's inspiration for his famous poem.
But the Maryland city has arisen also as
the modern site of the revitalized Inner
Harbor, Top of the World/World Trade
Center, the dazzling, glass-paneled Na-
tional Aquarium, and much more.
Baltimore! A metropolis with its
roots solidly anchored in the past, yet
with its vision aimed at a promising fu-
ture. In these ways it resembles the Boy
Scouts of America. Its selection as host
city of the 1990 BSA Biennial Meeting
proved a wise choice.
Scouting ^ September 1990
From across the country 2,300
Scouters and spouses trooped through
BWI International Airport or maneu-
vered by car into the famous convention
district with its myriad hotels. Then they
exited their homes-away-from-home
and via elevated walkways that let pe-
destrians bypass streets and stoplights
made tracks toward the Pratt St. Con-
vention Center.
At the opening session on May 24,
outgoing BSA President Harold S.
Hook set the tone of the meeting by
mentioning historian Arnold Toynbee's
notion that mankind reacts to every
challenge with a certain response. Le-
gions of community leaders such as
those Hook faced were responding to
today's awesome challenges with Scout-
ing. This national gathering would offer
techniques to sharpen the attenders' re-
sponses.
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