Photos of Troop 7 activities since 1923, from the troop’s scrapbooks.
Game: Kim’s Game
Kim’s Game is one of Baden-Powell’s oldest Scout games. He took it from Rudyard Kipling’s Kim, where a boy is trained to look hard and remember. Look at the scrapbook for one minute. Then the pictures are covered, and you pick out the ones you saw.
Play it the old way: one Scout picks twelve photos below, the patrol looks for one minute, then writes down all they remember.
1923 — Kenneth Allyn, Guy Malcomb behind vehicleScoutmaster Albert H. Bartle colorized photoEagle Scouts with Scoutmaster Albert Bartle, George Montgomery is in centernewspaper clipping of Scouts will have a log cabin homeBoy Scouts to have log cabin in woods newspaper clippingTwo Eagle Scouts posing, right is George MontgomeryTroop 7 charter application, 1923–1924Troop 7 charter application, 1925–1926Newspaper clipping, 1926: the troop’s scoutmasters
1930s
Troop 7 log cabinScouts around front of cabinBoys gathered around patrol leaderTroop hiking with backpacksDade County Council member certificateRaising U.S. and troop flagsBoys sitting at an undeveloped site
1940s
Campsite setting upCampsite setupScout humor - "I admire your progressive spirit, Saunders, but here in camp we try to be more self-reliant."Frank D. Hall cracking bull whip. He earned Eagle in 1942.Bull whipping team to demonstrate their prowess in annual show in Orange Bowl StadiumOct 3, 1944 swim teamPatrol campsite with boys kneeling in front of tentsOct 1945 Patrol Leader Conference program cover at Snapper Creek CampBoys lined up in front of car with backpacks and staves in front of themRaising 48 Star U.S. flag at campsiteSaluting flag as it is raisedBoy and man rolling up tentCompany streetCompany street opposite sideTroop lined up in front of flag pole. Basketball court was installed after WW II.Cooking on outdoor grill at cabin (Edward Wylie (left) earned Eagle in 1949)Scouts sitting on tarmac at Air Force baseWhite House letter to Rex Hawkins after troop visited the Truman Little White House in Key WestMitchell Sams, left, getting pointers on coral from Bill GrayChristmas Dance in CabinA Scout tying knots beneath the troop’s 7 sign
1950s
At attention in front of a tentBaking bread on a stickPioneering table made with stavesCamp table end viewCamp inspectionboys eating at tableInside cabin looking towards fireplaceInside cabin showing two patrol stallsHuman semaphore signal tower pyramidHuman semaphore signaling tower pyramidSwimming in lake
1960s
Bill Malone talking with Rex HawkinsConversation outside of cabinCanoeing on Peace RiverScout Camp at Sebring 1968 wood 7 numeralTent at Camp SebringChris Bagwell at Camp Sebring 1968Chris Rupenthal and Stuart Cox at Camp Sebring in 1968Doug Turner removing bark at Camp Sebring 1968Doug Turner getting water from a lister bagView of inside of tentBryan Crownover, Doug Beard lighting fireU.S. Air Force news release: the Troop 7 Color Guard at the 1968 Republican National Convention
1970s
Troop 7 cabin east side 1969-1970Albert KimballShaun Crownover holding Bunker Hill flag50th anniversary invitation50th anniversary cardBob KimballShaun Crownover in City Clerk's office, 1970Historic flags on pioneering project at 1974 Scout Show in Miami Beach Convention CenterTroop line in front of 1974 Scout Show in Miami Beach Convention CenterCanoes on trailer at Fish Eating Creek - 1971Scout House walls erectedScout House walls and roof plywood onMildred Hawkins and Ralph Renick cutting ribbon. Mr. Renick was SFC President and longtime WTVJ newscaster.Inside Scout House at dedication. Floyd Self and Doug Turner facing forwardLevi Lincoln at Court of Honor. HoHo behind podium and Eagle Scout Eric Diestelhorst at left
1980s
1980 Sunrise Service in LeJeune Rd in front of Coral Gables City Hall. We set up and took down chairs.At breakfast after Sunrise ServiceJoe Magruder presenting his camping award to Scoutmaster Tom Dixon in 1982.Brian Coffey receiving Good Turn Award from Joe Crownover in 1984.Brent Boardman holding patrol award at 1984 Court of Honor
1990s
Fisheating Creek departure in Venus, FLFred Kimball canoeing on Fisheating CreekPresentation of merit badge cards at Court of HonorTroop on stage at Court of Honor
More
Plaque: Brookfield Hammock and adjacent Pine Rockland, named in honor of Charles M. BrookfieldTropical Audubon Society sign, designed and installed by Michele Toglia, Eagle Scout 2025
Practices
Ask your patrol. Let them argue it out, then tap the question for the answer.
What did Scouts in the 1950s build out of their staves?
A pioneering camp table. There is also a human semaphore signal tower, a pyramid of Scouts.
Which camp did the troop go to for scout camp in 1968?
Camp Sebring.
What did a 1940s team show off in the annual show at the Orange Bowl Stadium?
Bull whip cracking.
Where did the troop canoe in 1971, and again in the 1990s?
Fisheating Creek.
Which President’s Little White House did the troop visit in Key West?
President Truman’s. The troop has the White House letter to Rex Hawkins afterward.
Collected and written by Fred W. Kimball, Troop 7 Scoutmaster from 1987 to 2003, who kept the troop's website for many years. Brought here with his blessing, in his words.
