Anyone who has ever attended
a Boy Scout summer camp knows that camps each have their own traditions.
Traditions are one of the things that make one camp different from
another. Traditions tend to die out and new ones take over as years
go by but the best ones stay around. CDR has three such traditions
that have withstood the test of time.
Many Thanks to Catherine Schultz
for the use of parts of this
page.
HISTORY OF THE CAMP DALE RESLER
SONG
This picture of the four Scouters that wrote
the Camp Dale Resler song was taken from an original Yucca Newsletter dated
December 1972.
In 1972 four Scouters wrote the following
song for Camp Dale Resler.
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TOTEMS
OF DALE RESLER
AS THE COALS OF OUR
CAMPFIRE LAY DYING,
AND THE WINDS THROUGH
THE PINES 'SOFTLY SIGHING,
MY THOUGHTS THEY REFLECT
ON DALE RESLER,
OF THE HARDSHIPS AND
JOYS WE HAD THERE.
SCOUTS REMEMBER A PLACE
HELD SO TRUE,
WITH FELLOWSHIPS OF
FRIENDS OLD AND NEW;
OF A CAMP NEAR A HIGH
MOUNTAIN PASS,
A'FLOWING WITH TALL
SLEEPY GRASS.
BY:
ROBERT ELVIN
AND
FRANCIS WARNER
JUNE 27,1972
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NOTICE the middle names of the four Scouters
make up the two names above.
Harold Robert L.
Byron Elvin B.
James Francis L.
Robert Warner B.
The Musical Four - Co Authors of the Camp Dale
Resler Song
A visitor noticed that no camp song was ever sung
at the camp. Upon inquiring he found that a song did not exist. They discussed
this idea among other Scouts at camp and four interested individuals decided
to do something about the matter. The night of June 27th they
sat up discussing possibilities and by 3:00 a.m. had written a camp song
to the tune of Red River Valley, entitled "Totems of Camp Dale Resler".
They made a large framed poster bearing the words
of the song which used to hang in the main lodge at Camp so that all might
see the words. The other three co-authors began introducing the song
to others at Camp.
And so, by the end of the camping season
two weeks later, "Totems of Camp Dale Resler" had become a Camp tradition.
Totem of the Songwriters
In 1995 the poster disappeared from the main
room of the Lodge but surfaced again in 1996 (At the Black Range Camp,
of all places) and now resides in the Camp Scrapbook. The tradition
of using the song almost died out for several years but thankfully has
been revived in the past few years, and continues to be a favorite among
Dale Resler Campers and Staff.
The Camp Dale Resler Grace
We thank
thee Lord for daily bread,
As by thy
grace our souls are fed.
Grant us
to grow more like to thee,
This day
and through eternity.
©Camp Dale Resler
Totems
of Dale Resler