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Title: Ben Purdum Conducting Church Service for Boy Scouts
Description: Boy Scout troops from Grinnell, Guernsey, Brooklyn, and Montezuma at the Boy Scout camporee west of Montezuma in 1943. Ben Purdum conducted the church service when the minister who was to have held the service failed to arrive in time. Boy Scout Troop 330 put on a play, The Good Samaritan, with Scoutmaster Purdum as narrator.
Date Created: 1943
PID: grinnell:27245

Title: Boy Scout Troop No. 330 Flag
Description: Ben Purdum (left) and Keith Steffey display a Boy Scouts of America Troop No. 330 flag. The flag reads: Troop 330; Montezuma Lion's Club; Montezuma, Iowa; Tall Corn Area.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:27235

Title: Kent Church Camporee
Description: Boy Scout Troop 330 at the Kent Church Camporee about 1954. 1- James Bear, 2- Melvin Arendt, 3- Bill Tarvin, 4- Carl Watson, 5- Jerry Tarvin, 6- Robert Tarvin, 7- Johnnie Jordan, 8- Charles Rowell, 9- James Arendt. Scoutmaster Ben Purdum in background. Photo by Sutherlands.
Date Created: 1954
PID: grinnell:27248

Title: Montezuma Boy Scout Troop No. 330
Description: Montezuma Boy Scout Troop No. 330 poses with Scoutmaster Ben Purdum in 1953. Front row, left to right: Bob Jordan, Larry Crider, Gary McKinley, Denny Van Tommee, Jim Arndt, Keith Walsh, Carl Watson, Ronnie Brown, Charles Rowell. Middle row, left to right: Larry Bryan, Bob Johannas, Jerry Cowan, Larry Cook, Leon Rowell, Jerry Tarvin, Johnny Jordan, Garry Schultz, Richard Miller. Back row, left to right: Bob Tarvin, Virgil Roarda, Bob Gorsuch, Robert Voith, Denny Van Cleave, Bill Tarvin, Jerry Davis, Bill Gregory, Jim Bear, Al Stanley.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:27233

Title: Scout Circus at Brooklyn
Description: Boy Scout Troop 330 at Scout Circus in Brooklyn about 1953. From left to right: Bill Tarvin, Denny VanCleave, Merle Davis, Ben Purdum (scoutmaster), Johny Jordan (standing), Leon Rowell (seated).
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:27247

Title: Scouts Learning to Use a Compass
Description: Scoutmaster Ben Purdum instructs Scouts from Troop 330 in the use of a compass. Left to right: Jon Swanson, Larry Bryan, Charles Rowell, Bill Tarvin, Leon Rowell, Oran Watson, Carl Watson, Merle Davis, Jim Bair, Ben Purdum.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:27246