Lunchtime Program, 1995
Of all our videos, the quality on this one is unquestionably the poorest. For that, we do apologize. Nevertheless, this is still a screen capture from the 1995 Promotional video, poor though the quality may be!
Seen here in the photo is young, first-year-on-staff Roman Reese. Given the young scout next to him, this is clearly lunchtime program. Our best guess is this is Stahlman’s Gizmo song and Roman is leading the charge.
Gizmo is a Boxwell staple. It started all the way back in 1971 at Stahlman under the short-lived Commissioner System. Dutch Mann brought the Gizmo to life. As he stated in a 1996 interview: “All right, well, the Gizmo, that’s a term used in the Army. When somebody wanted something, you’d say, well, hand me that Gizmo. We’d send out a young recruit, who didn’t know one end from another, we send him out to find a gizmo, which was a joke. SO, I started the Gizmo. I thought it would be a good idea if we made a piece of leather and stamped it “Gizmo” on it and the camp name and the year. And then we passed it out to a young Scout and at lunch time, we’d sing a little song about the Gizmo and then who ever had it, we’d call ‘em up front. We had a lot of fun with this thing. It’s still going on. It’s a traditional thing here for Boxwell. We started that in ’71.”
And the Gizmo is still part of Boxwell program to this day, more than 40 years later.

Roman Reese leads the Gizmo song at a Stahlman lunch, 1995