The 1994 Capital Campaign: Program Shelters

Today if you want to put some money in to Boxwell, you build a program shelter. Over just the last three or four years, covered shelters have popped up in CubWorld, over the Archery Ranges, and a really impressive one at the Shotgun Range. Before the 1994 Capital Campaign, the only covered buildings were the rifle ranges and the Trading Post-Handicraft sheds, and none of those were original to 1960 Boxwell either.

In 1994, nine program shelters were built as part of the campaign (a 10th shelter was simply part of CubWorld’s construction). All three resident camps got 2 shelters for the Activity Yard and 1 shelter for the Con Yard. The designs were basically the same with the only variable being a storage closet. And of course, the shelters had the new paved paths leading to them.

The shelters were an interesting idea. Clearly, good intentions were behind the buildings as they were big enough for at least two picnic tables (three if no closet) and could be a place to congregate if there was a particularly heavy dew that day. Conversely, if there was a dew, the shelters were not enough to house the entire program area’s offerings at any given hour. And, because it was Scout Camp, many of the merit badges met at the shelter and then moved on to have a scouting adventure. Still, as time went on, the shelters became program tools. The areas personalized the sheds to make them effective program tools.

Seen here are two of the Program Shelters at Stahlman (Con Yard and AY) and one of the closet-less versions, located at the last location of the Parnell AY.