Exciting phone call

We received a very exciting phone call from someone, in response to our "Were you there" campaign, to find people that remember being there on the first Green Up Day. The reason it was so exciting is because he was one of the Scouts pictured in the photo that we have been using to promote this campaign! His name is Steven Drebber and he is the boy in the photograph wearing the striped pants and holding a Green Up bag under his arm. He also identified some other people in the photo: right behind him (to our visual right) is Curtis Monroe and all the way to the far right in the photo is his brother, David Monroe. The Drebber and Monroe families both lived on Liberty Street. The Scoutmaster was Mr. Dickinson, and the boy pictured holding the Budweiser box is Mr. Dickinson's son, Lamar. The boy wearing the tall rubber boots is believed to be Brent Goddard. Do you recogize anyone in this photo? It was Cub Scout pack #15 out of Montpelier, and Steven reports that it was about half of the pack. Steven now lives in Woodstock and Green's Up every year with his family, including his 7 and 11-year old sons. He told us that he felt like he wouldn't have had that opportunity to Green Up on that first Green Up Day if it wasn't for his involvement with the Cub Scouts.

The man in the hat is Governor Deane Davis, and Steven remembers that he flew in via helicopter for a photo opportunity. The Scout Pack was Greening Up along Interstate 89, a mile or so east of the Middlesex exit.