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433-1
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- 1933 (Creation)
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ca. 1933. The 1933 Park Lodge School Boy Scout Troop # 53 with troop leader Norton Clapp posed in front of the Park Lodge School in Lakewood. The boys, dressed in Scout uniforms some with chest bands with merit badges, are tentatively identified as: front row, Bob Doten, ? Doten, ?, Jim Fowler; 2nd row- ?, Bill Walt, Bob Barlow, ?, Larry Bonneville; 3rd row- ?,?, Howard Stine, Jack Sturley, Ken Verner; 4th row- ?,?,?, Marvin Peterson; Back row- ?, ? Morton, ?, Don Verner. Norton Clapp was a Tacoma/Seattle area civic leader and industry giant. He came to Tacoma as a lawyer in 1929. In 1937, he developed "Clapp's Folly," the first shopping center west of the Mississippi River. Known as the Lakewood Colonial Center, it became the center of development in Lakewood for 50 years. He served as the national president of the Boys Scouts of America and received their Silver Beaver, Silver Antelope and Silver Buffalo Awards. He was a trustee for the University of Puget Sound for 62 years and served as president and CEO of Weyerhaeuser. He died April 22, 1995 at the age of 89. (TNT 4-25-1995, pg. A-1)
Park Lodge School (Lakewood); Public schools--Lakewood--1930-1940; School children--Lakewood--1930-1940; Boy Scouts (Lakewood)--1930-1940; Boy Scouts of America, Troop 53 (Lakewood); Clapp, Norton, 1906-1995;