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to scouting has gone hand-inhand with his commitment to the ministry. At each of his parish assignments, he’s plunged into organization, always leaving behind more active scouting units than he found when he came. In Rappahannock, there were just two scouting groups when the Titchenells arrived in 1960. Now, through his efforts and the efforts of other dedicated men and women, the county boasts five Boy Scout troops and two Cub Packs. And for Gale Titchenell, his obligation to repay the leaders of the orphanage troop continues. In his eyes, the years that he has given to Scouts haven’t yet balanced the scales for those precious weeks at summer camp.
Hired Hand Titchenell left the orphanage in 1925, just 14 years old, and went to work for an Indiana farmer. “I was paid $15 a month and room and board,” he recalled.
His memories of life then aren’t pleasant. Days were full after getting up at 4 a.m. to milk 15 head of cattle. He was a hired hand, left behind to make do with a frozen fish for Christmas dinner while the family went off to Chicago for the holidays.
Shucking corn when the temperature dropped to 20 degrees below zero convinced Titchenell that he didn’t want to be a farmer. He left for a job as a saw maker’s apprentice in Indianapolis. Home was a boarding house room and two beds shared with three other men.
One dark night, Titchenell recalled, he awoke to a hand over his mouth and a whispered warnin'g from the police to get out of bed quickly and quietly. Two of the other men sharing the room were aroused in the same manner. The police then crept up on the fourth who was still sleeping and
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