About the Camp Cachalot Alumni Association

The Camp Cachalot Alumni Association was founded in 2004 after several years of planning, with the express purpose of providing support for the camping facilities of Narragansett Council, BSA, especially Camp Cachalot. It is a not-for-profit organization operating under the auspices of the Narragansett Council. For more information about the structure and operation of the Association, please consult our bylaws.

Our primary purpose is to benefit the camping facilities of the Narragansett Council; specifically, Camp Cachalot. We provide support in many ways, including:

• bringing the extended Cachalot family together for fun and fellowship, and to share the traditions of Cachalot
• recording and preserving the history of Camp Cachalot and the Councils and Camps that came before it
• providing volunteer manpower for projects at Camp
• providing scholarships to senior summer camp staff members to help maintain continuity in the program
• establishing an endowment to provide support for Cachalot in the years to come

About cachalotalumni.org

cachalotalumni.org is designed and maintained by Dennis J. Wilkinson, II, with its content provided by numerous volunteers and other individuals who have allowed us to borrow from their photographic and memorabilia collections (or who have simply allowed us to pick their brains for a while!)

All of the information on this site that is copyrighted by the Camp Cachalot Alumni Association is provided under a Creative Commons License (see below.) Note that many of the photographic images on this site were taken by private individuals who have generously allowed us to use them, however we do not retain the copyright on these images and as such they are not covered by this license.

This web site is not an official web site of the Narragansett Council or of the Boy Scouts of America. Many of our links lead to other web sites; we are not responsible for the content of those sites, although we try very hard to ensure that they are compatible with our purposes.

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