183.1037.1-5

This plaque was presented to William "Bill" G. Gaessler in 1981 by the administrators of Camp Fire in Ames to honor him for his many years of volunteer service to the youth program. Gaessler died on March 25, 1985. In 1996, his daughter, Ruth Gaessler Veltrop of Skokie, Illinois, gave her father's plaque back to the organization to be displayed in the Camp Fire's Canwita Lodge. For more information on Bill Gaessler and the Camp Fire program in Ames, see chapter 44 in Farwell T. Brown's "Ames in Word and Picture; Book Two: Further Tales and Personal Memories," 1999. (See also 184.1040.5)