From 1921 through 1964, Camp Miakonda had a very tall and unusual flagpole called “The Lookout,” made from the main mast of a Great Lakes freighter, donated by the Pittsburgh Steamship Company and erected by the American Bridge Company in 1921. About 75 feet tall, it was stabilized by cables anchored to the ground and had a round crows nest halfway up, where before radar a sailor would watch continuously for ships and obstacles. Located in central camp about forty feet from the museum building, it was climbed by the camp bugler five times a day to sound wake-up, meal calls, and taps. In 1964, a new Scout bugler, John Pollock, fell from the crows nest and was nearly killed, after which the structure was judged hazardous and dismantled. It remained at Miakonda until Camp Frontier was built in Pioneer, Ohio, where it was buried in front of Reservation Headquarters and used for many years as a drain culvert. John St. Clair Mendenhall, the first full-time Council Executive, served from 1914 to 1919, during which the original Miakonda camp acreage was purchased in 1917. He came from the Kansas City Council after the drowning in 1914 of part-time Council Executive James Ecker and Scouts Glenwood Albert and Paul Graves at the Council summer encampment. Known for enthusiasm, creativity, and professionalism, he organized the first council high adventure trip in 1919, when nineteen Toledo Eagle Scouts traveled to the East Coast for six weeks in Ford Model T automobiles, beginning a tradition of annual Eagle Scout trips later continued as wilderness canoe trips in northern Michigan. He also founded the Tribe of Gimogash program for older boys in 1914, which brought national acclaim to the council and produced many early Eagle Scouts in Toledo. He was the sixty-third Eagle Scout in national B.S.A. history, receiving the honor in 1913, and after leaving Scouting he became a national official with Junior Achievement and later a teacher. He was born in Paris, Kentucky, and died in New York.