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| The Thirty-ninth Cub Pack When the Thirty-ninth Haymarket Group was founded in August 1914 by Canon George Frederick Terry, the only section in existence was the Boy Scout Troop (in any case, Wolf Cubs were not created until 1916). The Thirty-ninth Wolf Cub Pack was set up in 1920 by Geoffrey Gordon, Scoutmaster and Rector of St. John's. In September 1920, two Assistant Lady Cubmasters were warranted: Helen Gillespie and Miss E M Ransom. In 1925, Rev. Cecil Lake had a Cubmaster warrant cancelled and one awarded to Rev. Hector Gooderham and Assistant Cubmaster S Richardson (cancelled a year later). In 1927 Miss A L Stewart was warranted as Assistant Cubmaster. In 1930, Hector Gooderham (who was also Scoutmaster and Group Scoutmaster at the time) cancelled his Cubmaster warrant and the Pack was taken over by Miss M A Matthews. Around this time, the Wolf Cubs gave a concert, for which there are a couple of pictures, the first of the Robin Hood scene and the second of the Highway Robbers scene.
Miss Matthews lasted one year and in 1931 Rev Alexander Howell was warranted as the Cubmaster. In 1932, he was joined by Miss M Gardyne as Assistant Cubmaster. Douglas Figg recalls that he joined the Pack in 1934 and it 'was a big pack then'. He remembers only two Cubs, Wally Stewart and Andrew Million, who moved up to the Troop with him in about 1937. At the start of the war, the Cubmaster was Sheila Brown but when she left to take part in the war effort, the post was taken over by Molly Taylor, who was assisted by Hilda Banyard and Meta Forrest. In 1945, Rev. Sidney Harvie Clark, Rector of St John's, was Akela in the Pack, and he was assisted by two females (names unknown). A couple of years later (1947) the Cubmaster was Rev. Angus McIntyre and the Assistant Cubmaster Trevor Hammerton. During this time, there were several occasions when the Cubs attended the Scout summer camps: Stobo in 1946, Cranshaws, near St Agnes, ten miles northwest of Duns in 1947, and Roundstonefoot, near Moffat in 1949. By this time, the Pack had been taken over by Cubmaster Rev. Pat Rodger. In the early fifties, Cub camps were held at Buteland, Balerno (1950), West Linton (1951) and again at Buteland (1952). Tom Kerr, who left Scouts in 1952 returned to the Group in 1954 as an Assistant Cubmaster (he had been a Cub Instructor since 1950). It was at this stage that the X Pack was formed, meeting on Wednesdays. The original Pack became the Y Pack and continued to meet on Fridays. The colours of the sixes varied throughout the years but one scrap of paper in the archives shows that in the Y Pack in January 1962, there were five sixes:
In November 1968, Alan Jeffrey was the Cub Scout Leader (Akela) and there were four sixes:
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