Samuel S. Fung was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, but grew up in Chinatown, New York. His father was a Baptist minister who came from China to establish missions in Oakland and New York in the 1900s. He began his education at Stevens Institution of Technology (Hoboken, NJ) in mechanical engineering, but left before graduation to go into business with his brother-in-law, K.C. Li. After joining Li in the 1920s, Fung became the Treasurer and Manager of the Wah Chang Trading Corp., which was the largest Chinese engineering organization in the United States at the time. In 1942, Fung entered the Signal Corps as Senior Procurement Engineer, and he was stationed at the Pentagon. Then in 1951, Fung became General Engineering Coordinator for Material at Northrop, where he stayed for 18 years. As an engineer Fung was responsible for contributing to the following developments: the Shanghai Mint; the Mukden Arsenal; the first strawboard mill (using rice straw); the T-38 and N-156 programs; the NASA Lunar Program; the Skybolt Missile; and much more. Although Fung was an accomplished engineer by trade, it appears that he was in the process of writing a book, the memoirs of his youth. In his early life, Fung was a Boy Scout. He was a part of Troop #150, the first New York-based Chinese American Boy Scout Troop, which was initially established by overseas Chinese students in 1911. The manuscript focuses on Troop #150 and the boys that filled its ranks over the years, with his research materials dating from the 1920s to the 1980s.