To raise money to cover the $2,500 cost of the trip, the scouts sold popcorn, held car washes and did extra chores at their homes.
She volunteers at the local theater, taking tickets and selling popcorn, in return for the privilege of seeing a film with her three sons.
Movie-goers wandered in off the street, bought their tickets from the workers who sold popcorn, and sat down.
And for the first time in years, "we'll be selling popcorn," she said.
But the girl he hired to sell popcorn, Dorothy Lee, became his wife of 59 years.
A theater can't sell marked-up popcorn to someone who doesn't buy a ticket first.
The students had been selling popcorn for weeks to pay for their lunch.
But he's not selling popcorn" - he is a political leader.
The business of selling popcorn inside theaters is said to have blossomed in Chicago in the 1930's.
Still, he has work to do before he starts selling popcorn.