Today’s about remembering the life of John F. Kennedy, but it’s impossible to do so without mentioning Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy was the first president to have been a Boy Scout, and earlier today I
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Your best recruiting and retention tool is an adult volunteer already in your unit. He or she just doesn’t know it yet. Don’t delay in filling the newly created Unit Membership Chairman position. This Scouter
My biggest gripe about the holidays isn’t the endless electronics ads, the pumpkin-spice overload or the inflated airfares. It’s the timing. The Scouting year hits its stride right as the holidays arrive. Most packs, troops
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Update, Jan. 27, 2014: Sea Scouts, see how this applies to you here. It’s been more than a year since I blogged about the switch to the Scout Oath and Scout Law in all programs, a
For many Scout leaders, it’s not the Scouts that’ll turn hair gray — it’s their parents. The team behind ScoutCast recently asked 56 experienced Scoutmasters from across the country this question: “What do you know
Don Bennett directed Eagle Scout boards of review like a film director creating his latest masterpiece. He challenged the Eagle candidates with expertly crafted questions all with the goal of making the young man see
At Boy Scout camps in the year 2000, milk doesn’t spoil, knots are rarely used and backpacks have been replaced by rockets that deliver camping gear in “near-zero time.” That’s according to the 1960 predictions