Ruth -
I started out with the Cub Scouts, and was surprised when my co-leader and I
were invited up to the troop. We really thought they would have a hard time
with it because there had been mothers involved in some outings where they
proved they could be real mothers, if you catch my drift. Fortunately, we
proved ourselves when we were told to show the boys how to tie some knots
and I did a bowline with one hand (you never know when your other hand will
be holding on to a twig in the cliff, saving your life), and the other woman
pitched a tent in the dark with some decent tautline hitches.
My co-leader eventually was asked to be the Scout Master, which she took,
but she's been trying to resign for 2 years - no one wants to replace her,
and a lot of the boys are quitting (including my younger son - the older one
quit a few years ago) because it's getting boring for them. She really
doesn't have the time, and no one seems to understand how to guide the boys
to figure out their own program. Seems like they lecture it, but don't put
it into practice. Based on my own schedule, I've had to cut out the weekly
meetings. I do work at the Cub Scout Resident camp every summer, for the
last 7 years - 6 years as the sports director (amazing for someone who's not
athletically inclined) and last year teaching campfire cooking in the
Renaissance. I put on a pretty decent Irish accent - at least one good
enough to fool the National inspectors (not UN inspectors) into thinking
they'd really found someone from Ireland to work at camp. For me, it's a
playtime vacation.
- Pam
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Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 11:14 PM
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Subject: Re: Shinnecock 5
Pam, I was thinking of when I was a kid, fifty or so years ago. Girls
definitely were not welcome at Boy Scout events in those days. I have been
a Tiger Cub leader and was on Cub Scout committees when the boys were in
Cub scouts. Neither of my boys went on to Boy Scouts, I think it was the
leaders, they didn't do much of interest. Ruth
At 1:49 PM -0500 3/24/03, Pam Stevenson wrote:
>Ruth -
>
>Didn't they tell you you don't have to 'have the right equipment' to be a
>Boy Scout anymore? I've been one for years (even went through Ordeal
>Weekend to become part of the OA). Granted, I'm an adult leader, and the
>place where they put girls is in Explorer Posts, but they finally figured
>out we might have a thing or two to teach boys, other than cooking,
>cleaning, and sewing. I don't see me running around with that equipment.
>
>Sign me,
>On my honor, doing my best to do my duty.
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Ruth Barton
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Westminster, VT
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