A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
– Christopher Reeve
NOV 2009 BSA Cub Scout Theme: CUB SCOUT SALUTE
This month Cub Scouts salute those heroes who help keep us safe and secure each and every day. Can only adults be heroes? Heroes are often ordinary kids who did something out of the ordinary! A den can decide what makes a hero and who the heroes of tomorrow might be by looking at people they know today. Learn about heroes in your own community, as well as Scouting heroes who have earned BSA heroism awards. Have your Cub Scouts invite their hometown heroes to a den or pack meeting. Perhaps your den can become “silent heroes” by performing service for others without seeking any recognition. Visit a fire station, veteran’s hospital (Veterans Day is this month), police station, or teacher’s classroom and learn about their heroic deeds and reciprocate with a “Scout salute” for their contributions. …
- USSSP Baloo’s Bugle : Volume 16 Issue 03 – Oct 2009 CUB SCOUT SALUTE [PDF]
- BSA Cub Scout Program Helps Cub Scout Salute November 2009 [PDF]
- Buckeye District Roundtable November 2009 [PDF]
- CubCast October 2009 – Part 1 Cub Scout Salute
CubCast October 2009 – Part 2 Webelos-to-Scout Transition and MyScouting Interviews
[CubCastRSS feed]
UK Scouting Magazine
UK Scouting Magazine
- Scouting Magazine October/November 2009[PDF]
- Beaver Scout Supplement [PDF]
- Cub Scout Supplement [PDF]
- Scout Supplement [PDF]
Boy’s Life Magazine
Links found in October 2009 Boys’ Life magazine
Western Australian Scout eNews
Chief’s Corner October 2009
The Dump
This month my featured book from “The Dump” Resources For Scouting is; The Adventures Of A Spy – The 1924 edition of B.P.’s My Adventures As A Spy.
BADEN-POWELL yarns about his exploits as a spy and talks about ‘the sport of spying’. The butterfly illustrated on the cover is referred to in the ‘Englishmen as fools’ chapter, where B-P writes how useful it is to the English spy that our stereotypical image abroad was seen as being eccentric and foolish. On one occasion B-P, pretending to be an English gentlemen butterfly collector, appeared to making field sketches of the delicate pattern of a butterfly wings (used as the cover graphic). This bumbling foreigner did not apparently alarm the local guards to ’sensitive’ military installations. But B-P was actually recording a plan of an enemy fort with gun emplacements, camouflaging their shapes amongst the delicate details of the wings. Even more ingenious, I feel, was a field sketch of the fort concealed in a drawing of the head of a moth.
The book was republished as The Adventures of a Spy in 1936.
– “Johnny” Walker’s Scouting Milestones
