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Changing the Course
The Quiet Adventure
"Once a Scout--
always a Scout"
Making A Difference
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
"Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned"
Challenge Me
"Training boy leaders to run their Troop is the Scoutmaster's most important job"
"Train Scouts to do a job, and then let them do it"
"Never do anything a boy can do"
"I have suggested Scouting as a good thing for Boys, because I began it myself when I was a Boy, and I know that if you want to enjoy life and get on, a great step towards it is to learn Scouting while you are young"
"A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room"
"Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world"
"There is no teaching to compare with example"
Quotes from Robert Baden-Powell
Boy Scouting's First Scoutmaster
The Road Less Traveled
Robert Frost 1874-1963
"The Only Things We Keep
Permanently Are Those
We Give Away"
"Achievement Consists of Doing
Useful Things That Most People Say
Cannot Be Done"
Waite Phillips 1883-1964
Philmont Scout Ranch
Philmont Hymn
Scout Vesper
What is Scout Spirit?
"Your standing as a scout
does not depend so much on
the skills of your hands or
the badges on your merit badge
sash, as on the spirit in your heart,
on what you are willing to do
for others, on whether you are
doing your very best to live
the Scout Oath and Scout Law"
The Scout Law:
A Scout is Trustworthy
Loyal
Helpful
Friendly
Courteous
Kind
obedient
Cheerful
Thrifty
Brave
Clean
and Reverent
A Leader's Prayer
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George Stiefel- Wood Badge Presenter (Excerpt from Presentation)
At this time, it gives me great honor to be able to present an award to one of our adult leaders.
Baden Powel first undertook the training of Scouters in 1911. This training consisted of a series of lectures. Later, in 1919 this training was advanced into what has become known as Wood Badge.
The object of the Wood Badge experience is to demonstrate, in a very practical way, the aims and methods of Scouting. Completion of the two - three day weekend practical course is only the first part of a two-part experience. The second is the Writing and Working of a "Ticket": a series of goals, which must be completed to demonstrate the candidate’s knowledge of course materials. This can take from anywhere from six to eighteen months after completion of the practical experience.
Tonight we have with us a Scouter, Colin Comi, who has completed his ticket.
Fellow Wood Badge members, please escort Mr. Comi to the front of our assembly.
The taupe neckerchief with its patch of the MacLaren tartan on the back is symbolic of Baden Powel’s estate, which was given to the British Boy Scouts by W.F. DeBois MacLaren, a District Commissioner in Scotland, to provide a training ground for the officers of the scouting movement.
In looking for a suitable recognition for those completing this advanced course, Baden Powel remembered a necklace, which he had captured from the African Chieftain, Dinizulu, in 1888. He decided to award a wooden bead from the neckerchief to those completing the course, hence the name Wood Badge.
The original beads have long since run out, but the two beads we award today are still hand made in Gilwell Park. A third bead is awarded for service on the staff of a Wood Badge course, and a fourth is awarded for service as a Wood Badge Course Director.
The woggle, in the form of a Turks head knot, is the symbol of the continuity of service and the friendship provided by all Wood Badgers.
This certificate is presented by the Chief Scout Executive in recognition of the completion of the Wood Badge experience.
It gives me great pleasure to present Mr. Comi with his Wood Badge certificate.
Please join me in congratulating Mr. Comi.
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