Scout Leadership Meeting
March 17, 2009
Dynamite Roasting Company
Present:
Michael Barker, Edward Brouwer, LuAnn Bryan, Caleb Guffey, Jay Guffey, Jeff Kruse, David Phillips, Maribeth Sabo, Matt Sabo, Mike Sonnenberg,
Campouts:
April 4 & 5 Our Scout Land
Saturday night campout on Scout Land. Rifle, ax and lashing skills. Need 6 parents to attend to make this happen. Sunday Morning church service at the camp. This will be a great campout on our Land! Plan to attend.
April 24 & 25 & return on 26 Rock Climbing
Weather dependent, but plan for Linville area
Lots of parents needed on this campout also. Jay Guffey will lead this campout.
It will be a cool time on the Rocks!
May 2 & 3 Crossover campout
Need older boys to lead this. Working on tenderfoot requirements with the new scouts on this weekend. Everyone who can needs to attend this weekend. Scouts will be assigned scouts for our Boy Mentoring Program.
Memorial Day Monday May 25th: Troop 50 Court of Honor & picnic
More details forthcoming.
July 24 & 25 Emergency Preparedness campout
We must have another Troop to work with us. Alan Presnell is checking with Troop 43 in Oteen. More info to come.
TBD: We do need to plan a time and date to go to Cheshire for the swimming requirements, and water rescue. Boys, bring your calendars to the meeting on Monday to set this time and date. If you don’t have a calendar, make one this weekend with your parents.
Summer 2009:
Plan the annual calendar for Troop 50.
Discussion: Considering advertising in the Black Mtn News that Troop 50 is in Montreat and parents who have boys interested in boy scouts contact Edward Brouwer. No final decision made, but if we do, emphasize the fact that parents must be involved and boys must truly be interested in Scouting and believe its principles.
Crossover 2010: Edward to talk with Eric Howie about possibly having crossover earlier next year, around February, to give the new scouts time with the Troop before Summer Camp.
Beaver Patrol Update:
For the remainder of the spring, Jeff Kruse will assist Mr. Angle with the Beaver Patrol. Mike Sonnenberg will speak to the patrol on Monday night. Be there and be prepared to plan your next meetings.
Bring your scout book and your merit badge information in your three ring binder so we will know what items need to be completed. Read Mr. Kruse’s email from March 17th and bring what he has listed. This is critical for this meeting.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Nifty Scouting Site
I have found this site to be quite useful in finding information about advancement through the Scouting ranks. I have put it in the Links section on the right also. At the Boy Scout Trail site you can find information about the requirements for each rank. Also is a listing of the requirements for every merit badge. Also, you can view videos that describe and show various aspects of the ranks. There is a work sheet for each merit badge (much like what was used at the recent Merit Badge Midway). Please check it out. Very cool and handy information. Keep working on those badges!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Troop 50's leadership team will meet TU 3/17 at 445PM. Here is the initial call for the meeting and the resulting dialogue. It's exciting stuff!
From Scoutmast Edward Brouwer:
Let’s all meet at the new Roasting Coffee place at 4:45 for a leadership ,meeting—finished within an hour. The agenda will be discussion of program strengths and areas for improvement with a goal to have a plan to solve them. We will also look at our financial situation, our equipment needs, summer camp expectations, and schedule for the remainder of the year.
From parent Michael Sonnenberg:
It might move things along by all of us e-mailing some of the talking points in a more fleshed out manner i.e. strengths, improvements, equipment needs, camp expectations, schedule for year
Just an idea...
From parent Marshall Angle:
Strengths: active adult leadership that promotes high adventure and travel opportunities for boys. Commitment to Advancement.
To Improve: continue planning weekly meetings that increasingly promote boy leadership and active engagement with scout skills. Continue teaching guys how to efficiently plan and implement their meeting agendas. Streamline announcements; optimize time spent doing things (this is not to say that we don’t already conduct such meetings—it is to say, though, that the path we are on is a good one and that we should continue in that direction with continued emphases placed on boy leadership and active application of skills).
I like the leadership meetings in which we devote at least some time for planning and scheduling. Long-term scheduling is good, but I think it also helps to devote time to short-term agenda preparation (e.g., opening & closing ceremonies, patrol activities, and troop activities for the next month). Even if this does not happen at our next leadership meeting, such planning, it seems to me, helps us accomplish our goals of nurturing boy leadership. Over the next few months, I would like for the Beavers to spend Patrol time focusing on Orienteering/ Hiking; Knife and Ax skills; Lashing/ Pioneering; and First Aid. It would be cool if we could gain use of a pool—there are some swimming requirements for those ranks as well.
For Advancement, ranks beyond Tenderfoot require service projects-so that might be on our agenda.
I hope we might spend some time this spring at the land that has been offered for scouts’ use. Perhaps have a Pioneering weekend in which we clear space for use but also learn lashing and camp skills that will help the Beavers reach Second and First Class ranks. Such work could also be applied to Pioneering merit badge for the Hawks. Perhaps we could also make an Orienteering course for the guys on the site? There were three scouts who have earned a partial for Orienteering.
And finally from Edward Brouwer again:
Marshall I like your thinking on this. I agree that a weekend on the land would be amazing AND you could probably knock out a lot of the ax/knife skills, lashing etc that weekend as we clear the land and create campsites.
Thanks for this flow of conversation in anticipation of our meeting next Tuesday
It promises to be a great meeting. We hope all the parents can attend!
From Scoutmast Edward Brouwer:
Let’s all meet at the new Roasting Coffee place at 4:45 for a leadership ,meeting—finished within an hour. The agenda will be discussion of program strengths and areas for improvement with a goal to have a plan to solve them. We will also look at our financial situation, our equipment needs, summer camp expectations, and schedule for the remainder of the year.
From parent Michael Sonnenberg:
It might move things along by all of us e-mailing some of the talking points in a more fleshed out manner i.e. strengths, improvements, equipment needs, camp expectations, schedule for year
Just an idea...
From parent Marshall Angle:
Strengths: active adult leadership that promotes high adventure and travel opportunities for boys. Commitment to Advancement.
To Improve: continue planning weekly meetings that increasingly promote boy leadership and active engagement with scout skills. Continue teaching guys how to efficiently plan and implement their meeting agendas. Streamline announcements; optimize time spent doing things (this is not to say that we don’t already conduct such meetings—it is to say, though, that the path we are on is a good one and that we should continue in that direction with continued emphases placed on boy leadership and active application of skills).
I like the leadership meetings in which we devote at least some time for planning and scheduling. Long-term scheduling is good, but I think it also helps to devote time to short-term agenda preparation (e.g., opening & closing ceremonies, patrol activities, and troop activities for the next month). Even if this does not happen at our next leadership meeting, such planning, it seems to me, helps us accomplish our goals of nurturing boy leadership. Over the next few months, I would like for the Beavers to spend Patrol time focusing on Orienteering/ Hiking; Knife and Ax skills; Lashing/ Pioneering; and First Aid. It would be cool if we could gain use of a pool—there are some swimming requirements for those ranks as well.
For Advancement, ranks beyond Tenderfoot require service projects-so that might be on our agenda.
I hope we might spend some time this spring at the land that has been offered for scouts’ use. Perhaps have a Pioneering weekend in which we clear space for use but also learn lashing and camp skills that will help the Beavers reach Second and First Class ranks. Such work could also be applied to Pioneering merit badge for the Hawks. Perhaps we could also make an Orienteering course for the guys on the site? There were three scouts who have earned a partial for Orienteering.
And finally from Edward Brouwer again:
Marshall I like your thinking on this. I agree that a weekend on the land would be amazing AND you could probably knock out a lot of the ax/knife skills, lashing etc that weekend as we clear the land and create campsites.
Thanks for this flow of conversation in anticipation of our meeting next Tuesday
It promises to be a great meeting. We hope all the parents can attend!
Monday, March 2, 2009
No Scouts Tonight and CAMP Information
As normal, no scouts this evening as no school today.
(Though we are not meeting, we need to take care of some business for our participation at camp this summer.)
If you can, please take time to look at the Daniel Boone website
(Use the link in the right-hand column.) Click on the "2009 Leaders' Guide" button in the left column of the CDM site.
The pages you need to look at in particular are 25-34. I encourge you to look at the merit badges that are required for Eagle.
Some badges require some work completed prior to coming to Summer Camp. Look at the information for each badge.
Please send your merit bages choices to LuAnn Bryan (luannbryan(AT)gmail(DOT)com) and she will comply a list for me to send into CDB.
Hope you enjoyed playing in the snow today with your scout.
Edward Brouwer, Scoutmaster
(Though we are not meeting, we need to take care of some business for our participation at camp this summer.)
If you can, please take time to look at the Daniel Boone website
(Use the link in the right-hand column.) Click on the "2009 Leaders' Guide" button in the left column of the CDM site.
The pages you need to look at in particular are 25-34. I encourge you to look at the merit badges that are required for Eagle.
Some badges require some work completed prior to coming to Summer Camp. Look at the information for each badge.
Please send your merit bages choices to LuAnn Bryan (luannbryan(AT)gmail(DOT)com) and she will comply a list for me to send into CDB.
Hope you enjoyed playing in the snow today with your scout.
Edward Brouwer, Scoutmaster
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