Scouting, Volume 48, Number 9, December 1960 Page: 17
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Neither Caesar nor the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ever bridged
oceans with scrapbooks. They left that for the Scouts to do.
FRIENDSHIPS
The scrapbook project gives an opportunity to show
interest in the background countries of families. For
instance, the twenty-four Scouts in Troop 135, Men's
Club of Congregation B'Nai David, Southfield, requests
that their scrapbook be sent to Israel.
"A friendly salute to your troop from our troop" is
lettered on the flyleaf of the scrapbook prepared by
Scouts of Troop 1111, Cherry Hill United Presbyterian
Church, Dearborn. The scrapbooks sparkle with the note
of friendliness and good will.
Methods
When we asked leaders about methods and incidents
getting the scrapbooks ready, they were enthusiastic:
"We gave the job of making our scrapbook to our
Webelos den. and they did the job up brown—or rather
blue and gold.'' explains Assistant Cubmaster Edwin M.
Reagan of Pack 4412, Roseville P.T.A. Council.
"We had a Cub Scout named Warren Meier in our
pack who moved to Switzerland a few months ago," Cub-
master Stan Newstead, Pack 258 of Hubert School in
Detroit, explains as he turns the pages of their more than
100-page scrapbook "Each boy in the pack prepared a
page, and we often thought 'maybe this will go to a
group that Warren is in' as we prepared it."
"This is the kind of project we could do every year,"
Roy Kretchmer, a committeeman of Pack 258, adds.
An enthusiastic Den Mother in Pack 204, Our Lady
Gate of Heaven Ushers' Club, arranged for a Japanese
neighbor to write inscriptions in the Japanese language
throughout the book, just opposite the greetings in Eng-
lish. "Welcome to our Scout friends in Japan," the book
be gins. A section is devoted to each of the ten dens.
Another troop found a Wayne University student
from Thailand who wrote a greeting in his own language
to the Scouts back home.
Cubmaster Angelo Zambetis, who was born in Greece
and came to Detroit as a baby, is Cubmaster of Pack
434, St. Bartholomew's Catholic parish. Although the
parish is predominantly Polish, when the boys voted
where their scrapbook was to be sent, they voted over-
whelmingly, "Greece."
"My father is Fred. He's 42," one Cub Scout wrote
in his comment on a scrapbook page, adding "Martha
is my mother, and her age is unknown."
Consuls counseled
A side light of the scrapbook display was the interest
shown by official representatives of the thirty-one nations
in the consular corps in Detroit. This corps served as
advisers in the scrapbooks of friendships project.
"No two books are even similar,' William Henry Cas-
well, Royal Norwegian consul, observes, adding, "I am
impressed by the skill in which the material has been
put together." Mr. Caswell served as Scoutmaster of
Troop 217 at Roosevelt School in Detroit for fourteen
years.
The consul from Venezuela, F. Ferres, is enthusiastic
in his praise of the project and delighted to know that
at least one of the scrapbooks would be sent to his coun-
try. "These scrapbooks will help many people to take a
closer look at our world," he comments.
"Making our scrapbook of friendship was enjoyable
and had meaning. It was good for us," one Scoutmaster
observes, "it's making friends long distance."
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