Scouting, Volume 50, Number 9, November 1962 Page: 17
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Have you a Scouting story that is humorous,
inspirational, or otherwise worth retelling?
Share it with our readers. Send it to Scout-
ing magazine, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
BOYS DO AS SCOUTS. The great-
est builder of confidence is the ability
to do something — almost anything —
well.
Gordon Dean in Smoke Signals
Mississippi Valley Council
East St. Louis, III.
FIRST AID. Mike and his buddy-
Danny were cooking supper together.
Danny, admiring his pan of sizzling
hamburgers, said, "Hey, Mike, how do
you like this?" After a serious ana-
lytical look, Mike replied, "Quick, get
a Band-Aid, and we might be able to
save it."
Kelly Proctor, Scoutmaster Troop 774
Brownfield, Texas
☆ ☆ "H"
FUN AHEAD. When our Cub Scout
pack was being organized, a group of
prospective Cub Scouts was overheard
discussing the jobs their parents were
to have in the pack. "My mother is
going to be a Den Mother," said one,
"That's nothing, my dad's going to be
assistant Cubmaster," boasted another.
My son then topped them with, "My
dad's going to be a comedienne." I
think he meant "committeeman."
Larry Carroll, Pack 40
Oswego, N. Y.
SHRINKING VIOLET. After a
successful Cub Scouting roundtable,
the district commissioner and several
of his helpers were reviewing the events
of the evening. The conversation got
around to one of the men who had
evidenced painful shyness and embar-
rassment when called upon to do his
part in front of such a large group.
Someone commented, "It's good for a
person to get out in front of a group
and overcome bashfulness. Lots of
people have developed their personali-
ties as a rssult of working in Scouting."
The session broke up as a quiet-type
Den Mother remarked, "Yes, that's just
the way I used to be, but now I even
talk back to my husband."
James M. French
District Scout Executive
Idaho Falls, Idaho
FROM THE DARKNESS. The
hall was darkened and Troop 12's court
of honor was about to get under way.
The curtain slowly opened to show a
table with several lighted candles. Sud-
denly the silence was broken by a
small, plaintive voice in the back of the
room singing "Happy Birthday to
You."
Kendell K. Poulson
Kalamazoo, Mich.
PUZZLED PASSENGER. The
scene is on a jet flight from Los Angeles
to Detroit. The characters, seated side
by side, are an attractive lady and John
V. Houston, Jr., 6 feet 5 inches and 190
pounds, a businessman who happens
to be a member of the Den Mother
training faculty in a Los Angeles dis-
trict. He has spread out on his lap The
Den Mother's Denbook and other ref-
erence material, preparing the next
training session he is to conduct. The
lady repeatedly glances at the material
and then out the window with a puzzled
expression. She does not ask nor does
trainer Houston volunteer why this
hunk of he-man is so deeply engrossed
in Den Mother literature. They part at
Detroit, one with an extremely puzzled
expression.
RECRUITER. When Deputy Re-
gional Scout Executive Claude Lapsley
visited Troop 25 of Putnam, Conn., he
asked a boy, "How did you happen to
join the troop?" The boy explained
that he and a friend were watching the
troop meeting through a basement win-
dow when the Scoutmaster came to the
door and invited them in to the meet-
ing. The Scout executive then asked a
second boy the same question. The
Scout replied, "I'm the boy who ran
away that night. Later I talked with
my buddy who joined, and—here I am."
Kenneth H. Gunsalus, Scoutmaster
Troop 25, Putnam, Conn.
☆ ☆ ☆
ARMOR. Paint store manager Don
Riley was startled when a lady cus-
tomer asked him to put one of his paper
paint buckets on his head, but he com-
plied. She purchased eight of them. He
later learned she was a Den Mother
and was using the buckets for her boys'
helmets in the Knights of Yore theme.
Walt King
Miami Valley Council, Dayton, Ohio
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