Scouting, Volume 71, Number 5, October 1983 Page: 52
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SAN DEGO'S
WEBELOS ACTIVITY
San Diego
Scouters
add a fillip
or two to a
national course
and produce
a fast-paced
training event
for Webelos
den leaders.
BY ROBERT
GRAY
Photographs by
Stephen Kelley
L
(Top) Noah Yates
displays a hawk during
discussion of the
Naturalist activity badge.
(Above) Workshop staff
members are: Don Estes,
John McAllister, Tom
Byrne, Bob McMillan,
and Noah Yates.
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The 1983 Webelos Activity Badge Work-
shop sponsored by the San Diego County
Council began with a bang. Several bangs
to be exact. Atherton Hall, council service
and training center, was booby trapped. It seems
that Tom "Mad Scientist" Byrne and his loyal
assistant, John Turner, had laced the floor of the
meeting room with sodium iodide crystals. The
crystals have two noteworthy properties: They are
pressure sensitive and they evaporate rapidly.
When stepped on, they explode. BANG! Harm-
lessly to be sure, but with a disconcertingly loud
report. Thanks to the second property, volatility,
the effect doesn't last long. There were many
bangs in Atherton Hall that Saturday morning in
January, and the Mad Scientist was delighted. He
had provided a sure-fire ice breaker to the day-
long workshop.
This was the third consecutive WAW in San
Diego. The council went all out to assure its
success by making Atherton Hall available as the
meeting place, and also by making the council
program director, Don Marheine, available to
help as staff representative and unofficial god-
father to the workshop. All of the planning and
execution were done by members of the volunteer
committee. The WAW's purpose, as Don ex-
plained it, was ". . . to help leaders, and anybody
else interested in the Webelos program, teach
activity badge work. Sometimes there is danger of
letting Webelos Scouting become an end in itself
rather than what it's supposed to be, a transition
between Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. The activity
badges can keep this from happening."
Jim Arnold, an old-time Scouter and member of
the 1983 WAW committee, expanded on Don's
theme in opening remarks to the workshop.
"These days, the trail to Eagle starts with a Tiger
Cub T-Shirt . . referring to the simple uniform
worn in the newly formed program for seven year
October 1983 Scouting
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