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We're All on
The Same Team
A J. Scribante, chairman,
• BSA's Community
Relationships Committee:
"Scouting is a resource these
organizations can employ if they
want to serve youth."
R Bennett Crawford, Ruritan:
• "We've been involved with
Scouting for 60 years. It's helped
me and my organization. There's
no question about that."
Lawrence LeFebvre, VFW:
"One of the ways to instill
values in the nation's youth is to
get involved in outstanding
programs like Scouting."
The boy scouts of amer-
ica is unique among youth or-
ganizations because it requires a
local organization to apply for a
charter for each of its Cub Scout packs,
Boy Scout troops, Varsity Scout teams,
and Explorer posts. It's easy to see why
schools and religious institutions agree to
become chartered organizations. After
all, Scouting is an educational program
and has "duty to God" as one of its cor-
nerstones.
But close to a fourth of Scouting's
chartered organizations are a mixed bag
of civic and fraternal groups, veterans'
organizations, the military services, pub-
lic agencies like police and fire depart-
ments, and business and industry. Name
any institution in America and chances
are that somewhere it is operating Scout-
ing units.
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How come? The answers probably
would be as varied as the organizations
and institutions themselves. But in a nut-
shell, all the answers boil down to the
same reason schools and churches sup-
port Scouting: It fits their purposes.
A.J. Scribante chairs a committee of
31 national organization leaders that have
local affiliates with BSA charters to use
the Scouting program.
"Each one of these organizations has a
purpose, and what we're able to do is help
them fulfill that purpose," Scribante
said. His community relationships com-
mittee meets four times a year to share
ideas for promoting Scouting.
"Scouting is a resource these organi-
zations can employ if they want to serve
youth," Scribante explained. In addition
to chairing the committee, he is a
member of the BSA's National Advisory
May-June 1989 Scouting
Council and of the executive board of the
Mid-America Council, Omaha, Neb.
To get the perspectives of some typical
organizations and services that encour-
age their local clubs, lodges, and military
bases to back Scouting units, Scouting
magazine interviewed the vice-chairmen
of the community relationships commit-
tee. They represent Ruritan, American
Legion, US. Air Force, Loyal Order of
Moose, and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Ruritan is a civic service organiza-
tion with 37,000 members in 1,350 clubs
in many states, with the heaviest concen-
tration in rural areas of the Southeast.
Nearly a third of all Ruritan clubs hold
charters for Scouting units, and many
others help units in other ways.
"Our constitution says we are to work
with other organizations that seek to help
the community," said Ruritan Executive
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