Scouting, Volume 60, Number 6, September 1972 Page: 17
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SECTION
4
PROGRAM
FEATURES
COMMUNICATIONS
TROOP MEETINGS
FIRST WEEK
SECOND WEEK
THIRD WEEK
PREOPENING
Play Jump the Shot,
Scoutmaster's Handbook.
Play Spud, Scoutmaster's
Handbook.
Scouts try out their written
plans for teaching Scout
skills (Requirement 2,
Communications skill award).
OPENING
Selected patrol posts colors, and
patrol leader leads pledge of
allegiance. Newest patrol member
leads Scout Law.
Scout progress review for Star,
Life, Eagle.
Form by patrols. Patrol give
their calls in sequence. Then all
give calls at once.
Sing "We're All Together
Again, We're Here,"
Scout Songbook.
SCOUTCRAFT
INSTRUCTION/
DEMONSTRATION
Invite Communications merit
badge counselor to demonstrate
introductions, announcements,
letter writing, and story telling
as outlined in Communications
skill award requirements.
Scouts practice.
Plan and practice skills of
promotion, letter writing,
introducing acts, story tellings
for troop Comedy Hour.
"Dress rehearsal" for Comedy
Hour. During interpatrol
activity period Scouts
suggest improvements.
GAME/CONTEST
Submarines and Mine Fields,
page 55.
Where Am I?, page 54.
Message Relay, page 54.
PATROL
MEETINGS
Tryouts for patrol's representative
in story-telling contest
next week.
Patrol members write letters,
make posters to promote
troop Comedy Hour.
Assign Scouts to bring
props and equipment for
patrol participation in
Comedy Hour.
INTERPATROL
ACTIVITY
Kim's Game,
Scoutmaster's Handbook.
Tryouts for featured story-telling
acts in Comedy Hour. Vote for
best two or three story-tellers.
(Other patrols will give skits
or lead songs for Comedy Hour.)
Patrols evaluate and
improve acts.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Story-telling contest next week.
Troop leaders' council meeting
afterwards to detail Comedy
Hour program.
Final details
for Comedy Hour.
SCOUTMASTER'S
MINUTE
"Even a Parrot,"
Troop Activities.
"Our Scout Code," The Scout
Oath in Action, page 19.
"Our Tongue Is
a Fire," Troop Activities.
CLOSING
CEREMONY
Troop sings "Forward America"
while selected patrol retires colors.
Recognize Scouts who advanced
at progress review last week.
Form brotherhood circle with
arms around each other's
shoulders and sing
"Hail Hall, Scouting Spirit."
Repeat together
in full the fourth point of
the Scout Law, " A Scout
is friendly."
FOURTH WEEK: COMEDY HOUR
Troop Comedy Hour will give Scouts
experience in communications skills.
Throughout the month, practice these
skills for the big event. Invite families and
friends to the program. Feature the two
or three best story-tellers, patrol stunts,
skits, musical acts and other specialties.
Be sure to include all Scouts in the pro-
gram. See next page for suggested pro-
gram.
Troop leaders' council meets this week
to plan details for next month.
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 60, Number 6, September 1972, periodical, September 1972; New Brunswick, New Jersey. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth353553/m1/81/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.