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Camp Owasippe's
No-Strain
Training
BY ROBERT PETERSON
Photographs by Art Shay
H
.ere are two indisputable prop-
ositions:
Training takes time, but it's essential for
a conscientious Cub Scout leader.
Just about everybody loves a family
vacation.
Put them together and what do you
have? A Cub Scout training/family vaca-
tion. of course.
The idea is simplicity itself. While mom
or pop is taking a concentrated dose of Cub
Scout leadership training, the rest of the
family is enjoying a camping vacation.
(Mom or pop gets into some of the fun,
too.) If the metaphor weren't so inappro-
priate for Scouting's conservation empha-
sis. we could say that a training/family
vacation kills two birds with one stone.
Training vacations for Cub Scout
leaders and their families have been a
fixture at Philmont Scout Ranch in New
Mexico for nearly 30 years. But the idea
was tried elsewhere for the first time last
August at the Owasippe Scout Reserva-
tion, the Chicago Area Council's camp
near Muskegon. Mich.
There 37 Cub Scout leaders from the
East Central Region (Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan. Ohio. West Virginia, and Wis-
consin) gathered with their families for an
inexpensive week of training and vacation
fun. On a scale of one to 10, (10 being
"super") their enthusiasm for the course
and vacation program would rate at least a
nine.
About half of the trainees were Cub
Scouting veterans like Dr. Leslie Hauser-
man. a district Cub Scout chairman from
Cleveland. "Last year I was at Philmont,
and I think the training sessions here are
comparable, but what's nice about this is I
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Chicago Council's
Camp Owasippe
staff took
a cue from the
Philmont training
center by providing
counselors and an
organized program
to help kids learn to
love the outdoors.
don't have to drive 1,500 miles for it," he
said. And his family? "My eight-year-old
daughter is having so much fun she doesn't
want to leave," he said, "and my 13-year-
old son is having a great time camping and
canoeing."
Typical of the reactions of less experi-
enced leaders was that of Bill Stilson of
Canfield. Ohio: "There's a lot of expe-
rience here, both on the staff and among
the other trainees, and I'm picking up some
great ideas." While Bill Stilson. a Cub-
master for only seven months after a
couple of years as a pack committee
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