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FOR THE 70'S
next decade that it has made for the
past 60 years, it must be more sen-
sitive to the real needs of our young
people.
The Yankelovich Study (Is Scouting
in Tune With the Times?), to which
Ken Wells referred, was highly lauda-
tory about Scouting, beyond our high-
est expectations. Boys and men and
women, from personal experience,
said that Scouting has kept its prom-
ises. We have brought ideals to
life, produced leaders, built personal
fitness. Scouts have been responsive
to the needs of their communities,
towns and cities, and are alert to
their duties as citizens. They know
that freedom and responsibility go
together. Scouting has made a posi-
tive imprint on American life.
Yet, there was an underlying feel-
ing that we could do more to fit a boy
for his role as an active citizen and
for his eventual role as a man; that
we could foster a stronger compete-
tive spirit of individual excellence to
combat a creeping mediocrity that
has invaded our lives. It was also felt
that our program could be more flex-
ible, and more alert to answering a
boy's questions about life values.
In light of what our volunteers said,
and in keeping with our BOYPOWER
'76 goals to serve a representative
one-third of our youth, our national
Boy Scouting committee has built a
program for the 70's. It has been
tested in numerous pilot projects, in
workshop sessions and has involved
hundreds of Scouts and Scouters.
We are not scuttling tradition, but
are, in fact, returning to and strength-
ening many of our original concepts.
Our goals have not changed, but
the route to these goals is, we think,
more direct.
The major goals of the Boy Scouts
of America are clear—"To build de-
sirable qualities of character, to train
in the responsibilities of citizenship,
and to develop personal fitness . .
1.3
Vittz-James Ramsdell, chairman of the
National Boy Scouting Committee, en-
tered Scouting in 1933, attained Eagle
rank, and holds the Silver Beaver, Silver
Antelope, Silver Buffalo and Distinguished
Eagle Awards. He has also served in
many volunteer Scouting capacities, cur-
rently as a member of numerous national
committees. He is president of Roberts
Motor Company of Portland, Oregon.
John K. Sloan, vice chairman of the Boy
Scouting Committee, is an Eagle Scout
and holds the Silver Beaver, Silver Ante-
lope and Distinguished Eagle Awards. A
Los Angeles attorney, (Senior member of
Oliver, Sloan, Vargas, Shaffer & Lindvig)
he has served Scouting in many capaci-
ties, and is currently chairman of the Re-
gion 12 Executive Committee and a mem-
ber of several national committees.
Our committee put a measuring
stick to these goals. We asked our-
selves how these goals could be trans-
lated into actions that a Scout might
perform. We also considered the
skills, the attitudes and the knowl-
edge a Scout must have to make
these ideals workable in his daily life.
For Citizenship, as an example, we
want Scouts:
• to learn about America's heritage,
its role in the world, the meaning of
its basic freedoms
• to know how to work together, to
communicate clearly, to learn the
elements of leadership
• to know the importance of natural
resources and how to actively pro-
tect them
• to know and work with community
organizations and ethnic groups
that make up our environment
• to learn about the work and rec-
reational possibilities open to
them when they become adults
For the major objective of Charac-
ter Development, we define goals like
these:
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