Scouting, Volume 68, Number 6, November-December 1980 Page: 56
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Flov Burdette (from page 55)
Cubmasters in Pack 3534 tend toward
longevity, too. The present Cubmaster,
Ray Lawrence, a school teacher who has
served for two years, is the sixth the pack
has had.
One of his predecessors was the Rev.
Maceo Pembroke, now the church's chief
minister, who was Cubmaster in 1945
while he served as student pastor. "Mrs.
Burdette was, and is, a very creative,
compassionate, and energetic woman,"
Rev. Pembroke said. "Her outreach to
boys is great."
And a long reach it is, too. Some of her
Cub Scouts come long distances, even
from the suburbs, to be in her pack. As-
sistant Den Leader Betty Allen said that
when she was looking for a pack for her
son, she visited Pack 3534 on a cold winter
day and found Mrs. Burdette getting warm
in preparation for taking the Cub Scouts to
Chicago's main library, an hour-long trip
by bus, to see an exhibit there. "So I said to
myself, if that's the kind of lady she is, this
is the pack for my son. And neither he nor
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1 have been sorry," Mrs. Allen said.
"I don't know why boys will pass up
other packs and come all the way to Saint
Mark." Mrs. Burdette said. "I guess they
just like the way I carry things on."
Most of her Cub Scouts graduate into
Saint Mark's Boy Scout Troop 534 headed
by Scoutmaster Robert T. Sublette Sr.,
who is—naturally—a graduate of Pack
3534. Bob Sublette was a Cub Scout in
1947 and '48 when Floy Burdette was a
comparative novice den mother, with only
a dozen years of experience. "She was a
lady of quite a few skills, even then." he
remembers. "She was very crafty, always
planning projects where we would use her
jigsaw. And she took us on a lot of field
trips, I would guess no less than once a
month—to museums, baseball games, of-
ten to visit Boy Scout camp-outs."
Now a campus policeman at Northwest-
ern University, Bob Sublette has been in
Scouting ever since those days. As Scout-
master of his old troop, one of the strong-
est in the Chicago Area Council, he has
produced 35 Eagle Scouts.
Among Mrs. Burdette's other alumni
are a city court judge, a doctor, a social
worker, an insurance man. school
teachers, bus drivers, and men in many
other walks of life. But in her memory
they're still boys. "1 don't even recognize
them anymore because I haven't seen most
of them since they were nine or ten years
old, and boys change so—much more than
girls do," she said. "Just the other day 1 got
on a bus and the driver said, 'Miz Bur-
dette?' And I said, 'Yeah, who are you?'
He said, 'I used to be one of your Cubs.'
He looked like he'd be in his forties. And
he told me, 'You don't know what Scout-
ing meant to me since I've been out in the
world.' And every one of them says the
same thing, Scouting has meant so much
to them."
Last spring she was re-introduced to
many of her old Cub Scouts when the pack
held a recognition dinner for her. an event
that attracted 200 Cub Scouts, parents,
and alumni. "Most of my old Cub Scouts
had to tell me who they were because 1 just
didn't know them," she said. "But oh,
yeah, they remembered me!"
From that dinner Floy Burdette took
home a plaque and a three-inch stack of
3-by-5 cards on which dinner-goers were
invited to write messages for her. If there is
a proper reward for 45 years of den moth-
ering, it is in those cards. Samples: "My
son has been in your den only a short time.
But 1 can see a positive change in him
already." . . . "Needless to say. 1 am very
glad God placed a Floy Burdette into this
world." ... "I love you. Mrs. Burdette. By
Tyrone."
That's pretty heady stuff, but don't call
it a farewell. Floy Burdette is still ready for
Cub Scout adventure. Her health is very
good ("I haven't been in the hospital since
my baby was born") and she has no plans
for retirement.
So Pack 3534 is not in the market for a
new chief den mother. "I'm staying in until
I can't anymore." said the incumbent. ■
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