Scouting, Volume 79, Number 3, May-June 1991 Page: 34
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Careful
Program Planning
Assures Success
BY TYLER COX
Photographs by Donna Bise
The leaders assemble
promptly at 9:30 a.m. They
gather not around a polished ma-
hogany table in the conference
room of a tall office building, but around
weathered picnic tables under a dining fly
in the South Carolina woods. Instead of
briefcases, they carry copies of the latest
Boys' Life Program Notebook. The closest
three-piece suit is miles away in Columbia,
the state capital.
The adult and boy leaders of Troop 326,
chartered to
St. Mary's
Episcopal
Church, Co-
lumbia, S.C.,
are holding
their annual
planning
meeting to
map out ac-
tivities for the
coming year.
As serious as
any corporate
board of di-
rectors, the
Scouts in this
young troop
have assem-
b1e d this
Saturday
morning for a
half day of
planning—
with some
time set aside
for their fa-
vorite games
—at their council's Camp Barstow.
Attending are the senior patrol leader,
patrol leaders, Venture crew chief, Varsity
team captain, troop guide, and three adult
leaders. Assistant patrol leaders have also
been asked to attend, for their input and to
gain planning experience.
Senior Patrol Leader Aaron Strobel and
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John Sellers ponders some
serious choices to be made
in planning a program.
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"You boys run the troop," Scoutmaster
Richard Strobel reminds the group.
his father, Scoutmaster Richard Strobel,
will conduct the meeting.
"We stress program planning," says the
elder Strobel, a former Marine drill in-
structor who was honored as the Saluda
River District's 1989 Scouter of the Year.
"We take the leaders out on a retreat in
August to plan the next year. We really
believe that good preparations and plan-
ning give rise to a solid program."
At the secluded lakeside campsite, the
leaders unload equipment from the troop's
white trailer, purchased with profits from a
well-planned candy sale. In sandy soil
under pines, they pitch a dining fly and
drive stakes for playing horseshoes during
a break. The next task is to make a pot of
strong coffee for the adults and enough
cherry drink for the Scouts to last the day.
Just before a Scouting photographer ar-
rives, the boys polish their belt buckles
with brass cleaner. "It makes a difference,"
says the senior Strobel, whose military em-
phasis on correct uniforming has carried
over into his Scouting. "We arrive at all
meetings and outings in full uniform and
return in full uniform."
The leaders open the retreat with the
Pledge of Allegiance and the Scout Oath
and Law. Then the red neckerchiefed group
sits down at the picnic tables, facing the flip
chart Scoutmaster Strobel has brought. He
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