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are and what you're doing for the pack.
Carol: Definitely.
Joe: The committee chairman can make
announcements, too. The chairman may
say, "I'd like to tell you a little about the
pinewood derby that's coming up," and
then turn it over to the pinewood derby
chairman. There are people standing up
around the room, making announce-
ments; there's a treasurer's report. That
portion of the meeting is very brief, but
informative.
Scouting: Do you have projects to earn
money for your treasury?
Darlene: Each boy sold cans of peanuts at
the beginning of the year. Usually we have
just one major project a year. That's really
all we need, and we get donations.
John: And sell Scout show tickets.
Joe: The district offers Christmas tree
sales and Scout show ticket sales. If a pack
is not able to plan its own money-earning
project, it can still make enough money to
hold it over to the next year.
Darlene: Every year we have a derby race,
and we get sponsors to help.
Carol: Last year merchants completely
paid for the prizes and tracks.
Dan: We have been fortunate to raise
enough money through the Scout show
tickets, and that pretty much carries us
through the year.
Kitty: Many of our events were self-sup-
porting. We had a 50-cents-a-head tab on
the blue and gold banquet to help pay for
the birthday cake and ice cream.
Scouting: What do you think the greatest
challenge before your pack is now?
Carol: 1 really think we need to work on
parent participation.
John: I had a good feeling from the par-
ents of the new boys last night. A lot of
them picked up those adult forms and the
den leader information.
Carol: We had a terrific filmstrip presen-
tation titled "Cub Scout Orientation"
from the Scout service center. Even for
those of us who have been in it for three
years, it gave us an overview of what
Scouting's all about and what's expected
of the parents. It was more of an invitation
to helping.
Sam: We've got to get more parents in-
volved. I don't do that much—one com-
mittee meeting, a little bit of prep for it,
and the pack meeting. It doesn't take a
great deal of time, so it's convincing peo-
ple it doesn't take that much. We've had
some successful functions, but every once
in a while you think, "These are the same
people working."
Dan: I think the key to a lot of this is
communication and setting up what the
expectations are at the beginning. If par-
ents expect that when "my boy joins this
pack, I will be doing something as well,"
then there's greater likeiihood that that
will be carried through.
Scouting: Are you doing anything to en-
sure the longevity of your pack committee
after your own boys go into Scouts?
Sam: We are trying to get parents of new
boys to have a better understanding.
Dan: If we can encourage entering Bob-
cats and their families to get involved in
something at the den level and something
at the pack level the first year, then the
second year these people might get on the
pack committee.
Carol: I don't see anything wrong with
being on the committee for three years, as
long as you make sure there are new ones
coming up. For three years they've got
your help, and then you pass it on.
Dan: I think it's very true that I have
gotten a lot out of it. 1 learned organiza-
tional skills, I learned skills of working
with people and motivating people, which
I can now use in my work. It is not simply
what we are doing for the boy; there's a lot
the pack is doing for us.
Joe: There's a lot of satisfaction in it; that's
why we're all in it the way we are.
Carol: You get your satisfaction when you
go to the pack meetings and the boys are
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