Scouting, Volume 70, Number 4, September 1982 Page: 58
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Rudy Rodgers (from page 37)
Commissioner Rudy Rodgers
might slow down a bit because
of some health problems, but
he will never abandon
Scouting. He knows that too
many of his boys and parents
are still depending on him.
trustees. The minister warned him that the
lay leaders might balk because of the costs
of heat and lights for opening the church
for the pack's meeting place. "They don't
like to spend money," the pastor told
Rudy.
"So 1 went in and asked how many of
the deacons and trustees had children,"
Rudy Rodgers said. "About nine of them
did. I asked them if they knew where their
children were. Sure, they said, they knew.
So I said, 'I'll give you 20 cents for each
one who is where you say he is.' They
checked, and about half of their children
were not at home where they thought they
were.
"I said, 'Wouldn't it be better if you had
some control over who was teaching them,
what they were teaching them, and where
they were at least one night a week?'
"I said, 'If you instill the right things in
your son, he won't go wrong. He may sway
a little from the beaten path, but he's got to
come back because it's not going to be
familiar to him.' They agreed, and two
weeks later I had a pack there. I've been
doing the same thing ever since."
There have been some memorable
moments. Once, Rudy Rodgers recalls, he
and another Scouter on an organizing
foray visited a church and ran into a
congregational dispute in which guns were
being brandished. "We were caught in the
basement from 7 to 12:30 trying to get out
of there," he said. "I couldn't believe
that!" Needless to say, there was no or-
ganizing that night. "Sometimes," he said
with considerable understatement, "you
have to bide your time till you can get in to
sell your product."
Another time he visited a church in
which one of the rituals apparently was
anointing the congregation with blood.
"From the pulpit came this guy with a
squirt gun full of blood—I don't know
whether it was chicken blood or
what—and squirted it all over my un-
iform," Rudy remembers. "It was wild!"
He didn't make a sale that night, either.
But his success rate is very high. Rarely a
day goes by that Rudy Rodgers isn't in the
council office turning in new registrations
or getting a charter.
"Everybody basically loves their chil-
c
"I know it's the law that pets be kept
on a leash—but a parakeet!?"
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