Hey Andy, Our troop is trying to verify some past Eagle Scouts to get a tally of how many we’ve had over the years. We have three who are said to be Eagle Scouts but we can’t find any records to prove it. Is there a national record somewhere that extends all the way back? […]

Do YOU subscribe to American Scouting Digest? I’ve been honored in their current issue with a section running eight full pages. Learn more about this excellent independent magazine at www.scoutingdigest.com Here’s a follow-up on the Green Zone CSPs. They’re $10 each and can be ordered directly from: Karl Johnson PSC 559, Box 6527 FPO, AP […]

We need today, right now, at this very moment, to take a profound lesson from Liviu Librescu, engineering science and mathematics lecturer at Virginia Tech, born in Romania, who on the anniversary date of the Holocaust remembrance, made a decision in the full knowledge of what was about to happen—knew and made it anyway—to save […]

Boy, what a mistake! My Commissioner kept after me, telling me I should take some training. Couple of years of this and he finally wore me down. Me! Twenty years a Scoutmaster! Cubmaster before that! Besides, I’m a high-powered executive, and if I can run a company, I sure as heck should be able to […]

Troop problems are not solved by punishing Scouts. Scouting is a volunteer movement. The primary volunteers are the youths themselves, and we adults who have chosen to serve them serve at their pleasure. Our responsibility is to deliver the Scouting program, as written, to the very best of our abilities, always seeking to improve and […]

Dear Andy, I’ve been a Scoutmaster for more than 20 years in my home town, and now I’m finishing an active duty mobilization in Afghanistan. I’m wondering if the Iraq Green Zone Council has a shoulder patch. If you know of a source please give me a yell. (D.B.) I don’t know if there’s one […]

Dear Andy, I’ve searched for, but not found a syllabus for “MCS 312”: “How NYLT Can Save Our Troops.” Can you help me out here? (Chuck Porter, ADC, Mississippi Valley Council) Start by reading my special column, “NJLIC to YSDC”! Hi, Andy! A Scouter recently asked about different Eagle Mentor pins for youth and adults. […]

Around this time for the past half-dozen years, I get a batch of letters about the Webelos Cross-Over ceremony. The letters are either from Cubmasters who’ve been set-upon by anxious parents wanting their kid to be in the ceremony, even when their kid hasn’t picked a troop and usually isn’t even sure he’s going to […]

Dear Andy, Peter Kronenthal, my father, about whom you wrote last year, has passed away at the age of 99. He was associated with the Boy Scouts of America for over 85 years. Donations, in his honor and name, can be made directly to the Boy Scouts of America. Thank you, Andy. (Donald Kronenthal, West […]

Hi Andy, Very good special article about YSDC, but I have a disagreement with some of your statements. I think that for many Scouters, we’ve never heard of YSDC. So to talk about YSDC immediately replacing NJLIC is a surprise to me and I think a lot of other Scouters. Many of us thought the […]