The Webelos Scout who didn’t visit a Troop with his Den and consequently didn’t complete the requirements for his Arrow of Light continues to be on your mind! Here are some more Scouters’ thoughts on this… Dear Andy, I was reading in your April ’05 issue about the concern for visiting a Troop. Is it […]

Hi Andy, Is there a written restriction that disallows a Pack Committee Chairman from being it’s sister Troop’s Scoutmaster? (Jim Viser, UC, Colonial Virginia Council, Suffolk, VA) Yup, there sure is a “written restriction” on being chair of one unit and SM of another… It’s called…(are your ready)…divorce papers! Actually, despite the significant negative impact […]

Hi Andy, First, I want to thank you for your informative column. I’ve learned many things here that I’d think I should have learned in leader training, but didn’t! My question has to do with the appropriateness of a specific service project that was recently promoted by our Troop’s ASM. Our state law now makes […]

Nope, ol’ Andy here hasn’t been “on vacation,” although that’s never a bad idea! If you’re a regular reader, you know that our Website’s server “died” and our estimable and stalwart Webmaster, Mike Bowman, needed to find a replacement and then get it up and running. He’s been successful (in large part thanks to readers […]

Dear Andy, I’m a Webelos Den Leader, and I’d like to find a Den Chief poem so I can make him a plaque to present him at our Blue & Gold. Can you help me in locating some poems about Den Chiefs, or anything that might be along that line. (Laurel Downer, WDL, Pack 7, […]

Remember CB, the Committee Member of a Troop in New Jersey who was having some trouble with a “bullying” Scout in Mid-December? Well, there’s more… Dear Andy, To add more details and clarify what I said before, it was a Scout’s bullying that prompted his fellow Scouts to petition the Scoutmaster to have him removed […]

Dear Andy, It’s said, “Timing is everything.” I wish I’d read sooner your comprehensive response in the Mid-October 2004 “Ask Andy” series to the question, “Aren’t (Eagle) boards of review nothing more than rubber stamps?” I just went through the most uncomfortable Star BOR I’ve ever experienced. It involved a Scout, our Troop’s Senior Patrol […]

Dear Andy, In my travels as a Friends of Scouting contribution “encourager,” I’ve run into several men who were Scouts maybe fifty or so years ago, and a couple of them referred to themselves as a “Double-Eagle.” I’ve never heard of a “Double Eagle”—Do you have any idea what this means? (J.K., Patriots’ Path Council, […]

Dear Andy, I’m currently helping out with my son’s Cub Scout Den as an assistant. Meanwhile, my church is starting a new Pack, and might ask me to be a Den Leader there. Can I serve in more than one Pack? Is there any official policy that would prevent me from helping out? (Pedersenta6) Of […]

Many books and workshops on management, personal development, and so forth, talk hard about the idea of personal best.” They often recommend ”visualizing” – “If I were the best (you fill in the blank), how would I look, what would I be doing…?”  I think this can apply to our volunteer lives in Scouting, but […]