Re: Where is it written
Dean Hayes (dhayes@BVU-LADS.LORAL.COM)
Thu, 14 Dec 1995 09:37:20 -0800
I responded to Paul in more detail but For those looking for a reference
in the literature to a "boy run program". This is what I've found.
The Boy Scout Handbook
Chapter 23. Your Scout Patrol and Troop
Page 539 describes the job of the Patrol Leader.
Page 543 describes the patrol leader's council.
"The activities of your troop are planned by a patrol leader's council
made up of your patrol leaders, senior patrol leader, and Scoutmaster.
Other troop leaders may attend if their help is needed.
The Scoutmaster Handbook
Chapter 2 - The Troop Makeup
The Patrols (The 99 words)
Every Boy Scout troop, we said earlier, is made up of patrols,
groupings of six to eight boys who work together as a team. Each
patrol elects its own leader. The patrol leaders, with an elected
senior patrol leader as their head, form the patrol leader's
council. It is this council's job to plan and run the troop
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program.
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Each patrol leader represents his patrol on the council, and
interprets to his patrol the plans and decisions the council makes.
Patrols have their own meeting, elect their own officers, and plan
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and carry out their own patrol activities.
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Chapter 3, "All About Patrols" and Chapter 4, "Using Junior Leaders" reinforce
the 99 words (I was going to add specific quotes from this area but I think
the 99 words pretty much stands on its own.)
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Dean Hayes
Scoutmaster, Troop 491,
Snoqualmie, WA
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