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From: Dale Karweik (karweik.1@OSU.EDU)
Date: Mon Jun 19 2000 - 09:49:26 CDT
Having to have all the correct paperwork may be a pain to the volunteers
purchasing rank and merit badge patches, but it is nothing comapred to
trying to find proof that a young man earned 17 of his 21 Eagle required
Merit Badges and his Life Rank before a BOR could be held. He had been in
three Troops that had all folded and now was a member of an Council Camp
Explorer Post. It took the Council Advancement Committee almost 70 hours
to verify the Advancement through a variety of former Scouters. The common
thread was the comment - "we meant to turn in the advancement forms but I
guess nobody ever did it". The Troops presented the badges and the
presentation cards but there was little follow through on filing the
accompanying advancement reports. If Roy Case (the Council Advancement
chair) had not been determined to find the truth, an Eagle Scout wouldn't
be an Eagle because his adult leaders failed him.
Council advancement statistics may be important to the professionals and to
some volunteers, but the most important reason to me is the boy who is
denied something he has earned because no one filed the advancement and
there is no way to reconstruct the record.
Dale Karweik
Dale Karweik
Troop 417 Scoutmaster Emeritus and ASM
Buckeye District Boy Scout RT Commissioner
Post 214 - Black Sheep OA Dance Team and Construction Crew - Advisor
Always an Eagle - EC430 Frenetic Fox
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