Re: meetings and councils
James A. Wells (james@archaeologist.com)
Wed Jan 21 20:52:07 1998
>
> The advantage we have is that we do not have the disparate range of
> interests that you have in the US, but it is important that the Units do
> talk to each other and seeing what the other people are doing at different
> places and dissemination of ideas and information. The lack of contact with
> other units can create bigotry and the like, and an insular environment can
> equate to Ostrich in sand effect.
>
> Any questions, I am sure there will be a few.
>
Mark,
Actually, I don't have that many questions -- you explained your
orgainization pretty well. When you do get together (many units
together at once), what do you do? I think you mentioned "training"
-- what does this mean exactly, and is there any thing else you guys
do at meetings?
I wasn;t aware that your venturer's work toward awards/ranks -- the
Queen's Scout, and the like -- we have only one minor award right
now, the GOLD Award (creates lots of confusion because it's also a
Girl Scout USA award.) National is introducing some new awards this
year (supposidly this year -- but the rest of the BSA members on the
list all know how that goes.) What are the requirements on your
different awards?
We aren't quite to the point of bigotry yet for the most part--though
there is some animosity between some Sea Explorers and the rest of us
-- though our most active unit in the district is a Sea Explorer ship
-- I guess it just depends on where you are. Personally, I'd like to
see a lot more friendship and fellowship between all of our different
Posts -- I know we can all learn a lot from each other.
YIS,
James A. Wells
President, Explorer Post 1824
Sam Houston Area Council
http://www.shac.org
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