Troop Neckerchiefs
Carey Probst (hcprobst@NETHEAVEN.COM)
Wed, 26 Jul 1995 10:01:48 +0000
>
> As part of this the decision was made to
>give out standard red neckerchiefs to new scouts and award the custom
>neckerchief to Scouts as soon as they attain First Class rank. This has
>worked great!
>
>This week end I was told by one of the Commissioners that this was not
>allowed - but he said he would not do anything about it because he was not
>our commissioner. I suggested that perhaps this was a poor rule as our
>goal is to keep scouts in scouting and achievement of First Class has that
>effect. This has been a real motivator.
At Troop 16 we have a similar policy, except that we have 3 different
neckerchiefs which were custom designed by the scouts. We give out a
red neckerchief with our troop logo embroidered to scouts who reach
First Class, a blue one with the words Eagle Scout in addition to the
patch to all scouts when they reach the Eagle rank, and a green one
with patch to all adult leaders.
Nobody has yet to critize our approach, and I have never read
anywhere that all scouts are required to wear the same neckerchief.
If this were true, when would the scouts wear all the special
neckerchiefs they get such as the NESA, Eagle, or in our case OA
Lodge neckerchief.
My recommendation would be to ignore the commissioner as uninformed
unless he can quote chapter and verse of uniforming regs to support
his claim. If he does, please post it because I have never seen it
either.
YiS
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Carey Probst, hcprobst@netheaven.com
Saratoga Springs, NY
Advisor, Post 16, Saratoga Dist. Comm., Twin Rivers Council
Brotherhood Member, Ganienkeh Lodge 19
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