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Thomas H. Harbold (tharbold@ns1.WMDC.EDU)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 18:42:37 -0400
At 1:41 PM 4/13/98, Rick Seymour wrote:
>Chuck Bramlet writes:
>
>> It appears from this that whomever stated (IIRC) that the uniform was
>> not a method in the 1960s and earlier was in error. This comes from
>> "The Handbook for Scoutmasters", subtitled "A Manual for Troop Leader-
>> ship", Forth edition, (c) 1947, Eleventh Printing, 1957. Pg. 10. (From
>> my father's collection.)
>
> [...]
>
>This Edition is well-worth reading cover to cover. Every page has somethin=
g
>useful on it. Note "Tool Three" in the Scoutmaster=92s "Tool Chest," which=
is
>*Patrol Leaders=92* Training (as opposed to "Junior Leader" Training). Thi=
s
>was a sixth month course which trained Patrol Leaders how to actually run a
>Patrol! Of course this was before William Hillcourt=92s Scoutmaster=92s Ha=
ndbook
>was dumbed down to that blue thing we have today, and Green Bar Bill=92s Pa=
trol
>Leader=92s Handbook is one the things that we *don=92t* have today.
Anybody have any ideas of whether, where, or how a copy of this edition
might be obtainable? My experience, in Scouting as in so many other things,
has been that older is usually -- not always, but usually -- better.
Entropy ain't no joke... *sigh*
Yours in Scouting,
Tom
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Thomas H. Harbold
tharbold@ns1.wmdc.edu
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