Re: Cost of Woodbadge
Branden Morris (bcmorris@MEDIAONE.NET)
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:08:05 -0400
From: MAJ Mike L. Walton (Settummanque, the blackeagle)
<blackeagle@SCOUTER.NET>
To: <SCOUTS-L@LISTSERV.TCU.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 1999 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: Cost of Woodbadge
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> >Is the menu a standard fair for all woodbadge courses? Do all
> >weeked courses have to supply thier own food and do a feast the last
> >weekend?
>
> Nope, this is the standard and even the weekend courses have to go by that
> same menu and pay the same fees so that the food is available during each
> successive weekend period.
Not having access to the course manual, I don't know what is "standard" or
not.
>From my experience in NE-1-193, a weekend course, there was no standard menu
except for the first weekend.
For the first weekend, we were given food according to a standardized menu,
because patrols hadn't been formed before the first weekend and had not done
any shopping. For weekends 2 and 3, each patrol was given a check for a
certain amount of money, and part of the weekly patrol meeting was to
develop a menu and purchase food for their regular patrol consumption as
well as the end-of-course feast.
That was one of the positives of my patrol -- with a couple of *great* cooks
(and everyone was more than competent in the kitchen), and some connections
to various vendors, we ate *very* well during the course :) And I walked
away with a few new Dutch oven recipes. As I posted earlier, learning from
each other was the best part of Wood Badge for me.
BTW -- I believe that our course was $160, give or take a bit, and was
located in central Massachusetts, for demographics.
Yours in Scouting,
Branden Morris
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Branden C. Morris
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