jg0017

I give (free) to all the Lodge members (youth) who go to conclave from 6 to 12 flaps to trade at conclave. If anyone from outside Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, wants to swap from 3 to 12 (or more) mixed flaps from his/her area for the same from S9 and S4, please email me. JG0017LT@BELLSOUTH.NET

Mike Greene

Immokalee Lodge, 353

I'm building dups to give to the kids to trade at conclave. If anyone wants to trade a set from their lodge for a set (OBV) from 353 or just 3 nice flaps (regular issue please), please email me. If your lodge only issues one flap three of those will do also.

WWW

Mike Greene

mikegreene353@bellsouth.net

I need to know the name and email address of the gentleman who put together the list of all councils. I have a copy in Excel format and I am referring to some information in it in a book about the History of Chehaw Council which is about to be released. The book is non-profit and will be posted on the internet even before it is printed. I need to give him proper credit. If someone knows the gentleman please email me.

Mike Greene

For anyone who runs an active website for a troop (or other BSA site) and wants an ICON made please email me (by clicking on the link to the left) and I will make you one. Its a hobby and only takes a few minutes. The Icon will replace the standard Explorer icon in the address line (at the top of the page) when the page is retrieved and next to the website on the Favorites List. There is no way to have it appear on the tab at the bottom of the page.

Examples:

http://www.t21.ga.bsatroops.org/Eagles%20by%20Troop.htm

http://www.dthronateeska.ga.bsatroops.org/

http://www.immokalee353.org/

Mike Greene

Does anyone know if the Freedom Trails were officially linked to BSA? I see many Freedom Trail metals on Ebay.

Mike Greene

An older adult scout who has attended the National Camping School tells me that Green Bar Bill earned his Eagle as an adult. I can or can not verify this fact.

I seem to remember that an Adult could earn his Eagle rank. I think the program ended in about 1960. Does anyone know if this is true and/or the details?

Mike Greene

DC, Thronateeska District

Chehaw Council

I run three web sites for BSA which I update every few days. If anyone else runs a BSA website and is interested in bouncing technical issues back and forth by email to help resolve issues and design issues then please email me with by private email.

WWW,

Mike Greene

Would someone please let me know the ID and contact info for the gentleman with the great collection of Eagle Scout medals. I saw it at the 2000 NOAC. I think it was a complete set and it was professionally displayed on panels. A private reply is fine.

WWW

Mike Greene

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Central Georgia Council did open Camp Benjamin Hawkins in 2006 for the first time that I know about due to lack of attendan scouts. I do not know the details of the Ben Hawkins matter but in Chehaw Council if we have two or three troups go out of council for summer camp we might not be able to open Camp Osborn.

In small councils that still have open, viable camps it really takes a council wide effort.

Question/Trivia (more of an inquiry)

I have been told that the 17 counties of Chehaw Council (southwest Georgia) were the last place in continental US to be run directly from the National office (not region/section). It was due to a bankruptcy in the early 20s of the old council and that Chehaw council did not form until 1939. The information came from Ralph Ellis one of the first staff members of Chehaw Council and who actually ran summer camp in 1938 for National for the Chehaw Council counties. I have never been able to verify this trivia. DOES ANYONE KNOW OF ANY OTHER PART OF THE US THAT WAS RUN FROM NATIONAL (NOT REGION/SECTION) AFTER 1939?

FYI.

Below are the professions of the SMs and ASMs of the three active troops in Americus, Georgia.

a. Owner of timber thinning company

b. Owner of a wholesale gasoline delivery company

c. Photographer

d. Retired

e. Physician

f. Pharmacist

g. Maintenance

h. Insurance Sales

Mike Greene

Americus, Georgia

The test sites are scheduled to get the last of the Phase 1 test releases this month. The word from the people in charge is that it is still on schedule for a NOAC release. I was a real doubter to start with but I have been greatly pleased. So far as I know the plan is still to have lodges bring their data to NOAC and the development/test group will convert it for you.

Please thank the programmers/developers who have spent hundreds of hours making this happen for the members of the future.

Mike Greene

Americus, Georgia

After several weeks of searching the internet and posting on this site I have found these troops with more than 150 Eagle Scouts. I am posting this in hopes of finding more.

Troop 23 La Junta, CO., Rocky Mountain, 567 Eagles

Troop 61 Kansas City, MO, Heart of America, 267 Eagles

Troop 3 Derby, CN, Annowon, 246 Eagles

Troop 782 Lavonia, MI, Detroit Area, 205 Eagles

Troop 21 Americus, GA, Chehaw, 186 Eagles

Troop 97 Southaven, MS, Chickasaw, 185 Eagles

Troop 139? ??, CA, Western LACC, 178 Eagle Scouts

Troop 232 has no active website. There are two inactive sites. There is an active dance team site. Number of Eagle Scouts is from a Scout-L post.

Any additional info on Troop 139 of WLACC would be appreciated. I could not find a website for them either.

Mike

I started this post and several people have asked via private emails about the troop I based it upon. The troop is troop 21 in Americus, Georgia (population 16,000), Chehaw Council. Troop 21 was chartered in 1933 (72 continuous years) and currently has 180 Eagle Scouts on its Eagle Roster.

I have a troop in my district that has produced many, many Eagle Scouts over the years. But, we are a very rural, small council. If anyone knows the high number (or a good guess) of Eagle Scouts from one troop in your council, district or area please post it. I would guess that some of the mega-councils have mega-troops but I'm just not sure what kind of Eagle Scout numbers they produce.

Thanks.

I have both the Eagle Scout Project Workbook and Eagle Scout Application in Mircosoft Word which you can edit and SAVE. Also, a very nice reference letter. They are on the district web site under forms which is http://www.dthronateeska.ga.bsatroops.org/

Mike

For those of you who did not know Southwest Georgia Council changed its name back to Chehaw Council effective 7/1/2005.

I posted this in another section, but probably should have posted it here. Below are the post and an email combined.

Some of you know that National is issuing standard lodge software (completely voluntary) at NOAC 2006. A small group of dedicated OA members have been programming for about a year. Eleven lodges have been testing the first release for about two months and are now testing the b version of the first release. Many, many things that the national office (both BSA and OA) does leave much to be desired, but as someone who is involved in the testing I can assure you that this is something that will revolutionize OA record keeping. For example: the data will be stored at national so backups are done automatically (but password protected by the lodges) and every event in a members history will be recorded and kept permanently. Goto http://www.lodgemaster.org/about/ to get the details.

From a followup email:

My lodge is one of the 11 lodges testing the new software. It is in Access database. We just got the 'b' version last week. It really is outstanding. It has full future member records including unlimited events attended, unlimited ceremony parts, unlimited offices held, complete O, B & V records, unlimited years of dues records, standard awards plus the ability to insert local awards, ability to track service hours. For mega-lodges it has assets inventory for equipment and who has checked it out, a full accounting system for accounting and an auction management system.

There is a function to directly cross check the lodges records to the BSA system to verify BSA registration. One of the member fields is the BSA ID. Im not use is it will rely on that or do a name search. But the cross check was one of the early requirements.

Records will be housed at national and those in the lodge with passwords can logon and update information and print reports for anywhere.

We are hoping to have the first test version capable of holding real-time (individual) records in January.

Since each lodge now uses their own system, the plan is to ask each lodge to bring their data to NOAC 2006 and while they are at NOAC 2006 it will be converted and either loaded on the national system or given to them on a CD to update when they get back.

Mike Greene

Email: jg0017lt@bellsouth.net

Some of you know that National is issuing standard lodge software (completely voluntary) at NOAC 2006. A small group of dedicated OA members have been programming for about a year. Eleven lodges have been testing the first release for about two months and are now testing the b version of the first release. Many, many things that the national office (both BSA and OA) does leave much to be desired, but as someone who is involved in the testing I can assure you that this is something that will revolutionize OA record keeping. For example: the data will be stored at national so backups are done automatically (but password protected by the lodges) and every event in a members history will be recorded and kept permanently. Goto http://www.lodgemaster.org/about/ to get the details.