LodgeChief

BAD IDEA!!!!! This is the BOY Scouts of America. If girls have an urge to be a part of the BSA so bad, then they need to join a Crew. I don't know if I really even agree with that, to be honest. There are other organizations that are co-ed.

I did not know about the whole no lodge number thing anymore until NOAC last year. I noticed that there was a new number next to my lodge name on my name tag. I soon came to learn that it was our council number. The way I understood it after that was that national said that lodge numbers weren't going to be used anymore after that. Everything would be done with council numbers. They said that lodges could keep using their numbers after that. We still use them oon our flaps and other patches and anything relating to the lodge. Whenever we fill out paperwork for national though, we use council

I didn't post this in my earlier posts but after reading some of the other posts, I beg to differ with some of the posts. According to the GOA, the lodge chief may become a member of the council executive board by serving on the camping and activities committee (I believe the adviser automatically becomes a member). By this, the silver loops go on and the numbers come off.

I am a member of Talligewi Lodge 62. (we still keep the number because we like it.) I was inducted May 21st, 2001, attained Brotherhood May 20th, 2002, and was selected as a Vigil Honor member October 15th, 2004. I am currently serving as the Lodge Chief as my screen name may have suggested. BTW just curious eaglescout2004, but what month were you inducted in and what month did you get your brotherhood? Because you have to cheerfully serve as an Ordeal member for 10 months before you can be Brotherhood. I am not saying it's impossible to get in, in the fall and then in the spring get brothe

Sorry to join in so late but, here is what I think. It is a units are supposed to be run by the youth with the leaders there as a means of guidance (...and transportation ) I was the SPL for several terms in my troop. My SM was new and when he was a youth in the troop, the adults ran the show. So, at PLC's and such when he was making decisions without my input on the matter or it was something that the PLC could decide, I would tell him. We kind of duked it out for about a year (with his wife, who is also an ASM, getting involved at the end of that year, until he started letting the boys ac

I am on the Aquatics Staff! Yaaaaayyy! I will be there for 6 weeks. I do hope I have fun. Eagle In Kentucky, who are you? If you don't want to say on the forum you can e-mail me at Lodgechief@talligewi62.org

I'll try to remember to look you up during week 3. We can meet in person. I am going to my Council Office tommorrow to talk to the Camp Director. I will let you all know how it goes. Then we could meet in person. Thanks.

Yes it is at CCC. It's a wonderful camp. Thanks for everyone's help!

I am going to work at camp because I enjoy Scouting very much. There is a staff lounge and campsite but participants know where it is. I think we will be allowed to leave for dinner and free time. Camp this year is 5 or 6 weeks plus there will be a staff week. I will not be able to work all of the sessions because I am on staff for Jamboree. I probably will end up doing it. Thanks for all of your help.

I am trying to decide if I want to work at Summer Camp this year. I have worked with both the Program Director and the Camp Director at my council's Webelos Resident Camp. They have both served as the Asst. and Camp Director there. I have worked at WRC for 3 years. I think that I want to move on to Summer Camp. I think that my main problem is that I don't know how I will handle being gone for that long. Someone give me some advice. Is it stressful? Is it fun? Will I have a good time working and teaching? I will most likely be on the Aquatics Staff. HELP!!!!!!!

My local district has deemed that married couples only constitute one adult. They do this so that if anything does happen, they will not protect one another.

A good reason why atheists are not admitted into the Boy Scouts of America is because it would be breaking the Scout Law that we have recited once a week for almost a hundred years. A Scout is Reverent. If you do not believe in God or you do not have a God then how could you follow the Scout Law. As for the homosexuals, one of the points of the Scout Oath is to "Keep myself morally straight". I stand behind the decisions to keep these certain individuals out of the Scouting Program because they are doing things that we are trying to teach our Scouts not to do.

Thanks. Are you from Kawida or White Horse, if you want to say that is. I did have one more question that I forgot to mention. Can I move to close the nominations. I tried to do that after looking around and inspecting people around me. There was a reasonable pause to make such a motion. I moved it with the Section Chief and Adviser standing right in front of me. The chief ignored me, he didn't even tell me that I couldn't do it. I was sure after that if I could make such a motion or if it was up to the chief to declare nominations opened or closed.

I wish that national would have inquired about what the youth thought about this since it is our program. I personnally like the way noac is set up now. On a major university campus with everything they do there going on. I just don't think that NOAC will be the same if they do this.

I heard that the position patches for lodge chief were discontinued because they were produced without the permission of national. I feel that if you have been elected to this honorable position that you should be recognized when you are at functions in which people do not know you. All of the chiefs from my lodge, which is only 10 years old, have worn these patches. My lodge adviser gave me "permission" to wear it even though it is illegal. The chiefs from my lodge have also worn the silver loops. We have done this because we are on the council camping and activities committee. I have aspirat

In my Lodge, our election forms are carbon copies. The elections chairman and adviser get the top sheet, the election team member gets the second copy and the unit gets the third copy. The Scoutmaster signs this copy along with the election team member and the troop representative. Somebody from every spectrum signed it. The adult, the neutral person, and the youth. This prevents cheating. Also in our lodge, the oa rep and the SM go with the elections team to count the votes. It works very well.

I just ran for my sections Vice Chief this past weekend. I lost because rules were broken. That's my first piece of advice, don't let them break any rules. Second, find problems with your section and tell them how you're going to fix them. Talk about the high adventure bases and the Section Assitance Team and what your going to do with them since those are part of your job. The rules and job descriptions are in the field operations guide.

This past weekend (April 22-24) my section, SR6N, held it's annual elections. I was running for Vice-Chief of the Section unopposed all weekend. When Sunday rolled around the Host Lodge's chief decided he was going to run. At first the Section Chief said no, but later changed his mind because he extended the deadline for your paperwork to be turned in last year. We had to fill out a sheet saying why we thought that we were good candidates and it had to be signed by our Scout Executive or by his representative (per the Field Operations Guide). Our deadline to have it in was noon Sat. They let h

This past weekend (April 22-24) my section, SR6N, held it's annual elections. I was running for Vice-Chief of the Section unopposed all weekend. When Sunday rolled around the Host Lodge's chief decided he was going to run. At first the Section Chief said no, but later changed his mind because he extended the deadline for your paperwork to be turned in last year. We had to fill out a sheet saying why we thought that we were good candidates and it had to be signed by our Scout Executive or by his representative (per the Field Operations Guide). Our deadline to have it in was noon Sat. They let h

I am brand new to this. I am from Indiana, I am 17 and I am a board away from Eagle. I am currently the Lodge Chief of my Lodge. My council office is in Louisville (home of the Kentucky Derby, the greatest 2 minutes in sports). I am very active and Scouting and I thought that this would be a good place to talk to other people who enjoy Scouting as much as I do.