[Dalberg-Acton]

I was in the Cub Scouts a short while around 1960. There were no male adults involved at all. Mothers were the only ones. Same with the PTA back then.

[Vermont Lt]

Cub scouts was always different. They almost always had “Den Mothers.” By scouts was the male dominated culture through the mid eighties.

[Fiji Hill]

I joined the Cub Scouts in 1959, as part of Pack 193. The Pack was the main body, presided over by a man, but it was subdivided into Dens, small groups of boys which met weekly at private homes and were run by women known as Den Mothers.