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To: RonF

RonF, you are to be commended for your service to the Scouts, thanks. In retirement now, and on the road, my main support will likely be financial. (Past Eagle, past Asst SM and father of an Eagle.)


65 posted on 09/26/2005 11:38:05 AM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
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To: KC_for_Freedom

Thanks. I appreciate yours as well. It's been an interesting trip for me. I was in as a youth from Bobcat to Life. Summer Camp staff (Camp Child in Buzzards Bay, MA and Owasippe Scout Reservation in Whitehall, MI), high adventure canoe trip (Matagamon Canoe Base, ME), OA, PL, SPL, JASM, etc. I left Scouting as a youth when I came back from college with my hair down my neck some and got pulled aside by my Scoutmaster and Committee Chair and was told that I looked like a pimp (when I tell our current Scouts this, I have to tell them that at the time, that was an insult, not a compliment). They seemed kind of mad, as if they didn't want me around, so I took the hint.

Fast forward to when my son became Cub age. My wife took him to the round-up, came home (I was speaking at a professional society meeting), and told me that the Pack needed a Cubmaster and that her relating of my Scouting career had piqued the unit committee's interest. I became Cubmaster. Then Scoutmaster, starting up a Troop when my son's Webelos den graduated. That was about 13 years ago. When my son graduated, I stepped down to ASM and promptly got recruited to become District Commissioner. I'm also still on the Pack Committee and am a not-particularly active Associate Advisor for a Venture Crew that went to Japan on a cultural exchange. So I have a few uniforms hanging in my closet, and I'm still going on campouts with the Troop (this last weekend, in fact) and taking Scouts on high adventure canoe trips into Canada.

Heck, if I don't do this my wife will expect me to work around the house!


66 posted on 09/26/2005 1:08:54 PM PDT by RonF
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