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Wood Badge Course S7 - 4 2 5 - 18 Cape Fear Council

Volume 1 Issue 4 “Sewing the Seeds, Leaving a Legacy” Mid-Break Weekend Recap

Troop 1 came together from sheer amounts of infor- diligently on your patrol pro- multiple units, backgrounds, mation that came at you. All jects and preparing for the locations, experiences and the patrols came together next exciting weekend of Inside this issue: lifestyles. What a diverse and found their cheer, de- . During the group Troop 1 is! You signed their flag and totem, Holidays please take a mo- learned about many things merged into a cohesive ment to think about those The Grand Union Flag 2 over the weekend and had group of diversive people. around you, those not near Patrol Spirit 2 some sensory overloads Hopefully you are working to you, those that you don’t with lack of sleep and the know and those that are not Resources 3 with us physi- cally anymore. Staff Bios 4 Think of the 5 difference you will make in Critter Notes 6 lives because of your ac- Scoutmasters Minute 8 tions and the Chaplin's Corner knowledge 8 you have and will gain. From the Scribes and Staff of S7- 425-18 we wish you all Happy Holi- days!!

The Original Syllabus

Troop Organization. • “Erogonyama” chorus • Sanitation • Patrols formed • How to “break” the • Fires • Practiced calls, etc. flag • Pitching and Striking • Drill with staves • Camp hygiene camps • Troop formation • physical exercises (b) Camp expedients. • Patrol formation on (the six from • Illuminations the march (by day “”). • Kitchen Implements and night) Campcraft • Beds and sleeping • Scouts’ pace (a) Campsites. • Typical investiture • Selection (Continued on page 3)

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PAGE 2 GILWELL GAZETTE VOLUME 1 ISSUE 4 The Grand Union Flag (Continental Flag)

A nation’s flag is a stirring the Cambridge Flag or the Grand sight as it flies Union Flag. This flag, on which the in the wind, representing a British flag appeared at the upper country’s land, left, was its people, its government, the unofficial American flag in 1775 and its ideals. and 1776. On New Year’s Day 1776, in The Egyptians flew the first flaglike symbols Cambridge, Massachusetts, George Washington chose it to be thousands of years ago, flown to and people have celebrate the formation of the Con- been flying them ever tinental Army. Later that year, it since. now the United States of America, the became first flag to represent all the colonies While many flags have flown over what the first American flag to be saluted by is was the Continental Colors, also called another country—the Netherlands. Patrol Spirit

Patrol the spirit is patrol the glue unique. that A pa- holds the trol patrol might together choose and an ob- keeps it going. Building patrol spirit ject for member, the patrol flag should go takes time, because it is shaped by a its outstanding quality. For example, wherever the patrol goes. The emblem patrol's experiences— sharks are strong swimmers and buf- of the patrol, or the patrol emblem may good and bad. Often faloes love to roam. The patrol be a patrols emblem may be a stand- misadventures such as may want to add an adjective to ard patch offered by the or enduring a thunderstorm spice up the patrol the patrol may de- or getting lost in the name, such as the sign their own. The woods will contribute Soaring Hawks or the patrol emblem is much in pulling a patrol Rambunctious Rac- worn on the right together. Many other coons. sleeve under the elements also will help A patrol flag is the American Flag. build patrol spirit. Creat- patrol's trademark. In Every patrol has a ing a patrol identity and addition to the patrol patrol yell, which traditions will help build name, the patrol flag should be short and each patrol member's should have the troop number on snappy. Choose words that fit the sense of belonging. it as well as the names of all the patrol's goals. Use the yell to an- Every patrol needs a good name. Usu- patrol members. Mount the flag on a nounce to other patrols that your patrol ally, the patrol chooses its name from pole, which also can be decorated. is ready to eat or has won a patrol nature, Re- compe- a plant tition. or ani- Some mal, or patrols some- also thing have a that patrol makes song.

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(Continued from page 1) • Panoramic drawing prepared by the course participants, • Reports. but was held in London at the ’s appliances Study Circle Work. Club, where Everett treated them to lunch. They then enjoyed a tour of Im- • Personal comforts (a) “Aids to Scoutmastership,” perial Headquarters, and a final talk • Camp tidiness (b) Headquarters “Book of Rules.” the Chief Scout, who encouraged each • Tent expedients (c) “Rules for Rover Scouts and Wolf participant to start a course in his • Miscellaneous. Cubs,” neighborhood using Aids to Scoutmas- Pioneering. (d) “Our Aims, Methods and Needs.” tership as a guide. (a) Axmanship (e) “Sunday and the Scout.” The course having been completed, it Pathfinding. • Felling remained to find a suitable award for • Patrols sent out separately with the participants. Baden-Powell came • Use of crosscut saw, wedges, sealed orders to from various upon the necklace of hand-carved grindstone points across Epping Forest, for beads he had taken from Zulu Chief • Use care of knife. eight-hour stretch Dinizulu during the Ashanti campaign (b) Construction. • Leaf collecting in 1888. One bead was awarded, to be worn on a leather thong pinned to the • Rope and trestle bridge building • Report of journey across water shirt. • Sketch map of trek • Simple and swinging derrick Thus began the tradition of advanced • Panoramic drawing from given leadership training for Scouters – an- • Use of tackle. point. other mighty oak grown from the acorn Woodcraft. The first Wood Badge feast was not planted at Gilwell. (a) Birds and animals. • Those found in the locality, their habits and uses Scouting Resources • Use of Nature notebook. (b) Trees, • How to identify them near to and Marketing & Membership Hub Den Leader Resources far off during four seasons Scouting Wire Cubmaster Resources • How to get the Scout keen on the Scouting Newsroom Pack Committee Resources subject. BSA Brand Center Boy Scout Resources Signcraft. Boys’ Life magazine Troop Leader Resources at (a) Signaling Scouting magazine TroopLeader.org • Hand Troop Program Resources at Pro- BSA Racing: The BSA Motorsports gramResources.org • Whistle platform has been designed to be a • Smoke programmatic resource that serves Advancement Educational Presen- tations • How to teach Semaphore and as a customizable extension to exist- Morse ing council activities. • Pitfalls to avoid. SCOUTStrong® – Healthy Living Initi- (b) Nature trails. ative: The SCOUTStrong Healthy Liv- ing Initiative integrates active life- (c) Sand tracking (carried out by the styles, healthy eating, and emotional Chief Scout). fitness into everything that the Boy Games. Scouts of America does through alli- (a) Scouting. ances, campaigns, and updated pro- • Description and actual playing of grams. each type. -on-the-Air: Jamboree-on- (b) Camp. the-Air, or JOTA, is the largest Scout- • Played for one hour each day. ing event in the world. It is held annu- Fieldwork. ally the third full weekend in October. (a) Measurements. JOTA uses amateur radio to link • Personal Distances Scouts and hams around the world, around the nation, and in your own • Heights community. • Areas Jamboree-on-the-Internet: Jamboree- • River Widths. on-the-Internet, or JOTI, is an annual (b) Mapping. international Scouting event spon- • How to read sored by the World Organization of the • making sketch maps. Scout Movement. Resources • Prismatic compass “Sewing the Seeds, Leaving a Legacy”

PAGE 4 GILWELL GAZETTE VOLUME 1 ISSUE 4 Staff Bios

and enabling our scouts to do so, is the bread and butter of scouting in my opinion. Working as a Rangemaster - this is always fun and exciting Cross-over and Honor Recognition - It's always amazing to see these scouts achieve that which they've worked so hard for all year, or in the case of Webelos their entire cub scout career. Speaks German Spent 6 years growing up in Germany between the ages of 12-18. Graduated from CFCC with Associates in Science with Premajor in Mathemat- ics with him, receiving the Silver Beaver Computer Programmer David B. Flory Award Registered with Cape Fear Council Devin Ray Blakley Executive Board Pack 255, Wilmington, NC Currently Executive Board Member, Cub Master Council Camping Committee – NCAP Rising Webelos Den Leader Chair, Council Leadership Luncheon – District Membership Chair Vice Chairman, Council International District PWD Software Runner and Representative organizer Woodbadge 82-35 – National Capital S7-425-16, 2016 - EAGLE! Flying Area Council High! EAGLE!!! 6 as a youth Fox Patrol 3.5 as a scouter Registered for 51 years S7-425-18 Troop Guide (BEAVER!) Asst. Quartermaster Cub Scouts in Gladstone, MO - Pack Eagle Scout 73’, Participant World 417 Jamboree 74’, Serving on National Earned religious award Staff for 79’ NOAC, Staff for 81’ and Earned Arrow of Light 85’ National Jamboree, 80’ and 81’ Crossed over to Troop 417 and National Explorer Presidents Congress achieved Tenderfoot almost second Dana Syster staff, Woodbadge 79’, Vigil Honor 82’, class. Youth Staff Coordinator. District Executive – Occoneechee Attended Camp Oceola Summer camp Council 82’ to 88’, District Chairman – Dana is a Beaver from WB course as a youth in Osceola, Missouri. SR1075. Dana has been a den leader Coastal District 92’ – 94’, Asst. Den Wife Sally, we starting going steady in Leader Pack 226 – 96’ to 97’, Asst. SM from Tiger to Webelos II in Pack 210. 2000. Married in 2006. She serves as assistant Scoutmaster Troop 13 – 99’, Council Commissioner Son - Finnegan - Rising Webelos 98’ to 00’, Silver Beaver 02’, Long in Troop 210, NYLT Assistant Course Daughter - Adeline - hopefully in Director for 4 years, and serves as the Range Plan – 03’, Philmont Co- scouts this fall! Advisor 03’, National Camp Assessor/ adviser to the vice chief of activities for Son - Oliver - just turned 3! Klahican Lodge where she is a vigil Visitation team 10’ to 18’ 2 Dogs - Rotweiler / Doberman mix, Wife – Millie, 32 years, Son, Davis an honor member. Her two sons, Ethan and a Jack Russell and Grayson are Eagle Scouts, and Eagle Scout and Daughter is married – 3 Cats - 2 short hair, 1 long hair (long Suzann Novak her daughter Abby has recently earned hair is 18 years old!) her Girl Scout Silver Award. Dana was First in my family to earn Eagle Scout 1 Snake - Ball Python th a Girl Scout growing up, from Badge, attending the 14 World Jam- Cub Camp with my son, my favorite is to seniors, she earned her Gold boree, Receiving the Vigil Honor, Be- the canoes with him. His favorite is Award, the GS equivalent to Ea- coming a Professional Scouter, Serv- definitely the pirate ship at Camp gle. She served on GS waterfront ing on two National Jamboree Staff’s, McNeill! summer camp staff all through high Watching my son receive his Eagle Seeing our scouts working together as school. She also attended Sea Base Scout award and attending Philmont a unit and solving problems as they as lifeguard on the GS boat that was are presented with them. Seeing this traveling with a boy scout troop.

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PAGE 5 GILWELL GAZETTE VOLUME 1 ISSUE 4 William Hillcourt

(August 6, 1900 – November 9, 1992), ciding to experi- dham Borough, New Jersey, to be near known within the Scouting movement ence Scouting Schiff Scout Reservation, the BSA's as "Green Bar Bill", was an influential around the national training center, so he could be leader in the world and to in place to put his theories to a practi- (BSA) organization from 1927 to 1992. return home cal test. In order to do so, he founded Hillcourt was a prolific writer and with the best Troop 1 of Mendham in 1935 as a unit teacher in the areas of woodcraft, ideas, Hillcourt directly chartered to the National troop and patrol structure, and training; worked his way Council of the BSA. As the Scoutmas- his written works include three editions through Europe ter, he used Troop 1 to test and vali- of the BSA's official Boy Scout Hand- and England date his work for 16 years. The Ba- book, with over 12.6 million copies and then ar- den-Powells visited Schiff in 1935 and printed, other Scouting-related books rived in the began a steadfast friendship with the and numerous magazine articles. Hill- United States in February 1926. He Hillcourts. Baden-Powell died in 1941. court developed and promoted the was soon hired by the BSA's national After World War II, Baden-Powell's American adaptation of the Wood office and worked for the BSA until he widow, Olave Baden-Powell, allowed Badge adult training pro- retired as a professional Scouter in Hillcourt to edit Aids to Scoutmaster- gram. Hillcourt was Danish but moved 1965. In 1933 Hillcourt married Grace ship into the World Brotherhood Edi- to the United States as a young adult. Brown, the personal secretary of Chief tions to help the Scouting movement From his start in Danish Scouting in Scout Executive James E. West. Hill- recover from the war. She then al- 1910 until his death in 1992, he was court worked at a BSA camp at Bear lowed Hillcourt access to Baden- continuously active in Scouting. He Mountain in Harriman State Park, New Powell's letters, diaries and sketch- traveled all over the world teaching York, in 1926 where he became an books when she and Hillcourt co- and training both Scouts and Scouters, instructor in American Indian dance. authored the narrative biography of earning many of Scouting's highest He then worked for the BSA Supply Baden-Powell, Baden-Powell: The Two honors. His legacy and influence can Division where he broke his leg when Lives of a Hero. The BSA national of- still be seen today in the BSA program a crate fell on him. He met James fice moved from New York City to and in Scouting training manuals and West while riding in an elevator at the North Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1954, methods for both youth and adults. national office. West solicited Hill- and the Hillcourts moved with it. He Hillcourt was born in 1900 in Aarhus, court's thoughts on Scouting in the completed the sixth edition of theB oy Denmark and was the youngest of U.S. Hillcourt later sent West an 18- Scout Handbook in time for the BSA's three sons of a building contractor. He age memo detailing issues with the 50th anniversary in 1960[1. To encour- was given the name Vilhelm Hans lack of patrol structure and leadership. age the creation of Rovering in the Bjerregaard Jensen. Around 1930, he He recommended that the BSA write a U.S., J. S. Wilson travelled from the changed his name by anglicizing handbook for patrol leaders, and that it UK to oversee a Wood Badge course "Vilhelm", translating "Bjerregaard" into needed to be written by someone who in May 1936 at Schiff. Hillcourt was a "Hill-court" and dropping "Jensen". His had been both a patrol leader and a participant in that first course and four first published work was a poem about Scoutmaster. West hired Hillcourt as a days later, he was the senior patrol trolls and elves, printed by an Aarhus writer and editor and was later per- leader for the second course. He re- newspaper when he was nine years suaded to commission Hillcourt to write ceived his Wood Badge beads in 1939 old. For Christmas 1910, Hillcourt's the first Handbook for Patrol Leaders and was appointed as the deputy brother gave him a Danish translation which was published in 1929. From camp director for Wood Badge. After of Scouting for Boys by Baden-Powell, 1932 until his retirement in 1965, Hill- World War II, Wood Badge was re- the founder of the Scout movement. court was a major contributor to Boys' vived and Hillcourt was the Scoutmas- He went on to earn the highest award Life, the magazine for Scouting youth. ter for a test course begun on July 31, in Danish Scouting, Knight-Scout in Each monthly issue included a page 1948, at Schiff and the first standard 1918, at age 17. He was selected to on advancement and , out- course at . As represent his troop at the 1st World door Scouting skills, and included his the national director of training, Hill- Scout Jamboree in Olympia in 1920 signature superimposed over the two court wore five Wood Badge beads, a where he first met Baden-Powell, with green bars that are the emblem of the tradition that has been discontinued in whom he was later to work. While Hill- patrol leader, which led to his moniker the U.K. Scout Association, however court studied pharmacy in Copenha- "Green Bar Bill" and its adoption as the other countries still continue the use of gen, he became more involved in logo of his regular Boys' Life column. the five Wood Badge Beads and are Scouting. As a Scout leader, he be- Hillcourt was tasked to write a new still worn by the National Volunteer came a Scoutmaster, national instruc- manual for Scoutmasters in 1934 and Leader of Wood Badge Training of tor, writer and then the editor for the worked with his good friend and col- each country as well as by special de- Danish Scouting journal. He wrote his league E. Urner Goodman, the nation- cree of today. In the year first book, The Island, recounting his al program director of the BSA. He and before his retirement on August 1, early Scouting experiences. After de- his wife moved to a house in Men- (Continued on page 7)

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VOLUME 1 ISSUE 4 GILWELL GAZETTE PAGE 6 Critter Notes

Beaver Patrol L- Long drive home after all of this we will be cooking during the next B eat, buried and blew away the com- O- OMG its slower time Wood Badge weekend is already petition. We’ve been blown away by how well growing. Please be prepared to sing E very beaver is not from NC. Chad we have gelled as a patrol. with us at the day 4 campfire. and Martin are the only NC na- Mighty, Mighty Buffalos! Bear Patrol tives. Michael is from NY, Fox Patrol The BEARS have put on an extra layer Roxanne is from VA and Greg is The Foxes were inspired to hear from for the upcoming winter camping expe- from PA. Our Patrol Guide, Devin, the patriarch of Foxes and all of Wood rience... at least that is our excuse for grew up in Germany. Badge, Mr. John Fort. His words in- eating all we want for Christmas. With A ll Hail The Tail. spired us all and remind us of the great the training taken back to the units we V ery stable flag during the flag cere- call to carry on the vision of Lord Ba- realized a more successful program mony unlike some of our horned den-Powell. can be implemented w/ just a few of friends As is well known, Foxes Leave No the Wood Badge training tech- E nabling other critters into our dwell- Trace but were confused why anyone niques. If you think putting up a tent ing is the highest form of diversity. would use a one-man tent. We prefer with five blindfolded adults is hard, try R epeating the tent exercise would a comfy den. it with 9 cub scouts who can see and further allow some of our inferior We continue to appreciate the admira- talk and talk and talk. We abandoned critters boost their morale. tion from all the other dens, especially the tent building activity after an S eal team(Beaver Patrol) SR-425-18 the Bob-bites…um whites….Bobwhites hour. Our excitement for our group project is bubbling up. We were going was summarized pretty well by Eagle Patrol Admiral William H. McRaven. to use the to help us do the Troop 1’s Eagle Patrol, AKA Bullies of wood work, but they were to busy R espect Wildlife- Avoid wildlife during the Sky, started the day with an im- flooding 1000's of acres of farm land. sensitive time; mating, nesting, pressive Rockette style kickline during So we will have to resort to traditional raising young, winter or during the Gilwell Song. A very moving morn- wood working tools. Our skit for the seasons of Win All You Can Win. ing with an interfaith service, followed campfire will surely be in the running U nbelievable fact- Beavers were gi- by a wonderful Outdoor Code & Leave for an Academy Award. Just being ants in the Ice Age. They were No Trace lesson from our illustrious nominated is a true honor. I don't known as Castoroides. They grew Quartermaster, Kenny Young. Team know where to begin with the ticket up to 8’ long & 200#s building exercise with tents, presenta- preparation. We have completed so L eave no Trace- Beavers????, Yeah tion & more patrol planning for our up- many write-ups, we are willing to trade right!!! coming “back” woods camping, The them for fresh salmon. Bears need a E xperiences the first weekend were wheels began turning for the conserva- lot of salmon. overwhelming. However over- tion project followed by the movie, Oc- All kidding aside, remember, we pro- whelming, very enjoyable and ap- tober Sky. Closing for the weekend vide program to encourage youth to preciative to all involved. until we come together again, till then develop into contributing members of Owl Patrol soar high & remember: If you look up, society. From our patrol to yours, we The Owl Patrol is celebrating the com- the Eagles will “drop” you a present! wish you all a Merry Christmas and a pletion of an awesome patrol flag yes- Antelope Patrol Happy New Year. May the true spirit of terday. We also have been working We assembled the herd this morning the holiday override all the stress in diligently on our patrol project. We and grazed in the Pasture. We final- your life. See you on 1/11/2019 for an have planned our meals for the 2nd ized our patrol project (idea #2) and exciting weekend in the woods. weekend. We are “flying” to our got it approved! Plans for the out- streangths and are taking advantage door experience are coming togeth- of being zygodactyl; especially as we er and we are excited for what’s to had four balls going with four people come. We had a big setback last yesterday! We are WISE and night with our trivia games but MIGHTY! Hoot! Hoot! kicked grass today with the fastest Brenda Waddell time in the tent competition. We Scribe Owl Patrol are a strong herd indeed! Buffalo Patrol Bobwhite Patrol Buffalo Bites Day three is bringing to a close of B- Blindfolded Tent Assembly our First weekend. We started the U- Uncharacteristic Third Place Finish day with a great interfaith service, F- Free time is for other people and spent a long time planning for the upcoming camping trip. Our F- Fun planning for weekend #2 anticipation for the great food that A- All in for Wood Badge S7-425-18

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(Continued from page 5) tional outdoor skills had taken the at Scouting events both local and "outing out of Scouting". This change worldwide were part of his routine until 1965, the national council began a pro- proved to be unsuccessful, deterring he died, for which he was referred to gram to update the Wood Badge pro- existing adherents and attracting rela- as Scoutmaster to the World. Hillcourt gram and shift its emphasis from tively few new enrolments. To remedy died at the age of 92, in , teaching Scoutcraft to leadership skills. this situation, Hillcourt convinced Chief Sweden, while traveling on a Scouting After he was officially retired, his opin- Scout Executive Harvey L. Price that a tour with Carson Buck in 1992. He is ion was still sought after and respect- new handbook was needed. Hillcourt buried with his wife Grace in St. Jo- ed. Dr. John W. Larson, Director of then came out of retirement and spent seph's Cemetery in Mendham, New Boy Scout Leader Training for the Na- a year writing and editing the 1979 Jersey near Mortimer L. Schiff Scout tional Council, was working with Béla edition of The Official Boy Scout Hand- Reservation, where he lived for many H. Bánáthy and Bob Perin, Assistant book, returning to the focus of Scout- years. His legacy in Scouting and his National Director, Volunteer Training craft. In addition, he helped to develop influence continue in the programs and Service, to adapt the leadership com- the All Out for Scouting program that training of Scouting. His writings are petencies of the White Stag Leader- launched the return to the old stand- still used within the Scouting move- ship Development Program into a new ards. Hillcourt was regarded as a ment and his material continues to be Wood Badge syllabus. Hillcourt was prominent figure and guide in BSA's reprinted in Scouting magazine. The among the few on the National Staff recovery from its experiment earlier in Longhouse Council operates the Wil- who strongly resisted the change to that decade. Hillcourt was recognized liam Hillcourt Scout Museum and Car- the Wood Badge program. He attend- for his service to youth by the BSA with son Buck Memorial Library at Camp ed the presentation that Larson made the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award Woodland in New York to "keep the to the national Scout committee on the on May 19, 1978. In 1980, the BSA traditions of Scouting alive" through new Wood Badge curriculum. Larson presented Hillcourt with their highest the preservation of the history that is a later reported, "He fought us all the national honor, the Silver Buffalo foundation for today's Scouting move- way ... He had a vested interest in Award and he was cited as "The Voice ment. what had been and resisted every of Scouting". The World Scout Com- Hillcourt was one of the BSA's most change. I just told him to settle down, mittee of the World Organization of the prolific writers. He wrote numerous everything was going to be all right." Scout Movement recognized him for articles for Boys' Life and Scouting Hillcourt presented an alternative to exceptional services to world Scouting magazines, including a column aimed Larson's plan to incorporate leadership in 1985 with the . In at patrol leaders under the by-line of into Wood Badge. Chief Scout Execu- the same year, an article in the Scout- "Patrol Leader Green Bar Bill". At least tive Joseph Brunton asked Larson to ing magazine proclaimed Hillcourt as 12,610,000 copies of his three editions look at Hillcourt's plan, and Larson re- "the foremost influence on develop- of the were print- ported back that it was the same stuff, ment of the Boy Scouting program”. In ed. just reordered and rewritten. Larson's the last 12 months of 1985, he traveled plan for Wood Badge was approved to Dallas, Washington, Knoxville, Hou- (1925) The Island (1929) Handbook for Patrol Leaders and he moved ahead to begin imple- ston, San Francisco, Cleveland, Los (1933) The 1933 Scout Jamboree Book with James E. menting the proposed changes. Hill- Angeles, and other cities. He also at- West court retired from the BSA on August tended the World Conference held for (1936) Handbook for Scoutmasters, Third edition in two volumes 1, 1965. In 1971, he and Grace finally the first time in Germany, an inter- (1946) Aids to Scoutmastership, World Brotherhood completed the world tour he had start- American scout conference in Brazil Edition, by Baden-Powell, revised by Hillcourt (1946) Scouting for Boys, World Brotherhood Edition, ed in 1926; along the way they attend- (with side trips to Argentina and Para- by Baden-Powell, revised by Hillcourt ed the 13th in guay). He served as scoutmaster in (1948) Scout Fieldbook, First edition, with West (1950) Handbook for Patrol Leaders; World Brother- Fujinomiya, Japan. Grace Hillcourt the Wood Badge program for "South hood Edition died in 1973. Rather than live alone, Explorers Leaders and Center – (1959) Boy Scout Handbook, Sixth edition Bill moved into the home of his good Leadership Course in Troop", he end- (1961) Field Book of Nature Activities and Conserva- tion: An Indispensable Guide for Nature Lovers friends Carson and Martha Buck. The ed his trip to South America in Cara- (1964) Baden-Powell: The Two Lives of a Hero; biog- BSA had introduced the "Improved cas, Venezuela. He also was Troop raphy of Baden-Powell (1965) Boy Scout Handbook, Seventh edition Scouting Program" in 1972, along with Head and Director of the Field-School (1967) Handbook for Patrol Leaders, Second edition a new edition of the Boy Scout Hand- Paramacay". To celebrate during the (heavily edited revision) (1967) Physical Fitness for Boys book. Many of the changes were in- month of August his 85 years of age (1967) Physical Fitness for Girls tended to expand Scouting to a broad- with his old friends’ explorers in Co- (1968) Your Guide to Fitness er base of youth and to make Scouting penhagen, Denmark. And then, of (1970) New Field Book of Nature Activities & Hobbies (1970) Fun With Nature Hobbies more "in tune with the times". Many course, in the middle of the times, he (1971) The Golden Book of Camping Scouters, including Hillcourt, were criti- continued to camp in the dfief rent (1975) Outdoor Things To Do: Year-round Nature Fun for Girls and Boys cal of the new program changes, ex- events that took place during his cam- (1977) 's World of Scouting; biog- claiming that the de-emphasis on tradi- paign, and did not fail to make a pres- raphy of iconic illustrator Norman Rockwell (1979) The Official Boy Scout Handbook, Ninth edition ence with his uninterrupted record, (1980) The Official Patrol Leader Handbook, Third Game of Critters with the Jamboree. In 1990 he also edition became a member of Firecrafter, In every issue there will be a critter hidden in the an American Scouting service or- text of the issue that is not part of the article can ganization. Travel and appearances you find it? Hint: I do not repeat methods.

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THE GILWELL GAZETTE IS A NON PROFIT NEWSPAPER FOR WOOD Scoutmasters Minute BADGE COURSES EVERYW HERE WE PRINT ALL THE NEWS THAT IS FIT TO BE READ BY WOOD BADGE To you and yours, Hap- SCOUTERS py Holidays and Merry Christmas!! I hope that your first weekend of S7-425-18 Wood Badge was very enjoyable. We have a “Sewing the Seeds” great group of partici- pants for S7-425-18. The staff and I enjoyed your energy, engage- ment and positive atti- tude. It was a fun weekend. During the holiday sea- son please take time to reflect on the volunteer some of your time to the Boy positive elements in your life. Enjoy the Scouts of America. This holiday sea- company of family and friends. Where son is the perfect time to polish the BIG Help Scouting everywhere by possible, make a difference in ROCK. someone’s life that is less fortunate donating to the than yours. The holiday season can be The staff and I look forward to the sec- a busy time for families with visits to ond weekend of Wood Badge in Janu- World Friendship Fund relatives, parties, shopping, etc. How- ary 2019!! Critters will awaken if they ever, always remember your family is have not done so already. an important big rock. This big rock Check us out on the web needs your time and attention since it is -Robert(Bob) Weagraff the family that ultimately allows you to s742518.wordpress.com Chaplains Corner

In different places and times, favorite rhyme about our pa- much of the world has chosen tron Saint: Saint George as a Patron Saint. His slaying of the drag- My warmest good wishes I am on as a symbol of the victory sending to you of goodness over evil en- And hoping that the winter is deared him to many. Lord through Robert Baden-Powell had You will start out afresh to made Saint George the patron follow the lead Saint of the Scouting Move- Of our Patron Saint George ment. Baden-Powell had a and his spirited steed; Not only to tackle what ever my befall, But also suc- cessfully to win through it all And then may you have an enjoyable spell Of hiking, and jolly good camping as well.

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