NewsletterNewsletter Volume 27 Number 10 June 2011

COMING EVENTS

JUNE 2011 6/1 – Patrol Leaders Council (7:30 PM) 6/2 – TROOP MEETING (Thurs) - Field Day Part One 6/3-5- Order of the Arrow Ordeal & Service Weekend @ HSR 6/5 – Field Day & Family Picnic (3:00 PM)

6/6 – Camp Info Meeting for First Yr. Scouts 61st ANNUAL FIELD DAY JOIN TROOP 78’S (Mon, 7:00 PM) AND FAMILY PICNIC 6/7 – Board of Review (7:00 PM) & Troop FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 3:00 PM Committee Mtg. WHITEWATER RAFTING TRIP! 6/10 – TROOP MEETING - Camp For several years now, Scouts have PARENTS AND FAMILIES Preparations been asking that we schedule a real ARE INVITED! 6/10-12 – OA Conclave whitewater-rafting trip. The troop has

6/17-19 – Rafting Trip pressed for a trip with world-class FIELD DAY - 3:00 PM to about 4:30 6/25 – PLC to Summer Camp (meet in Dan rapids on a world-class river. Well, PM at the Scout Cabin Grounds Beard at 2:00 PM) we heard you and we’re making it Come see your Scout’s patrol 6/26-7/3 – Horseshoe Summer Camp WEEK happen! This Father’s Day weekend, compete in various skill events in an ONE June 17 – 19, the Troop 78 bus will attempt to win the coveted Field Day trek out to Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania, for trophy, a troop tradition for over 60 JULY & AUGUST 2011 a whitewater-rafting trek on the years! Bring your camera. 7/3-7/10 – Horseshoe Summer Camp WEEK Youghiogheny River. We will run the

TWO Lower Yough (rhymes with “Rock”), FAMILY PICNIC - 4:30 PM (or 7/16 – Horseshoe Alumni Assoc. Reunion hitting Class III and IV rapids, with immediately following Field Day 7/30-8/7 – Algonquin Park Canada Canoe Whitewater Adventurers. Check out events) Trip their website at www.wwaraft.com. Meet the parents and other adults This is not our usual “water fight on involved with Troop 78. Hot dogs and NOTE: Camping Trips/Major Events shown the river” weekend trip. This is a hamburgers will be served. Please in Bold. TROOP MEETINGs underlined in genuine whitewater rafting bring a salad if your last name CAPITALS. Adult only meetings in Italics. experience. For 4 hours on Saturday begins A through M or a dessert if of that weekend, we will experience your last name begins N through Z. PLEASE PRINT the thrills and spills of the Lower

THIS NEWSLETTER Yough. Parents: If you are able to help set up Then you can share it with other for the picnic, help is needed Sunday members of your family and refer to it We will be camping at Ohiopyle State at 2:30 PM, and cleanup help is throughout the month. Park, which is just minutes away from needed after the picnic. Many hands our rafting outfitter’s offices. When we make light work! return from rafting, we will have a NEW DADS NEEDED! scenic and challenging hike on some The June troop committee meeting SCOUTS: PLEASE WEAR YOUR of the park’s 13 miles of hiking trails. will be held on Tuesday, June 7, at COMPLETE SUMMER UNIFORM TO The park offers some of the most 7:30 PM at the cabin. The committee FIELD DAY scenic views of the beautiful Laurel meets on the first Tuesday of the Highlands of Pennsylvania. month to guide and discuss the ALSO BRING: Lawn chairs and any operation of the troop. New dads are medical forms or monies not yet We’ll leave from the cabin on Friday in especially encouraged to attend. turned in for summer camp. the early evening (time TBA) and

drive across the state to Western encounter. The trip to Disney is just It certainly didn’t disappoint; it actually Pennsylvania. We will arrive late in amazing. Some of the many fun rides exceeded my expectations. I look the night, get our camp set up, rise Disney has to offer are Rockin’ Roller forward to going to Disney many more early, and have an early breakfast. Coaster and Mt. Everest. Disney times, and I would recommend that We will be the first group out on the World has four parks: Animal everyone make this trip at least once. river on Saturday morning. Lunch will Kingdom, Magic Kingdom, Hollywood As they say in Disney, ”Let the be provided along the river. After our Studios, and EPCOT. Magic Kingdom memories begin!” day of rafting and hiking, we’ll return was my favorite. Fun rides there are to camp and have a delicious dinner. the Swiss Family Robinson Tree ONE “GOOD TURN” If we’re not too tired, we’ll have a house and the Jungle Cruise. The DESERVES ANOTHER campfire, complete with s’mores, two best parades in all of Disney are By Jim Bennett, ASM songs and skits. The Electric Parade and the Celebrate In 1973, I completed my Eagle Scout a Dream Come True Parade. The project. I organized the kids in my The cost for the trip will be $95 for Electric Parade is filled with lights, neighborhood, and we had a block adults and $50 for Scouts. Scouts singing, dancing, and, of course, party to raise money for the Heart can use Scout account funds to pay magic! The Celebrate a Dream Come Fund. We put together a yard sale, for the trip. Contact Mr. Cady to get True Parade is a very fun parade; it set up backyard games, and solicited your Scout account balance. features Mickey, Minnie, Pinocchio, prizes from local merchants for a Additional information will be available Goofy and Donald. This parade is raffle. By any measure, it was a in the handout that will be distributed very extravagant with its many modest event: we raised a grand total at an upcoming troop meeting, but in different colored floats and its singing of $50. But it was the start of the meantime, mark your calendar! and dancing. The two water parks in something bigger. The next year, we This is a “do not miss this trip” event. Disney are Blizzard Beach and expanded the event, and we raised Hope to see you there! Typhoon Lagoon. While both feature $150 for leukemia research. And the wave pools and tons of fun pools, year after that, our block party was MAY ADVANCEMENT Blizzard Beach features Summit even bigger, and we raised $650 to Merit Badges: Plummet, which is the tallest water help pay for a dialysis transport • Reading - Chris Duncan slide in the United States, 120 feet vehicle for the Kidney Fund. high! At the Experimental Prototype • Soil & Water Conservation, Rifle Community of Tomorrow, EPCOT for In the spring of 1975, a few weeks Shooting - DJ Robinson short, every ride feels very futuristic. • Personal Fitness - Matt Urban before that third fundraiser, I went to a At Spaceship Earth you ride in a time Phillies game with a couple of my machine, traveling through the years Ranks: neighborhood buddies. We had standing beside many historical tickets in the “nosebleed” section of • Tenderfoot - Chris Medalglia, John happenings like the invention of the Veterans Stadium, up in the 700 level. Hemphill personal computer! In the middle of the game, the skies • Second Class - Zach Chan opened up and a teeming rain fell. • Life - Duncan O'Hara, Ian Riley This was my first trip to Disney, and it During the long delay, many of the is a trip I will never forget! The bus • Eagle Palm (Bronze) - Michael fans in the premium seats decided to trip down felt so much shorter than it Bennett go home, but my friends and I stuck actually was! On our way to Disney • Eagle Palm (Gold) - Dan Dufoe around. When the rains let up, we we stopped at many cool places to “upgraded” our view of the game by eat. My first day at Disney was a sneaking down to the premium seats Neckerchiefs: blast. It started out at Downtown • David Finkelston that were now largely empty. Disney; which is filled with shops, • Lee Neves interactive fountains, and candy! After We made it to the “picnic grove” field- riding the monorail so many times, I level seating without getting chased learned how to say “Please stand by the ushers, and we waited for the clear of the doors” in Spanish; it is, game to resume. The first players out “Por favor, manténgase alejado de las were the relief pitchers, who headed puertas.” The food was great at the for the bullpens behind the outfield campsite and the park! Who would’ve fences. Among them was number 45, FUN TRIP TO DISNEY WORLD thought you could buy a turkey the legendary Tug McGraw. The By Billy Mackrides drumstick at Disney! Not only was the Tugger later became a key figure in What do you think of when you hear trip fun because I got to visit the many Phillies lore, when he struck out Willie the word, Disney? Do you think of attractions Disney has to offer but also Wilson of the Kansas City Royals to Mickey Mouse, the many parades, the because this trip allowed me to get to seal the Fightin’s first world hundreds of rides, or maybe the water know my fellow Scouts and dads. championship in 1980. But in 1975, he parks? Well, when you come to was with his first season with the Disney with our troop, these are just One of the reasons that I joined Troop team. some of the experiences you 78 was for their annual trip to Disney.

I was never shy as a lad, so when I When we assist others in ways both troop website. http://willistown78.org/ saw Tug, I bellowed at the top of my big and small, we make a difference in beascout/training.html. lungs, “Hey Tug – we’re having a their lives. Further, by doing good block party to raise money for charity. turns ourselves, we are better able to Both weeks of camp there will be If you autograph a baseball, we’ll see how many other people do good Scoutmaster & Asst. Scoutmaster chance it off!” I figured Tug was turns on our behalf and make a Specific Training. If you are ignoring me because he trotted right difference in our lives every day - our interested in being an Asst. on by. But a few minutes later, parents and family, our teachers, our Scoutmaster, this is a great time to McGraw emerged from the bullpen friends, and our fellow Scouts and knock out the classroom portion of the and jogged right to us. He held a Scouters. So, let’s rededicate training. I have heard rumor that a baseball and a pen. He stood right in ourselves to the Scout slogan and very knowledgeable and effective front of me, looked me in the eye, and make sure that we’re each doing our Scoutmaster of 16 years is leading the said “Son, you best not be bull-----ing good turn daily! training the second week, Steve me.” Then he wrote “Peace – Tug D’Antonio. McGraw,” drew a smiley face, and WILLISTOWN78.ORG handed the ball to me before turning Attention all scouts! Forget when the Upcoming Adult Training Dates and running back to the ‘pen. My next troop meeting is? Want to see (Mark your calendars now so you friends and I were astonished. We did your ranking in the points contest don’t forget.) chance off that baseball at our online? Thinking of joining Troop 78? fundraiser, and it contributed Did you lose the monthly newsletter? • SM & ASM Specific Training – significantly to the success of the Well don’t panic! Our website has Camp Horseshoe, Tuesday & event. undergone a major update, and it’s Wednesday, both weeks of Camp now better than ever! Check it out for • IOLST – Camp Jarvis, Oct. 1-2 Fast-forward eleven years later to yourself at http://willistown78.org/. Or weekend. This is quite possibly the downtown Philadelphia. I left my visit our brand new Facebook page by office for a bite to eat and came upon going to http://willistown78.org/ then last IOLST course this year. If you a lunchtime crowd gathered in front of click find us on Facebook! want to be an ASM, make sure you the Clothespin. There stood a PVC are signed up for this course; don’t “jail cell.” Philadelphia celebrities If you can’t remember when an wait for it to fill up. were “locked” in jail, and passers-by upcoming event is, no worries, just were making contributions to cancer visit our website. Some other notable Please continue to submit copies of research to bail them out. Imagine my items on the troop’s website are the your training cards to the green folder surprise when I saw that the celebrity Fast Facts, the rules for field day, and in Mr. D’s office (entitled, Training – occupying the cell at that moment was the ability to view every single monthly submissions) for inclusion in our Tug McGraw! I walked up to Tug and newsletter back until the year 1995! training database. recounted the tale of our first meeting Why would you want to visit in 1975. I told him how happy I was to willistown78.org? For any last-minute If you have any training questions, now have the opportunity to do a good changes for troop meetings or other please email us at training@ turn and help him with his fundraiser, events, to view pictures, to view our willistown78.org after he’d done a good turn by helping Facebook page, for our new and me with my fundraiser many years improved Who’s Who page, for joining SCOUT TRAINING CORNER earlier. Then I reached into my wallet resources, also for any merit badge or Scouts, as this Scouting year winds to and handed him his “bail” money. Eagle requirements. The reason for a close, look ahead towards next The Tugger was delighted. He smiled this website is to keep people like you year’s training opportunities. If you and laughed, and then he shook my informed about everything that goes are interested in being a Den Chief hand and walked out of jail, holding on about the troop so what are you next year, there are numerous Den the door open for the next celebrity to waiting for? Go check out Chief trainings being offered (dates in be imprisoned. http://willistown78.org/! the next newsletter).

Sadly, in 2003 McGraw succumbed to Any Scouts who are interested in a malignant brain tumor. But on that leadership training, current and future day in 1975, Tug did a good turn for Patrol Leaders and Asst. Patrol both a Boy Scout and for charity. The Leaders, mark your calendars now for Scout slogan charges us to “Do a ADULT TRAINING the Council-sponsored PLDC (Patrol Good Turn Daily.” Our good turns Information for required and Leader Development Course) being don’t have to be big or lofty to be supplemental training is available on held October 22 at Camp Ware. meaningful. When we help a brother the troop website. If you are unsure or sister with homework or when we as to what trainings you have The troop will also be holding its own assist an elderly neighbor by taking completed or are unsure what we Leadership Training Conference on a her trash to the curb, we are fulfilling have documented for you, there are Saturday in September or October, the obligation of the Scout slogan. summaries on the training page of the Keep a watch out for that date.

Day. All orders will be in on Friday be the winner. All issues regarding the 10th. Just in time for Father’s Day. the winner will be determined in the sole judgment of Mr. Evans, the This will be the last order placed until newsletter editor. we return in September, unless I get enough interest to continue ordering QUOTATIONS throughout the summer, let me know if 1. The heat’s in the tools! you would be interested in ordering or 2. OK, I’m a Girl Scout – now leave SCRIPS buying cards during the summer. me alone! th Take a look at Great Lakes Web-site On April 15 , Scrips was closed out 3. Don’t be the Pee Police, OK? at https://www.glscrip.com/whatsnew/ for the fiscal year, which means your 4. Two words: Paul Bunyan! money for the year has been index.aspx. 5. We don’t win everything we enter, transferred over to your Scout accounts. Scrips brought in over Jim and Claire Hogan but we enter everything to win. $3,200 over all. There were 6 Scouts Troop 78 Scripp Coordinators 6. I may be a little off on the that earned over $100 into their Scout 610-644-8835 numbers…. accounts, and one Scout had over [email protected] 7. You’re like lightning; you never $300. He made enough to cover a strike the same place twice! week of summer camp or over 10% of MATCH THE QUOTATION! 8. It’s called the “Patrol Method.” the total cost to Kanderstag thru Below are a series of quotations from We’ve been doing it for 100 years. Scrips. Thirty-two Scouts took a variety of Troop 78 Scouts, Scouters advantage of Scrips and many were and advisors. Match each quotation INDIVIDUALS close to receiving $100 into their with the individual to whom the Mr. D’Antonio Scout accounts. Great job by all quotation is appropriately attributed, Ernie Heegard participants, and hopefully as we head and win a prize. Answers should be Mr. Bennett into the home stretch towards submitted to the editor of the Mr. Bravo Kanderstag (14 Months until we go). newsletter at [email protected]. Mr. Hogan We will see a strong and increase in Only Troop 78’s registered Scouts, DJ Robinson our profits go even higher. under age 18, are eligible to win. Dr. Conover

Dr. Mike D’Antonio The next order for Scrips will be In the event of more than one correct placed on June 5th, which is also Field submission, the first submission will

Newsletter Willistown Troop 78 Chester County Council, B.S.A. Steve D’Antonio, Scoutmaster Barry Evans, Editor Email: [email protected] Cabin: 610.644.8702