BALOO'S BUGLE Volume 11, Number 6 January Cub Scout Roundtable February Cub Scout Theme IT’S A SCOUTING CELEBRATION Tiger Cub Requirement #4 and Activities Webelos Engineer & Scholar present. When reading Baloo, the order of items in a section FOCUS (e.g. GAMES) is random – I cut and paste from Pow Wow Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide Books. Don’t ever assume the first one in a category is a It is time to celebrate 75 years of Cub Scouting at out favorite. Order is not important. Diamond Jubilee!! The year is 1930 and Herbert Hoover is Two letters this month led to nice items – a request for president; for fun boys listen to their favorite shows on radio th – “The Lone Ranger,” “Buck Rogers,” and “Superman.” information for Scouts with Disabilities and for a 75 Now, they have Cub Scouting! Packs will learn about and Anniversary emblem in color. Thank you celebrate their history and will come to know lord Baden- I guess we have a really great Website (Thank you, Mike) Powell as an interesting leader and organizer of the Scouting because I, also, received several letters that sounded like the movement. What a fun and exciting time to be a Cub writer thought we were National Council of the BSA. They Scout!! were asking where you can buy award patches and adding new Sports Awards. Please remember. USScouts is a group CORE VALUES of volunteers who like the Web. We have no more power Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide or influence than you (probably less). I have always found Some of the purposes of Cub Scouting developed through the editors at scouting Magazine very responsive to letters. this month’s theme are: They have replied to everyone I have written and have Spiritual Growth, Boys will be exposed to lord published a half dozen or so (The first was “Singing in the Baden-Powell’s devotion to God and then develop shower doesn’t count either” in the early 90’s). And now their own beliefs with their families. you can write just by clicking on website at Fun and Adventure, Boys will enjoy celebrating www.scoutingmagazine.org the past, present, and future of Scouting. Speaking about Scouting Magazine, the current issue is Preparation for Boy Scouts, Boys will be excited great – There is a section on the Community Organization and motivated to continue down the path of Cub Award Knots (I’d say the copied from Kommissioner Karl’s Scouting to Boy Scouting by learning about its article but their deadlines are much further ahead than that founder and following his leadership. ☺). This summer’s offerings at the Philmont Training Center The core value highlighted this month is: are listed (If interested, also, read this month’s Training Tip Citizenship, Cub Scouts will learn that only in Baloo). The Family Talk item on identifying areas of through the dedication of good citizens who went intense interest is great. There is a big Pinewood Poster before them do we have the Cub Scouting program sponsored by Lowes and Dremel announcing a nationwide of today. contest. Apparently BSA has found a National Sponsor for the event. And 75th Anniversary ideas for Cub Scouts. Be Can you think of others??? Hint – look in your Cub Scout sure to read it cover to cover. Program Helps. It lists different ones!! All the items on both lists are applicable!! You could probably list all twelve There is some confusion about earning The Cub Scout if you thought about it!! Outdoor Award. The requirements for the award are in BSA publication 13-228 (and on many Council websites e.g. COMMISSIONER’S CORNER http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/cubs-outdoor-activity/) The first requirement is to spend a week at Resident or Day I started prepping this issue in earnest the day after Camp after September 1, 2004. Attendance at this past CHRISTmas. My wife and son were at work and daughter summer’s camps is not eligible for the award. Therefore, out with her boyfriend’s family. Then everything went unless your council ran a week long Day or Resident Camp south. We are in our 9th week of an extended outage on our after September 1, your Cubs must wait for next summer to “steam electric plant” (See Webelos Engineer for definition) earn the award. and the pressure is high resulting in long days for the staff. Finally, I had a request for patterns for soap carving. If But here it is, a little late but just chock full of ideas. This you have any in electronic form, please send them and we theme brought out a lot of Classic Scout stuff in the Pow can get them onto the site for others to use. Thank you. Wow Books. I put some of that into Baloo but tried to keep looking for new things. Hope you like the blend that I February 2005: It’s a Scouting Celebration Page 2 BALOO'S BUGLE Baltimore Area Council and Baltimore Area Council Santa Clara County Council Our God and God of our fathers, we gather as loyal Month’s with similar themes – members of our Cub Scout Pack, and we pray for Thy February 1977 Blue and Gold blessings. Give us the vision to see our duty and the courage February 1978 Blue and Gold Traditions to perform it. Teach us to walk together in the spirit of February 1982 Blue and Gold Tradition brotherhood, so that we are true to Thee, who art Father of February 1986 The Blue and Gold all. Guide us and guard us so that we shall be faithful sons of February 1987 Blue and Gold the righteous God, Who is from everlasting to everlasting. February 1988 Great Events of Scouting Our dear Heavenly Father, we ask a special blessing on the February 1991 Blue and Gold Traditions families in our Cub Scout Pack. We ask a special blessing on February 1994 Blue and Gold Traditions each Tiger Cub, Cub Scout, and Webelos as they give February 1995 Great Events of Scouting service to other people. Guide their steps as they grow into February 1996 The Blue and the Gold men, and help them as they do their duty to You and our February 1997 The Story of Blue and Gold country. Bless our food and the people who have prepared it. February 1998 Let’s Celebrate Scouting Amen February 1999 Baloo and Gold A Cub Scout’s Prayer Baltimore Area Council PRAYERS AND POEMS FOR 0 Lord, that I will do my best, I come to Thee in prayer. SCOUTERS Help me to help others every day. Great Salt Lake Council And teach me to be fair, The Lord said, you’re the salt of the earth. However, he To honor my Mother and Father, didn’t mean for you to sit in the corner like a lump of salt, And to obey the Cub Scout Law, too. waiting for things to happen. So get off your laurels and This I ask, that I may be a loyal make them happen. Cub Scout true. Amen Always make new mistakes – Esther Dyson A Cub Scout Parent’s Prayer “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we Baltimore Area Council would literally astound ourselves” Thomas Edison Look down upon my son, Dear Lord “The only normal people are the ones you don’t know This smiling Cub of mine. very well!” Joe Ancis Please take his hand along the way, So that he may never stray. For more quotes like this see Website list for “fridgedoor” Bless my son tonight, Dear Lord, And help him walk with Thee. Ten Needs of a Boy Give him comfort, warmth and love; Circle Ten Council He’s all the world to me. To climb a mountain and look afar. Bless his daily efforts, To sit around a campfire with good friends. And make them strong and true; To test his strength and his skills on his very own. For life’s a heavy burden, To be alone with his own thoughts and with his God. And we’re all in need of you. To be ready to reach out and find the hand of an understanding man ready and willing to help. Philmont Grace: To have a code to live by – easily understood and fair. For food, for raiment, A chance to play hard just for the fun of it – For life, for opportunity, And to work hard for the thrill of it. For friendship and fellowship, To have a chance to fail – and know why. We thank thee, Oh Lord. Amen To have and to be a good friend and a chance to prove both. A Boy in Blue: To have a hero – and a vision to measure him by. Baltimore Area Council After the tenth need is said, the following could be said: Blue and gold are the colors tonight, In Cub Scouting these needs are not always filled for each Boys in uniform shiny and bright; boy. What Cub Scouting does is to put each boy on a path With smiling faces to left and right, where he can travel the world in his backyard and fulfill his We pay tribute to our Cub Scout tonight. needs with confidence in himself and others. A Cubmaster who is loyal and true, Circle Ten suggests breaking this into parts and using it Who works with parents and boys in blue, for an Opening Ceremony. Baltimore Council says this is In hopes that these boys will grow up to be best done using ten adults, each holding a white candle.