Scouting, Volume 46, Number 9, November 1958 Page: 2
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■Our Best Today —
for a Helter Tomorrow"
This new Explorer motto epitomizes the
purpose of the Boy Scouts of America in
proudly presenting the new Exploring pro-
gram—to provide the best help within our
power for the high-school age boys of today so they can
be better citizens of tomorrow.
For almost half a century we have been aiding mid-
adolescent boys through that difficult stage of their de-
velopment. With the new Exploring program the Boy
Scouts of America is reaching out to more of these four
and a half million high-school age young men where they
are, on their own ground, whether or not they have been
Scouts.
We believe this modernized program of activities and
ideals has enough variety of appeals so that many more
of these young men will feel "comfortable ' in it and be
affected inwardly by it. Thus, by influencing more of
today s high school citizens we will serve our communi-
ties, our nation, and the free world, both today and to-
morrow. With dedication to this aim. the Boy Scouts of
America takes pride in presenting the new Exploring
program.
Scientific evaluation of our Exploring as it existed
confirmed that many of its program features should be
retained. Sea and Air Exploring remain unchanged ex-
cept for the new age requirement. Basically we have de-
veloped a new approach for Exploring in posts.
In posts we have made changes in program content
and method—some obvious, some subtle, some basic,
some minor. We will sketch here a variety of these in-
novations, taken from the full picture given in the new
literature, and anticipate their effect, basing our opin-
ions on experimentation with the new program.
Members Are High School Age
Beginning January 1, 1959, boys may become Explor-
ers when they are fourteen and in the ninth grade or
higher, or when fifteen regardless of grade. They can be
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