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Scouting
ublished
America
J. Warren Young,
Publisher
Mike Wallace
Jim Wilson,
Associate Publishers,
Magazine Division
Jon C. Halter, Editor
Scott Daniels, Executive Editor
Kathy Vilim DaGroomes,
Associate Editor
W. E. Butterworth IV,
Senior Writer, Magazine Division
Robert Peterson
Suzanne Wilson,
Contributing Editors
Joseph Connolly, Director of
Design, Magazine Division
Elizabeth Hardaway Morgan,
Art Director
Sylvia Shockley,
Editorial Assistant
Robert E. Hood
William B. McMorris
Ernest Doclar,
Editors Emeriti
Bob Wiemers,
Operations Director
Lisa Hott,
Advertising Production Manager
John W. Ingram,
Circulation Director
Margie Swoyer,
Director, Customer Service
Leigh Novog,
National Marketing Manager
Barry Brown,
Fund-Raising Advertising Sales
Manager
Bill Clinton,
Honorary President
John W. Creighton Jr.,
President
Jere B. Ratcliffe,
Chief Scout Executive
Magazine Advisory Committee:
James B. Kobak, Chairman
Louis T. Hagopian
Charles J. Hamm
Joseph W. Ostrow
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Letters
Press 'V to sign up
Teleconnect, a telecommunications
magazine, recently published an item I
submitted on how Troops 11 and 47 (current-
ly meeting jointly) use voice mail to get in-
formation to Scouts. The magazine's publish-
er, Harry Newton, agreed that readers of
Scouting would also be interested in the
item:
Voice mail for Boy Scouts
I'm a Boy Scout leader and used to have
trouble getting information out to my troop
of 60-plus boys. It's not a problem now that
the troop has taken out a mail box with the
local telephone company. The Scouts can
call any time, any day, and get a summary
of upcoming activities. By pressing 1, they
can sigvi up for activities and service pro-
jects. It's worth the relatively low monthly
service charge.
Bruce Staples
Scoutmaster, Troop 11
Onalaska, Wis.
Gratitude for one Scout's Good Turn
On a hiking trip at the Blue Hills Reser-
vation in Canton, Mass., my two colleagues
and I became lost. When we eventually
found a highway, it was apparent we were
about eight miles from where our car was
parked. We hiked up the road about a quar-
ter mile to a Boy Scout camp. There, a most
kind young man, who also happened to be an
Eagle Scout, offered to give us a lift back to
our car.
What a surprise—we thought we'd have
to call a cab or flag down police, or, more re-
alistically, take our chances and hike back,
gambling on which direction to go.
I felt compelled to write to let you know
If you have a question or comment about what you read in
Scouting magazine or about something related to Scouting in
general, we'd like to hear from you. Write to us at Scouting
magazine, 1325 W. Walnut Hill Ln., P.O. Box 152079, Irving,
TX 75015-2079. Because of space limitations, we reserve the
right to edit letters for length and clarity.
what a positive image of the Boy Scouts this
young man epitomizes. All the good charac-
teristics and traits of the Boy Scout organi-
zation seemed to have been integrated into
this young man.
His name is George F. Leydon III, of
Stoneham, Mass., from the Boston Minute-
man Council. Please share our praise for his
actions with that council.
Acts of kindness, like George's, keep me
very, very optimistic about the world in
which I live—and very grateful for organiza-
tions like the Boy Scouts.
Sandy Praino
Dallas, Tex.
Article postponed a retirement
Robert Hood's article, "The Best of Times at
Boys' Life," in the March-April issue of
Scouting probably saved this Scouter from a
premature retirement. It was like a tour
through my Scouting career [which started
when I] joined Troop 17 in Elmhurst, N.Y.,
in 1940.
...[When] I became Advisor to Explorer
Post 17,1 worked closely with the Advisor of
Post 103 in Jackson Heights, N.Y. He was
the same Bob Brooks who was on the staff of
Boys' Life when Robert Hood joined the
magazine in 1953, and one of the most ener-
getic young leaders I have ever worked
with....
...At that time his best friend and co-
worker was our young district executive,
Walter Babson [who later became a Boys'
Life editor and then editor of Scouting mag-
azine]. He was probably the best district ex-
ecutive the Queens Council has ever seen.
...A Scout who graduated from Troop 17
into our Explorer post was a chubby kid
named Nino, who loved to play street hockey
near his home on O'Connell Court. Later he
went from O'Connell Court to the U.S.
Supreme Court—his full name is Antonin
Scalia.
...I was on the verge of cutting all ties
with Scouting until the article reminded me
of the good people I have met in my 55 years
in the movement. Thanks again for a great
article.
Ralph De Falco
Scoutmaster, Troop 17
Elmhurst, N. Y.
'Mooch Birds' get bum rap
The May-June article "Hiking John Muir's
Wild Sierra" was exemplary, except for
the somewhat insensitive characterization
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