Scouting, Volume 69, Number 2, March-April 1981 Page: 46
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ANY UNIT LEADER who turns to this
column very often already knows Boys'
Life provides about a dozen pages in every
issue to help Scouts and Cub Scouts enjoy
monthly theme activities and advance-
ment projects. We usually say that every
month.
What may not be so obvious to every
busy leader is the large package of reading
for fun that arrives with every copy of the
magazine. This is the selection of articles
and stories that help the reader switch on
his imagination instead of an electronic
tube.
Any reader whose attention is captured
by a fast-paced short story or a lively
article will soon learn his imagination can
project pictures of far better quality than
anything found on the surface of a video
screen.
Boys' Life for March and April are
typical connectors for the imagination
circuit. As usual we have program theme
features illustrated with drawings and
photographs. Each theme is treated one
month in advance. In March the Cub
Scout theme for April, "The World
Around Us," is the takeoff point for five
pages of text and drawings. For April, it's
the May theme, "Under the Big Top," plus
some good ideas on bicycle safety, a con-
tinuing Cub Scout emphasis.
Boy Scouts in March will be "Going
Strong" for physical fitness and health. In
the April issue they will have a preview of
the May theme, "What's Up There?"
But just for fun in March there is
"Hive," a dandy story about two young
men who work for their town trimming
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trees. Both learn a lesson that is touching
and amusing when they get mixed up with
a tree full of wild bees. Frequent Boys' Life
contributor Zoltan Malocsay is the writer.
Another name well known to Boys' Life
readers is Jim Brosnan, former major
league pitcher and one of the country's
best baseball writers. Jim does a thought-
ful profile of a warm and generous man,
Willie Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Jim is also the writer of a "Guide to
Baseball" that is a special part of the fun
reading for the April issue.
Also in April, George Laycock, out-
doorsman, conservationist, and nature
expert, looks back in time to the days when
"America's Own Elephants" roamed the
land.
In the same issue, "A Favor for Danny"
by Donald Honig, is a story about a young
man who learns an old, old lesson about
stretching the truth—it always snaps back
and hits you.
That lesson about telling the truth is as
solid as the formula that says reading fun
makes good readers. So don't forget that
Boys' Life is always a silent assistant for
program help, but also remember the good
clean reading and fun that are part of the
package.
Boys' Life is still a bargain. For
members of your pack or troop, it's just
$4.20 per year, only 35 cents per issue.
Order it only through your local council
service center. As a gift for other boys and
girls, send $8.40 for one year, $15 for two
years, or $21 for three years, to Boys' Life,
P.O. Box 61030, Dallas/Fort Worth Air-
port, Tex. 75261. ■
Explorer Explosion (from page 27)
ing, metallurgy, chemistry, data process-
ing, and many other fields. Special-inter-
est Exploring can help generate that sup-
ply, while also helping young people to
find the right area for their own talents
and interests."
Hays was assigned to track the "Pitts-
burgh Project," which provided the initial
impetus to major corporation sponsorship
of Exploring in America. He had a front-
row seat as Pittsburgh Exploring Director
David Buerklin, now Scout executive of
the Greater Niagara Frontier Council of
Buffalo, N.Y., turned his council upside-
down for Exploring.
"The by-products from Buerklin's ef-
forts clearly demonstrated the impact in
terms of new manpower, financial sup-
port, and record membership growth that
Exploring could create for a local council,"
Hays told Scouting magazine. "I made up
my mind then and there that one day in a
council of my own, regardless of its make-
up, Exploring would make a dramatic
impact."
From the National Exploring Division,
Hays went back to local council assign-
ments in Sacramento and San Jose, Calif.
When he took the job as Scout executive in
Pontiac in November of 1977, he found
the Clinton Valley Council Exploring
Division to be—from his point of view—in
a mediocre state. On the last day of
December in 1977 there were 550 Ex-
plorers in 31 posts.
Early in 1978 the council's Exploring
executive resigned. This opened the door
for Hays to put a plan into action. Not only
did he have a precise blueprint in his head
for revitalizing the council's Exploring
program, he also knew that Larry Eisen-
berg was the man he wanted to direct the
program. No matter that Eisenberg, elect-
ed as a teen-ager in 1972 as the second
national Explorer president, was working
in Iowa City, Iowa, for the Northwest
Mutual Life Insurance Company and had
no desire to change jobs.
Hays had served as an adviser to Eisen-
berg and his cabinet while with the Na-
tional Exploring Division. He remem-
bered his drive, commitment, and dedica-
tion to whatever the task at hand might be.
"I think I had had a dream for a long
time that I would like to have Larry work
with me in Exploring," says Hays. "I
wanted to take all of the programs that we
had talked about on the national level and
see them become effective in a local
council. I feel that those young people who
serve as Exploring's top elected officers
are prime candidates to be Exploring
professionals."
March/April 1981 Scouting
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