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Here's an easy, inexpensive way I found to make
attractive award plaques for pack events.
At a craft store you can buy unfinished wooden
plaques in assorted shapes and sizes. You can
also buy packages of vinyl stick-on letters in dif-
ferent sizes and colors. After applying the letters,
spray the plaque with clear enamel. The letters
then look as if they are actually in the wood.
Plaques cost about $2.50 each; paint is
$1.50; a package of enough letters for four
plaques costs $2.50.
You'll really cut expenses if you have someone
who can cut plaques out of scrap wood and
smooth the sides. They look as good as store-
bought ones.
Michael Risk
Cubmaster, Pack 3522
Kokomo, Ind.
A magazine you just can't throw away
At a recent moving sale my daughter and I were
told we could have any old magazines for free.
Marissa found many girls' magazines from the
1960s; I grabbed a January 1965 Boys' Life,
knowing that her two brothers (both Boy Scouts)
would enjoy looking at it.
At home, Marissa began showing the family
our "loot." The Boys' Life magazine, she ob-
served, "says 'Robert Connolly' on the cover."
Sure enough, the mailing label bore the name
and boyhood address of my husband! Having
changed owners at an earlier rummage sale, the
25-year-old magazine—still in almost perfect
condition—had found its way "home."
Ruth Ann Connolly
Grand Rapids, Minn.
A calming moment during Hugo's visit
Last year our area was hit by Hurricane Hugo.
Our district Cub Scout training chairman and her
husband sought refuge in our home, since their
place was too near the coastline for safety.
While helping to bring their keepsakes inside,
I asked her about one box I didn't recognize. She
replied that it contained her Cub Scout training
materials. She had packed them first so we would
be able to hold our next scheduled training in two
weeks.
Thanks to her attitude, for the first time during
that storm, I saw the calm.
Vicki Levy
Myrtle Beach, S. C.
How to turn election hoopla into cold cash
Several years ago our pack was in desperate need
of funds. It was the day before election day, and
someone recalled how a local radio station had
once offered to pay listeners for turning in used
political signs after the voting.
We decided to try our own version of the idea.
We arranged with 10 local banks to contribute as
much as 10 cents for each sign the Cub Scouts
retrieved from vacant fields, fences, walls, and
parking lots. We picked up only cardboard yard
signs, fence hangers, and posters—not any
wooden signs. And because we weren't working
for any particular candidate, the local council
approved the boys wearing their uniforms during
the project.
We scheduled the turn-in day for the following
Saturday and invited other packs to join us. The
newspaper publicized the effort in Tuesday's
paper, and Cub Scouts started rounding up signs
on their way home from the pack meeting that
night.
By Wednesday our town of 15,000 was vir-
tually clean of signs for eight miles in every direc-
tion (a neighboring town still had signs visible a
year later).
The project raised $500 and has since become
a standard activity following each election.
Alan Hoffman
El Reno, Okla.
Good character in two words:
Eagle Scout
The crew of the Coast Guard icebreaker Mack-
inaw recently invited a group of Eagle Scouts to
tour their ship. The visitors included new Eagles
as well as veterans like Robert L. Meyer, 73, of
Petroskey, Mich.
During the tour, Meyer, who earned his Eagle
rank in 1932, reflected on how important the rank
had been to him:
"During World War II when I was pursuing an
officer's commission, the Navy's intelligence boys
were doing a background investigation on me and
were ringing doorbells all along my block to talk
to my neighbors. At one house they asked the lady
if she knew me and could comment on my charac-
ter.
"She replied she really didn't know me that
well, but remembered I had made Eagle Scout a
few years before.
"With that, the investigator closed his book
and indicated that was all he needed to know. I
got my commission a few weeks later."
Chief Warrant Officer Ed Swift
U.S. Coast Guard
Washington, D.C.
By George, he's got it!
A scene from the life of a Scoutmaster:
Investiture candidate John (practicing): "...
Obedient, Cheerful, Drifty."
Scoutmaster: "Huh? Say the last three again."
Candidate John: "Obedient! Cheerful!
Drifty!"
Scoutmaster: "That's Thrifty not 'drifty.'
Now, again."
Candidate: "Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty."
Scoutmaster: "Very good!"
John received his Scout badge that same night.
Jack Bane
Scoutmaster, Troop 422
Pulaski, Va. ■
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September 1990 Scouting
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