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Published by the Boy Scouts of America
September 1990
Vol. 78, No. 4
REGULAR
FEATURES
4 News Briefs
8 The Way It Was
10 Front Line Stuff
12 Letters
16 Family Talk
18 Worth Retelling
80 Let Boys' Life
Be Your Program
Assistant
98 Family Quiz
J. Warren Young,
Publisher, Magazine Division
Robert F. Limacher, Associate
Publisher, Magazine Division
Walter B. Babson,
Editor-in-Chief,
Scouting & Exploring magazines
Ernest Doclar,
Executive Editor
Scott Daniels,
Regular Features/Copy Editor
Jon C. Halter, Staff Writer
Robert Peterson, Staff Writer
Suzanne Wilson, Staff Writer
Robert E. Hood, Editor Emeritus
Sylvia Shockley,
Editorial Assistant
Joseph Connolly, Director of
Design, Magazine Division
Elizabeth Hardaway Morgan,
Art Director
Brian Payne, Photo Editor
James O. Boyll,
Production Manager
Gene Allendorf, Advertising
Production Manager
Mike Wallace, Assistant
to the Publisher/
Subscription Director
William F. Downs,
Circulation Director
Margie L. Bolton,
Fulfillment Director
Chuck Carroll,
National Sales Manager
Leigh Novog,
National Marveling Director
George Bush,
Honorary President
Richard H. Leet, President
Ben H. Love,
Chief Scout Executive
Joseph L. Anglim, National
Director of Administration/
Chief Financial Officer
Magazine Advisory Committee:
James B. Kobak, Chairman
Louis T. Hagopian,
Charles J. Hamm,
Joseph W. Ostrow
SPECIAL FEATURES
14 CHILDREN ACT FAST...
SO DO POISONS
Here are answers to commonly-asked ques-
tions involving kids and poison.
20 CUB SCOUTING AND
THE OUT OF DOORS
Quench Cub Scouts1 thirst for overnight
camping with resident camp, parent-son
outings, and Webelos overnighters.
22 HE MADE SCOUTS
SMARTER AND SAFER
Safety through skill is how Fred Mills taught
Scouts and leaders to save lives.
24 ACCESS TO EVERYTHING
Together, disabled and nondisabled Ex-
plorers prove handicaps can be surmounted.
26 VENTURING WAY UP HIGH
Older Scouts find the path to high adventure
is more accessible as Venture crew members.
28 SCOUTING GOES TO COLLEGE
Alpha Phi Omega, with members in 300
chapters, is a revitalizing link with the BSA.
30 THE LURE OF
COLLECTING SCOUT STAMPS
Searching out Scout stamp issues offers les-
sons in biography, geography, and history.
34 BUILDING THEIR MODEL TOWN
Troop 3 s Scouts spent four years building
Hatboro, Pa., from the ground up.
36 DEN FIELD TRIPS
OPEN UP NEW WORLDS
Any den leader anywhere can search out
exciting destinations for field trips.
38 NORTH FLORIDA SCOUTS
SAVE THEIR BEACHES
Discarded Christmas trees keep sand dunes
from eroding and save space in landfills.
40 ME AND MY TELEPHONE
A ringing telephone always triggers suspense.
Who's calling? Someone I like? Or...
42 OFF TO A FAST START
Scouters get a quick boost in self-confidence
from the BSA's innovative training videos.
46 GIVING KIDS
THE WINNING EDGE
There is no perfect way to parent, but here
are 10 hints that can help.
48 HOW TO STAGE THE WORLD'S
BIGGEST SCOUTOBAMA
Great Salt Lake Council's Scouters know a
Scoutorama supplies lots of program ideas
and a way to replenish unit treasuries.
52 LIFELINE'89
Learn how to make a rescue device useful
in saving lives in water or through-the-ice.
54
BSA BIENNIAL GATHERING
LOOKS FORWARD TO THE
NINETIES
Twenty-three hundred Scouters meet in
Baltimore to recap the past two years and
lay aggressive plans for the Nineties.
About our cover: Troop 3's Scouts and
leaders know every inch of their town of
Hatboro, Pa. Why? Because they built a
model of it—2,400 structures—to exhibit
for their neighbors and to learn orienteer-
ing, woodwork, and design skills. Walter
Calahan shot the cover photograph and
those with the article that begins on page 34.
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