1946 Scoutmaster's Program Notebook

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"Obviously, no ready-made program can fit the needs and interests of every troop.  Then to, it is important that the Scouts themselves, through their Patrol Leaders plan their own program.  All this notebook can do is to offer suggestions.  Beyond that, it's up to the Troop Leaders.

. . .

[T]he program itself should be Scout planned.  Many ideas of course originate with the Scoutmaster.  But it should be the Troop Leaders' Staff which develops ideas into a workable program."

 

Scoutmaster's Program Notebook, For leaders of Troops, Tribes and Neighborhood Patrols, Boy Scouts of America, at pp 3-4  (1946)

 

I cannot find a single other place where BSA refers to a "Troop Leaders' Staff."

 

"Lone Scouts who lived near each other could form a local 'tribe,', while others could form a "mail tribe" and communicate by post. Tribes could join together to form 'wigwams.' Tribes elected officers such as chief (president, initially called captain), sachem (vice-president), scribe (secretary) and wampum-bearer (treasurer). By October 1916, the LSA reported 133,000 members. By popular demand, a uniform was created in 1917 and the Lone Scout Supply Company was formed."

 

Wicki

 

"NEIGHBORHOOD PATROL: a small neighborhood group of from 2 to 8 Scouts may be organized as a 'Neighborhood Patrol."   A Neighborhood Patrol requires no sponsorship. Three fathers in the community must approve the Scoutmaster.  Meetings are held in homes or other suitable places as often as the membership desires to meet."

 

Boy's Life, June, 1938, at p. 27.