How can summer camp support patrols?

[GKlose]

"As the BSA's fake Baden-Powell quote says: The Patrol Method is not ONE method in which Scouting can be carried on. It is the ONLY method!"

 

I just caught this last night, as I was reading through one of the old Greenbar Bill Scoutmaster Handbooks.

 

The quote was attributed to Roland Phillips, but I have no idea who he was.

 

Kudu, do you know?

 

Guy

[shortridge]

The Hon. Roland Erasmus Phillips:

 

http://www.scouting.milestones.btinternet.co.uk/roland.htm

[GKlose]

Thanks, shortridge.

 

I suppose I should have googled it :-).

 

Guy

[Kudu]

In addition to what you can Google, it should be pointed out that UNLIKE Bill Hillcourt, Baden-Powell did NOT write the practical day-to-day handbooks, which he left to the great Scouting authors such as Roland Phillips and Francis Gidney, the first Gilwell Camp Chief (his pen name "Gilcraft" is also worth Googling).

 

B-P concentrated on the "big picture" and on the small print (the rules and regulations called Policy, Organization, and Rules, with which (unlike the BSA) all members were expected to be familiar:

 

http://www.scoutscan.com/history/scoutbook_150dpi.pdf

 

Kudu

[GKlose]

Kudu -- thanks! "The Dump" is a really cool resource.

 

I want to read half of those documents like yesterday :-).

 

Guy