Cubmaster Tenure

[BrentAllen]

Stosh,

Were you ever a Cubmaster? Cubs is the complete opposite of Boy Scouts - nothing is boy run. The CM has to put together a monthly Pack meeting that will engage and excite boys from 1st grade through 5th grade. He has to recruit new Tigers each year, and even harder - recruit parents to be the DL, and convince them that they need to attend training.

 

Around January, the CM has to make sure the Pinewood Derby runs smoothly, using micro-switches and a laptop in a room full of elementary school boys running around wildly. Then follow that up with a Blue & Gold Banquet, with lots of awards and prizes.

 

In my case, we have 120 boys in the Pack. We had 98 cars entered in the Pinewood Derby. Attendance at the Blue & Gold was over 300 people. 12 dens full of boys for awards at the Blue & Gold. I haven't kept up with the number of hours that went into planning and running each of those events, but I can tell you it was a lot. And that was with a lot of help from the other leaders.