Unit Anniversaries

[infoscouter]

The pick in which I serve as Cubmaster just turned 50. What have your units done for anniversary celebrations. We are particulary interested in contacting former Scouts and leaders. Anyone have creative ideas for finding unit alumni?

[koolaidman]

Is your CO a school? Do they have old copies of yearbooks? Any folks in the neighborhood been there a long time?

[andysmom]

Our troop recently celebrated it's 100th recharter. We had a catered dinner with former Scoutmasters and Eagle Scouts were special guests. We had commemorative patches made. Each attending former scoutmaster was given a framed patch and was recognized. We had tables of photo albums and memorabilia as well as a slide show. Local public officials were invited and many attended with citations etc. It was a memorable event.

Most of the "unit alumni" were contacted by word of mouth, I guess everyone just knew someone.

Congratulations on your milestone.

[eagle90]

For our 50th anniversary a number of years ago, we had a celebration dinner at a banquet hall. inviting as many former members as we could find. We eneded up with almost 200 in attendance/ We had a few speeches, some skits, a DJ, and had a great time reminiscing. We also had a slide presentation of 50 years of actibvities playing continuously and that always had a large group of old scouts and scouters watching.