Troop One New Parents Meeting March 3, 2009

Welcome – Senior Patrol Leader (Brian Weiner) Troop Meetings - Tuesdays 7:30-9:00 Troop Committee Meetings, Second Tuesdays 7:30 Troop Organization - Fast Start Video – Asst. SPL (Taylor Weida) Troop Officers – SPL, ASPL, QM Troop Elections Troop Junior Leader Training New Scout Patrols, New Scout Patrol Leaders and Troop Guides Plan now for camping and activities – Scoutmaster Steve Myers March 13-15 - New Scout Training Campout and Experienced Scout Show-n-Do (Camp Stambaugh, OH) April 7-19 – Wright Patterson Air Force Base campout May 15-17 – Tracy Ridge, PA June 24-29  - Sleeping Bear Dunes High Adventure, MI July 19-25  - BSA Summer Camp, Manatoc – All Scouts Must Attend!!! Aug 21-23 – Geneva State Park, OH Sept 11-13 - Kelley’s Island State Park (Family Campout) Camping Policy – Asst. Scoutmaster Culp 3 weeks before - permission slip passed out 2 weeks before - money due (cash or checks) 1 week before - payments to patrol grubmasters (payments this night in cash only please) Friday night – quartermaster in charge of travel Sunday morning - quartermaster must dismiss all scouts 1 week after - clean up equipment, bring back all assigned equipment to quartermaster Cooking and Cleaning – ASM Culp and QM Adv. Doug Jones Each patrol makes menu, duty roster, buys food, provides stove, cooks meals and serves meals Cleanup is by the three-pot method.  Scouts sleep in Troop supplied tents, but need … Equipment needs for Camping – Quartermaster Advisor Doug Jones Boots, sleeping bag in stuff sack, sleeping pad in stuff sack, pack or duffle, eating kit, cleanup kit Advancement  - Advancement Chairman Ken Kostura Scout, Tenderfoot, Second Class, First Class, Star, Life, Eagle Scouts below First Class must bring their book and get it signed by boy leaders. No earned advancement is official until it is recorded in the computer. When all is completed for a rank: Scoutmaster Conference Board of Review Courts of Honor Health and Safety – Membership Chairman Dave Weida Applications, Permission slips, medicine permissions, Class I and Class II health forms Guide to Safe Scouting followed, leader certifications expected. Costs and Fund Raisers – Committee Chairman John Martin Costs – Weekend Campouts, Super Trips, Summer Camp Fund Raisers – Flower Sale, Crown Hill, Popcorn, and Poinsettia’s Parents must Be committee members and assistant scoutmasters Be drivers or campers or doers Be Merit Badge Counselors Encourage your sons to become eagles http://trooponeakron.org     read How To Join Troop One