Golden Eagle District Committee

District Director...................................................... Leslie Anderson

District Executive.................................................... Megan Luecke

District Chair.......................................................... Mark Baker

District Vice Chair......................................... Peter Walters

Public Relations.................................. Tim Underhill

Newsletter Editor................................ Mike Dowd

Webmaster......................................... Mike Dowd / Karen Goth

District Commissioner............................................. Karen Goth

ADC

Roundtables           Cub Scout....................... Lesia Meer

                             Boy Scout....................... Lowell Williams

Membership Chair.................................................. Guillermo Rodriquez

Fall School Night Chair.................................. Terri Cooper

Webelos to Scout Chair................................. Christine Dudley

Venturing and Exploring Recruiting Chair........ Bill Wesley

Boy Scout Recruiting Chair............................. Gary Bolderson

Finance Chair

FOS Chair.................................................... Charlie Largent

Family FOS......................................... Cheryl Brewer

GL Vice Chair...................................... Dick Burlison

Muncie Breakfast................................. Steve Kinch / Tim Werner

Leadership FOS................................... Mark Baker

Popcorn....................................................... Rob Simmons + Help Wanted

Program Chair....................................................... Jack Spears

Advancement & Recognition

& Merit Badge Counselors.................... Mike Bullock

Eagle Scout Advancement.................... Byron Banta

Activities & Civic Service................................ Mike Dowd

Camping & Outdoors Boy Scouts.................... Travis Stephens

                               Cub Scouts................... Dave Reason / Cheryl Underhill

Training Chair: ............................................ Bobby Roberts

DISTRICT EXECUTIVE Megan Luecke

It’s that time of year again! Each unit needs to schedule a Fall School Night now and get it on the calendars. After you have done so, please let either Terri Cooper at 765-288-4358 or Leslie Anderson or Megan Luecke at the office know at 765-288-0223. Scheduling now will make things much easier in the Fall!

Also to go along with that, each unit should schedule and plan next years activities and outings before the School Night in the Fall in order to give parents and new Scouts a calendar so they know all of the fun activities that they will be doing throughout the year. For more information or for training contact Megan Luecke at the office at 765-288-0223. Planning now ensures a quality program for the youth as well as eliminating out of pocket expenses for parents.

ACTIVITIES AND CIVIC SERVICE CHAIR Mike Dowd

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GOLDEN EAGLE DISTRICT FALL CAMPOREE 2007

October 5 - 7

Dave’s Dream (aka Fall 2007 Camporee Information)

Imagine cresting the top of a hill and looking out over the landscape and seeing more natural beauty than you could ever have imagined.  All is quiet around you except for the chirps of birds and the rustling of some small rodents scurrying across the forest floor and up a tree.  You look up and see a hawk – or maybe it’s an eagle! – circling high above.  You see no evidence that anyone has ever been to this place before.  For a few moments you simply stand there in awe, feeling that you are the first human to see this magnificent view.

Is this an impossible dream?  Not if we take immediate action.  We still have wilderness areas that can generate these types of emotions in us.  But they will only remain if we treat them with care.  We must decide if we want to enjoy the great outdoors in any way we can, or if we want to enjoy them in such a way that our grandchildren can have the same feelings of awe as they crest that same hill we did decades earlier.  We must learn how to visit, but Leave No Trace.

Many of us (me included) have taken a pine cone or rock, veered off the trail to dodge mud puddles, gotten too close to wildlife or tossed an apple core into the woods.  While these actions may seem harmless at the time, until we learn to reduce our impact, the quality of our outdoor experiences and the recreational resources we enjoy are at critical risk.  Also at risk is our continued access to wild lands as land management agencies sometimes take restrictive action to protect the resources they manage.  Unless, of course, education catches up with behavior, and we all learn to leave the outdoors as unchanged as possible by our presence.  Leave No Trace concepts can be applied anywhere and at any time – in remote wilderness, city parks, even in our own backyards – and in any recreational endeavor.

As Boy Scout leaders, we teach and encourage the individuals in our troop to live by the Outdoor Code and the Leave No Trace principles.  Can you recite the Outdoor Code?  How many of the Leave No Trace principles can you name?  Can you even tell me how many there are?  What about the scouts and Scouters in your troop?  Since some of you may be coming up a bit short…

Outdoor Code:  As an American, I will do my best to be clean in my outdoor manners, be careful with fire, be considerate in the outdoors, and be conservation-minded.

Principles of Leave No Trace:

•               Plan Ahead and Prepare

•              Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces

•              Dispose of Waste Properly

•              Leave What You Find

•              Minimize Campfire Impacts

•              Respect Wildlife

•              Be Considerate of Other Visitors

My vision of the Golden Eagle District Fall 2007 Camporee includes the participation of every Golden Eagle District Boy Scout troop with all in attendance leaving with a renewed sense of urgency and increased knowledge of how to live and play in our world but Leave No Trace.

Please contact me if you are interested in helping me organize and put on this camporee, or if think some of your older scouts might be interested in helping in some way.  More information will be provided to the troops as it becomes available.  For now, mark October 5-7, 2007 on your calendar and start working with your troops.  If your troop spends 10-15 minutes talking about one of the Leave No Trace principles every two to three weeks from now until the camporee, your scouts will Be Prepared.

David Largent, Golden Eagle District Fall 2007 Camporee Chair

DLLargent@Comcast.Net     H: 765-286-8492     W: 765-468-3007 x215     C: 765-215-8082

 

DISTRICT COMMISSIONER Karen Goth

I would like to begin with a huge THANK YOU to everyone who helped with or participated in our Spring Camporee this year.  You all made it a huge success, and a lot of fun.  We must have the greatest scouting community in Crossroads of America Council!  Special thanks go to all the leaders who took time to run stations or work behind the scenes; Jon Fischer (Troop 287, Physical Fitness), Ed Cox and Jim Farmer (Tomahawk Throw), Richard Batt and others from Troop 22 (Knife Safety, Whittlin/Totin Chip), Dave Largent (Troop 22, Knots), Steve Chatot (Troop 39, Match Strike with Hatchet), Bill Wesley (Orienteering), Matt Pike (Troop 37, Conservation/Service), Leaders from Troop 60 (Blind Tent Set Up), Dave Reason (Troop 1, Campfire Planning), Gary and Jenny Jennings (Troop 9, Fire Building), Jay Pugsley (Troop 1, Flag Etiquette), Ron Johnson (Urban Units, Zulu Ball Toss), and to Christine Dudley for building a program for our Cub Scout campers.  Thanks also go to our District professional staff for supporting us with this camporee, and to Camp Caretaker Terry McConnell for his assistance.  Working together we make an awesome team.  Thank you all for making it enjoyable for me.

Camping, now that is what summer is all about!  Take time to walk the trails with the youth in your units, to teach them how to look at nature and identify wild life, set up a tent and sleep in it, how to cook over a fire and then how to enjoy fellowship around a campfire after a fine meal that they prepared.  These are the memories that carry into adulthood and get passed on to grandchildren.  Set aside the fact that skills are being fine tuned or learned; life lessons simply cannot be well learned any other way.  These young people are our future.  Take time to smell the roses and walk the seldom used path. Care enough to invest time and a part of yourself.  It is never forgotten.

And then before we know it, August will be here and we can start the scouting season all over again!  Cub Scouts - do you have your school night scheduled?  Do you know who will help you recruit new kids?  Boy Scout troops, I would encourage you to try recruiting late spring and summer BEFORE school starts.  Let them know that it is ok to play sports or band and be in other clubs and STILL do Scouting.  Our most successful scouts are practically never only involved in scouting.  The old saying is that if you want something done, ask the busiest person available and you can bet that it will be accomplished.

QUALITY UNIT COMMITMENT SHEET *** THESE ARE A REQUIRED, NOT OPTIONAL – EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU WILL NOT MAKE QUALITY THIS YEAR*** - Several of you have not turned a Quality Unit Commitment sheet yet.  This is a required individual unit assessment, and a promise/commitment your unit makes to itself on a yearly basis.  Its purpose is to allow us to look at how we grow our troops and what kind of program we provide for youth so we can improve it.  We asked you to fill one out by the end of January, and some of you have done that.  Most have not however.  Please contact the Muncie Scout office or myself to get this completed.  We will review the sheets with you in November to determine who has met the goals that they set for themselves and start the process over for next year. THIS IS IMPORTANT – PLEASE GET THIS DONE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

ROUNDTABLE will resume on August 9^th at Camp Redwing.  This will be our Fall Program Kickoff so everyone or every unit should plan to send at least one leader to get the bountiful information that we will have available.  We are already working on better programming for next year.  If there is a topic you would like to see presented please let us know so we can get it on the schedule.  Also, we are looking for people to help coordinate our roundtables.  This does not take much time but does present a lot of opportunity to get to know other adult Scouters in our district. We want to make it YOUR roundtable, but we need your help to get it done!  Remember to add to your calendars Fall Camporee (October 5 – 7) and Fall Cub Camping at Redwing September 15 – 16.

Have a great summer – I know I will!

Karen Goth

Golden Eagle District Commissioner

kgoth@iquest.net

765-282-4759

DISTRICT PROGRAM CHAIR Jack Spears

Are You an Active Member?

Are you an active member,                         

            The kind that would be missed?

Or are you just contented,

            That your name is on the list.

Do you attend the meetings,

            And mingle with the crowd?

Or do you stay at home,

            And crab both long and loud?

Do you ever go to visit

            A member who is sick?                    

Or do you leave it to just a few,

            And talk about the clique?

Think this over member,

            Are we right or wrong?

Are you an active member,

            Or do you just belong?

The Scouting Program can only get better when you participate. Attend the training and events that are for your benefit and you will find that they will in turn benefit your Scout unit. See you at Training Sessions, Roundtables, Summer Camp, Kick-off, Camporees and other district events.

….And remember – wherever you go and what ever you do – always be a good SCOUT.

Jack Spears – G.E. District Program Chair.

SPRING CAMPOREE

Kiwanis Club to Dedicate Lodge - Muncie Star August 14, 1958

   This is the Kiwanis Lodge at Camp Red Wing, Delaware County Boy Scout Camp, dreamed up five years ago by members of the Kiwanis Club and completed this summer in time for the opening of the camping season.  The L-shaped building will be dedicated at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday with a picnic for Kiwanians and others who donated their special services or materials to the project.  Around 175 persons are expected.

   The building was estimated at $40,000. The Carpenter’s Union, Plumber’s Union and other clubs, organizations, and members of the Kiwanis Club, who served as hod carriers, cement mixers, floor layers, and roofers, furnished labor free.  Kiwanians performed numerous other tasks on their days off over the past five years.  The club spent between $16,000 and $18,000 for the building.

   Much of the materials were donated, as were some of the furnishings.

   The building is light and airy and equipped with two large fireplaces.  One is on the top floor where tables and chairs are and the other in the basement area where an activities room is located.  The kitchen is fully equipped and the storage area is located in the basement.

   Both the first floor and the basement are equipped with gas space heaters.  In contrast to the old lodge, which has long been antiquated, the new Kiwanis Lodge is within easy access of all camping sites.

   * This building was destroyed by fire in October 1974. It was located at the site of the present Campfire area.

CAMP RED WING COMMITTEE CHAIR Mike Dowd

                                    The FALL Do-It To-It Workday is Saturday, October 13, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.  Come and help us get the camp ready for the spring and summer programs.  We guarantee you will go home feeling tired and feeling very good that you helped make a difference at Camp Red Wing.  So make us part of your annual calendar.  The Fall Do-It To-It Workday 2007 schedule is: Saturday, April 19 and Saturday, October 18.

 

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