Posts Tagged ‘Brian On Scouting’

Turns out Casper, that friendliest of friendly ghosts, was pretty friendly to the Boy Scouts of America, too. He joined the Cub Scouts, marched alongside Boy Scouts in a New York City parade and even starred in his very own Scouting-themed cartoon called “Boo Scout.” Here’s a look back in time. He invited boys to become Cub Scouts…

Thomas Donohue, a Distinguished Eagle Scout who is president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has a message for the 3 million businesses — companies large and small — who are members of the Chamber. He says Exploring, the BSA’s hands-on career-development program for young people ages 14 to 21, is a powerful tool for companies looking…

If not for Camp Birch near Springfield, Ohio, John Lithgow might not be the award-winning actor he is today. Lithgow is a star of the big screen (The World According to Garp, Terms of Endearment); small screen (3rd Rock from the Sun, Dexter); and stage (The Changing Room, Sweet Smell of Success). His next film, the crime thriller The Accountant, opens Oct.…

Elijah Hood’s life is full of compelling contrasts. There’s the Elijah Hood who runs through (not around) defenders, ruthlessly punishing anyone who gets in his way on the football field. The 6-foot, 220-pounder amassed 1,463 yards — 16th most in the country — and 17 touchdowns for the North Carolina Tar Heels last season. And then there’s the Elijah Hood…

Chuck Eaton grew up in a single-parent home. His mom enrolled him in Cub Scouting because “she wanted neighborhood dads to teach me things she didn’t know about,” he says. “How to change the oil, simple home repairs, how to camp, how to fish, probably even how to talk sports. She grew up in a time…

In one memorable passage from The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown compares the 1936 U.S. Olympic rowing team to an orchestra. “If one fellow in an orchestra was playing out of tune, or playing at a different tempo, the whole piece would naturally be ruined,” he writes. “That’s the way it was with rowing. What mattered more than how hard…

Carry a century of Scouting stories, knowledge and history everywhere you go by downloading the new Scouting magazine app. With the app, available for iOS, Android and Kindle devices, you can browse every issue of Scouting magazine ever printed — 1913 to today — for just $4.99 a year. Put another way: A one-year pass to 103 years of Scouting magazine content…

It’s the National Park Service’s 100th birthday, but you get the gift. 2017 National Jamboree leaders this week announced the creation of 22 special subcamp patches, each celebrating a different national park. As first reported on the Summit Bechtel Reserve website, the 2017 National Jamboree subcamps have been renamed in honor of national parks — from Acadia in Maine…

There’s a lot to love about the 13th edition of the Boy Scout Handbook. There are the 13 things I listed here, and there are many more that didn’t make my list. But one bit of feedback the BSA has heard about the Handbook is that the rank requirements section (beginning on page 438) doesn’t include…

One Connecticut Scoutmaster’s journey to the top of the world started much closer to sea level. Mark Milewski, Eagle Scout and Scoutmaster of Troop 25 in Manchester, Conn., reached the summit of Mount Everest in May, and he says Scouting gave him the character and grit he needed to get there. “I learned a lot in Scouts…