From: Dr. Charles Goodwin (doc236@erinet.com)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 09:07:22 CST
Our troop policy is to always travel in full Class "A" uniform. Certainly,
it helps to set the tone for the group's behavior. However, we have to
remember we are still dealing with boys. As my long-time main Assistant
Scoutmaster put it, "Just because they put on little green suits doesn't
mean they grow halos and wings." We too have had many positive experiences.
We have had establishments let the boys use the rest rooms when they had no
public rest rooms. We have had pizza places give us discounts and even some
free pizza. In 1989, after backpacking 50 miles of the Appalachian Trail in
the Shennahdoah Valley, we stopped in Stanton, Virginia. They discounted
the pizza, and the waitress brought out a pizza with one very tiny sliver
missing, telling us that the manager was supposed to test a pizza from time
to time and wanted us to have the rest. After coming off the Appalachian
Trail in Damascas, Virginia, seeing only 27 chairs in the local pizza
house, Quincey's, I asked the manager if she could handle our group of 42.
Se replied, "Sure," and when we went in the next night, they had borrowed
extra chairs and tables from somewhere. All of the drinks were free. Some
of the pizza was free. The boys were putting quarters in the juke box and
singing along to "That Loving Feeling." When we were ready to leave, the
manager gave one of the boys a quarter saying, " Would you do that one more
time? I just love it when you sing that." In the airport in Chicago when
we changed planes after returning from Sea Base in 1999, a lady noticed the
uniforms and came up to one of our adults to see if he could help her son
start some braiding projects with some gimp he had been giving. He told her
he couldn't personally, but the scoutmaster could. I helped the boy start
several projects, and the lady shared the gimp with our scouts to give them
something to do while waiting. I could go on and on about the many, many
positive experiences we have had as a result of being in full Class "A's."
Charles Goodwin, MD, Scoutmaster Troop 236, Kettering, Ohio
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From: <spmoore@aep.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list philmont" <philmont@troop47.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Philmont]: uniform traveling
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> I will have to echo that I did not know there was another way. Every
Troop
> that I have been associated has place an importance on traveling in
> uniform. Our three crews this last Summer all traveled in uniform. The
> Troops we met in the airports were in uniform. Philmont, in their
> literature stresses the importance of traveling in uniform. Two Summers
> ago, my son and I flew to Florida to go to Seabase. It was just the two
of
> us and we met the rest of the Crew in Ft. Lauderdale. We traveled in
> uniform which gave the opportunity for complete strangers to ask where we
> were heading and to talk about Scouts.
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> Please insist that the Crews travel in uniform.
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> Thanks,
>
> Scott P. Moore, PE
> VP Transmission Operations
> American Electric Power
> 614-413-6600
> FAX 614-413-6664
> spmoore@aep.com
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