From: Douglas Fasching (palisade14@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Oct 23 2002 - 09:29:18 CDT
Mr. Smith,
I may not say what you want to hear.
A number of things come to mind:
-seems a bit early to be planning and expecting full particpation in such an
extensive pre-Philmont trip
-when planning the hike the crew did not consider that at least two of the
members were in HS and that Homecoming occured that weekend?
-being part of a crew means a balance between flexibility and full team
participation
I think the crew leader's best course of action is to express his concerns
to the Crew politely and then to encourage them to find ways to work
together to plan for better timing on upcoming events.
Douglas
>From: smith.13@nd.edu
>Reply-To: philmont@troop47.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list philmont <philmont@troop47.com>
>Subject: [Philmont]: Building a team
>Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:50:50 -0500
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>Our Philmont crew leader is a bit put out that two of our scouts did not
>show up for our campout last weekend when the Philmont crew had a 10 mile
>hike in full packs planned. He want to set required practices with the
>stipulation that if you miss, you can not go on the trip. His mother, who
>is also going as an adult, is backing him big time. His mother missed the
>hike too because she had to be the open house for her partnership's new
>veterinary clinic. (Of course according to them, that does not count
>because she is an adult and had a good excuse.) The two scout who missed
>had opted to attend their high school home coming events that weekend.
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>My take is that we have reserved twelve spots at Philmont and have train
>reservations for twelve. If we remove a scout someone has to pay the fees
>or we have to find new crew members who would have not been on the practice
>hikes either. Neither choice make sense to me. I will work with the
>scouts to see that they free up their calendar for future hikes. But what
>if some scouts do miss the future practice hikes? What have your crews
>done?
>
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>Roman J. Smith, SM Troop 505 / CM, Ship 505
>roman.j.smith.13@nd.edu http://www.nd.edu/~rsmith1/RJSBSA.htm
>-I used to be an Owl
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