Webelos was Re: "outside of a dog" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[John McChesney-Young]

On Jun 15, 2010, at 8:28 AM, Bill Mullins wrote:
>>> > Â When I was a cub scout (about 40 years ago), it was given as "We Be
>>> > Â Loyal Scouts". Â I wonder what the Cub Scout Manual from that era says.

On 6/16/10 12:00 AM, Arnold Zwicky<zwicky at STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
>> when i was a cub scout (about 60 years ago), it was given as Wolf Bear Lion Scout.

and on Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com> wrote:
> I think it's really cool that we have this marker that can be used to
> date old scouts.

I have some doubt about the utility of this as a dating technique,
because in my 40-ish-year-old memory of cub scouts, the origin was
Wolf Bear Lion and I'm pretty sure I got it from the manual or other
official documents. I wonder whether the oral tradition may have
varied geographically? I was in southern California.

John


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