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

[Amy West]

On 6/16/10 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:42:52 -0700
> From:    Arnold Zwicky<zwicky at STANFORD.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Webelos was Re: "outside of a dog" (UNCLASSIFIED)
>
> On Jun 15, 2010, at 8:28 AM, Bill Mullins wrote:
>> >
>> >  When I was a cub scout (about 40 years ago), it was given as "We Be
>> >  Loyal Scouts".  I wonder what the Cub Scout Manual from that era says.
> when i was a cub scout (about 60 years ago), it was given as Wolf Bear Lion Scout.  but my cub scout manual from that time has long since disappeared, the victim of moves across six states in the interim.
>
> arnold
>

I think it's really cool that we have this marker that can be used to
date old scouts. That's in the "apply a date to" sense, not the "take
out to the movies" sense.

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---Amy West

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