The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #30834   Message #399947
Posted By: Mark Cohen
16-Feb-01 - 11:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Weblos Thank Catspaw--Folk Wins !!!
Subject: RE: BS: Weblos Thank Catspaw--Folk Wins !!!
Well, Pat, I don't know about you but in Philadelphia in the early 60s there wasn't any limit on the number of silver arrow points you could get. My dad was Cubmaster (which is a drag, cause you can't get anything good or people will say it's favoritism) and one day he was looking through my Bear book and said, "Hey, you've done this!....and this...and this...and this..." And before I knew it I had FIVE silver arrow points below my gold arrow point under my Bear badge. Since I was even shorter then than I am now, they went down inside my pants! I remember that my dad was awarded "Akela of the Year", so that Jungle Book name was certainly used, but I don't remember any of the others. And I guess I was ahead of my time, because I never got my Lion badge. Never made Webelos, either, nor did I graduate to BS. Ah, well... Oh, and, for the record, you're all right: the W,B,L, and S in WeBeLoS did stand for Wolf, Bear, Lion, Scout, AND the name was a contraction of We'll Be Loyal Scouts. The Bobcat rank was kind of a gimme: you got a little brass Bobcat pin when you joined the Cubs, and you were supposed to put it on upside down, and turn it over when you did a good deed.

I promise to do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
To be square
And to obey the Law of the Pack.

Aloha,
Mark