The Troop 1954
Wednesday Newsletter

 

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Hi Folks,

Thanks to all who helped with last night's meeting.  Once again, lots of important stuff in this newsletter.

In the News of the Scouting World section of this newsletter, you'll find information on Recharter.  Please look it over carefully.

Under announcements, you'll find important information about this weekend's camp out.  Please read it.

In the next month or so, we will be starting VENTURE CREW 1954.  Stephen Marlow has agreed to help us organize and run this crew.  Venturing is open to boys and girls ages 14 to 21.  Boys can be joint registered in Venturing and Scouting.  IMPORTANT: Boys can pursue Eagle rank as venture crew members.

We will be having an organizing meeting for our new Venture Crew on Sunday, December 4 at 3:00 at the Scout Hut.  If you are interested in either joining the Crew or advising it, please come to the meeting.

I got no response at all from this notice published last week, so I'm publishing it again.  This will really affect our kids so please look for stuff.  It's real easy for stuff to end up in your house after camp outs (plenty has ended up in mine). 

IMPORTANT!!! Folks, we are missing all sorts of camping gear.  We're missing one or two two burner Coleman stoves, many pots and pans, many plates, and lots of other stuff.  I imagine most of this stuff is in people's houses, having just not gotten back after camp-outs.  PLEASE, PLEASE look around your houses for any Troop equipment and return it next week (or at least let me know you have it).  The troop can not afford to just keep buying replacement stoves for our patrols.  If we can not get our equipment back, patrols will have to purchase their own.

As always, the Troop 1954 events calendar, this and all back newsletters,  and all sorts of other useful information is available on our website at www.sanmarcos1954.org  The Wednesday Newsletter is the official record of Troop 1954 and serves as minutes for all troop and committee meetings.

Attendance

SPL  Tony Frediani presiding assisted by ASPL Justin Williams

 

 

Vicious Badgers  Patrol Leader, James Wheatly

 

Aaron
Daniel
John
James

 

 

Ferocious Ferrets  Patrol Leader, Perry Henson

 

Tony
Perry
Justin

 

Mullets   Patrol Leader, Mason R-K

Nathan He.
Nathan Hi.
Philip

 

 

 

Biohazards   Patrol Leader, Ace Govea

Alexey
Ace
Eric

 

 

 

Crimson Fromage     Patrol Leader, Ben Warms

Patrol motto: A Light Sprinkling of Genius with a Chance of Doom

Sean
Ben P.
Josh R.
Ben W.

 

Highly Flammable Piffs     Patrol Leader,

Patrol motto: Don't Misunderestimate Us!

Lee

 

Non-Patrol Scouts    

 

 

Point System Scoring

 

Patrol

Attend.

Uniform

Behavior

Game

Spirit

Meeting

6 Mo

V. Badgers

4

4

 

3

-

11

40

F. Ferrets

3

3

 

 

 

6

36

Mullets

4

5

 

 

 

9

41.5

Biohazards

5

4

 

 

-

9

38.5

Fromage

5

4

-3

 

-

6

35.5

Piffs

-

-

-

 

 

-

17

notes: 1) you get half a point for wearing a "class B" on a "class A" night
2) We're adding a category for the evening's contest (whatever it may be).  We'll see how it works.
3) We'll try another new rule...especially because we have reduced summer attendance.  In case of tie, the patrol with the largest number of people attending gets the award.

Note: Scouts with more than three consecutive misses will not be counted against patrol attendance scores.  Such scouts are not removed from their patrols.  They are simply not counted for attendance points until they return.  Also note that when all patrols score the same on a category, it doesn't matter what they score.
Behavior, subtract for each incident.

Fails to come to order when scout sign given -1
Fighting with each other -1 per incident
Bad language -1 per incident
Failure to treat others with respect -1
Asked repeatedly to do any task -1
Fails to clean up -1
Shows poor sportsmanship -1

Spirit: Add for each, highest score is a five.

All members cooperate with game +1
Members make progress on meeting’s task +1
Members show enthusiasm for tasks +1
Members show good organization (listen to PL and Coach) +1
Members exemplify Scout Law +1


 

 

Announcements

 


1)
Please stay tuned for announcements about this weekend's camp-out.  As of this writing, there is a good possibility that the camp-out will be cancelled.  The final decision on cancellation will be made tomorrow (Thursday) by noon.  Please be sure to check your email before shopping for the weekend or showing up at the Scout Hut.  IF we are going, we'll meet at 6:00 at the Scout Hut.  We'll have dinner on the road.  Note the later time for meeting.  We need to be actually on the road by 6:15.  Late is left.

2) Please be sure to check your house for troop belongings

3) We will need a Committee Meeting soon to discuss plans for the Scout Hut as well as patrol equipment.

4) Believe it or not, Sights and Sounds is only a few weeks away.  We will begin planning for that almost immediately.

 

 

News of the Scouting World


RECHARTER

Please read this carefully: We are coming up on our annual recharter.  Below you'll see three sections.  First, you'll see a listing of adult members.  Second, you'll see a listing of youth members, and finally, you'll see a listing of adults and youth that, if we do not hear from them, will be dropped from our charter.  Please pay attention to the following four notes:

NOTE 1
: This list of members comes from the Council.  If you are not on this list, you're not officially a member as far as the Council is concerned.  That may mean we're inefficient or the paperwork got lost or you never filled out the forms or whatever.  If you're not on the list and want to be a member, you'll need to fill out the forms.  If this is for a second or third time, please accept my apologies.

NOTE 2: PLEASE check to see if you appear on the list of members to be dropped.  We do not want to drop anyone.  If you are on this list it is for one of two reasons.  1) (for youth) You will be too old to be a scout when the charter takes affect in February.  2) (for youth and adults) We have not seen you at meetings this fall.  If you have not been at meetings, we are glad to retain you on our charter but, you must tell us that you wish to be retained and you must pay a membership fee of $25. As per our rules, this fee may not be taken from a scouting account. 

NOTE 3: Please remember.  We're not trying to cause anyone to leave the troop.  We want to retain every scout that we are allowed to retain.  But we must have a roster that accurately reflects our membership.

NOTE 4: If you owe any money to the troop, you will not be allowed to recharter with us until your account is settled, or an agreement for its settlement has been reached.

ADULT MEMBERS

Jason Baen
Peter  Baen
Thomas Baen
David Bandy
Thomas Clendennen
Scott Collier
Patty Derrickson
Cece Fink
Donald Gottschalk
Laura Haderxhanaj
Roger Henson
Phillip Hicks
Jennifer Jenkins
Charles Johnson
Corky Kuhlmann
Philip Lewis
Susan Lewis
Edwin Maling
Stephen Marlow
Eric Myers
Curtis Painton
Stephanie Painton
Kate Pettit
Fay Powell
Anders Rasmussen
Camille Shieff
Randy Shieff
Robert Velez
Richard Warms
Mliss Williams

Youth Members

Kirkland Baen
Mason Bandy
Lee Clendennen
Corey Collier
Jaimie Collier
Aaron Davenport
Alexey Dillon
Sean Fink
Tony Frediani
Daniel Frediani
Lorenzo Garcia
Misael Govea
Nathaniel Heathman
William Henson
Nathan Hicks
Daniel Kurtz
Philip Lewis
Lohnny Lozano
Edwin Maling
Ben Painton
Zach Painton
Eric Pettit
Trevor Powell
Dane Rasmussen
Mason Reichenau-Kuhlmann
Kirk Roche
Joshua Rose
Thomas Shieff
Fernando Soto
Benjamin Warms
James Wheatley
Justin Williams
Ben Woodley.

Adults to be dropped (not because we want to...just tell us not to):

Jason Baen
Thomas Baen
Thomas Clendennen
Scott Collier
Laura Haderxhanaj
Jennifer Jenkins
Kate Pettit
Fay Powell
Ande Rasmussen
Camille Shieff
Randy Shieff
Robert Velez

Youth to be dropped (not because we want to...just tell us not to):

Lee Clendennen (too old)
Corey Collier
Jaimie Collier
Daniel Kurtz
Johnny Lozano
Trevor Powell (too old)
Dane Rasmussen
Thomas Shieff
Fernando Soto
Ben Woodley

 

Upcoming Events


November 18-20, Garner State Park -Yeargan's River Bend Camp Out

December 1-3, Sights and Sounds of Christmas Funnel Cake Fundraiser

December 26-30, Winter Camp

January 20-22, John Knox Camp Camp-Out (ropes course)

February TBA, Lost Pines (climbing tower and canoeing)

March 13-17, Enchanted Rock Camp-Out

March 30-April 2, Camporee

April 4, Troop Elections

April 11, Spring Court of Honor

May 5-7, Inks Lake

June 2-4 Big Bend

July TBA Summer Camp