Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 14:17:42 -0500
From: BRAMLET@ECC4.ATENG.AZ.HONEYWELL.COM
Subject: Another Thought for the Day...
To: Multiple recipients of list SCOUTS-L
I found this last night in the book of field notes from our "University of Scouting", and thought that I should share it with the net.
I am not a Very Important Man, as importance is commonly rated, I do not have great wealth, control a big business, or occupy a position of great honor or authority.
Yet I may someday mold destiny. For it is within my power to become the most important man in the world in the life of a boy. And every boy is a potential atom bomb in human history.
A humble citizen like myself might have been the Scoutmaster of a Troop in which an undersized unhappy Austrian lad by the name of Adolph might have found a joyous boyhood, full of the ideals of brotherhood, goodwill, and kindness. And the world would have been different.
A humble citizen like myself might have been the organizer of a Scout Troop in which a Russian boy called Joe might have learned the lessons of democratic cooperation.
These men would never have known that they had averted world tragedy, yet actually they would have been among the most important men who ever lived.
All about me are boys. They are the makers of history, the builders of tomorrow. If I can have some part in guiding them up the trails of Scouting, on to the high road of noble character and constructive citizenship, I may prove to be the most important man in their lives, the most important man in my community.
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different, because I was important in the life of a boy.
YiS,
Chuck Bramlet
ASM Troop 323
Thunderbird District
Grand Canyon Council
I didn't used to be anything! (Except younger) Maybe someday...
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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 09:31:45 -0600
From: "R. Gary Hendra" <ghendra@TOONTOWN.SSD.LORAL.COM>
Subject: Some Christmas Cheer
To: Multiple recipients of list SCOUTS-L
Hello Fellow Scouters!
By noon today I'll be off for about 11 days. I shudder to think of the e-mail that will be waiting for me on Jan 3. It will certainly take a few days to get through. No, I'll not set digest mode. Whenever I do, I never go back and read the mail at all.
I wish you all a very safe, peaceful and restful holiday. In the spirit of this season, I offer the following gift to you, "The Ten Commandments of Leadership." My wife and I have absolutely gone through hell in the last several months, as we left a Pack whose leaders were only interested in power and control, and went to a brand new Pack. We have been victims of several of the points you will read below. The following, which we first heard from our District Executive at the Council Dinner, has helped us keep in perspective why we are Scouters, and why Scouting remains such an integral part of our family life.
Excerpts from a speech given by Eddie Snow, Oakland #3, at the District Assembly May 18th, "If You Were Arrested For Being A Rotarian, Would There Be Enough Evidence To Convict You?"
These are St. Edward Wrestling Coach Howard Ferguson's "Paradoxical Commandments of Leadership."
R. Gary Hendra Space Systems/Loral, Palo Alto, California WA6SUW
Webelos Den Leader, Cub Scout Pack 92, Milpitas, California 1hr/wknot