Scottish Scout Troop Visits U.S.

[Sherry]

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The Clan MacLaren Society of North America has established a special associate (non-voting) membership for any Scouter who has earned his or her Wood Badge. Wood Badge membership in the Clan MacLaren Society of North America (CMSNA) is therefore extended to all Wood Badge-trained Scouters who have completed their "ticket" and have received their Wood Badge beads. Membership is $10 per year. Pick up a membership form at the Clan MacLaren tent at a Highland Games. Or, download an application from here ( please include your Wood Badge Course Number! )."

Interesting. I had no idea.

Richland, I bet you will enjoy wearing those flashes if your dad still has them. Then, of course, you will have to post a pic or twa. :-)

Sherry

[Alan H]

I'm an eagle, and now that you mention it, I remember the green socks and the flashes!!!

whoa...time-shift here. That was...uhhhh....**mumble, mumble** 1973.

*ahem*

I did the White Stag Leadership program, and as a graduate of White Stag I got a plaid neckerchief with a white stag embroidered in it. All the local troops had plain, or at most two-colored kerchiefs, though most were predominantly red.

Another leadership training thing I did earned me a light blue/green neckerchief.

I will have all my badges, and those two special neckerchiefs tucked away in a momento's bag. I have my merit badge sash.

Here's a thing. I was the last guy in my district to get a MEDAL for my Eagle badge. BSA went to embroidered Eagle badges about 6 months before I earned mine. I wanted the one that all the guys before me had earned. It had been a long road to Eagle, six years. My dad went over to the local HDQ and bought the last medals they had in stock and stashed it away until my Court of Honor.

Funny, what you remember, eh?

You know what else? Every time I passed a major badge, I got a little pin that went with the badge. They were for my mother. My mom bought a bit of ribbon, about 6 inches of red ribbon. As I earned them, one by one, she put the pins on the ribbon. She wore that to lots of family functions we went to, for years (not that there were many of them) and ALL my BSA functions, including my courts of honour. When she died, I found that ribbon with all its little Scout badges still pinned to it, in her box along with all the letters I wrote home from college, my report cards as I was growing up...school photos, all that stuff.

Good memories.

[Andrew Breecher]

The socks and flashes were still around when I was in Scouts (around 1988), though they were definitely phasing out by then, and not many boys wore them.

Andrew.