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Hello Bob (and hello Net People, since I'm posting this on rec.scouting)

Happy New Year to you, too! and Happy '93 to all people on the Net!

I just made my pack program for '93, and boy, I've never had such a 
crammed year. As we decided to do more joint events between the pack 
and the troop, we'll have one additional camp and two more weekends 
than usual. 

But I'm happy about it. On the kids' level, it removes the fright 
from the passage to the 'big ones', and on the leader level it helps 
pack and troop leaders to understand each other's (sometimes very 
different) primary issues and concerns and, in the end effect, to 
help each other in their task.

I can recommend to any unit leader to cooperate with his parent 
unit. In the end effect, it mainly brings advantages. It doesn't 
come for free, though. It costs time, and sometimes a lot of nerves 
and patience, but it's definitely worth every drop of sweat. 

Scout troop leaders, will see the percentage of "losses" in their 
new arrivals decrease significantly. Cub pack leaders will get 
understanding and active help from the troops, in all areas where 
such help is needed. Finding new kids for example, providing den 
leaders (in the BSA: den leader assistants), giving a hand in the 
program, and so on.

It's not very warm in Zurich either, although the temperature 
hasn't gone below 0 degrees Farenheit yet (-20 Celsius). We have a 
few places where -40 is the rule at this time of the year, but they 
are in far more rural areas.

What does "Trainer III" in your signature mean?

YiS,


-- Danny Schwendener         macman@bernina.ethz.ch
   Wolfsmeute Nidau/Glockenhof, Sihlstr. 33, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland
   m.h.c. Troop 14, San Francisco