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BRIGHT SUNSHINE had replaced the rains of- the previous
weekend at good old Camp Currier, Miss., and all the Bears and
Bob Whites and Antelopes and
0wls and Eagles and Buffaloes
and Foxes were as busy as the
Beavers, trying to win their
Wood Badges.
They were dressed in short
pants and knee socks, and they
carried individual patrol flags
they had made themselves and
yelled individual patrol yells they
had made up themselves. ·
Like the Owl Patrol's "Who
gives a hoot? Owls do. Hoot,
Hoot."
Or the Beaver P3trol's "Are
you a Beaver? You bet your
sweet tail I am."
They sang their own individual
verses to the official canip song,
too, while they did things like
building drawbridges and observation towers and rafts.
But something wasn't exactly
right.
Somehow these woodsy folk
were not quite like the various

When city-dwelling scoutleaders get together, what would
you expect but a high-rise tent? Actually, it's a portion of
the qualifying activities for a Wood Badge at Camp
Currier, Miss., where grown men meet each year for
formations , fun and bard work, designed to make them
better leaders.
4

The Comme&lt;c io1 Appeal Mid-South Magazine

�~

lilt Be Boys

In the eight ·days of Wood Badge Camp,
determined scoutleaders ·don short pants
and assume the roles of their charges,
all for a pair of littl~ wooden bead.s.

troops of Boy Scouts · camped
elsewhere, all around them, in
this wilderness just west of
Eudora, Miss.
Certain singing voices were. a
bit too deep, certain heads a bit
too balding. One of the Beavers
had a beard. So did a couple of
others, around the camp.
And it was not at all uncommon
to run across incongruous sights
such as a gray-haired general
contractor in the Fox Patrol,
showing a portly pediatrician
how to tie a timber hitch, with
the fellow Foxes looking on including a Marine, an electrician
and a liquor storeowner.
In short, this was Wood Badge
camp, where, for three weekends
each year, groups of men grow
into boys, for the sake of better
scouting.
THE WOOD BADGE, on the
surface, is nothing more than an
odd-looking pair of wooden beads
on a leather strand. It is worn

Continued

Members of the Bear Patrol scale an aerial platform constructed as a group project.
Memphis. Tenn., Sunday. August 17. 1975

5

�Continued

'If some of the wives could see
the things their husbands do here,
they'd have them committed:'

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A Fox Patrol member gets some help from a fellow Fox in brushing up
on what's a knot and what's not.

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with a salmon-colored neckerchief which has a plaid patch on
the back and is held together by
a distinctive "woggle," or neckerchief slide.
To earn the right to wear this
conglomeration, grown men
around the world sign up each
year for the Wood Badge training
courses held at a multitude of
sites.
What these adult scoutleaders
must do, according to Tom
Moore, . representative of the
Chickasaw Council of the Boy
Scouts of America and a member
of the Wood Badge staff at Camp
Currier this year, is complete a
"ticket" of 11 "competencies," all
designed to give them a better
grasp of the goals and objectives
of scouting.
They accomplish this by attending weekend campouts,
under · the same conditions as
would the Boy Scouts in their
troops. They are placed in patrols, with patrol leaders and
even a few adults who serve as
"designated adults" during the
training period.

"The idea is for the men to
play the boys' roles, to help them
get a better understanding of
what- they're supposed to be
doing for their boys," says
Moore. "These guys pay $60 each
to take this course, and they have
to give up 192 hours of their own
time to do it. So you can see this
sort of thing would tend to appeal
more to the more 'gung-ho' type
of scoutleader. I do know that, on
a national level, statistics show
that the men who earn their
Wood Badge will stay in scouting
seven years longer, on the average, than those who do not. ·
"The activities involved in this
training all have a very worthwhile function, but we do try to
include some elements of fun as
often as possible. In fact, if some
of the wives could see some of
the things their husbands do at
the Wood Badge camp, they'd
probably have them committed."
More than one wife may have
had that thought this year, from
the veFy start of the course, says
Hal Foster, a Memphis South

Continued

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Central Bell employe who served
as "Scoutmaster" of the camp.
"We had 57 men signed up for
this year, the most we've_ ever
had in the four or five years
we've held this program at Camp
Currier," says Foster. "But the
night before camp was to start
we had rain coming down in
sheets, and I was afraid a lot of
men wouldn't show up.
''Well, I looked down the road
that Saturday morning, and here
they cam.e, wading through the
mud with all their gear. Of the 57
·who signed up, 56 showed up.
The other one, I found out later,
had the flu. "

MosT OF THE W~d Badge
candidates came from Memphis,
with a few from West Memphis,
West Tennessee and North
Mississippi.
Also in the camp were 17 men
serving as staff, all of them having earned their Wood Badges in
the past. They wore the official
short pants and knee socks of the
Wood Badge uniform, just like
the trainees, but instead of caps,

they wore Smokey Bear hats, to
set them apart from the rest.
."We come in ahead of time and
set up our campsite, to serve as a
model for the candidates, showing them what can be done,'' says
Tom Moore. "We want to impress
upon them the idea of pioneering,
of creating something from sheer
nothing. If you see you need a
table, then you make a table.
, "We even built a shower in the
staff campsite, with hot water
that poured from a bucket into a
coffee can with holes in the bottom, so it would sprinkle out like
a real shower."
The Wood Badge program goes
back to the earliest days of scouting and was originated by Robert
Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy
Scouts, himself.
"He patterned the Wood Badge
after a tribal necklace worn by
the Zulu warriors of Africa,"
says Moore. "The beads they had
actually were the knuckles of
enemies they had slain in battle.
That's what our little wooden
beads are supposed to look like."
Baden-Powell held the first
Wood· Badge training course at
Gilwell Park, England, in 1919.
For that reason, all Wood Badge
campsites traditionally are
named "Gilwell."
The training program includes
mental and physical phases rang~
ing from class· instruction sessions to overnight hikes. Too,
there is a period of not less than
six months nor more than two
years, which follows the training
course and in which candidates
must provide evidence of the use
they have made of their training
in their regular scout work.
Only then is their "ticket" considered complete and their Wood
Badge awarded.

A

TYPICAL ACTIVITY during
the training period is the "patrol
project."
"The way that works," says
Tom Moore, "is that we give each
patrol a card at 9:30 in the morning, and on that card is a project
which that patrol must complete
in a two-hour p~riod that afternoon. All the projects are differ.ent, and they should be things
that none of the men in the patrol
have ever done before.
"They may be told to construct
a teeter-totter bridge or a swinging drawbridge or to set up a tent
on a platform in the trees. To encourage them to use their imagination, we always give them a Iit-

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tle story, explaining the reason
for their project Like we might
say they have to put their tent in
a tree because there is a flood, or
they have to build their bridge in
order to cross a raging river."
The patrols are supplied the
equipment they need, such as
logs and ropes, and are given a
picture of what it should look like
and a word description of how to
build it. From there, they're on
their own.
"The .whole premise of this
training is that you don't have to
have somebody right there, telling you everything to do," saysMoore. "Oh,,a counselor is there,
and he knows exactly what they
should be doing. But he is supposed to just stand by and watch
and not offer any advice, even if
they're doing it all wrong. If they
ask him a· question, he will not
give a direct answer, because
that would be defeating the
purpose.
"So they learn to work it out
for themselves. One guy may
know about pulleys. Another may
know about knots. Another will
know something else. Together,
they can get the job done. Even if
the total project is a flop, though,
we stitl don't feel that they have ·
failed, because they have learned
to work together to try to do it.

Generally, though, I've noticed
that what few times the men
have failed, they have come back
on their own time - which they
have very little of - to get it
right. It's a matter of pride."
The trainees, all carrying Boy
Scout handbooks and Wood
Badge ·workbooks under their
arms, are called to assembly and
the various activities by traditional blasts on the "kudu," a
spiral horn taken from an exotic
species of South African antelope.
ANOTHER TRADITIONAL
part of the progra.m is
"SHOWANDO," in which patrols
pick. out men who will "show"
specified specialties to the
assembled patrols and ''do" what
they show - things like how to
pack properly or various ways to
build a fire.
.
"One thing you should pay
attention to these days is long
hair around a campfire," a firebuilding specialist explained at
this year's SHOWANDO. "For
safety's sake it can be tied behind the head with a shoelace."
Even Robert Baden-Powell
would have admired such resourcefulness.
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            <text>&#13;
4 The Comme&lt;cio1 Appeal Mid-South Magazine&#13;
When city-dwelling scoutleaders get together, what would&#13;
you expect but a high-rise tent? Actually, it's a portion of&#13;
the qualifying activities for a Wood Badge at Camp&#13;
Currier, Miss., where grown men meet each year for&#13;
formations , fun and bard work, designed to make them&#13;
better leaders.&#13;
Men&#13;
BRIGHT SUNSHINE had replaced&#13;
the rains of- the previous&#13;
weekend at good old Camp Currier,&#13;
Miss., and all the Bears and&#13;
Bob Whites and Antelopes and&#13;
0wls and Eagles and Buff aloes&#13;
and Foxes were as busy as the&#13;
Beavers, trying to win their&#13;
Wood Badges.&#13;
They were dressed in short&#13;
pants and knee socks, and they&#13;
carried individual patrol flags&#13;
they had made themselves and&#13;
yelled individual patrol yells they&#13;
had made up themselves. ·&#13;
Like the Owl Patrol's "Who&#13;
gives a hoot? Owls do. Hoot,&#13;
Hoot."&#13;
Or the Beaver P3trol's "Are&#13;
you a Beaver? You bet your&#13;
sweet tail I am."&#13;
They sang their own individual&#13;
verses to the official canip song,&#13;
too, while they did things like&#13;
building drawbridges and observation&#13;
towers and rafts.&#13;
But something wasn't exactly&#13;
right.&#13;
Somehow these woodsy folk&#13;
were not quite like the various&#13;
lilt Be Boys In the eight·days of Wood Badge Camp,&#13;
determined scoutleaders ·don short pants&#13;
and assume the roles of their charges,&#13;
all for a pair of littl~ wooden bead.s.&#13;
troops of Boy Scouts ·camped&#13;
elsewhere, all around them, in&#13;
this wilderness just west of&#13;
Eudora, Miss.&#13;
Certain singing voices were. a&#13;
bit too deep, certain heads a bit&#13;
too balding. One of the Beavers&#13;
had a beard. So did a couple of&#13;
others, around the camp.&#13;
And it was not at all uncommon&#13;
to run across incongruous sights&#13;
such as a gray-haired general&#13;
contractor in the Fox Patrol,&#13;
showing a portly pediatrician&#13;
how to tie a timber hitch, with&#13;
the fell ow Foxes looking on including&#13;
a Marine, an electrician&#13;
and a liquor storeowner.&#13;
In short, this was Wood Badge&#13;
camp, where, for three weekends&#13;
each year, groups of men grow&#13;
into boys, for the sake of better&#13;
scouting.&#13;
THE WOOD BADGE, on the&#13;
surface, is nothing more than an&#13;
odd-looking pair of wooden beads&#13;
~ on a leather strand. It is worn&#13;
Continued&#13;
Members of the Bear Patrol scale an aerial platform constructed as a group project.&#13;
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Continued&#13;
'If some of the wives could see&#13;
the things their husbands do here,&#13;
they'd have them committed:'&#13;
A Fox Patrol member gets some help from a fell ow Fox in brushing up&#13;
on what's a knot and what's not.&#13;
with a salmon-colored neckerchief&#13;
which has a plaid patch on&#13;
the back and is held together by&#13;
a distinctive "woggle," or neckerchief&#13;
slide.&#13;
To earn the right to wear this&#13;
conglomeration, grown men&#13;
around the world sign up each&#13;
year for the Wood Badge training&#13;
courses held at a multitude of&#13;
sites.&#13;
What these adult scoutleaders&#13;
must do, according to Tom&#13;
Moore, . representative of the&#13;
Chickasaw Council of the Boy&#13;
Scouts of America and a member&#13;
of the Wood Badge staff at Camp&#13;
Currier this year, is complete a&#13;
"ticket" of 11 "competencies," all&#13;
designed to give them a better&#13;
grasp of the goals and objectives&#13;
of scouting.&#13;
They accomplish this by attending&#13;
weekend campouts,&#13;
under ·the same conditions as&#13;
would the Boy Scouts in their&#13;
troops. They are placed in patrols,&#13;
with patrol leaders and&#13;
even a few adults who serve as&#13;
"designated adults" during the&#13;
training period.&#13;
"The idea is for the men to&#13;
play the boys' roles, to help them&#13;
get a better understanding of&#13;
what- they're supposed to be&#13;
doing for their boys," says&#13;
Moore. "These guys pay $60 each&#13;
to take this course, and they have&#13;
to give up 192 hours of their own&#13;
time to do it. So you can see this&#13;
sort of thing would tend to appeal&#13;
more to the more 'gung-ho' type&#13;
of scoutleader. I do know that, on&#13;
a national level, statistics show&#13;
that the men who earn their&#13;
Wood Badge will stay in scouting&#13;
seven years longer, on the average,&#13;
than those who do not. ·&#13;
"The activities involved in this&#13;
training all have a very worthwhile&#13;
function, but we do try to&#13;
include some elements of fun as&#13;
often as possible. In fact, if some&#13;
of the wives could see some of&#13;
the things their husbands do at&#13;
the Wood Badge camp, they'd&#13;
probably have them committed."&#13;
More than one wife may have&#13;
had that thought this year, from&#13;
the veFy start of the course, says&#13;
Hal Foster, a Memphis South&#13;
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8 The Commercial Appeal Mid-South Mogoz.ine&#13;
Continued&#13;
W e want to impre.ss upon them the idea&#13;
of creating something from sheer ·nothing.'&#13;
I&#13;
Pardon me, Boy Scout leader, but&#13;
isn't that, uh, poison ivy?&#13;
Central Bell employe who served&#13;
as "Scoutmaster" of the camp.&#13;
"We had 57 men signed up for&#13;
this year, the most we've_ ever&#13;
had in the four or five years&#13;
we've held this program at Camp&#13;
Currier," says Foster. "But the&#13;
night before camp was to start&#13;
we had rain coming down in&#13;
sheets, and I was afraid a lot of&#13;
men wouldn't show up.&#13;
''Well, I looked down the road&#13;
that Saturday morning, and here&#13;
they cam.e, wading through the&#13;
mud with all their gear. Of the 57&#13;
·who signed up, 56 showed up.&#13;
The other one, I found out later,&#13;
had the flu."&#13;
MosT OF THE W~d Badge&#13;
candidates came from Memphis,&#13;
with a few from West Memphis,&#13;
West Tennessee and North&#13;
Mississippi.&#13;
Also in the camp were 17 men&#13;
serving as staff, all of them having&#13;
earned their Wood Badges in&#13;
the past. They wore the official&#13;
short pants and knee socks of the&#13;
Wood Badge uniform, just like&#13;
the trainees, but instead of caps,&#13;
they wore Smokey Bear hats, to&#13;
set them apart from the rest.&#13;
. "We come in ahead of time and&#13;
set up our campsite, to serve as a&#13;
model for the candidates, showing&#13;
them what can be done,'' says&#13;
Tom Moore. "We want to impress&#13;
upon them the idea of pioneering,&#13;
of creating something from sheer&#13;
nothing. If you see you need a&#13;
table, then you make a table.&#13;
, "We even built a shower in the&#13;
staff campsite, with hot water&#13;
that poured from a bucket into a&#13;
coffee can with holes in the bottom,&#13;
so it would sprinkle out like&#13;
a real shower."&#13;
The Wood Badge program goes&#13;
back to the earliest days of scouting&#13;
and was originated by Robert&#13;
Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy&#13;
Scouts, himself.&#13;
"He patterned the Wood Badge&#13;
after a tribal necklace worn by&#13;
the Zulu warriors of Africa,"&#13;
says Moore. "The beads they had&#13;
actually were the knuckles of&#13;
enemies they had slain in battle.&#13;
That's what our little wooden&#13;
beads are supposed to look like."&#13;
Baden-Powell held the first&#13;
Wood· Badge training course at&#13;
Gilwell Park, England, in 1919.&#13;
For that reason, all Wood Badge&#13;
campsites traditionally are&#13;
named "Gilwell."&#13;
The training program includes&#13;
mental and physical phases rang~&#13;
ing from class· instruction sessions&#13;
to overnight hikes. Too,&#13;
there is a period of not less than&#13;
six months nor more than two&#13;
years, which follows the training&#13;
course and in which candidates&#13;
must provide evidence of the use&#13;
they have made of their training&#13;
in their regular scout work.&#13;
Only then is their "ticket" considered&#13;
complete and their Wood&#13;
Badge awarded.&#13;
A TYPICAL ACTIVITY during&#13;
the training period is the "patrol&#13;
project."&#13;
"The way that works," says&#13;
Tom Moore, "is that we give each&#13;
patrol a card at 9:30 in the morning,&#13;
and on that card is a project&#13;
which that patrol must complete&#13;
in a two-hour p~riod that afternoon.&#13;
All the projects are differ.&#13;
ent, and they should be things&#13;
that none of the men in the patrol&#13;
have ever done before.&#13;
"They may be told to construct&#13;
a teeter-totter bridge or a swinging&#13;
drawbridge or to set up a tent&#13;
on a platform in the trees. To encourage&#13;
them to use their imagination,&#13;
we always give them a Iit-&#13;
Continued&#13;
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l 0 The Commercial Appeal Mid-Soutn Magazine&#13;
Continued&#13;
Zulus had the first Wood Badges,'&#13;
made from the knuckles of slain foes.&#13;
tle story, explaining the reason&#13;
for their project Like we might&#13;
say they have to put their tent in&#13;
a tree because there is a flood, or&#13;
they have to build their bridge in&#13;
order to cross a raging river."&#13;
The patrols are supplied the&#13;
equipment they need, such as&#13;
logs and ropes, and are given a&#13;
picture of what it should look like&#13;
and a word description of how to&#13;
build it. From there, they're on&#13;
their own.&#13;
"The .whole premise of this&#13;
training is that you don't have to&#13;
have somebody right there, telling&#13;
you everything to do," saysMoore.&#13;
"Oh,,a counselor is there,&#13;
and he knows exactly what they&#13;
should be doing. But he is supposed&#13;
to just stand by and watch&#13;
and not off er any advice, even if&#13;
they're doing it all wrong. If they&#13;
ask him a· question, he will not&#13;
give a direct answer, because&#13;
that would be defeating the&#13;
purpose.&#13;
"So they learn to work it out&#13;
for themselves. One guy may&#13;
know about pulleys. Another may&#13;
know about knots. Another will&#13;
know something else. Together,&#13;
they can get the job done. Even if&#13;
the total project is a flop, though,&#13;
we stitl don't feel that they have ·&#13;
failed, because they have learned&#13;
to work together to try to do it.&#13;
m'.rif:S811~- t·&#13;
Generally, though, I've noticed&#13;
that what few times the men&#13;
have failed, they have come back&#13;
on their own time - which they&#13;
have very little of - to get it&#13;
right. It's a matter of pride."&#13;
The trainees, all carrying Boy&#13;
Scout handbooks and Wood&#13;
Badge ·workbooks under their&#13;
arms, are called to assembly and&#13;
the various activities by traditional&#13;
blasts on the "kudu," a&#13;
spiral horn taken from an exotic&#13;
species of South African antelope.&#13;
ANOTHER TRADITIONAL&#13;
part of the progra.m is&#13;
"SHOW ANDO," in which patrols&#13;
pick. out men who will "show"&#13;
specified specialties to the&#13;
assembled patrols and ''do" what&#13;
they show - things like how to&#13;
pack properly or various ways to&#13;
build a fire. .&#13;
"One thing you should pay&#13;
attention to these days is long&#13;
hair around a campfire," a firebuilding&#13;
specialist explained at&#13;
this year's SHOWANDO. "For&#13;
safety's sake it can be tied behind&#13;
the head with a shoelace."&#13;
Even Robert Baden-Powell&#13;
would have admired such resourcefulness.&#13;
-JAMES G. ANDREWS • ••&#13;
Before they can eat at day•s end, the men must face still one more&#13;
chore- the building of the supper fire.&#13;
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