5/30/15
Welcome to Troop 39.
The Best Scouting Experience In Chapel Hill.
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Serving North Carolina Children's Hospital and Troop 39 since 2008.
Scouts First Class and Higher,
Your newly SPL has created a form for you, not your parents, to select positions for the 2017/2018 Scout Year. The email from your SPL has been forwarded on to the Parent email list. If you have any questions about the form then contact him directly. Above is a hyperlink to the Google Form and here is the long URL, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc51wpd0Tn9OWhSs_vIhfy-vk9Er3pX6qxNuFwPP_ckqNXvOw/viewform?c=0&w=1&usp=mail_form_link
Glenn Benton receiving his award from Sammy Rape
Assistant Scoutmaster Glenn Benton was awarded the BSA Shakori District’s Assistant Scoutmaster of the Year 2016 award.
In his nomination, Troop 39 Scoutmaster Sammy Rape wrote: “Glenn Benton has done a tremendous job as our New Scout Transition Coordinator. In that position, he leads the recruiting efforts of Webelos scouts from Packs in our area. He leads the organization of our Field Day program to help prospective scouts and their parents learn about our troop. He uses extraordinary efforts to integrate our new scouts and their parents into our troop, once they have joined. His efforts have significantly increased membership in our troop over the last number of years.
Glenn Benton has made a real difference in the health and vibrancy of our troop and I am pleased to nominate him as Shakori Assistant Scoutmaster of the Year.”
Diane Meyer with Order of the Arrow Chapter Advisor Carlton McKee
Diane Meyer was awarded the BSA Shakori District’s venturing Advisor of the Year 2016 award for her commitment to Crew 39.
Diane has always set the example of what leadership should be. Venture crew 39 has never been a large crew yet she has been diligently working to maintain the crew operational by encouraging members to attend and help expand the crew in order to ensure that everyone has the best experience possible. In addition to her dedication, her organizational skills and making herself easily reachable and more importantly, easily approachable, have had an amazing impact on Crew 39 as well as Troop 39 where she had served as advancement chair and is now an assistant scoutmaster. Crew members would have been lost without her!
Parents and scouts
We do not know if we have been approved to enter the White House and the expectation is that we will not know until maybe as late as the week of the trip. I appreciate that this does not give you much time for planning and decision making however it is not within our control! I suggest you make the decision to go or not to go independently of whether we do or do not get into the White House or not and make your plans accordingly.
Scouts and adults from Troop 39 enjoyed a special prepreation meeting the Wednesday before going to Gettysburg for an educational event. The scouts were able to get an excused absence from school to take a relaxing bus ride. We enjoyed a weekend of camping on the historic battlefield. Saturday we visited the museum and were to spend quite some time marveling over the 360 degree Cyclorama, the largest oil painting in the USA measuring 42 feet high and 377 feet in circumference, and is over 130 years old. We were treated to have a licensed tour guide on our troop bus that spent time making this event a memory of a lifetime for us. So much information was coming forth from him that one could not help but be moved by this retired Marine. Saturday evening we were treated to some delicious ChiliMac by Mr Fitz-Simmons and cooking crew, a Troop 39’s Got Talent event, this included patrols, individual scouts, our guest parents and uniformed leaders, sorry, no video recording was made available. We were able to close out Saturday the best way our troop could at such a historical event with a flag retirement ceremony. We were up early Sunday, an hour before sunrise to break camp, have our scout zone service, eat and go over to Pickets Charge where our Mr Benton walked us thru the steps of this pivital event of the 3 day battle where we walked the 7th of a mile where 5000 Confederate lost their lives or came up missing in this event and we saw their high mark into Northern soil.
Please enjoy the photos, most of which were supplied by the scouts.
Scouts and leaders of troop 39 came together at Camp Reeves in August to plan the forthcoming Scouting year. There is a lot of adventure ahead including a trip to Busch Gardens, backpacking, hiking, wilderness survival and historic trips to our nation’s capital and Gettysburg to name but a few! The capstone of the year will be a contingent heading to Philmont Scout Ranch and another heading to Bristol in England to join our brothers and sister of Troop 26!
Scouts of Troop 39 handed out 1,000s of commencement programmes today, continuing a tradition that extends over 50 years. Here are a few photos of the Antelope patrol who were covering one of the busiest gates! Scoutmasters received a continuous flow of comments about how smart and polite and cute the scouts were and what a good job they were doing. Mothers beamed smiles as a scout wished them a Happy Mothers Day along with their programme!
Just a few photos from this weekend’s fun at Camp Campbell!
Troop, I will be sending out a list of your service hours for Touch a Truck 2015 that are in the troop records. Please use the form below if your record is inaccurate – put the revised TOTAL.
thanks
Glyn Tomkins
Last year, Scottie Meyer and I took scouts to the NC State University for a fabulous Merit Badge College. The merit badges are scientifically and environmentally oriented, the instruction is by professors and graduate students and is first class and the lads loved it! Well, we plan to go again (well, I know that at least Scottie and I will be going!)
The merit badges on offer are:
We will not be taking the bus, but we will take the Suburban and we will take another car so there is room for up to 11 scouts traveling with the two leaders. If you can drive there of back, please indicate in your reply.
To participate, here is what you need to do by no later than Saturday 3/14/15 at 9:26:54 am. Space is likely to be limited and we will register scouts in date and time sequence so please book early to avoid disappointment.
1. Review the attached flier and availability/interest with your scout.
2. If he wants to attend, please Fill in the form below. PLEASE DO NOT EMAIL DIRECTLY!
By responding you will be committing to pay the troop the following:
Note again: responses through the web site by the deadline. Registrations are done at midnight on 3/16 and we will tell you what you got and how much is due. We will collect the checks at troop night on 3/18
Details on logistics will be shared nearer the time.
Yours in Scouting
Glyn Tomkins
Assistant Scoutmaster, Troop 39
Four scouts, four adults and one dog went on a geohunt along Morgan Creek in Chapel Hill on Boxing Day (that’s December 26th!). We enjoyed the great weather and found six geocaches in the park. in teh process we also left behind several CITO (Cache In trash Out) kits we had made to allow others to take out trash they find in the park. We also pulled out two grocery bags full of trash and recycling that we found as we geocached.
The boys spent several hours learning about geocaching – we covered topics such as how GPSes work, the Universal Transverse Mercator grid system, learning Geocaching terminology and why a map and compass are still essential even though you may have a GPS.
There’ll be another Geohunt soon which will allow the boys to complete their requirements for the Geocaching merit badge.
yours in Scouting
Glyn Tomkins
ASM Troop 39
