The 2017 Boy Scout National Jamboree, The Summimit, West Virginia - Page 6
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| Once again the fund raising arm of NESA was issuing patches. This is a sampling of th 42 different items. |
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 The Scouting Alumni Association was new at the 2017 Jamboree. As far as I can determine it’s a fund raising group. A special patch was available for members as well as a set of 21 different patches celebrating past Jamborees. I’ve asked how they were distributed, but no one seems to know. If you know where they were available I’d like to publish it. |
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  Each Scout at the Jamboree should have received 13 packs of WP Trading Cards, in hopes that the Scouts would try to trade cards and get all one hundred in the numbered set. These cards depict famous Scouters, like Mike Rowe and John F. Kennedy, along with historical figures who were critical to the Scouting movement, like William D. Boyce and E. Urner Goodman. While trading cards is fun in itself, an extra challenge also is available. One thousand copies of a special 101st card, entitled the “Golden WP card,” have been printed but not included in the card decks that were handed out to Scouts. Starting Sunday afternoon, clues about the locations of the golden WP cards will be pushed out on the official 2017 National Jamboree app, hinting where Scouts should go or who they should talk to. A Scout who gathers all 101 cards can bring the deck to Jamboree Headquarters to claim a free Boy Scouts of America 2017 National Jamboree Linerlock knife. There are 1,000 knives available — the same as the number of golden WP cards to be found — so the activity is not a race. Only youth are eligible to claim a knife. A Scout who did not receive the 13 packs of trading cards can ask for help from the program leadership at subcamp or base camp headquarters. A sampling of those cards are shown below. |
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| Religion at the Jamboree |
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| Females at the Jamboree |
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| Young women have been welcome as Ventures at the past couple Jamboree’s, National attitudes seem to be evolving. Female Ventures often embrace Scouting with more vigor than some young men. They hold leadership positions and are active participants in the Jamboree. Scouting has been working to sell the “adventure” aspect of the program and young women seem to love it. We’ve got the Patrol Method for leadership training, the merit badge program with unexcelled opportunities, the Oath and Law as guidelines to model a life on. High Adventure; Philmont, Canoe Bases, Sea Base and now the Summit. With traditional membership in decline, and boys and girls participating equally in sports it seems that thought is being given to open the program to the other half of the USA population. |
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| Paul Myers Goshen,
Indiana gimogash@comcast.net |