Occupation: Guitarist Birth: August 6, 1937 Death: September 26, 2000
Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world..
Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size..
Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too..
We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods..
A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys..
A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child..
Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?.
The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light..
The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force..
Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass..
It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man..
It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear..
A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial..
Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions..
The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy..
We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude..
When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows..
The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning..
Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live..
It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part..
It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest..