Troop 112 meets at the Carmel Lions Club, 141 East Main Street in
Carmel, on Monday evening at 7:00 PM. Meetings normally last 90
minutes. We meet throughout the year except during summer camp and
major holidays. As a member of Troop 112, regular meeting attendance is
expected after school work and family obligations have been met.
Troop Meetings: a Means to an End.
We must keep
clearly in mind at all times that the weekly Troop meeting is but a
means to an end. It is not an end in itself. Its business is not to be
the Scouting of your Troop for a week. Its business is to make
Scouting for a week-to inspire it, to pep it up, to give it purpose and
activities, to make it extend all through the week in each Patrol's and
each boy's life.
We can't accomplish
much actual work in one and a half or two hours every week, but we can
use those hours to motivate every other hour of the same period.
And by motivate we mean to stimulate activity by providing a motive to
every boy and every Patrol.
Purposes of the Troop Meeting
A good Troop
meeting can serve three main purposes:
1. The Troop meeting can help each Patrol to become a stronger team by
keeping it on its toes preparing for the meeting. If, for instance, a
Patrol project in first aid or lashing or fire-by-friction is scheduled
for the Troop meeting, the Patrols will have to do something about it
before the meeting comes around. If a knotting game is on the program,
a Patrol will have a better chance of making a good showing if the boys
have practiced before the meeting.
2. The Troop
meeting can give each Scout a chance to learn something new that will
make the outdoor experience that follows more enjoyable. A
demonstration or dramatization of some outdoor skill can give the boy
pointers he can use as soon as he gets outdoors.
3. The Troop meeting
can have great value by simply bringing the boys together for a common
experience. It can make them feel they belong together, as parts of the
whole big Scouting Brotherhood. |
