Volume 1, Special Issue 1

June 8. 2002

Staff Training #2
7:30 a.m. Staff Arrival
7:45 a.m. Welcome. Review Day’s Schedule
8:00 a.m. Review Status of Recruitment
8:30 a.m. Question / Answer Period
8:45 a.m. Conduct Who Me? Game
9:45 a.m. Conduct the Living the Values
10:35 a.m. Conduct Team Development Model
11:30 a.m. Conduct Team Leadership Model
12:30 p.m. LUNCH
1:00 p.m. Review Staff Assignments
1:30 p.m. Conduct Project Planning session
2:30 p.m. Conduct Front-End Alignment Game
3:30 p.m. Review the Schedule
4:30 p.m. Conduct a session on Course Logistics
5:00 p.m. Question / Answer session
5:30 p.m. Review Assignments, Sing “Back to Gilwell”

The Gilwell Gazette

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One benefit of using your newsletter as a promotional tool is that you can reuse content from other marketing materials, such as press releases, market studies, and reports.
While your main goal of distributing a newsletter might be to sell your product or service, the key to a successful newsletter is making it useful to your readers.
A great way to add useful content to your newsletter is to develop and write your own articles, or include a calendar of upcoming events or a special offer that promotes a new product.
You can also research articles or find “filler” articles by accessing the World Wide Web. You can write about a variety of topics but try to keep your articles short.
Much of the content you put in your newsletter can also be used for your Web site. Microsoft Publisher offers a simple way to convert your newsletter to a Web publication. So, when you’re finished writing your newsletter, convert it to a Web site and post it.

This story can fit 75-125 words.
Selecting pictures or graphics is an important part of adding content to your newsletter.
Think about your article and ask yourself if the picture supports or enhances the message you’re trying to convey. Avoid selecting images that appear to be out of context.
Microsoft Publisher includes thousands of clip art images from which you can choose and import into your newsletter. There are also several tools you can use to draw shapes and symbols.
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You may also want to note business or economic trends, or make predictions for your customers or clients.
If the newsletter is distributed internally, you might comment upon new procedures or improvements to the business. Sales figures or earnings will show how your business is growing.
Some newsletters include a column that is updated every issue, for instance, an advice column, a book review, a letter from the president, or an editorial. You can also profile new employees or top customers or vendors.

The Gilwell Gazette

Editor’s Notes:
This newsletter, The Gilwell Gazette is published daily during the course and is dependent on the general mood of this demented editor and the many hopeful contributions by participants and staffers. Any information disseminated will be reliable but may change as events demand. When in doubt, consult with your Scoutmaster and Support Staff. Thanks,
Mike Menefee, Editor/Troop Scribe

Note from the Scribe
Please provide a copy of all training materials, notes, brochures, lesson plans, presentations, etc. to the Troop Scribe for archiving. If possible, please provide in a automated format so that a CD can be made of all materials at the end of the course.
Your assistance is appreciated.

FRIENDLY QUARTERMASTER SEEKS RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS
A note from our Friendly Quartermaster encourages all Wood Badge Staffers to review the course syllabus to determine what we need to obtain or buy to have available for supporting SR501. Please look at everything involved in the Wood Badge course such as handouts, flyers, briefing materials, etc. Our Friendly Quartermaster, Dick Guilmart, stated in a recent e-mail, “I can not emphasize the need to look at everything.” Dick has assigned his staff to review each course day needs: Dick will review Day 1 and 2. Lowell will review Day 3, Harry will review Day 4 and 5, and Glenn will review Day 6 and post course requirements. All staff members are encourage to participate and provide their requirements to Dick as soon as possible. Final note: accuracy counts. Do not ask for things not needed.

ROBERT E. LEE COUNCIL, BSA

Staff Birthdays
Chuck Smith 1/21
Everett Winn 2/25
Kathy McKee 4/01
Mike Menefee 5/17
Chris Foreman 5/23
Glen Slonneger 5/24
Randy Harris 5/30
Jim Richards 5/31
Lowell Flickinger 6/08
Tom Johnson 6/25
Karren Streagle 8/14
Gary Bryant 8/27
John Turner 9/10
Dick Guilmart 9/10
Nancy Fonseca 9/12
Stuart Dunn 10/03
Frank Baze 10/31
Harry Davis 11/05

John Turner and Chris Foreman awarded the District Award of Merit during the Crater District Recognition Dinner held on May 22, 2002 at Richard Bland College.
A very active and dynamic influence within Cub Scout Pack 178 and Boy Scout Troop 178 chartered to Ivey United Methodist Church in Colonial Heights, Virginia, Chris Foreman has taken it upon himself to lead his Scouts along the “Trail to Eagle” while teaching them the values, goals, aims and methods of the Boy Scouts of America. He has served as a Den Leader and Cubmaster of Pack 178 and currently serves as Assistant Scoutmaster of Troop 178. Chris teaches knot tying and lashings to the Scouts of the troop, organizes Junior Leader Training, and helps the troop work as a team on various service projects.
A noteworthy Scouter who has been active and supported the Boy Scouts of America for over 40 years in both the Transatlantic Council and the Robert E. Lee Council and who is highly respected among his peers and in his community, John Turner has served as Cubmaster in Cub Pack 178 and as Scoutmaster in Boy Scout Troop 178 chartered to Ivey United Methodist Church in Colonial Heights, VA.. He is a Vigil Honor member in the Nawakwa Lodge #3 of the Order of the Arrow, the advisor to the lodge newsletter “The Tom-Tom”. John was selected by the Robert E. Lee Council as a Jamboree Troop Scoutmaster in 1997 and as the course director and Scoutmaster for Wood Badge course SR501 in 2002.

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STAFF PARTOL PROJECT ASSIGNMENTS
Lowell Flickinger is assigned the responsibility for Staff Patrol Projects development. He has assigned the following subject area to work teams.
Work teams are: Leader Training
Winn & Richards Boy Scout
Smith & Foreman Cub/Webelos
Fonseca & McKee Venturer
Brumberg & Johnson Varsity
The teams are to prepare their Patrol Project in accordance with the instructions outlined on pages 50 and 51 of the Staff Manual. The project will be presented on a Science Fair type project board. Each team must be prepared to present a four minute narrative expanding on its stand-alone static presentation. Projects should cover all phases of Adult Leader Training and Development to include the following: Fast Start, New Leader Essentials, Leader Specific Basic, Outdoor Training, Roundtable, Pow Wow, Philmont/Sea Base, Wood Badge, Commissioner College, Powderhorn, and National Camping School. Static displays should consider printed materials, publications, videos, DVDs, CD ROMs, Uniform Items, Patches, Handicraft Items, and Photographs. Remember that the projects must be portable.