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- From: anthropo@carina.unm.edu (Dominick V. Zurlo)
- Newsgroups: rec.scouting
- Subject: Re: Help on "Scouting Proud Around the World"
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:38:01 GMT
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- References: <1993Jan15.193221.22208@den.mmc.com>
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- Keywords: World Scouting, Scout Show, BSA
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- In article <1993Jan15.193221.22208@den.mmc.com> snorman@den.mmc.com writes:
- >World Scouts and Scouters:
- >The Denver Area Council, BSA, has chosen the theme "Scouting Proud Around the World"
- >for it's one-day Scout Show on May 15th 1993. This show involves Cub Scouts,
- >Boy Scouts, as well as Explorer units. Last years attendance was ~25,000 people.
- >From the program plan:
- >"The 1993 Denver Area Council Scout Show brings together highlights of cultures from
- >around the world. By showing the diversity of Scouting organizations from countries
- >like Australia or Norway we hope to demonstrate to our home community that we can
- >all live together in peace and harmony while maintaining the basic values of the
- >Scout Oath and Law."
- >
- >"The show will have Scouting units demonstrating what they have learned about other
- >countries. It will also show what their unit is doing locally to assist our cultural
- >diversity"
- >---------------------
- >As I sit on the Program Planning committee, I am seeking any and all suggestions
- >on activities, booth themes, and anything else you would like to offer up.
- >Some of the ideas that have been bounced around already:
- (many ideas deleted)
- >* Cultural Entertainment
- >Our Council representative (Jeff Cozart, 303-455-5522) is already in contact with the
- >International Branch of the BSA. We also have a copy of the International Scouting FAQ.
- >I am hoping to drum up some "grass-roots" help via this forum. Reply
- >either by re-posting or directly to "snorman@den.mmc.com".
-
- Hmm, are the Queer Scouts being invited to show the "diversity" here?
- (Note: this is not a flame, I'm quite serious...As other countries
- do allow for lesbigays in their programs, if this show is to include
- other programs, why not other opinions as well?)>
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