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This red, white, and blue
rocket, 34 feet high and 16
feet in diameter, attracted
many prospective Scouts in last
year's roundup of the Osage
District, Southeast Missouri
Council, Cape Girardeu.
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ALONG
THE
FRONTIER TRAIL
I
n the early days of the West the
roundup was both a business and social
event. It was a time when a rancher
got an accurate idea of how many cat-
tle he actually owned. Often as many
as 10 ranchers joined forces, and it was
a gay old time after the work.
October should find your Frontier
Roundup in full swing. Will it be a
gay old time next January when your
roundup is just a memory? That de-
pends on you.
There's a lot of boys just a-hanker-
ing to be invited into the corral. Won't
you invite them this fall?
One of our greatest roundups took
place last fall. In Fort Worth, Tex.,
more than 1,500 boys accepted the
invitation to become Scouts, and at the
end of the year 9.7 percent more boys
were Scouts than were the year before.
And in the number of packs, troops,
and posts they gained more than 10
percent. Council leaders point up three
guideposts they kept in mind—
• Bring in the council Scout commis-
sioner and the council organization
and extension committee chairman
early in the planning.
• Secure executive board approval.
• Make roundup the piece de resist-
ance starting at the August round-
tables.
Houston, Tex., with a 10 percent
gain in boy membership in 1963, is
relying heavily on the same plans this
year that proved successful last year.
The key, they found, was their district
roundup kickoffs and unit pledges.
Topeka, Kans., last year celebrated
its 21st consecutive year with a mem-
bership gain. A feature of their round-
up was the five-star unit recognition.
Each unit that recruited a boy a month
for a minimum of five months during
the year, reregistered on time, and
showed a net gain in membership at
the end of the year was recognized as
a five-star unit.
Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper sent a
congratulatory letter to every unit
leader in the St. Louis Area Council
along with a sample of a recruiter strip
to be presented each Scout who re-
cruited a boy.
In Utica, N. Y., boy-fact surveys in
schools were followed by sending a
postcard to each boy telling him the
location of the pack, troop, or Explorer
post nearest his home, its meeting
night, and the unit leader's name and
telephone number.
The National Capital Area Council
of Washington, D.C., expects 10,000
new Scouts to join up this fall. Their
whole recruiting program is built
around the plan they used in 1963
when boy membership increased 9.9
percent and 221 new packs, troops,
and posts were organized Their theory
is that "boy invites boy" is the best type
of recruiting. The Scout executive
wrote each Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and
Explorer inviting him to recruit a boy
and sending him a "recruiter" strip to
wear on his uniform when his friend
joined. Recruiting two boys earned the
recruiter an attractive Adventure
Roundup insignia.
It's not too late for you to get behind
your council's roundup plans. True,
plans vary somewhat from council to
council, but these steps will apply—
• Study your council's roundup plans.
• Decide what your unit or district
will do about them.
• Work your plan.
This done, you can reflect as did one
Scouter who wrote after last year's
roundup:
"The human element made the dif-
ference. It took work; it took shoe
leather; it took perseverance.
"Boys are our business. It is a great
feeling of accomplishment for any lay-
man in Scouting to draw himself up
proudly and reflect that he has been
the means of opening the doors of
Scouting to many, many additional
boys."
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