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BOYrt\ SCOUTS OF AMERICA
A family magazine
published by the Boy
Scouts of America
J. Warren Young,
Publisher
Mike Wallace
Jim Wilson,
Associate Publishers,
Magazine Division
J. D. Owen,
Editor-in-Chief, Magazine
Division
Jon C. Halter,
Editor
Scott Daniels,
Executive Editor
Kathy Vilim DaGroomes,
Associate Editor
Robert Peterson
Suzanne Wilson,
Contributing Editors
Joseph Connolly,
Director of Design, BSA
Elizabeth Hardaway
Morgan,
Senior Art Director
Eric Ottinger,
Art Director
John R. Fulton Jr.,
Photography Editor
Lisa Mullins,
Graphics/Production Editor
Sherry Cole,
Editorial Assistant
Robert E. Hood, William
B. McMorris, Ernest
Doclar,
Editors Emeriti
Bob Wiemers,
Operations Director
Lisa Hott,
Advertising Production
Manager
John W. Ingram,
Circulation Director
Judy Bramlett,
Director, Customer Service
Lenore Bonno,
Imaging Coordinator
Barry Brown,
Fund-Raising Advertising
Sales Manager
Marta Magnoni,
Promotion Manager
EAST COAST SALES:
Nick Noyes, Fran Volow
MIDWEST SALES:
Mark Adeszko
WEST COAST SALES:
Chuck Carroll
Bill Clinton,
Honorary President
Edward E. Whitacre Jr.,
President
Jere B. Ratcliffe,
Chief Scout Executive
James B. Kobak,
Chairman, Magazines
Advisory Committee
Winning photos were 'right on'
In the March-April 1998 issue, I was especially
taken with "And the Winners Are...," which
featured the top entries in Scouting magazine's
1997 "Promise of Adventure" photo contest.
It must have been a challenge to select the
winning pictures, and I want to say that your
final choices were right on. In their simplicity,
the top winners say more than thousands of
words can convey.
Is there a way to obtain copies, either electron-
ic files or prints, of the winning photographs?
David H. S. Knorr
APO AE 09114
♦ All 20 winning and honorable mention pho-
tographs appear in the Scouting magazine section of
the official BSA Web site, www.bsa.scouting.org.
Like all material appearing in each issue of the
magazine, the contest photographs are the property
of Scouting magazine and cannot be reproduced
for distribution without written permission. This is
routinely granted, however, for use in an internal
publication, like a pack or troop newsletter, or for
external publicity, such as a recruiting pamphlet.
When permission is granted, a credit should be
included citing the issue of the magazine in which
the photograph (or other reproduced material)
originally appeared.
Uniform critics went too far
In reading the letters in the March-April Scout-
ing magazine, I found it sad that of all the ad-
mirable qualities and accomplishments men-
tioned in the October 1997 article on the Scouts
of Loose Creek, Mo., so many leaders found
those most deserving of comment were some
minor uniforming anomalies appearing in the
photos....
...If leaders want the magazine to show only
pictures of Scouts in perfect uniform so as not
to confuse their charges, then we'll see only
fake, set-up shots. Gone will be images of real
Scouts in real units, of jamborees, high adven-
tures, and special events...I prefer to see
Scouting's best as they are: rarely perfect,
but always doing their best.
George J. Dolicker
Cubmaster, Pack 1
Katonah, N.Y.
...Shame on you Scouters who chose
to emphasize the negative rather than
the positive. We are supposed to be
building self-esteem and good leader-
ship, not tearing Scouts down.
Chris A. Montgomery
Scoutmaster, Troop 921
Colville, Wash.
...[Critics should] look beyond the uniform
and into the heart of those Scouts and tell me they
do not represent what is good about America. Let
he who does not have a single Scout in his pack or
troop improperly outfitted cast the first stone.
Vincent Bosquez
Twentynine Palms, Calif.
...We should remember that, although it
should be worn properly, the uniform and all its
cloth badges are ultimately of far less impor-
tance than the boys we are privileged to serve.
Steven P. Brown
Charlottesville, Va.
...The point of the October article was that
Troop 76 had successfully served the boys of its
small community for many years. In what way
do some uniform infractions outweigh that?
Ellen Cameron
Milwaukie, Ore.
...When a Scout comes to a troop meeting
wearing his uniform for the first time, I compli-
ment him on how good he looks in it. I defi-
nitely don't criticize the fact that a few patches
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