Scouting For Boys Centennial Edition: A Handbook for Scouters and Scouts For the New Millennium

Why I Wrote This Book

Make a difference in Scouting and in our world

Clarify the role and purpose Scouting serves in the United States and around the world. That role is to create strong and prepared Citizens through the use of a rigorous program that teaches skills, Values and Leadership.

Serve as a call to action to the millions of Scouts and Scouters around the world to become more engaged in attacking the problems facing humanity and the planet. This charge is best clarified by the famous quote of the English Parliamentarian, Edmund Burke, “All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.”

Burke meant all humans not only men. Like all of us, he was a prisoner of his era.

Help increase the effectiveness of Volunteer Scouters by documenting and communicating Best Practices for Scouting tasks in the primary venues in which Scouting operates.

Draw attention to practices that are damaging Scouting and make recommendations for improvement of those practices and the associated processes

Foster an understanding of size and scope of the marvelous and vibrant Scouting movement that has grown from the seed planted by Sir Robert Baden-Powell 100 years ago.

Unequivocally demonstrate that Scouting grows stronger and more influential in our world every day.

Celebrate the amazing achievements of the first hundred years of Scouting.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

With about 35 years in Scouting as a Boy and adult Volunteer Scouter, Jim Bednarski, was a Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Explorer Scout, and received the Vigil Honor of the Order of the Arrow as a Boy. Adult experience includes Den Leader, Webelos Den Leader, Pack Committee Chair, Cubmaster, OA Ceremonies Advisor, District Commissioner, and Assistant Scoutmaster. He is a recipient of the Silver Beaver Award. An independent Management Consultant for thirty years, Bednarski lives with his wife in Lancaster, PA and has four children including two Eagle Scouts, and six grandchildren including one Webelos I. His son Tyler, who is responsible for the graphic on the cover of this book, is an Eagle Scout, a Cubmaster and Webelos Den Leader in Jacksonville, FL.