A Scout-Led Troop
Chartered to Marple Presbyterian Church
We meet at 7pm on Wednesdays in Fellowship Hall at Marple Presbyterian Church Map
Each month our goal is to have two outings: One campout and one other event.
We are Scout-Led: Our Scouts develop our program and our adult leaders help our Scouts make it happen.
We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods.
We must change boys from a ‘what can I get’ to a ‘what can I give’ attitude.
The Scout is not governed by don’t, but is led by do.
A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with Scouts.
The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others.
Loyalty is a feature in a boy’s character that inspires boundless hope.
It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.
In Scouting, a Scout is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.
Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.
The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct
All quotes by Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting