2012 Blue & Gold Dinner

This is a slideshow of photos and videos from the Blue & Gold dinner and show.  The Blue & Gold Dinner is a birthday celebration of the Scouting.  Pack 380 has traditionally held its dinner in February and has in recent years included entertainment.  After all, isn't scouting all about fun?  This year our entertainment was provided by Magician Gerald Joseph making return visit to our annual dinner.

Scouting's history goes back to the turn of the 20th century to a British Army officer, Mr. Baden-Powell.  He organized and led patrols of English boys that played games, went on hikes, and learned stalking and pioneering.  In 1908, he published his book Scouting for Boys and scouting began to grow.  At about the same time, a similar concept of scouting was taking place in America amongst some boys groups.  However, Boys Scouts as we know it today did not come about until an American businessman and publisher named william D. Boyce got lost in the fog during a business trip in England.  A young aided Boyce to his destination through the fog.  This boy refused the tip Boyce offered him and courteously explained that he was a scout and could not accept payment for a good turn.  Intrigued, the publisher questioned the boy about scouting and later visited Baden-Powell as well.  Upon his return to America Boyce incorporated the Boys Scouts of America on February 8, 1910.  The Cub Scouts was organized 20 years later in 1930.

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