Scoutmaster Podcast 55

Survival tip joke about making fire with two sticks (one being a match); listener mail debating ground cloth inside vs. outside the tent following the Cliff Jacobson interview; preview of episode features.

Mike and Joe write in with praise; Joe follows up on the Cliff Jacobson interview from EP54.

How older Scouts earn respect through servant leadership, empowering younger Scouts rather than commanding or punishing them; uses Scouting Magazine's 'What Would You Do' column and listener/reader responses.

Tom in Portland, advancement chair, asks about younger Scouts not advancing to First Class quickly and whether one-time skill demonstrations are sufficient.

An 11-year-old John Fitzgerald Francis Kennedy writes a formal letter to his father in 1927 requesting a 30-cent allowance increase to buy Scout gear.