December 1999

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Lee Trevino 1, JW Auzenne 1, Larry Bird 7, Gregory Henning 10, Justin Crawford 12, Frank Sinatra 12, Josh Smiley 13, Ted Nugent 13, Chris Eaves 15, Chris Hammack 17, Steven Spielberg 18, Danny Finley 20, Clark Griffin 20, Christian Enevoldson 21, Frank Zappa 21, Leo Reyes 21, Kevin Ufford 21, Bob Thompson 22, Jimmy Buffett 25, Chris Mucianese 29

Learn a few No- No’s when cooking with a “Dutch” oven. Never allow cast iron to sit in water or allow water to stand in or on it. It will rust despite a good coating. Never use soap on cast iron. The soap will get into the pores of the metal and won't come out very easy, but will return to taint your next meal, though. If soap is used accidentally, the oven should be put through the pretreatment procedure, including removal of the present coating.

Do not place an empty cast iron pan or oven over a hot fire. Aluminum and many other metals can tolerate it better, but cast iron will crack or warp, ruining it. Do not get in a hurry to heat cast iron, you will end up with burnt food or a damaged oven or pan. Never put cold liquid into a very hot cast iron pan or oven. They will crack on the spot!

A member of Pack 80 was recently awarded the highest compliment that a Scouting District can give to a leader. Annette Walker was presented with the “District Award of Merit” at it’s annual awards banquet that was held on November 13. She has worked at several Cub camps and was the Webelos camp Program Director last year. She is also a member of the Cub Roundtable staff. Annette served as a Den Leader and Webelos Leader with Pack 80.

Randy Smiley was a Boy Scout and earned his First Class Scout rank. He graduated from Tascosa High School and has been employed with Southwestern Public Service for 25 years. He served as Asst. Webelos Leader with James Savage and Webelos Leader in Pack 1 at Ridgecrest. He has served as Asst Scoutmaster for D squad for the last 5 years. For 7 years he has made sure there were lights on both tree lots (scared his wife to death sometimes), the baseball field at Wilderness, and Philmont. He also helps with Girl Scout Troop 58 on camping trips. His wife is Jeanetta and both his sons, Justin (former 80 SPL) and Joshua received their Eagle Scout ranks with Troop 80. Randy has worked at Webelos camp, teaching fishing. He attends Trinity Baptist Church. It is a pleasure to have Randy as a member of Troop 80.

The next OA election is planned for February. It’s an honor to be elected by your troop to join Scouting’s “Honor Camping Fraternity.” The requirements to join will be in the next 2 issues of this newsletter. The next big OA event will be the National OA Conference which will be held at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. We are only allowed to send 20 OA members. The dates are 7/29 - 8/3/00 and the cost for the 6 day event is $280.

The swim meet was decided in the last event. The top three patrols finished within 1/10th of a second of each other. Kennedy was in the lead, but Coppedge touched the wall in a last leap effort. Waddell was closing strong, but his patrol ran out of time to close the gap. We want to thank all the parents and friends who came by the Maverick Club and made the meet the best attended in many years. The results were: Champions - Crow A1

You’ve been in Scouts for a few years and a lot of people have spent many hours making sure you had many scouting opportunities. Now it’s your turn to help others. How, you ask? By becoming a member of the Golden Spread Council’s summer camp staff. You must be 16 years old. Send your completed application to the Scout office and pass an interview. Your salary is based on the position of responsibility with consideration given to the individuals scouting experiences. Tentative contract period runs June 12 thru July 2, 2000. Call 358-6500 for details.

Jared Slaughter is headed to the Junior Olympics in Sacramento, California this coming February 18 - 20, 2000. He placed 1st in “Under 17 Men’s Foil” and 2nd in “Under 20 Men’s Foil” at a recent qualifying tournament held at Texas Tech in Lubbock. Jared is a member of the Amarillo College Fencing Team and his fencing master coach is Richard Howard of the AC biology department. Best of luck to Jared as he competes.

The totals are in and can now be revealed. The Crow patrol (A1), Michael Gray PL, broke the all time scoring record for skill patrol with a score of 460. The old record was held by the Apache patrol from 1988 with Aaron Hale as patrol leader. We look forward to even more for next year.

The Troop 80 committee is proud to announce the results of the recent leadership elections. The SPL for 2000 will be Danny Finley. Adam Cox will be the Head ASPL. Others that were elected to office were:

The final totals for outstanding patrol and crew are in for 1999. And the winners are:

Awards were given to our scouts for their work during the past year. The “RT Abrahamson Outstanding Scout” award was presented to Danny Finley. The “Jack Bryant Leadership” award was presented to Blaine Thompson. Steve Filipowicz earned the years “Duct Tape” award from Dr. Banks. Thanks go out to James Kone again this year for putting the banquet together. Also, many thanks to our guest speaker, Don Vanderslice. The troop is always a tough audience.

Tree lot, what tree lot??? What happened to all the trees? We sold out to the dirt this year with unexpectedly strong demand and there is still a week before Christmas.. Everyone pitched in and we had plenty of help. Tree lot tear down will be December 21st. Our Tuesday night meeting on December 28th will be video night. Many thanks to all who helped out. The Greenbar won’t get their chance to take over the tree lot for their ski trip funding this year since all the trees were sold. The one tree lot seemed to work out great.

Those committee members in attendance would like to give a big’o 80 thanks to Mary Lou Glasco for a great setting for our Christmas party. Her house was decorated in the highest of Christmas fashion with rooms of miniature Christmas villages. The ham and asparagus was delicious and no one left the house hungry. Most everybody behaved, too. It was a shame that Duane was on the train when the eating went down. Put next years party on your calender now and remember that all leaders of Troop 80 are members of the committee and are always invited to attend. See ya there next year.

If you have a story item about an 80 Scouter that you think needs to be in the next newsletter, send your ideas to Terry Slade 5122 W. 16th Amarillo, Tx 79106-4419 or e-mail them to tmslade@actx.edu

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I am me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. There are people who have some parts like me but no one adds up exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone choose it.

I own everything about me - my body, including everything it does; my mind, including all my thoughts and ideas; my eyes, including the images of all they behold; my feelings, whatever they might be - anger, joy, frustration, love, disappointment, excitement; my mouth and all the words that come out of it - polite, sweet and rough, correct or incorrect; my voice, loud and soft; all my actions, whether they be to others or myself.

I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me in all my parts. I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts. I can then make it possible for all of me to work in my best interests.

I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know. But as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for the solutions to the puzzles and for ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is me. This is authentic and represents where I am at that moment in time.

When I review later how I looked and sounded, what I said and did, and how I thought and felt, some parts may turn out to be unfitting. I can discard that which is unfitting and keep that which proved fitting, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me and therefore I can engineer me. I am me and I am okay.