[15248] in APO-L
A reminder..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Dean)
Tue Nov 5 09:48:06 1996
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 08:43:29 -0800
Reply-To: Robert Dean <rdean@RS6000.CMP.ILSTU.EDU>
From: Robert Dean <rdean@RS6000.CMP.ILSTU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
I think at this point in the discussion of the BSA's significance to the Fraternity,
it is germaine to include the words of our Founder, to remind us why we hold the
Scout Oath and Law to be our standard of "manhood", and also to remind us that in
the eyes of the Founders, Alpha Phi Omega was based on the ideals of Scouting.
While it is true that we don't have to continue our association with the BSA in any
capacity, the Scout Oath and Law form the foundation for the ideals that we are based
upon. The BSA is irrelevent here -- the Scout Oath and Law are all that matter.
In LFS,
Robert Dean
Section 48 Newsletter Editor
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From "The Story of the Founding", as published on Fuzz's APhiO Pages:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------After the war, I become a student at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. One
evening, while attending an American Legion banquet during my sophomore year, I sat
next to an inspiring man named Herbert G. Horton. We were not related but we became
fast friends. He too had been a naval officer but was now serving as the local Scout
Executive. He helped me to become a Deputy Scout Commissioner. One of the troops
needed a leader, so I became a Scoutmaster as well.
Through these experiences I found that the Scout Oath and Law were what I had been
seeking--a standard of manhood that would withstand the test of time and a code of
ideals created and accepted by some of the greatest leaders the world has ever known.
The summer of my junior year was spent as an Associate Camp Director at the Easton
Scout Reservation. Here I was impressed with the religious tolerance in the hearts
of boys. This I have not found so easily among older people. Scouts of he Catholic,
Jewish, and Protestant faiths worked together in everything at camp, and everyone
had an opportunity to worship on his Sabbath in his own way.
My brothers in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity house, where I lived, who were
outstanding for high ideals and clean living, were all former Scouts. I felt a
college organization should be formed that would strengthen men in these ideals,
and give them an opportunity for Leadership experience and for Service to others.
As a senior at Lafayette College, I talked to some of the men with a Scouting back-
ground and the response was good. These men would join an organization based on the
ideals of Scouting. I created the name Alpha Phi Omega, the motto and the Greek words
and their meaning and wrote the Ritual. Everett W. Probst designed the pin and drew
the Coat-of-Arms. Thane S. Cooley suggested the handclasp. Ellsworth S. Dobson and
Gordon M. Looney helped write the Constitution and Bylaws.
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