28 June 2009
KISMIF’s Webelos History Lesson
Posted by admin under: history .
What a neat post over at KISMIF.org! I knew that there used to be a Lion rank in Cub Scouts, but I didn’t know that the term Webelos used to have a different meaning from the current “We’ll Be Loyal Scouts” term.
The term is explained in this excerpt from the 1948 Lion Cub Scout Book:
“The name WEBELOS (say Wee-belos) is like the name of an Indian tribe. It’s the word to use when you want to talk about all of the boys everywhere who are Cub Scouts.
The letters W-B-L-S in Webelos are the first letters of the Cub Scout Ranks which lead up to Boy Scouting — WOLF, BEAR, LION, SCOUT.
Click on over if you’d like to see the old cover of the Lion’s Cub Scout Handbook.
- This Year’s WEBELOS Are Next Year’s Boy Scouts
- A Themeless Transition
- Cub Scouts Shakeup in 2010
- Kindergarten Kubs?
- Last September Cub Scout Theme
