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that working on support committees and taking on

the assignment of scoutmaster were far different.
Usually, scoutmasters came up through the rough

trenches, starting first as assistant scoutmaster to

learn the ropes.
But we were in a desperate situation, as the

current scoutmaster was moving, thus triggering

our search. Word was those few that had already
been scoutmasters and knew we were looking got

caller ID and screened their calls in case we tried to

put them into the assignment again. And the

current scoutmaster’s reason for leaving the
community was a little sketchy, leading us to

wonder if dealing with the eighteen boys had

driven him to insanity. No one else that would
reasonably accept the assignment had nearly as

many qualifications as Harry. Besides, the final

clincher was that Harry was a second-grade teacher

and had summers free for camping.
Though I was the one that was most

concerned because I was also the one that had

spent the most time camping with the boys, I
finally had to admit that we were out of options.

We talked to Harry and told him we had decided

the assignment should be his.
He was excited. “After all these years, I

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