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  Of all the hundreds and hundreds of scouting events Wayne Jackson attended throughout his career as a volunteer in the Boy Scouts of America, one event looms large in our memory here in the land of Lenape, under the medicine wheel, at the Chester County Council Jubilee Camporee campfire in 1994. Brother Jackson spoke these words: “My friends and brothers, everything the power of the world does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and we see that the Earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The Wind, in its greatest powers, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, the sun comes forth and goes down in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of men and women is a circle from childhood to adulthood, and so it is in everything where power moves…”  Wayne was born on September 29, 1942. He said that “everything the power of the world does is done in a circle.” With that in mind, it is our duty to complete the circle by following in his path and by giving selflessly to scouting as he did. If we can accomplish that, Wayne’s spirit will live on. |
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forward
for an even more exciting year in 1998. As my term as your lodge
chief wears down, I hope that you were pleased with the amount of effort
and hard work that we put out this year. But, as always, there is
room for improvement. I want it to start on the troop level, the
base of the Scouting movement, and be able to grow up throughout the rest
of the council. Without this we will never grow to the potential
that we can be, we’ll just be “good”.
Yours
in the Brotherhood,
