Cherokee/Pickens District
Atlanta Area Council, BSA

Fellow Wood Badgers,

Remember back to your Wood Badge course. For most of us it was a life changing experience that gave us the tools needed to be better leaders and improve scouting. Youth at every level of Scouting deserve a well-trained leader. It's only through volunteer leaders that Scoutings' promise can be delivered to the youth it serves. Those leaders must have the best possible training to do that and, as you remember, that's what Wood Badge provides.

The Atlanta Area Council offers three Wood Badge courses each year. Our best advertisement for those is you: leaders who are Wood Badge trained and know how it helped you be who you are today. Over and over again we hear from Scouters like you that the application of the training you received hasn't been limited to scouting. Wood Badge participants tell us the skills they learned during the course have been invaluable on the job, in their place of worship, on athletic teams and at home.

Our favorite Wood Badge story is from a 2007 participant with eight (8) children. After his first weekend he came home and implemented the patrol method with his family. They rotate the patrol leader each week giving the older children a break from their responsibilities and allowing the younger children an opportunity to be "in charge". His wife was so impressed she attended the next Wood Badge course.

As the 2008 Atlanta Area Council Course Directors, we're asking for your assistance in identifying potential Wood Badge participants. Having been through the course, you understand the power it has to change lives and the impact it can have on the youth our movement serves. If you are still active in Scouting, you undoubtedly know at least on leader who would benefit from attending.

Please take a few minutes to jot down names and phone numbers for those Scouters. Send them to Michelle Gillett at mggillett@gmail.com. Michelle will share with us and we'll make sure each candidate is contacted personally. Please take the time to do it today, it will make a difference in youth's life tomorrow.

And if you attended a "legacy course" – a course that was offered prior to Atlanta Course 92-41, we have a special offer: you too can experience the best adult leader training the BSA has to offer today, you can travel back to Gilwell! If you'd like the rare opportunity to have a 2nd Wood Badge experience, give one of us a call and we'll explain how you can do that.

Thanks for all you've already done for Scouting…and thanks for helping the youth our movement serves one more time!

Michelle Gillett 92-58 Course Director Mar. 31 – Apr.5, 08 678-591-3044 mggillett@gmail.com
John Cherry 92-59 Course Director Aug. 1-3/Aug. 22-24, 08 404-281-0938 jcherry628@aol.com
Tom Bulger 92-60 Course Director Sept. 26-28/Oct. 17-19, 08 404-731-1132 tbulger@bellsouth.net

Michelle Gillett
mggillett@gmail.com
770-360-9224 home
678-591-3044 cell