Welcome to the Troop 48 Website

Welcome to Troop 48's New Website. We will be adding information about Troop 48 and the Scouting program. Regular contact information and current events will still be sent through our Yahoo Group.

Troop Meetings Troop 48 meets Monday evenings from 7-8:30 PM upstairs in the Lansing Community Center. Troop Committee and Patrol Leaders Council meetings are generally held on the fourth Wednesday of the month.During troop meetings we work on basic skills, rank advancement requirements, merit badge related instruction, planning for outings and their is some time for games. Patrol leader meetings are conducted by the Senior Patrol leader and patrol leaders who work on plans for the upcoming troop meetings and outings for the troop. Our Charter organization is the Lansing Lions Club.Members of the troop regularly help the Lion's with their pancake breakfasts and their July 4th chicken barbecue. We have also been responsible for putting out American flags in the center of town on special occasions such as Memorial day and July 4th.

Program and Activities

Troop 48 conducts a varied program of activities for all scouts. We generally attend a different summer scout camp each year at the end of July. This year the troop will be attending Camp Merz on Chatauqua Lake in Allegheny County. We vary the outings based on the interest of the scouts. In the past the troop has taken a canoe trip on the Tioughnioga River and has gone on several weekend hiking and backpacking trips. We have had high adventure trips to the Adirondacks including backpacking on the Northville-Lake Placid trail and canoeing Blue Mt., Raquett and Forked Lakes. We attend many of our district and council camporees. The troop took another bike trip last spring to the eastern shore area of Maryland camping along the way with a final stop at Assateague Island National Seashore. Skiing trips to Bristol, sledding at Taughannock Park’s Rice Hill with Pack 48 Cub Scouts are fun activities .Our current indoor activities have scouts working on the Citizenship merit badges during troop meetings.

National Organization

The Boy Scouts of America was started to provide a program for community organizations that offers effective character, citizenship, and personal fitness training for youth. Specifically, the BSA endeavors to develop American citizens who are physically, mentally, and emotionally fit; have a high degree of self-reliance as evidenced in such qualities as initiative, courage, and resourcefulness; have personal values based on religious concepts; have the desire and skills to help others; understand the principles of the American social, economic, and governmental systems; are knowledgeable about and take pride in their American heritage and understand our nation's role in the world; have a keen respect for the basic rights of all people; and are prepared to participate in and give leadership to American society. Boy Scouting, one of three membership divisions of the BSA (the others are Cub Scouting and Venturing), is available to boys who have earned the Arrow of Light Award or have completed the fifth grade, or who are 11 through 17 years old, and subscribe to the Scout Oath and Law. The program achieves the BSA's objectives of developing character, citizenship, and personal fitness qualities among youth by focusing on a vigorous program of outdoor activities.

OA National Leader from Baden Powell Council

NORWICH - Sean Murray of Norwich will travel to Washington, D.C., today as the top youth leader among the nation's 4.5 million Boy Scouts. Murray is only the third Scout from the Baden-Powell Council of the Boy Scouts of America to be elected a national officer over the past 15 years, said Stephen Hoitt, executive director of the council, which serves more than 9,000 Scouts in the six-county region around Binghamton. "He's a very energized, enthusiastic young man," Hoitt said of Murray, a 2004 graduate of Norwich High School and a sophomore accounting major at Syracuse University. Murray, who joined the Scouts at the age of 6, credits the lessons he learned for his success. "I definitely wouldn't be where I am today had I not had the experience I had with Scouts," he said. "It's a lot more than camping and merit badges and meeting every week wearing a khaki uniform." Scouts learn how to work with other people and how to be a leader through activities such as camping trips, he said. "It's more than teamwork," he said. "It's a bond of brotherhood."

Contact
	You may contact the Scoutmaster Roger Garnett at 607-257-0098 -email rwg1@cornell.edu, or use the email link for this site.