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Cub packs were once very common at prep schools. Scouting was very popular and many boys wanted to be Cubs. It also provided a useful activity for the boarders. Prep schools before World War II were much less endowed with recreational facilities than modern prep schools. There are now fewer schools with Cub packs. There are a variety of reasons for this. Scouting no longer has th cahet with the children it once had. Schools now have a much wider range of recreational activities which attrat the unterest of the children. Scouting also has become more beaureacratic responding to a range of possible liabilities. Several schools have closed their Cub Pack because of the administrative complications. In a few cases schools have substituted Cubbing with a kind of school-center camping activity. Not all schools have pulled out of Scouting and there are still a number of Cub Packs at the various schools.

Cubs

1987 Cub Camp was unique in that it was the first since 1973 that Captain (Peter Bowles) has had to miss. Daniel Adderley, now at his third time round, nervously accepted Catain's position and proved to be every bit as efficient and charming. This year they will both be there, all being well, as will Coffey, (cook) Lesley Warren and myself, all old stagers now, and possibly one or two other friends whom we will do our best to persuade what a good way of spending a week end it is! We were more prepared for an 'indoor' camp than ever last year, as the weather throughout June had been so bad, but it changed suddenly to brilliant sunshine and lasted all through. The theme was PIRATES. Morgan's first name was, of course, Bloody, and there were plenty more equally well chosen ones. Prizes were paid out in pieces of eight, (chocolate money)and the inter-tent competitionwas a staged galleon-sea-battle, Warren and Daniel had the Cubs dressed and made up as pirates and being given an archery lesson by a professional archer! At the end of March this year we will all have to go to the field and clear it of fllen branches, twigs, etc. still there from the hurricane, before contemplating camping there again.

C.S. The Aquileon, Belmont School, Feldemore, 1986-87

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