Author: Michael F. Bowman
Company: Attorney at Law

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  To: mfbowman@CAPACCESS.ORG
From: jaata@richmond.infi.net (Andrea & Joe Craig)
Subject: Commissioner College
 
Good Evening!  My name is Andrea Craig, District Commissioner, Cardinal 
District, Robert E. Lee Council, Richmond, VA.  I subscribe to Scouts-L and 
have read your postings regularly.  I am hoping you might be a reliable 
resource.  Our Commissioner College is Sept. 23rd, at J.S. Reynolds 
Community College on Parham Rd. just off I95.  I am Dean of the Bachelor's 
courses.  I have two classes to fill and thought you might know a terrific 
instructor.  Actually our district Key 3, our Program, Advancement, and 
Training Chair were going to visit your district committee meeting this 
evening when one had to drop out and we rescheduled for next month.  Oh 
well...  Thus this e-mail.

The classes I need to fill are: first priority - College of Commissioner 
Science BS Roundtable BCS-108 and BCS-109 by the new book (our# RTS-302).  
It is a 2 1/2 hr class covering all aspects of BS Roundtable.  I really want 
a terrific instructor, full of enthusiasm and hopefully woodbadge trained.  
I am really careful choosing instructors for my courses because I feel this 
is the attendees first year and I want them to come back next year.  I also 
try to pull out-of-council when I can for fresh ideas and faces.  

Second priority - BCS-105 Practical Solutions to Common Unit Needs.  This is 
a 50 minute class.  This instructor needs to be an experienced commissioner, 
good instructor and great bottom line person.  If push comes to shove I can 
take this class but I like to stay free to cover any emergencies.

Any suggestions from your council?  I'd love to have a staff member from 
your area since we do have some National Capital participants, and it's 
always great to see a familiar face.  

YIS
Andrea

Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 08:07:44 -0400
To: jata@richmond.infi.net
From: rjacober@triton.dmso.mil (Bob Jacober)
Subject: College of Commissioner Science
Cc: mfbowman@CAPACCESS.ORG
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To:  Andrea Craig, District Commissioner, Cardinal District, Robert E. Lee
Council, Richmond, VA.

Regarding your Commissioner College, Sept. 23rd, at J.S. Reynolds
Community College.

I agree about you're being really careful choosing instructors for your
courses.  I have a recommendation for your first priority - College of
Commissioner
Science BS Roundtable BCS-108 and BCS-109 by the new book (our# RTS-302), a
2 1/2 hr class covering all aspects of BS Roundtable.

Me.  My name is Bob Jacober.  I have been in Scouting for 30+ years, and I
have the Woodbadge.  I have been told that I am a terrific instructor and
full of enthusiasm.  I was the Dean of the Bachelor Program for Roundtable
Commissioner Science for the 1995 National Capitol Area Council College of
Commissioner Science, and know how difficult it is to "hire" instructors.
(I had to stand in for one of the instructors I had hired).  I am, and have
been a Roundtable Commissioner for the Scout Side for the last three years.
I have taught the Roundtable Commissioner course at the NCAC in 1994.  I
have also taught Venture Leader Training, Scoutmastership Fundamentals,
Junior Leader Training, and Train the Trainer courses.

I can be reached thru E-Mail at the above address, or snail mail at:

        Bob Jacober
        7523 Westmore Drive
        Springfield, VA  22150
        (703) 569-6045 (H)
        (703) 824-3454 (W)

I have already obtained a kitchen pass for that day if you need me.

For your second priority - BCS-105 Practical Solutions to Common Unit
Needs,   your 50 minute class, I can recommend the first person who
answered your E-Mail, and forwarded it to me.  Mike Bowman, if available,
is just who you need.  We can car-pool if he accepts.  He is an extremely
experienced commissioner,
good instructor and great bottom line person.  He is our District's
Training Commissioner, and a Beaver Woodbadger as well.

No need for you to push or shove.

YIS,
Bob J.

Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 23:39:26 -0500 (EST)
From: "Michael F. Bowman" <mfbowman@CapAccess.org>
To: nevinsj@smtplink.sra.com
cc: hunterd@smtplink.sra.com
Subject: Re: Commissioner's Technical Scouting Course

Jim and David,

The URL for the Commissioner's Course on the Web is:

		http://www.macscouter.com

Once you get to the front page you can hyper-jump to my course or go to 
Gary Hendra's Internet Scouting Guide.  

This is something I put together about a year ago to bring our 
Commissioners around to the information age.  It was merely a starting 
point, but it has proven popular.  Now at last count 10 Councils have 
downloaded the course for local use and modified it accordingly.  

When you take a look at it, realize that it is now out of date.  Gary and 
I are thinking of how to proceed at this point and may disband the page 
or enlarge it.  The reason is that I've joined with the project team at 
the U.S. Scouting Service Project Web site to create a number of web 
pages at http://www.HiWAAY.net/hyper/scouts and will be creating some 
commissioner pages at that site.   What you may soon see is a relocation 
of the course to USSSP and then a doubling of its content.  I already 
have about 32 pages of planned revisions that will be out in the next 
month or so.  The original was 80 pages.  

We at the USSSP site are creating a virtual Scouting Encyclopedia online. 
If you haven't browsed the site, I'd encourage you to take a look at what 
is probably the best and most comprehensive Internet Resource to date. 
You'll also find that NCAC is credited with a number of their pages!

I'd be tickled to help develop a local Commissioner's Course for the 
College of Commissioner Science.  When I'm done with developing the 
revised web pages, I'll be in a better position contribute to a 
commissioner oriented course on using the information technologies 
available to them.  

Over the weekend I'll send you both a comprehensive listing of some of 
the Scouting Resources on the Internet that has not yet been included on 
the Web Page (Its on my list of things to add/revise).

Speaking only for myself in the Scouting Spirit, Michael F. Bowman
DDC-Training, GW Dist. Nat Capital Area Council mfbowman@CAPACCESS.ORG