Order of the Arrow - Winter Fellowship

Troop 103 Arrowmen,

Winter Fellowship & Lodge Leadership Development (LLD)

Location: Schiewetz Leadership Training Center
Date: Saturday, November 8th – Sunday, November 9th
Cost: $15.00 (includes meals, snacks, and lodging)

Have you ever wanted to become a stronger leader in your Lodge or Troop? Then don’t miss our Winter Fellowship & LLD event—an exciting weekend filled with fun, training, and camaraderie at the Schiewetz Leadership Training Center!

This is a great opportunity to grow your leadership skills, connect with fellow Arrowmen, and enjoy a variety of activities including:
Themed games
Outdoor challenges
VR experiences
Leadership development (LLD) training sessions

Everyone who attends will receive tickets for free giveaways—you must be present to win!

 Meals & Lodging:
Your $15 registration covers snacks, dinner on Saturday, breakfast and lunch on Sunday, and overnight accommodations in heated cabins. (Note: This is not a Crane Pass event.)

Brotherhood Opportunity:
If you’ve been an Ordeal member for at least 6 months, you’re eligible to seal your membership in the Order by completing your Brotherhood. The ceremony will be held on Saturday, November 8th at 8:30 AM.

Click here to register

Don't miss this chance to build friendships, grow as a leader, and have a blast with your Lodge!

Help Needed - Election Day Dinner

Troop 103,

Parkview Church is hosting its 124th annual election day dinner to help raise money for the Blessings in a Bag food program in Miamisburg. This program provided meals for students over the weekend, to ensure they are fed. The church physically packages and delivers these meals to Maddox Lang Preschool in Miamisburg.

Each year we ask for volunteers to help set up, serve guests, clean up tables, and serve food. We would love to have more scouts this year. If you have scouts who are interested in earning some community service credit, we could use help on Sunday, November 2nd from 7-8:30pm to set up the tables in our sanctuary and on Tuesday November 4th from 400pm to 9pm to take orders, serve meals, and bus tables. The scouts can work one hour or the whole time. Adults can also help serve meals in the kitchen or wash dishes (always welcome).

If you volunteer, you can purchase a greatly discounted meal for only $5.00. Dinner includes turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes with gravy, cole slaw, your choice of pie, and a drink.

We currently have a few scouts from Troop 402 and Pack 402 signed up to help but we always need more.

Please let me know if you have any interested scouts.

Sincerely,
Sara Burchett
Election Day Dinner Committee Co-Chair

2025 Holiday Flower Fundraiser

2025 Holiday Flower Fundraiser

Troop 103 is selling Poinsettias, Christmas Cactus, Cyclamen, and Wreaths for
the 2025 holiday season.

The fundraiser will start on November 3, 2025.

All order forms and money are due November 17, 2025 at the scout meeting.


Flowers will be delivered on Saturday, December 6th at 9AM. Flowers will be
delivered to St. James Methodist Church. Please pick up your flower orders between 11:00AM and 11:30AM.

If longer than 24 hours, plants must be carefully un-sleeved and watered.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Sara Burchett
Sburchett3.14@gmail.com
937-371-8218

Forms are located on the Troop 103 Form Page of the website.

Popcorn Sales

Troop 103,

Good evening. Our troop is opening up popcorn sales for any scouts who are interested. All proceeds go directly to your scout account.

Popcorn sales are more than an opportunity to help pay for your own scouting program. Popcorn is a major fundraiser for Miami Valley Council, so your popcorn sales help support your council and show scout spirit by being helpful. Also, if your family is interested in applying for Scoutership assistance to offset registration, then participation in popcorn is highly encouraged.

Mrs. Schindler has graciously volunteered to lead our popcorn efforts and will be sending out details soon. This is primarily an online sale to friends and family. It's easy to do, and gives your family and friends a nice way to help support your scouting.

YIS,
Dr. Burchett

Rake Rally - November 8, 2025

Scouts,

Attached is the posting for the West Carrollton Rake Rally. This is a easy opportunity to get in service hours by helping some residents of West Carrollton clear leaves in their yard.

Yours in Scouting,
Mr. Pugh

Contact Mr. Pugh for more information.

Eagle Palms Requirements Change

Eagle Palms: the official requirements

These are effective Aug. 1, 2017.

After successfully completing your Eagle Scout board of review and being validated as an Eagle Scout by the National Service Center, you will be entitled to receive an Eagle Palm for each additional 5 merit badges you have completed before your Eagle Scout board of review. For these Palms only, it will not be necessary for you to complete any of the requirements stated below.

After becoming an Eagle Scout, you may earn additional Palms by completing the following requirements.

1. Be active in the Boy Scouts of America for at least three months after becoming an Eagle Scout or after the last Palm was earned. **
2. Since earning the Eagle Scout rank or your last Eagle Palm, demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath and Scout Law. Tell how you have done your duty to God and how you have lived the Scout Oath and Scout Law in your everyday life.
3. Continue to set a satisfactory example of accepting responsibility or demonstrating leadership ability.
4. Earn five additional merit badges beyond those required for Eagle or last Palm. ***
5. While an Eagle Scout, participate in a Scoutmaster conference. *

Notes

*For Varsity Scouts working on Boy Scout requirements, replace “Scoutmaster” with “Varsity Scout Coach.” For Venturers working on Boy Scout requirements, replace “Scoutmaster” with “crew Advisor.” For Sea Scouts working on Boy Scout requirements, replace “Scoutmaster” with “Skipper.”

**Eagle Palms must be earned in sequence, and the three-month tenure requirement must be observed for each Palm.

***Merit badges earned any time since becoming a Boy Scout may be used to meet this requirement.

Merit Badge Application Process

Starting March 7, 2016, the following process will be in place for Scouts wanting to work on a Merit Badge.

1) Scouts are to arrange for a discussion with Scoutmaster in order to

1. State their desire/plans to work on a merit badge,
2. Define which merit badge counselor they are planning to work with 
3. To review some basic expectations of the merit badge process

2) When that Scoutmaster conversation is in place, I will then

1. Provide them a blue card, 
2. Ask them to fill out "Application for Merit Badge" section 
3. Will approve the application by signature

3) Scouts may then arrange to meet with Merit Badge Counselor to begin conversations.

The Scoutmaster will designate additional resources as needed for times of high activity.

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The following rules/guidelines are still in place.

Scouts and Parents,

All Troop 103 scouts who are working on Merit Badges need to meet the following expectations:

1) You need to schedule all meetings with your counselor ahead of time. This can be done by telephone, e-mail, or by asking them in person at a meeting. Do not walk up to your merit badge counselor at a meeting and ask them to meet with you on the spot. Our adult volunteers give very freely of their time, but they are pulled in multiple directions at a meeting. Take responsibility for scheduling your merit badge sessions.

2) Read the merit badge requirements carefully. If there is a requirement to have a discussion with your counselor prior to beginning a merit badge requirement (i.e. Personal Fitness, Family Life, Personal Management, etc.), DISCUSS WITH YOUR COUNSELOR BEFORE BEGINNING THE REQUIREMENT. If you have not fulfilled the discussion requirement prior to beginning the main requirement, it may not be approved. This means that you may have to do even a time requirement again (such as the personal fitness workouts).

3) If a time requirement requires you to record your results over the duration of the requirement, then record them as you go. Do not try to re-construct the records at the end of the requirement.

4) Merit badge worksheets are an excellent idea, but, simply writing down the answer and giving it to the counselor is not sufficient. Scouts need to be able to discuss their answer and be able to answer their counselor's questions on the subject. Answers need to reflect an understanding of the material and not be one-word answers such as "yes" or "no."

5) Two deep adult leadership must be in place at ALL TIMES. Adults; if the meeting is at your house, be home; if the meeting is at the counselor's house, stick around; if the meeting is at the church, don't drop off the scout and take off. This is very important for the protection of our troop as a whole.

Rank Advancement Reminders

Scouts and Parents,

Here are some reminders and some new information scouts and parents need to know regarding rank advancement: 

1. Troop positions of responsibility for Star Scout and above: Scouts serving in positions of troop responsibility will work with adult mentors and complete Junior Leadership Worksheets (reminder). Mentor assignments and Junior Leadership Worksheets can be found on the troop web page (http://www.bsa103.org/). Position of responsibility requirements in scout handbooks must be signed by the scout's position mentor (new). 

2. Merit Badge requirement verification for Star Scout and above: Scouts must request a Troop Master printout from Mr. Crawford at least one week prior to Scoutmaster conferences and boards of review for ranks Star Scout and above. Troop Master printouts will be used to verify merit badge completion. 

3. Remember to request a Scoutmaster conference and a board of review a week in advance. 

• Scouts should contact the Scoutmaster verbally or by email (lee.r.burchett@gmail.com) to schedule a Scoutmaster conference. 

• Scouts should contact the Troop Committee Chairman verbally or by email (robcrawfordinmiamisburg@gmail.com) to schedule a Board Of Review.

• Scouts must wear Class A uniform to all Scoutmaster conferences and Boards Of Review. 

4. Scouts should bring their Scout Handbook to all Scoutmaster conferences and board of reviews.

YIS,
Dr. Burchett and Mr. Crawford

Requirement Sign Off in Scout Handbook

Everyone,

There have been several questions asked about who can sign-off on completed requirements in the BSA Handbook. We have the answer....

The following people are permitted to sign-off completed requirements in the BSA Handbook for Troop 103:

1. Scoutmaster 
2. Assistant Scoutmaster 
3. Committee Member
4. Junior Assistant Scoutmaster

NOTE: Adult Leaders or Non-Leader Adults are NOT permitted to sign-off completed requirements for their own scout.