Troop 73

This is for parents who are considering Boy Scouting in general and Troop 73 specifically.

Scouting is a worldwide movement, and our brother and sister scouts can be found in over 160 countries. The program has much the same character wherever you go. Scouting is a youth-led outdoor adventure game that teaches outdoor skills, self-reliance, service, citizenship, and values along the way. We appeal to boys’ sense of adventure and challenge, and through that challenge them to become better individuals.  Scouts enter the program as “tenderfeet”, and learn from the older older scouts. As they develop confidence and skills, they take more responsibility for running activities and teaching younger scouts, until they “graduate” as skilled outdoorsmen and adults.

Here in the U.S., the Boy Scouts of America provides scouting program resources to different community agencies and groups so that they can offer a scouting program as one part of their youth work. You might think of this as a sort of franchising arrangement – the BSA licenses the program, but the organization operates the troop to its own standards and goals. Troop 73 is operated by the Westchester Community Church of Westchester Illinois. The Troop is open any boy, period.

We think the most important thing in looking for a troop is to find one that is a “good fit” for the boy and his family. Please read, both you and your son, through the various pages and see if what we do fits with what you’d like to do.

We’re glad you’re looking us over and we hope to see you at our next meeting.