"South of the Border"
CUB SCOUT PACK MEETING
Barnstable Patriot, Thursday, April 01, 1965
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Centerville's Cub Scout Pack No. 54 held its monthly meeting in the vestry of South Congregational Church Saturday evening, March 27. Cub Scout William Souweine led in the flag ceremony and Cub Scout promise, opening the session. Under the theme South of the Border, Mrs. Edwin Gourley, den mother, showed colored slides of Mexico and exhibited several of the Uourley family's Mexican treasures including blankets from various sections, a child's toreador, outfit and Mexican pottery.
Pinatas made by den mothers Jane Anne Gonzalez and Mrs. Gourley had been filled with candy made by boys of the several dens.
Boys of Den 4 (led by Mrs. Harry Johnson and Mrs. Gerald Hurd) marched around the pinatas singing This Little Cubbing Light and boys of various dens were blindfolded and each given two opportunities to break the yinatas with sticks.
The feats accomplished resulted in furious scrambles for candy by the Scouts.
Cub Master Louis Jacobucci led in community singing.
Charles Johnson welcomed as a new member of the pack received his Bob Cat pin from his father, the Rev. Warren H. Johnson.
Other awards were presented as follows:
To Stanley Buckler, 2nd, gold wow in Wolf rank and denner's stripe;
Richard Teel, gold and silver arrows In Wolf;
Peter Brooks, Wolf badge;
Brian Smith, gold arrow In Wolf;
Peter Bain, gold and silver arrows in Wolf;
Mark Jacobucci and Stephen Nystrom, silver arrows in Wolf;
William Murzic, Jr. Wolf Badge and gold arrow;
Charles Wood, Wolf Badge;
David Ricker, silver arrow in Wolf, silver arrow in Bear;
Robert Johnson, 1 year pin;
David Prada, gold arrow and 1 year pin.
James and Timothy Johnson and Christopher Maher received their Wolf badges;
Terrance Hurd, Wolf badge and a gold arrow in Wolf:
Richard Pinney, 1 year pin and denner's stripe.
The singing of Goodnight Cub Scouts closed the meeting.
Next pack meeting is planned for April 24 with Green Thumb announced as the month's theme.
A Pack 54 food sale has been planned for 9 a.m.. May 1, at Community Recreation Building.
Amalia's Story, Chapter Sixty-Two
= Amalia Angeloni Jacobucci
1000 Characters About My Mother #15:
"What happened after the Cub Scout Banquet?"
"That would have been in March of 1965 . . . "
"Here's something! First published April 1965 -- "
"Louis Jacobucci, Casework Treatment of the Neglectful Mother."
"Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, Volume 46, Issue 4."
"Oh, look! They had references!"
“The Protective Service Caseworker: How Does He Survive Job Pressures?”
“Use of Homemaker Service in Families That Neglect Their Children."
“The Team Approach in Protective Service.”
"Character Disorders in Parents of Delinquents."
"There's more."
"That's OK."
Presently . . .
"Loneliness and Isolation in Child Neglect."
"Dispositional Empathy in Neglectful Mothers and Mothers at High Risk for Child Physical Abuse."
"The Training of Neglectful and Unsatisfactory Mothers."
"The Socialization of Emotional Understanding: A Comparison of Neglectful and Nonneglectful Mothers and Their Children."
"In ...
"What?!"
"I didn't say anything."
"How can you say such a thing?"
"I'm not going through this again."
"What do you mean?"
"All this -- denial. I'm done. I'm just going to say exactly what happened as I remember it."
"It never happened!"
"The reason I know it happened is that I renember it. I was eight years old. My brother was twelve years old. I was able to recover the date because I remember at some point in the week preceding the event, our father for some reason had told us, I'm going to be speaking at the Unitarian Church this Sunday at 11:00. It did not seem weird to me at the time, because he was always out of the house anyway. Plus all he used to when he was home was harangue me, so good."
"You lie."
"In fact, I remember thinking, it made sense that he would get something going on Sundays, because that was the only time he was ever even around anymore. Weekdays he was working, of course, and weeknights he was always at one of his many, many important community activities."
"You are delusional."
"Then, I found this article, and it all ...
"I have a thesis. My thesis is: In any woman's life, having children would have to be the most significant event. So, in my mother's story -- "
"Her family wasn't really any different from any of the other families."
"Yes."
"In what way?"
"She and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Both her children went to school."
"What else?"
"They were both boys?"
"Anything else?"
"No. That's it."
"So you said, that one way in which your mother's family wasn't really any different from any of the other families, was that she and her husband were both very active in community affairs. Can you tell me a little more about that?"
"Oh, sure. There was always something going on. Cub Scouts, she was like Den Mother of her older son's Cub Scout Pack. Pack 54. Plus the Comedy Club. Plus I'm pretty sure, she was involved in the kindergarten. She and her husband both. And politics. It was the Sixties."
"Just normal 60's Mom stuff."
"In any case, it's time to forget the past."
