Archive of Scouts-L List for June 1996: Up and Downward
Communication (was Re: Return from Philmont)  Up and Downward
Communication (was Re: Return from Philmont)  (no name) ((no
email)) Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:38:13 -0500  Dave Hultberg wrote in
response to Kathie Cerveny:  >I may be cynical, but IMHO the BSA
corporate structure was designed to >restrict communications.
Since we volunteers are only supposed to talk >to our local
council and national only communicates via the local >council,
the local council controls its volunteers by controlling the
>flow of information to them.  That's not all together true,
Dave. You CAN talk with the staff at the National and Regional
offices; if this wasn't so, the National Office's phone numbers
would not be public nor would National encourage writers to
phone or write the National office through it's publications.
What the National Office has been doing, and recently quite
successfully, is trying NOT to come between a unit's concern
(legit or not) and the local Council,