JOIN CUB SCOUTING!

The next Pack 451 Join Cub Scouting Information Nights will take place on Tuesday, August 25, and Tuesday, August 27, 2009, at 7PM in the Westminster Scout Cabin, 3639 Old Chapel Hill Road, Durham, NC 27707, but you don’t have wait until then to join Pack 451! See the information further down this page about Joining Cub Scouts.
 

JOIN CUB SCOUTS: Cub Scouting is for boys in first through fifth grade. You can find out a lot more about Cub Scouting with Pack 451 by visiting our About Pack 451 page. The Scouting program for older boys (in sixth grade or at least 11 years old) is called Boy Scouting. Boys do not have to go to any particular school or live in any particular area to join Cub Scouts with Pack 451. The choice of a Cub Scout Pack is usually a matter of where friends are joining and/or the convenience of the meeting location. If the location of Pack 451 is not convenient for you, check out other Cub Scout packs in Durham (see below).

A boy who is in, or who is rising to, the first through fifth grade, can join Cub Scouting with Cub Scout Pack 451 at any time. After completing our annual re-charter in April and our springtime Join Scouting event, Pack 451 currently has 55 boys in grades one through four, distributed as set forth below among eight dens (a den is a group of boys in a particular grade, led by an one or more adult den leader volunteers). Subject to availability of a den and a den leader, we will accept any eligible boy for membership in Pack 451 at any time. First-grade Tiger Cub dens are the beginning level of Cub Scouting, which means that they have to be formed brand new either at the end of the kindergarten school year or at the beginning of the first grade school year. For 2009-2010, we do not yet have a fifth-grade Webelos II den.

JOINING BOY SCOUTS: Boy Scouting is for older boys, those who are at least 11 years old or who have completed the 5th grade. For more information on Boy Scouting, visit the Troop 451 Website.

JOINING GIRL SCOUTS: Cub Scouting and Boy Scouting are exclusively for boys. Girl Scouting serves girls from 5 through 17 years old.  For more information on Girl Scouting, visit the North Carolina Coastal Pines Girl Scout Council website.

Finding a Different Cub Scout Pack: If Cub Scouting sounds great, but the location of Pack 451 is not convenient for you, consider finding another Cub Scout pack in Durham. You can find other Durham area Cub Scout packs by visiting the Durham District Scouting Website. There you can find a Cub Scout pack either in a List of Durham Cub Scout Packs format, or by using the interactive mapping tool, where you enter your address and a map comes up with packs that are near the address.

Our Location and Contact Information: Cub Scout Pack 451 of Durham, North Carolina is chartered by Westminster Presbyterian Church as part of its scouting outreach program. Directions to Westminster Presbyterian Church can be found here: Directions. Contact information, for pack and den leaders, appears on the Pack 451 Contact Page.

Cub Scout Pack 451 is led by Cubmaster Jim Smith. Pack 451 has a pack meeting of all of its dens once a month, usually on the second Thursday of each month. Check out the Pack 451 Calendar page for information on upcoming pack meetings and pack events.  The current dens are now on summer hiatus, and will start meeting weekly in late August, as follows:

Den 1, a rising third-grade Bear Cub Den, will meet at the Westminster Scout Cabin on Sundays from 4 PM to 5 PM. 

Den 2, a rising second-grade Wolf Cub Den, will meet at the Westminster Scout Cabin on Mondays from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM.

Den 3, a rising third-grade Bear Cub Den, will meet at the Westminster Scout Cabin, but the date and time has not yet been set.

Den 4, a rising fourth-grade Webelos I Den, will meet at the Westminster Scout Cabin on Mondays from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM.

 
Den 5, a rising fourth-grade Webelos I Den, will meet at the Westminster Scout Cabin on Sundays from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM.

 
Den 6, a rising second-grade Wolf Cub Den, will meet at the Westminster Scout Cabin on Thursdays from 6 PM to 7 PM.

Den 7, a rising third-grade Bear Cub Den, will meet at the Westminster Scout Cabin on Sundays from 5 PM to 6 PM.

Den 8 will be a rising first-grade Tiger Cub Den. At the present time, this den has two boys and no den leader. We expect this den will fill out and organize after our two Join Scouting events in August.

New dens that form will decide on what days, places and times they will meet

To contact the Pack or its den leaders, check out the Pack 451 Contact Page.

PACK 451 NEWS

JOIN CUB SCOUTING INFORMATION NIGHTS - Although a boy can join Cub Scouting with Pack 451 at any time, Pack 451 does host three formal Join Cub Scouting Information Nights each year. We just completed our springtime event on May 19, 2009. For those who were not able to make the May 19, 2009 Join Cub Scouting Information Night, two more will be held during the last week of August. The first will be on August 25, 2009, and the second will be on August 27, 2009. Both of these August meetings will have the same format - they will take place at the Westminster Scout Cabin starting at 7PM, and at an appropriate point, the boys will receive entertainment from Troop 451 while the parents stay in the Cabin for full information.

PACK 451 CALENDAR PAGE: The Pack 451 Calendar page is always updated with the latest Pack 451 dates, events, and links.

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