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 Cub Scouting is for boys in first through fifth grade. For information about girls in Scouting, click here.
Boys and their families interested in Cub Scouting should visit the About Pack 451 page for detailed information. Information about our dens and their meeting days appears below. 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).
Pack 451 hosts formal Join Cub Scouting Information Nights twice a year, one night in May, and two nights in August. Pack 451 had a successful spring information night on May 18, and looks forward to our next Join Scouting Information Night (for Cub Scouts and for Girl Scouts), to take place in late August (date TBA) Even though we have these scheduled Join Scouting Information Nights, a boy who is in the first through fifth grade can join Cub Scouting with Cub Scout Pack 451 anytime. Pack 451 presently has 64 boys in grades two through five, distributed as set forth below among nine dens.
 A den is a group of boys in a particular grade, led by one or more adult den leader volunteers. The leaders and parents of the den decide when and where the den meets. If there is space in a den, or if a new den forms with a den leader, then Pack 451 will accept any eligible boy for membership. 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. Experienced Tiger den leader Brendan Turner will be leading new Tiger Den 9 this fall as rising first-grade Scouts join up.
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.
JOINING BOY SCOUTS (OLDER BOYS): Boy Scouting is for older boys, those who are at least 11 years old, or who have completed the 5th grade, or who have earned the Arrow of Light in Cub Scouting and are at least 10 years old. For more information on Boy Scouting, visit the Troop 451 Website.
JOINING GIRL SCOUTS: Cub Scouting and Boy Scouting are exclusively for boys. Girls interested in Scouting who will be in the first through fifth grade this fall should consider joining Girl Scouts. Girl Scout Troop 1806, which is led by our own Chip Reinhardt, is for girls in grades 1-5 (Daisy-Brownie-Junior) and will be partnering with Pack 451 on several activities in the coming 2010-2011 school year. For more information on Troop 1806, or to be added to their e-mail list, contact Chip here. Troop 1806 doesn’t have its own website yet - 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.
MEETING TIMES: Cub Scout Pack 451 is led by Cubmaster Jim Smith. Pack 451 has a pack meeting of all of its dens and their families 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. Our eight dens have just graduated to their next grade level, and plan to meet this fall as follows:
 Den 1, a fourth-grade Webelos 1 Den with eight Scouts, meets at the Westminster Scout Cabin on Sundays from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM.
 Den 2, a third-grade Bear Cub Den with nine Scouts, meets at the Westminster Scout Cabin on Tuesdays from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM.
Den 3, a fourth-grade Webelos 1 Cub Den with eight Scouts, meets at the Westminster Scout Cabin on Mondays from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM.
Den 4, a fifth-grade Webelos 2 Den with seven Scouts, meets at the Westminster Scout Cabin on Mondays from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM.
Den 5, a fifth-grade Webelos 2 Den with eight Scouts, meets at the Westminster Scout Cabin on alternating Sundays (alternating with Den 7) from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM.
Den 6, a third-grade Bear Cub Den with ten Scouts, meets at the Westminster Scout Cabin on Thursdays from 6 PM to 7 PM.
Den 7, a fourth-grade Webelos 1 Den with five Scouts, meets at the Westminster Scout Cabin on alternating Sundays (alternating with Den 5) from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM.
 Den 8, a second-grade Wolf Cub Den with ten Scouts, meets at the Westminster Scout Cabin on Sundays from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
 Den 9 will be a new Tiger Cub den that will meet at Westminster, time TBA as the den forms and organizes.
New dens that form 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.
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Cub Scout Pack 451
