Troop 173 's
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If you find a link that DOES NOT WORK, and doesn't have a
Notify the Webmaster: Scouter Van at: N2BNE@Yahoo.com , Immediately!

What's new in changes to BSA National's Rank Requirements:

New For 2002
First Class requirement changes:
Requirement 9c deleted and old requirement 9d now becomes 9c.

Latest Entries as of : Friday, December 20, 2002 10:25

December 20, 2002,The Page Campmaster page: wccmsked.htm has been discontinued due to lack of interest.
October 10, 2002, Started adding NEW item anchors on each page as it happens:
The anchor gets moved to the really important New Item, just add #new at the end of each address.
October 7, 2002, Added a few items to the Troop Site Calendar
October 3, 2002, Added Links to OA Forms to both our Forms&Documents & Mr.Doud's Pages
September 25, 2002, Installed Seals & Hawk Patrol Pages, Retired The Bear & Flaming Arrow Patrol Pages
September 21, 2002, Added photos of some of the Scouts of our Troop173 at Camp Barton on our Scrap Book Page.
September 19, 2002, Added Pictures of Troop 173 at Camp Barton to the Scrap Book page , Updated 02 Caendar.
September 11, 2002, Added Picnic Pictures to the Scrap Book page , Updated 02 Caendar from Sep02.to Jan03.
September 7, 2002, Added " or ( S, O, N, D, J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A.)" choices to each month of
this years calendar (both versions) and brought the Text only version up to date
August 29, 2002, Changed the Camp Cutler file name From wcutler.htm to JWCSR.htm
August 28, 2002, Changed the Calendar tab on ALL pages to bring up the 2002-2003 173cal02.htm file.
August 18, 2002, Added the JLT crest & Otetiana's JLTC Oasis patch to our P's and C's area,
            (Please note: Several sizes and dpi copies were of these patches )
August 15, 2002, Changed links to the Troop August News Letter an both Index & Forms pages,
                          and added privacy statement to the Forms & Document page .
August 14, 2002, Updated our 02-03 Calendar pages with the GCSD Holiday Schedules
August 5, 2002, Added Otetiana's new MSC/OC CSPs and 50th Anni Patch to our MSC Reunoin page
July 18, 2002, Added Packs of Otetiana Council to our Links List
June 14, 2002, Added the QU 2002 Award graphic to our index and About (graphical) pages,
    & added the new MSC Alumni GA patch/crest to the MSC Reunoin page
June 13, 2002 Added http://pages.towson.edu/romans/philmont/philmont_fires_2002.htm to the new
     BSA High Adventure Scout Camps (#bshac) sub-section of our Links page ,
     to report on the wild-Fires on or near Philmont 2002
May 30, 2002, Uploaded and Added the JUNE '02 Troop 173 News Letter to our Forms & Doc's page
May 29, 2002 Added Troop99 to Links and NLTroops pages also created T/O version of NLTroops page
May 28, 2002 Updated the troop 01-02 calendar(s) , added a few items to the Scrap Book (we need more photos)
May 24, 2002 Started work on JLTC page
May 23, 2002 Finished installing the tab bar in the header of each graphical page
                       & removed the "Auto-reloader from the calendar and "What's New?" pages.
                       Also 2002 -2003 Calendar updated with Otetiana Council Items
May 22, 2002 Started installing new nav/ tab/ bar onto our pages and fixed Netscape's problem
                       with the Index table on the the index table. IE had no problem
May 21, 2002 started mods to nav /tab bar, added 2 buttons
May 20, 2002 Corrected Bear Patrol's & Patrols Leadership listings
May 19, 2002 Updated the Documents Page
May 18, 2002 Installed updated version of our "Scrap Book page" (Sorry, no T/O, It's a page heavy with Graphics )
May 17, 2002 Changed BSA Logo in the top section of our (Graphical) pages.
        That points to local council subject material or topic(s) that are similar to that being viewed on that page.
May 16, 2002 Added Text Only (T/O) editions of : Site Tour , Leaders Page & AboutUs pages
May 11, 2002 Started adding Text only pages, Index, What's New & Calendar pages (01 & 02) , others will follow.
April 30, 2002 New Newsletter by Mrs & MR Hadley added to Forms & Doc's page & Home page Index
April 25, 2002 Installed new Nav-Tabs on all Troop pages
April 23, 2002 finished new 11 button tab-bar (on the Full Graphic pages)
April 18, 2002 Restored the first & second Wood BadgeNE-V-126 OWL NEST pages and cross-linked to leaders page
April 17, 2002 Added Foil Dinner section to the(#srncs section) of the Links Page
and Otetiana Council 2002 Challenge Trophy Camporee to the (#ocu section) of the Links Page
April 16, 2002 Updated the msr_reun.htm page to redirect viewers to the http://www.massstaffalumni.org/ page
April 15, 2002 Cleaned up spelling errors on the Required Merit badge(s) page. &
        Also fixed bugs on the Links page and BSARanks page
April 14, 2002 fixed 404 error on old Calendar link page.
April 13, 2002 Restored the JWCSR (Camp Cutler) intro and Maps page.
April 12, 2002 Restored JWCSR (Camp Cutler) Campmaster's Page
April 11, 2002 Started work on the JLTc page ( /development/173JLC.htm ) & x-ref'ed to Leaders page &
added our newest Northern Lights District Exec. w/ Email & D.I.D. Phone#s to Both CUB & Scout Leader pages,
April 10, 2002 Updated this Site's Tour Manager page and added Government(s) & HTML sections to our Links page
April 9, 2002, Added Campmor, The Town of Greece,NY and the 4th Oshawa to our links page
April 8, 2002 Changed Scoutmaster's page to our new Scoutmaster: Jim Curthoys
April 7, 2002, Added a link to National's Fast Start info page from our Leader's Page
April 6, 2002, Added a link from our Leader's page that explains all of the Scouter's knots at
April 6, 2002, Moved the the Progress Chart from the BSA Ranks page to the About_Us Page at Scouter Jim's request
March 30, 2002 Added Uniform Inspection checklists (links to Otetiana online Documents) to our Document page
March 28, 2002, Scoutmaster's E-mail address (on all pages) to the correct one: ScouterJim173@Hotmail.com
March 21, 2002, Created The Patrols : Bear, Dragons & Flaming Arrows Patrol's Pages
March 20, 2002, Took /TourMan.htm out of Development
March 19, 2002 Restored this What is New page to our site, any updated pages will be listed here.
March 16, 2002 03:30 These site pages, uploaded and installed on this site, WE ARE BACK up and running!
March 12, 2002, Payment sent to the owner of WWW.BSATroops.org

On March 11, 2002 our new Troop 173 Committee
voted to relocate to this new location,
www.BSATroops.org/ny/t173/index.htm .
Please delete/replace your old bookmarks for this site

March 11, Redesigned this new tab-bar, by modifying the old tabbar that Steve Robida
created and adding the Site Tour Arrowheads for a more streamlined Tour of our 20+ pages.

March 1, Started to modify the Troop 173 pages to fit a proposed location, WWW.BSATroops.org

October 1, 2002
For reasons boyond Troop 173's control,
(Known only to Pack 173's old Packmaster)
the Domain name BSA173.org expired,
and the joint Pack & Troop 173 :http://bsa173.org
website was closed for good.
The Entries below this line, were from that site and
no longer function as shown.

9/22/01 JWCSR's Campmaster 2001-2002 page
9/18/01 Troop 173 Calendar updated,
Monroe County pages added to bsa173.org site Links page
3/29/01 Scouting Webring re-activated on http://bsa173.org/troop/index.html#wrings
3/28/01 Added Scouting-Related Historical Sites section to bsa173.org/links page
3/21/01 Added Local BSA HQ: Otetiana Council'sForms Library link to bsa173.org/docs page
3/18/01 Updated our bsa173.org site Links page
3/17/01 Required Merit Badges Page modified (outsourced) so that USSSP.com and
MeritBadges.com are now the sources of badge data to stay current and up to date.
12/14/00 The page wcsropen.htm showed what was open at JWCSR
11/1/200 Bob Phillips' winter pictures of Camp Cutler, added to the Buildings of JWCSR page

9/1/2000 Troop 173's 2000 -2001 Calendar installed
7/4/2000 Modified Links to our local council's new site: otetiana.org instead of National BSA site (above the bar)
8/22/2000 Campmaster's Page updated
5/8/00 Jesse Doud becomes New Scoutmaster, Leader page needs to be updated.
3/14/2000 Added Pete Collinger's Unofficial History of Massaweapie and Re-union Page
1/26/2000 Added Buildings of JWCSR page to the J. Warren Cutler Scout Reservation suite

1/19/00 Added Map to JWCSR (/images/map2wcsr.gif) to ../troop/wcutler.htm page .
that shows people where JWCSR is and how to get there.
1/12/00 Reconfigured Troop 173's Scrap Book showing small photos until clicked-on.
1/3/00 Added the "Other patrols"& PL list to the WB NE-V-126 OWLs Comm page .
12/26/99 "Troop Site Red Tour Buttons" installed above the "Red Line".
12/18/99 List of Former Scoutmasters of Troop 173 page installed.
12/17/1999 All of the Data for the Various WCSR Page(s) updated to current Council data.
12/14/99 Steve added Site Guest Book access to/from the Troop173 Homepage
12/12/99 JLTC Page added to the JWCSR pages& page sequence established /w buttons
12/11/1999 The 5 J.Warren Cutler Scout Reservation pages, where updated to December Otetiana Council's Smoke Signals newsletter. Also "Page #'s"(with back & forward symbols) were added to both the OWL NEST pages and the WCSR pages to facilitate easier movement.
12/ 8 /99 The "WB NE-v-126 OWL NEST" was broken down into 4 pages for faster loading
12 /3/99 All of the old troop page(s) has been moved to this new site: bsa173.org

11/20/99 Troop joins Pack 173's move to this site
Every thing below this blue line was on the old Troop 173 site on Frontiernet.net

Site Change #2
6/31/99 Access to our old Home Page on Frontiernet canceled
any reference to our old site:
http://www.frontiernet.net/~jdvang/troop173/
should be changed to: http://bsa173.org/troop/

5/11/1999 1999 CPW patch replaces 1998 version on Cub Parent Weekend page. Some Icons added to index on our Troop 173 Home Page
5/6/1999 Personal Fitness brought up to National BSA's April 1 1999/2000 specs. on our Required Merit Badge Page 5/4/1999 Added Cycling Merit Badge to complete the Required MB page.
4/29/1999 Updated BSA Rank and Required MB pages to Current BSA Spec
4/6/1999 Rochester Orienteering Club added to T173 index page
10/30/1998 Cub Parent Weekend and Cub Adventure Camp page pages separated from Cutler page
10/17/1998 Otetiana Council'sCub Adventure Camp Availability List added to Unofficial Page of Camp Cutler.
9/18/1998 The OWL's NEST, Wood Badge Page added, access through Calendar or Mr. Van's MCB Page.
8/18/1998 Camp Cutler (WCSR)page and Campmaster 1998-99 schedule installed
7/19/1998 Calendar Page changed in preparation of 98-99 scouting year.
4/30/1998 Permission granted to repost our Camp Cutler (JWCSR)page.
3/29/1998 Camp Cutler page taken off-line
3/3/1998 Otetiana Council & NL District Meritbadge counselor list page deleted to make space for our Troop 173 Newsletter
2/14/1998 Our Sponsor, the GUMC's Page Created , The GUMC' s address corrected on all of our pages.
12/27/1997 Required Merit Badges for Eagle completed (all 15) & Camp Cutler page added.
Scrapbook & What's New pages updated
11/19/1997 Added: links to Old Pack 173 page
     & New link to 10/22/1997 The Scouting WebRing added to ourold Home Page.
10/10/1997 Guest page added(Access from Home page) , On Leader Page: Marty Close now Scoutmaster
9/05/1997 Corrected BSA Rank & Advancement page.
8/19/1997 Troop Calendar Page updated.
8/18/1997 Midi files removed to speed loading and to reduce IRQ conflicts.
8/17/1997 SPL's Page added, Mr. Doud, Mr. Van, Leader's, Advancement & Required Merit badges pages updated.
8/16/1997 Advancement page hyper-linked to Required Merit Badges page.
8/15/1997 Troop 173 Web site moved to our new home at Frontiernet.net

8/14/1997 Midnight: Mr Van's ISP Vivanet Went Chatper 11 and shut access to our site Without warning, forcing Troop 173 to move to our new host: (http://www.frontiernet.net/~jdvang/troop173/).