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4:00 am
Thu February 21, 2013

After 35 Years, First Black Female Boy Scout Master Gets Her Due

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Scoutmaster Hall's sweater is donned with various badges representing her involvement with the Boy Scouts.
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Boy scouts learn about the history of Native Americans during their monthly Saturday workshop, held inside the Emerson Center of the Beaumont Scout Reservation.
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A scout facilitator sharpens wood for the Pinewood Derby cars. The annual race is a Cub Scout tradition that dates back to 1953.
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A Pinewood Derby car in mid-construction. The annual race is a Cub Scout tradition that dates back to 1953.
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Scoutmaster Hall greets kids with high fives during a break in their monthly workshop. She has been involved in scouting since 1977.
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Scoutmaster Hall looks on as a young scout, donning a traditional Indian headdress, listens intentely to another scout leader.
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The scouts receive instruction on first aid in how to fashion an arm sling . Monthly workshops include education on indoor and outdoor activities.
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35 years ago, Kathy Hall was a single mother of three in search of a male role model for her then 7 year-old son. She decided to enroll him in her neighborhood Boy Scout troop, under the Grand Towers district. When she found out that there were no parents whatsoever involved in the troop, she took it upon herself to carry the gauntlet, and became the den mother to about 15 young cub scouts.

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