To the Editor:
Re “‘I Want to be a Boy Scout.’ There’s Just One Hitch” (news article, Nov. 23):
In 1979, as a Boy Scout at the International Jamboree in Sweden, I saw something truly amazing: girls! Camping, hiking, trudging through the mud as equals alongside the boys.
For decades, scouts have been fully integrated in countries all around the world. The Boy Scouts of America is a fine organization, but on this and many other issues, it struggles to adjust to the last century of progress in the world.
Let’s hope that the girls are coming, and let’s tell the boys to “be prepared”!
PETER GLICK
Sudbury, Mass.
Note from KBJ: And we all know how normal Sweden is.
