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Welcome to the Woodward Academy Troop 631 United website!  We welcome young men and women Grade 6 to age 18 to join our Team delivering the Scouting America program. (We also invite Fifth Graders after March 1 of Fifth Grade Year -- before that Fifth Grade boys and girls should join our affiliated Cub Scout Pack 631.)

For an overview of Scouting, watch this video.  Or this one.  For contact information, please see About Us and How to Join on the menu bar on the left side of the page.  Interested in Joining?  You can contact the Scoutmaster or Troop Committee Chair.  In a Scouts BSA Troop, recognition is gained through leadership in the troop, attending and participating in its activities, living the ideals of Scouting, and proficiency in activities related to outdoor life, useful skills, and career exploration.  The methods of Scouting are Living the Ideals (like the Scout Oath and Law), Working and Leading in Patrols, Outdoor Programs, Advancement, Association with Adults, Personal Growth, Leadership Development and the Uniform, and each is important.  See our Troop Operating Manual for How We Scout in Troop 631.

Once you Login, you can access calendar information among other benefits.  Troop events for the 2024-25 program year will include a Rafting Day in August, a September Campout at Red Top Mountain with Orienteering, September Day Hike at FD Roosevelt State Park, October Campout with Backpacking intro at FDR State Park, Providence Canyon Backpacking Campout in November, and more monthly Campouts, Skills sessions, Community Service and more.  To the right is a photo of Youth and Adult Leaders from our September 2022 Court of Honor.  Many photos at this photo site.  Also at our Facebook Page.  

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Register for Troop Activities

Posted on Jun 11 2025 - 5:12pm

This is an invitation to sign up for Troop 631 events.

If you've decided NOT to do Scouts with Troop 631 and want off these emails, just  send an email to webmaster@atlanta631.mytroop.us and we'll take you off.  But read on for more ... 

Selected events upcoming include (click links for more information - need a login reminder? email webmaster@atlanta631.mytroop.us) -- we need your RSVP -- Yes, No, or "Maybe" - to confirm whether it is worthwhile to complete the event plan – stated another way, Troop Leaders need to see if enough Scouts want to go and that’s why we have Event Registration (to see if anyone wants to go) and that's why YOU need to Register either Yes, No, or "Maybe".  More in the Troop Program Elements section of the Troop Operating Manual:

More to be added ... What Do You Want To Do?
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Photos of What We Do and Will Do

Posted on Jun 8 2025 - 5:16pm

See this Photo Page for Galleries of Troop Members in Action and this page for both the Pack and Troop together.  Got Pix?  See "Photo Uploads" for a list of Upload Links for quick and easy uploading. Recent galleries that could use Photos include ... 

Questions?  Want a new Gallery?  Trying to alter / delete / create Galleries?  Email webmaster@atlanta631.mytroop.us. 

Troop Operating Manual ... or How Troop 631 Does Scouting

Posted on Jun 4 2025 - 2:39pm

How Troop 631 does Scouting (at least as seen by the Troop Chair who does not see everything and needs comments from those who see more ... so if-you-see-something-say-something) is documented so far in the Troop 631 Operating Manual and the links and resources from those pages.

  • This includes how functions have been handled and how they might be handled better into the future with greater involvement by more parents.
  • More resources can be added and corrected for future use by those who will lead Troop 631.
  • If you have updates or improvements to those pages or other resources here, please email the Webmaster at webmaster@atlanta631.mytroop.us or the Chair at chair@atlanta631.mytroop.us. 
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Ways Adults Can Help Scouts In The Troop

Posted on May 21 2025 - 4:06pm

See the Help Wanted Page, which will show you who is doing what and where we have nobody doing the tasks (or someone who is doing too many tasks so a Parent needs to step up), and that page will link you to details about how to do the job and succeed at the job, from the Troop Operating Manual. Wanna help?  Email bert.bender@alston.com.  Recent additions include: thank you to Geoffrey Brown (Quartermaster Advisor), to Gillian George for agreeing to be New Member Coordinator, Kevin Swaby and Lisa Chagala as New Member “Stuff” Coordinators, Lisa Chagala, Tameka Wimberly and Jennifer Hammonds as a "Hospitality Team", and Tim Van de Water, Wendy Hansen, Robb Wheeler, Scoutmaster Bottie-Wheeler, Teresa Musso and Bola Olagundoye as Activity Captains.  Click below for what is on the Help Wanted Page today:

Adult Leader and Parent Roles: In many years, the late spring Parent Meeting begins selection of Troop Committee Officers (Adults) for the upcoming year.

  • See the Troop Operating Manual for how the Troop Operates (revised significantly in September of 2023), and needs Adult Support to provide our Scouts with the program they deserve.
  • Job Descriptions (with detail on how to perform functions) is found in the Adult Leader Roles Appendix to the Operating Manual.

Roles and Vacancies 2025-2026 and Beyond:  Links to those jobs and functions from the Adult Leader Roles Appendix appear below with description about who is performing those functions. With updates through April 2025, current jobs and those serving are listed below, but many spots remain open.  Contact the Scoutmaster or Troop Chair if you can take any of these jobs, or any part -- NOTE: in many (but not all) cases, the person who has been doing a role will be willing to continue, with help, but in several cases, there will be a change. 

  • So if you need to step back, downsize or swap roles, let the Scoutmaster or Troop Chair know. 
    • Some roles show possible smaller roles, even though one person may be doing all of the smaller roles now. 
    • There is a value in bringing on helpers in smaller roles.
  • Also, succession in a “role” does not mean either (a) do everything the last person did, or (b) do it just like the last person did. 
    • There’s lots of ways to slice and dice, split off and/or recombine support roles, and we have evolved that over time. 
    • The key for all is to communicate among those with a hand in a function or a need to know. 
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Parent And Leader (PAL) Meeting is MONDAY -- Coffee and Cobbler

Posted on Apr 9 2025 - 5:08pm

As outlined in the Troop Operating Manual, Troop Parent And Leader (PAL) Meetings are open “all hands” meetings of Troop Parents And Leaders (Adult Leaders) and will be held from time to time as needed.  ...  Meetings are open to all parents – parents need to be involved and engaged.

Tonight's meeting -- Register Here -- is in Scoutmaster Bottie-Wheeler's backyard.  Please bring a camp chair! 

Tonight's Program as Announced by Scoutmaster Bottie-Wheeler: 

  • We will gather around the dutch oven for coffee and peach cobbler.   
  • Our main goal is to finish planning the calendar for the year. We will discuss campouts, outings and meetings.  The Troop Chair adds:
    • To help prep for that, the summary of the recent Survey is attached.  As noted in that, "Idea Groups" have been established for Backpacking, Canoeing, Cycling, and "Ocean" Water (includes wild water like rafting) - registration is open.  Each page will add some ideas, and each has an automatic email list that will include everyone who registers interest in the idea and their parents.  These will be useful in "continuing the conversation" about High Adventure and Weekend Campouts.
    • As noted in the Survey, there  is interest for those items above, but also Shooting Sports, Rock Climbing, Historic Trips (e.g. Montgomery), Fishing, Skiing, Trains, Caving, COPE, Wilderness Survival ... and more. 
    • At the last Troop Meeting, interest also for Horseback Riding (already on the calendar April 27), Go Karting (who wants to organize?),  Baseball (there is a Scout Day at the Braves May 25 -- who wants to organize?), Trees Atlanta (already on the calendar May 24), and Love Beyond Walls.
  • We will assign leadership roles for the year to help our scouts see their program through. 

More on needed Troop Team slots in the Calendar Entry.

Troop Adult GroupMe Chat

Posted on Apr 2 2025 - 3:46pm

Erin Murphy has set up a GroupMe for Troop 631 Adults to chat in a text way.  To be added to it if you are not on the chat, adults need to text Erin at 404-808-8658. 

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