By Jim Newell

Review Editor

The Boy Scouts of America and Cub Scouts organizations have seen several changes over the past two years, most notably including girls in scouting.

But what will future generations of Lake Orion scouts learn when they open a soon-to-be buried time capsule?

Perhaps what is was like for their mothers and grandmothers to be amongst the first group of girls in Cub Scouts.

Pack 59 Cubmaster Shawn McGraw will lead a group of scouts in a short ceremony before burying a time capsule at 11 a.m. Saturday inside Fort Pontiac at Camp Agawam, 1301 Clarkston Rd.

For nearly a year, McGraw has been collecting questionnaires and photos of girls who have joined Cub Scouts. The scouts will bury these and other items for posterity. The public is welcome to attend the ceremony.

“Five years ago, no one would have said that we’d allow girls in (to Cub Scouts),” McGraw said.

Cub Scouts began allowing girls ages 5-10 to join in June 2018.

The Boy Scouts (Scouting BSA) launched a program for girls ages 11-17 to join in February 2019, according to the Boys Scouts of America website, scouting.org.

McGraw began the project as part of her Wood Badge, an advanced, national leadership course open to Scouting volunteers and professionals, designed to “develop skilled leaders who can strengthen Scouting units in achieving the mission of the Boy Scouts of America,” according to the Boy Scouts.

Hopefully, someone digs up the time capsule “many years from now” when the current crop of girls in Cub Scouts are grown, McGraw said.

Perhaps to show their own daughters that they were pioneers in scouting.