As the 100th anniversary of Scouting in America approaches in 2010, it is important to remember how it all began. 

As a youth, Robert Baden-Powell greatly enjoyed the outdoors, learning about nature and how to live in the wilderness. After returning as a military hero from service in Africa, Baden-Powell discovered that English boys were reading the manual about stalking and survival in the wilderness that he had written for British soldiers. Gathering ideas from Ernest Thompson Seton, Daniel Carter Beard, and others, he rewrote the manual as a nonmilitary nature skill book and called it Scouting for Boys. To test his ideas, Baden-Powell brought together 22 boys to camp at Brownsea Island, off the coast of England. This historic campout was a success and resulted in the advent of Scouting. Thus, the imagination and inspiration of Baden-Powell, later proclaimed Chief Scout of the World, brought Scouting to youth the world over.

Click below to hear the voice of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, recorded in 1910, the year that Scouting began in the United States of America.  In this recording Baden-Powell is leading a group of Wolf Cub Scouts in a cheer "DYB! DYB! DYB!, which means "Do Your Best!".  He goes on to explain the cheer and tells us the purpose of Scouting.