Promises of Scouting

Scout Master Message

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SCOUTING promises you the great outdoors.  As a Boy Scout, you can learn 
how to camp and hike without leaving a trace and how to take care of the land.   There are plenty of skills for you to master, and you can teach others what you have learned.  Everyone helping everyone else - that's part of Scouting, too.

SCOUTING promises you friendship.  Members of the troop you join 
might be boys you already know, and you will meet many other Scouts along the way.  Some will become lifelong friends.

SCOUTING promises you opportunities to work toward the Eagle Scout rank.  You will set goals for yourself and then follow clear routes to achieve them.

SCOUTING promises you tools to help you make the most of your family, your community,and your nation.  The good deeds you perform 
every day will improve the lives of those around you.  You will be pre- 
pared to help others in time of need.

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Hi I am Ted Miller Scout Master of Troop 45. I am a life long resident of Glen Ellyn, avid outdoorsman and have spent many years in the corporate world training leadership ideas and methods. There is no better leadership program for boys than the Boy Scouts of America and the only way for the scouts to get the experience and build leadership skills is to be boy led. At Glen Ellyn Troop 45 the scouts run the troop, choosing their own leaders, planning outings, choosing menus for campouts and program themes.

This Website is created and managed by our Webmaster who is currently working on his Star rank.

Troop Historian Notes

Highest Rating

JTE Gold for 2018, 100% trained Scouters

​Our

Scouts

Boy-led NYLT trained

Our Aim

Character Development,Citizenship,Personal Fitness. 

2020

December - Pancake Breakfast
November - We shots rockets off at the Robert H Bong Recreation area

June – Troop 45 went just north of the Wisconsin Dells for another amazing summer camp. This year, just like last year, we went to Camp Freeland Leslie for a week. However, it was decided that we would be leaving on Friday instead of Saturday, as Saturday was the Fourth of July. Due to the pandemic, it would be a little different this year, and masks and social distancing would be enforced. When we arrived around 2:00 PM, we quickly began setting up tents before the opening ceremony. On Monday, when we woke up, we had breakfast and went to the first merit badge session. Though we normally got to choose our merit badges, COVID-19 had forced the camp to change it so that each troop went to one program area for about 3 hours each morning and afternoon. On Monday, the activities were Nature and Stagecraft. On subsequent days, the activities would be New Frontiers and Shooting Sports on Tuesday, Scoutcraft and the nature hike on Wednesday, and on Thursday, Eagle’s Nest and Aquatics. On Wednesday, we held our 37th annual Rubber Chicken cooking competition. The patrols made teriyaki chicken (Flaming Arrow), chicken nuggets (with many other things in a stunning three course meal, made by King Cobra) and chicken alfredo (which was made by Comanche, my patrol). Comanche won for the first time in 6 years, which gave us the opportunity to shoot the chicken at the range. On Thursday evening, we had a hilarious closing ceremony before we left. On Friday, we packed up throughout the day, and took a break from the intense heat by jumping in the lake for 2 or so hours. After that, we left and returned to the Scout room in Glen Ellyn. 

February – Troop 45 travelled to Cascade Mountain Ski Resort, near the Wisconsin Dells, for the annual skiing campout. We arrived around 8:00 PM, and soon set up our sleeping bags in the cabins. On Saturday, we cooked breakfast, and drove to the mountain. After getting our skis, we were briefly told to stay with a buddy before separating. A small group of people (myself included) earned part of the Winter Sports merit badge. We had a small break for lunch around noon before returning. As the park had runs with many different difficulties, everyone did something different. Many of the older Scouts tried to do every black diamond (hard run) in the park, and nearly succeeded. We then soon returned to the cabins for dinner. My patrol made pasta with alfredo sauce (the sauce would come in handy in summer camp), which was amazing. Soon after, we went to sleep again. When we woke up, we packed up and left. 

January - Planning Campout

2019

October – Troop 45 went to Churchill Woods, near Glen Ellyn, for the Fall Classic, an important campout. We arrived on October 25th at about 6:30 PM. After setting up our tents, some of the Scouts hatched a plan to have a fire for 24 hours. The fire was lit around 9:30 PM, after which Scouts either went to bed or watched the fire. Overnight, a mammal dubbed “Rehan Raccoon” made several appearances to the joy of the Scouts watching the fire. After breakfast on Saturday, we started setting up many activities for the Webelos, who were coming to check out the troop. Some of these activities were a monkey bridge and the Ga-Ga Ball pit. The adults also strung up some turkeys for dinner. It soon started drizzling, but a little water could not stop the Boy Scouts. We soon had lunch, and the Webelos arrived. We did our first aid skits, talked about Boy Scouts with the Webelos, and hung out by the fire, as the rain was now coming down with more intensity. During this time period, Scoutmaster Miller announced that we would be sleeping at home tonight. At about 6:30, we had dinner, which was turkey, mashed potatoes, fruit salad, and rolls. Everything was prepared by the adults. Between dinner and when we left. After we returned and had an extensive cleanup, we left on Sunday morning at about 10:00.

Sept -– The troop went to Mississippi Palisades State Park near Savanna, IL for a weekend campout. We arrived on Friday the 13that about 10:00 pm and set up the tents and dining flies. Afterwards, we played some fun card games and went to bed. On Saturday, we got up early and had a delicious breakfast and went to the Twin Sisters for rock climbing and a chance to get the Climbing merit badge. We climbed up and rappelled down an about 30-foot tall peak. It was really fun to climb on actual rock. 3 Scouts and I found a trail that summited the peak, we later used it to ascend for rappelling. After a long time, we left, but not before some Scouts got the badge. After dinner, we had a small campfire. On Saturday night, there were huge thunderstorms. Most of us didn’t get any sleep. We left on Sunday morning at 9:00, and stopped along the way at a place called Lookout Point for a good view of the Mississippi River. Overall, it was amazing except for the storms.

Aug -Swimming Camp out at Potato Creek

July -White water rafting and visit to Notre Dame

June - CFL Summer Camp

May - Maquketa Caves!

April - Amazing Race campout

March- We hiked and explored White Pines SP.

Feb- We skied Apline Lodge in Wis

Jan - We each present an idea to the troop which means we discuss 30 ideas and pick 10. We cabin camped but spent lots of time outside making fires and exploring the woods

2018

Nov - 
We went to Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc,Wisconsin for a sub camp out. Thankfully it was not active but I got water sickness, 3 scouts helped me out. Before we arrived at the museum we had pizza at pizza hut .We watched a movie, took a tour around and then we went over the rules, it was fun. Manitowoc built 28 submarines during WW2 that were floated down the mississippi to the gulf of mexico. The submarine division was called silent service as it wasn't talked about to keep them safe . The sub that we stayed on USS Cobia is the most intact submarine in the nation and has the oldest working radar in the world . All of the scouts grabbed our stuff and set up and slept on bunks in the sub, I slept on a top bunk.  When we woke up it was with a dive, dive, dive alarm. The Scouts got down the bunks and cleaned up our stuff. Next we ate breakfast in the conference room in the museum. After that there was time from 15 min- 30 minutes to explore. Things we experienced was a submarine simulator, sea rover, model submarines and the water room.

Oct - Troop 45 went to Church Hill Woods for the Fall Classic. The Fall Classic is when Arrow of Light scouts come to checkout our troop. When the new boys came they explored a little.10-15 minutes later we gathered up into patrols to do first aide skits. After all of the scouts went to each patrol we did circle up. Once we were done we had a little break we played on the Monkey Bridge and had 27 games of GaGa Ball. A lot of scouts had to leave, but we had dinner and we had 3 turkeys that were cooking all day. Next to that was 15 lbs. of mashed potatoes. and for desert we had 6 dump cakes and after the camp out we had burned 1 cord of wood and I think we all had a great time. - LG

Sept - Bike Trip

Aug - Canoe Wisconsin River

July - High Adventure backpacking on the SHT due to Philmont fire.

July - Road America

June - Summer Camp Tomahawk

May - Von Buran State Park sand dunes and lake Michigan.

April - Fishing Campout at Chain of Lakes

March - Backpacking Shawnee Nation Forest. 

March - Low COPE at Rainbow Scout Reserve

February - Added 14 new scouts - our Troop is now at 41 scouts.

January - Scouts presented 25 campout idea and chose the top 11 for 2018. Also chse to do the Luge in 2019.

2017

Dec. - Pancak Breakfast - over 500 people served in 4 hours!!  

Nov - Rocket Campout, We shot over 30 rockets at Richard Bong Forest Preserve.

Pancake Ticket Sales - Congrats to Michael Miller for Leading the troop with top sales. 

Oct - Chanonee Recruiting Event for new souts. 

Sept - Devils Lake Scramble while older scouts did rock climbing

Aug - Wisconsin River pick any sand bar and camped twice. 23 mile trip.

July - Miner revenge bikes through the middle of a cooper mine.

June - Tomahawk Summer Camp was awesome. 

May - Got rained out but the PLC pulled a magic trick and we went to Harley Davidson Museum and earned engineering merit badge.

April - Warren Dunes was fun but had to endure some rain Friday night

March - We went to White Pines and set a record for camping at 24 degrees.

Feb 24- We went skiing up at Cascade mountain, lots of fun on the slopes!

Jan 28- Our planning campout was a success, we made presentations and voted for the next year. Here are the years campouts:

      January - Planning Campout

      Febuary - Ski Campout

      March - Starved Rock - Camping
      April - Warren Dunes - Hiking
      May - Greene Valley Naperville - Wilderness         survival
      June - Tomahawk
      July - Miner Revenge Bike Race, Greenland         MI UP
      Aug - Canoe Wis River
      Sept - Devil's Lake Climbing
      Oct - Fall Classic
      Nov - Rocket Building - Bong Recreation Area
      Dec - Tivoli lock-in

2016

Dec 3- Troop 45 pancake breakfast! Yum!

 - Eagle Cave Campout was extremely fun sleeping in the caves!

 - Fall Classic. We got our merit badges and other awards!

 - ILST

 - Three Fires Training

Sept 24 - We did a high rope COPE course and zip lines at RSR! 

August 3- Space Jam camp out was attended

July 17 - High adventure canoeing the Boudary Waters - BWCA

July 14 - Backpacking Adventure in Porcupine Mountains

June 26- July 2nd: Boy Scout Summer Camp Was Attended

June 11 New eagle Boy Scout, Kyle Larson, Had his eagle ceremony

May 31 - New patrol flags were made

May 15 - A 40 mile bike trip was made by the troop.

April 23 - Grant Pilgramidge in Galena. Most of won the History Trail medal.

March 11 - Pioneering Campout at Von Oven. We all used lashings to make some cool structures

Feb 3 Luge in Muskegon and stayed at Owasipee

Jan 21 - Planning Campout- All scouts presented an idea and we picked which one fit into our program features.

Dec - Laser tag and white elephant gifting.

Nov. Mr Miller becomes our Scout Master.