Get an early start for sandwich reorders from past customers! Selling subs now will help you save for Summer Camp and other weekend events.

• Subs and Sandwiches are made fresh by Shultz’s Delicatessen
• Please make checks payable to: St. Joseph Boy Scout Troop 103
• Order and Money Due Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2018
• Distribution Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 (Pickup between 3:30PM and 5:45PM)

Click here for this month’s form: Sub Sale Form

Get an early start for sandwich reorders from past customers! Selling subs now will help you save for Summer Camp and other weekend events.

• Subs and Sandwiches are made fresh by Shultz’s Delicatessen
• Please make checks payable to: St. Joseph Boy Scout Troop 103
• Order and Money Due Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2018
• Distribution Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 (Pickup between 3:30PM and 5:45PM)

Click here for this month’s form: Sub Sale Form

Tonight’s Troop meeting has been cancelled because of snow.

A copy or photo of your Sub Sale Orders that were due tonight can be emailed to rzinn@zinnware.com

There will be no foil wrap gathering tonight.  Other volunteers will cut the flower foil wrap for this weekend.

On Saturday, Scouts should report to the church promptly at 8AM to help setup tables and process flowers.

BSA Troop 103 Scouts, Parents & Committee:

Please join us next Saturday in Washington DC for Smithsonian – A Day at the Museums.  Itinerary, Packing List and Permission Slip are attached.  Please RSVP so we can ensure adequate seating.  Thank you,

- Jeff

Troop 103 scouts attend the Skyzone Trampoline Park.

Click here to view photos of the event.

Get an early start for sandwich reorders from past customers! Selling subs now will help you save for Summer Camp and other weekend events.

• Subs and Sandwiches are made fresh by Shultz’s Delicatessen
• Please make checks payable to: St. Joseph Boy Scout Troop 103
• Order and Money Due Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2018
• Distribution Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 (Pickup between 3:30PM and 5:45PM)

Click here for this month’s form: Sub Sale Form

Get an early start for sandwich reorders from past customers! Selling subs now will help you save for Summer Camp and other weekend events.

• Subs and Sandwiches are made fresh by Shultz’s Delicatessen
• Please make checks payable to: St. Joseph Boy Scout Troop 103
• Order and Money Due Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2018
• Distribution Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 (Pickup between 3:30PM and 5:45PM)

Click here for this month’s form: Sub Sale Form

Troop 103 has earned GOLD status for three consecutive years. “Scouting’s Journey to Excellence” is the BSA’s council performance recognition program designed to encourage and reward success and measure the performance of our units, districts, and councils. It is meant to encourage excellence in providing a quality program at all levels of the BSA.

The Troop has qualified for the Journey to Excellence Award each year since its inception and for many consecutive years prior with the Quality Unit Award that was replaced by the Journey to Excellence Award.

Troop 103 is proud of providing and offering an excellent Scouting Program that provides opportunities to our youth to experience the outdoors and grow both morally and physically into strong leaders of the future.   This scout led program is a partnership of both youth and adults.

In 2017, the Troop excelled in the following award objectives:

1. Planning and Budgeting.  The scouts plan activities for the entire year at a planning outing each year.  Our planning calendar is published on our website. 
2. Retention of scouts in the troop
3. Long-Term Camping Participation (70% participation rate)
4. Service Projects:  The Troop Participated in over 18 Service projects that benefited the community without any financial benefit to the Troop or scouts.
5. Following the Patrol Method.  The troop has patrols, and each has a patrol leader.  Our Troop’s youth leadership includes a Senior Patrol Leader and his assistant, We have patrols that are led by a Patrol Leader.  The Troop also elects many other officers including the Scribe, Quartermaster, Librarian, etc..  The youth leadership (Patrol Leaders Council) meets each month.
6. Leadership and Family Engagement.  Troop 103′s leadership is made up of 20 adult leaders with well over 400 years of combined experience.  It includes a Scoutmaster and his 4 Assistant Scoutmasters.   The Troop is fully supported by 15 additional committee members.
7. Trained Adult Leaders: All adult leaders including all committee members are fully trained in their positions.  Three members of our leadership have also taken a week-long Wood-badge training.   Multiple members of the committee support the district in planning and executing district activities. 

Scouts are challenged to defeat and escape from a room at Escape Confusion located at downtown Hanover.

When: Monday 1/15/2018 at 7pm
The various rooms are carefully crafted with unique themes and each puzzle is designed to fit the experience and enhance your escape. You’ll have just 60 minutes and once you’re in there, you’ll see how fast the clock can tick! What do you think? Do you have what it takes?
Can you Escape Confusion?

• Permissions Slip

This is the first sub-sale of the season. Wrap up selling subs now and save for Summer Camp and other weekend events.

• Subs and Sandwiches are made fresh by Shultz’s Delicatessen
• Please make checks payable to: St. Joseph Boy Scout Troop 103
• Order and Money Due Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2018
• Distribution Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 (Pickup between 3:30PM and 5:45PM)

Click here for this month’s form: Sub Sale Form

The Exchange Club of Hanover, Pennsylvania presented Mathew Nawn, our Senior Patrol Leader with the “Young Citizenship Award” for the First Quarter of the School Year. Matthew appears to the right in the attached photo along with another student in the Hanover Public School District. More information about the Exchange Club and youth awards/scholarships may be found at http://www.hanoverexchangeclub.com/index.html.

The Exchange’s Young Citizenship Award rewards worthwhile, hard working youths at the middle school level. This program is designed to honor pre-high school students who daily demonstrate good citizenship both at school and at home. It does not necessarily seek to salute star scholastic or athletic performers. Instead, it singles out and encourages young people who, although they may not be at the head of their class, are hones, hard-working, helpful and fair. Students are selected by their teachers and are given an application to submit for the award.

Click Here!

The 2018 Calendar is now available on our Troop’s website.

Christmas caroling at Hanover Hall is scheduled for this coming Tuesday, December 12, 2017. Please meet at Hanover Hall (267 Frederick Street) at 6:30 pm. We will be caroling with Pack 103 and should be finished by 8 pm. Parents & siblings are invited!

This evening (11/14//2017) Troop 103 Life Scout Tommy Seymour was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout, becoming Troop 103′s 84th Eagle Scout. 

Tommy is a senior at Hanover Senior High School and is looking forward to a career as an author and English teacher.  Tommy’s Eagle Scout Service Project consisted of renovating the St. Joseph Church Prayer Path/Garden, which had been vandalized and fallen into disrepair.  The Prayer Path/Garden was created by Anthony Eltz, Troop 103′s 68th Eagle Scout, for his Eagle Scout Service Project in 2008.

Please join me in congratulating Tommy and in thanking St. Joseph Church, the many other donors, family members, friends, leaders, scouts and others who helped make these accomplishments possible.  Please enjoy the attached photo of our proud Eagle Scout and his equally proud parents!

- Jeff

Jeffrey Rosenzweig, Scoutmaster, BSA Troop 103

Pack 103 has invited Troop 103 and siblings to the Pack’s Solar Eclipse Party this coming Monday, August 21, 2017. It will be held at the St. Joseph Church Picnic Grove pavilion from 12:45 pm – 3 pm. This party will be one small part of a national Boy Scouts of America event. There will be BSA Solar Eclipse parties all over the country (at varying times based off the Eclipse path). The partial eclipse in Hanover, PA begins at 1:17pm, is at maximum eclipse at 2:41 and ends at 3:58pm.

The Pack will have different, fun Eclipse related projects, learning lessons and refreshments during the party. There is a national BSA patch for the event; information is available at

• http://www.scouting.org/eclipse2017.aspx
• http://www.scouting.org/eclipse2017.aspx#whatcando.

Please contact Erik Scott if you are interested in the event as the Pack would like to get an estimate of Scouts and siblings at the events. You may reach Erik at sfccasper@gmail.com or 717-476-0732.

Scouts of Troop 103 attended the week-long summer camp at the Rodney Scout Reservation located near North East, Maryland.

Click Here to view photos of the event.

Play All – The 2017 Florida Sea Base Playlist

Select Specific Day of the Event

Select any one of the individual videos below:

Click Here!

The 2017 Calendar is now available on our Troop’s website.

Troop 103 has achieved Gold Level status for the 2016 Journey to Excellence Award.  ”Scouting’s Journey to Excellence” is the BSA’s council performance recognition program designed to encourage and reward success and measure the performance of our units, districts, and councils. It is meant to encourage excellence in providing a quality program at all levels of the BSA.

The Troop has qualified for the Journey to Excellence Award each year since its inception and for many consecutive years prior with the Quality Unit Award that was replaced by the Journey to Excellence Award.

Troop 103 is proud of providing and offering an excellent Scouting Program that provides opportunities to our youth to experience the outdoors and grow both morally and physically into strong leaders of the future.   This scout led program is a partnership of both youth and adults.

In 2016, the Troop excelled in the following award objectives:

1. Planning and Budgeting.  The scouts plan activities for the entire year at a planning outing each year.  Our planning calendar is published on our website. 
2. Membership Growth Plan
3. Retention of scouts in the troop
4. Webelos-to-Scout transition
5. Advancement
6. Short-Term Outings (Nine outings)
7. Long-Term Camping Participation (70% participation rate)
8. Service Projects:  The Troop Participated in over 18 Service projects that benefited the community without any financial benefit to the Troop or scouts.
9. Following the Patrol Method.  The troop has patrols, and each has a patrol leader.  Our Troop’s youth leadership includes a Senior Patrol Leader and his assistant, We have patrols that are led by a Patrol Leader.  The Troop also elects many other officers including the Scribe, Quartermaster, Librarian, etc..  The youth leadership (Patrol Leaders Council) meets each month.  
10.   Leadership and Family Engagement.  Troop 103′s leadership is made up of 20 adult leaders with well over 400 years of combined experience.  It includes a Scoutmaster and his 4 Assistant Scoutmasters.   The Troop is fully supported by 15 additional committee members.  
11. Trained Adult Leaders: All adult leaders including all committee members are fully trained in their positions.  Three members of our leadership have also taken a week-long Wood-badge training.   Multiple members of the committee support the district in planning and executing district activities.