John Cook Parish
John Cook Parish | |
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| International Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America | |
John Cook Parish (-‡ 2005 to 2008[1]) was an International Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America and elected as such to the World Scout Committee.[2] At the 64th annual meeting of the BSA in May 1974, he was re-elected to the post and elected vice-president of the association.
Parish reached the rank of Eagle Scout in 1926, and was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.[3]
Parish was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.[4] He was also a 1962 recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award.
References
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-27. Retrieved 2008-08-29.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Scouting".
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-04-05. Retrieved 2014-04-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award". scout.org. WOSM. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
- Dr. László Nagy, 250 Million Scouts, The World Scout Foundation and Dartnell Publishers, 1985, complete list through 1981
External links
- "In Support of World Scouting" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-27. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
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