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
- ↑ http://www.scout.org/en/content/download/11624/94866/file/Triennial_Report_EN_5.pdf
- ↑ https://books.google.fr/books?id=-UI6AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA5-PA7&lpg=RA5-PA7&dq=John+C.+Parish+bsa&source=bl&ots=q2YgzBoCZu&sig=zx-3C5mrBJ0i2C43bN554MMKMCo&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiywuiluLPKAhUKPxoKHTe0D1cQ6AEIMDAC#v=onepage&q=John%20C.%20Parish%20bsa&f=false
- ↑ http://www.scouting.org/About/FactSheets/Distinguished_EagleScouts.aspx
- ↑ https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/list complete list
- Dr. László Nagy, 250 Million Scouts, The World Scout Foundation and Dartnell Publishers, 1985, complete list through 1981
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