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36 WILMETTE LIFE January 3~. 1930 BOY SCOUT NEWS of the NORTH SHORE TROOPS Honoring A Scout Hero A ttgular feature pagt ptep·ttd each week by membetl of the Boy Scout Pteu club, North Shore Area Council N ationa/ Scout Head Addresses 650 at Banquet \\'alter \V. Head, president of the National council, Boy Scouts of America, addressed a group of over 650 Scout leaders, p--!·uents and friends at the annual banquet of the North Shore Area council, held at New Trier High school Friday night, January 24. The banquet '"·ith its national guests, its impressive program, its surprising featun's, and its large attendance marked a hi~h spot in north shore scouting. Every one of the twenty-five communities of the council were well represented. Half Day, located in the furthest corner of the area and one of the smallest of scouting centers, had thirteen Scouting friends present. Other communities showed similar Scouting spirit. The banquet opened with Bugler Henry Eggert of Troop 13, Kenilworth, sounding "Assemble." The Rev. Vere V. Loper of Wilmette pronounced the invocation and after a verse of "America" all were seated. 'fhe Winnetka Scout Drum corps under the leadership ()f Robert Meleney soon started the drums a rolling into marching time as the uniformed Scouts of Troop 13, Kenilworth brought on the food. Winnetka Sea Scouts from the ship Albatross, of which Ralph jaeger is skipper; were on deck with a couple of snappy ~ea chanties. All of them wore the ()fficial white Sea Scout uniforms and made a fine appearance. \.Vith the aid of M. E. Hosking at the piano, Carl McManus led the group in a selection of old time songs. Troop 13 then came on the sc~ne again to demonstrate a fire by flmt and steel contest. 1.·· K ar I D . n.mg, prest·d ent o f t 1 1e N art 1 1 Shore Area council and chairman oi the dinner, introduced executive board members of the council and visitors. \Vatter Kiplinger, Scout executive oi Region Seven, and U. E. Goodman, executive of Chicago council, both brought a short message to the group. Myron C. Rybolt, the Scout executive. was commended highly hy council offi cers for the fine progress of the coun cil. Charles A. Steele of the executin: board declared the wi\'es of all scout masters, assistant scoutmasters, and commissioners honorarv Scout leaders and had the ltaders pit; on their wives the oadgc oi congratulation. The Eagle Scouts, who along with scoutma ters, assistants and commissioners were gue ts, W('re all given recognition. An important part of the t\·cning\ busines~ wa~ tht t:lt~ction of the ofticers for the new year. Albert P. Snitc, chairman of the nominating- committee, reported tht nomination of Grn. Robert E. \\ood .of Highland Park, honorary pre~id~nt; Morton J. Traub of High·land Park as president: James H.. G(·l'tz of \\"innctka, a Scout Cl);mnissioner and Dan G. Stiles of \\'ilmette, treasurer . All were elected. The new president took the chair. Then came a surprisl' of the evening when Karl D. King and Albert P. Snite, retiring officers were awarded Scout statuettes by Henry Fowler. chairman of finance committee. The banquet was then adjourned to the school auditorium in the adjoining room. A remarkable demonstration in preparedness was praised highry by Walter W. Head as he awarded to Billy Lardner of Glencoe Troop 22 a life saving medal for saving, through Scout Executive to Mobilize All Scouts on Feb. 7 Myron C. Rybolt, Scout executive announces that sometime after 2:30 p. m. on Saturday, February 8, a call will go out to every scoutmaster in the North Shore Area council to mobilize his troop, prepared with first aid equipment for emergency action. As minimum equipment every patrol should have at least one improvised stretcher and as many first aid kits as .Possible. Each scoutmaster will he told to mobilize his troop at a certain place ,~·here furtlu-r inf(2.f!]ation will he given the troop as to what is expected. A most interesting and thrilling time is planned and no Scout will want to miss out on any of it, it is stated. The district commissioner in each cnmmu11ity will be in charge. Awards will be made to all troops mobilizing 70 percent of their membership for this event. Scouts should he \\·caring their uniforms so they arc ready for immediate response to the call. Each troop will need to work out its own systenf of notifyinfl each Scout in the troop as soon as the scoutmaster receives the word. Each community will have its own place of mobilization. , (Photo by Carlos) I I Billy Lardner, Scout of Troop 22, Glencoe, was just about the "whole · e council, Boy show" at the annual banquet and ~eeting of tJ:le North ShorScouts of America, at New Trier High school last week. Billy, you will recall, rescued a little girl from drowning last summer. Here we view him as the proud recipient of a gold medal presented by no less a personage Broadcasting Chains Plan than Walter W. Head, national president of the Boy Scouts of America. Reading left to right: H.Mry \V. Stannard, Glencoe Scout chairman· Mr. Scout Birthday Programs Head, Billy, Mrs. Alice C. Lardner, Billy's mother, and Lewis Birdsall, ~atrol Through the cortesy of the two naleader of Troop 22. tion-wide broadcasting companies, unusual facilities at:e to be available this anniversary week for a Boy Scout proartificial respiration, the life of a two gram of the air. Twenty Years of year old girl, Virginia Dean of Chicago, On Saturday evening, February 8. 1 · h d 1 · ast summer. B"ll 1 y s mot er an us Boy Scouts · · over the network of the National patrol leader, Lewts Btrdsall, were Broadcasting company, the Scout oath called to the platform to share with and law will be presented by a national By James E. West Billy the congratulation of National speaker. whom it is hop~d "':ill be Presi~ HE Boy Scouts of America on headquarters·. dent \Valter W. Head, Chicago. February 8 celebrate their "A Pageant of Progres~" was the Over the chain of the Columbia twentieth birthday. During those next feature of the program. This was Broadcasting company, between 8:30 twenty years nearly four million acted by a group of Scouts portraying and 9 o'clock, there ·will be a 'Scout boys have called themselves Scouts the council progress in the past year. in this country alone. pro~ram of half hour's duration, inand at the same time depicting the clt!dmg Dr. John H. Finley, associate It is hard to imagine a time principles of Scouting as they arc alive cdttor of the Ne'vv York Times. This when this organization did not in the hearts of boys today. program includes selections by Seyexist, so much have Scouts beThe climax of the evening program n~our's, ~oy Sco~t Ba.nd of Brooklyn, come part of our everyday life. was the National council president's N. Y. . 1 hese. natton-wtde hook-ups will Yet the Scout movement is young address. He reycaled manv interesting m~k~ It posstble for Scouts and Scout in our national life. The oldest of and impressive feat.n res of Scouting offictals to plan to tune in in every our first Boy Scouts arc todav not which gave a clear and fine understandpart of the United States. even middle-aged. · ing of· the greater significance of the From the very first, Scouting mo,·ement. He especially praised the Wilmette Cong'l Troop has gripped the imagination of the scoutmasters and leaders for their inAmerican boy. It slipped into his teresting service to Scouting. The proGets Charter Duplicate everyday life as if it had been gram was closed with re-dedication of Frank \Vilson of \Vilmette Congrethere since the beginning of the ~.II present to the Scout oath and la\v, gational church Troop 2 committee new world. And, indeed, it had led 1H' Eagle Scout Fred Reichardt of recently received from National head ~ been. That was the secret and Highland Park. quarters a duplic_ate of the original charm of it. It was not something troop charter which had been lost. Thi-. new we had to learn about. ScoutTroop 17 Represented at old char~~r. date~l for the year 1921. ing and pioneering instincts had to <>hnws \\ tlltam E .. Cook, who is now be in the blood of the American Annual Council Banquet s~outmaster, asststant scoutmaster. settler. He needed them first to Frida~·. January 24. at l\kw Trier 1 he troop no\y has . hanging on keep his scalp; later to push out there was a banquet for the Scouts and the wall of thetr meetmg room in in that restless drive that swept parents of the north shore. It started ~he church basen:ent framed charters across the continent. at 6:30 p. m. After the dinner some or eac.h of the nme consecutive years So really there has been no genScouts put on a pageant. After the of. thetr very active existence. Mr. eration of American boys that pageant was over Billy Lardner was W1ls<;m, who has been committeeman have not "pl~red at Scouts." awarded a life saving badge for saving for ~tght years, presented the old chara little two year old girl. The dnnn Scouting is the old American !er to the troop at last Tuesday's meetcorps played during the dinner. I think mg. game for a new day. That "is the P.verybody had . a lot of fun. Several reason it grips t,JS. That is why it of our Scouts were in the drum corps has been for twenty years the 'Fhe only way in which one human and several other Scouts of our troop great road to romance and advenbemg can Pr?perly attempt to influwent with their parents.-C. Dunlap, ture, the great game for the en.ce another Js by encouraging him to Troop 17. American boy. tlunk for Jhtmself. T .,