Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-07
HEAD OFFICERS ARE
HONORED BY CAMPS
|. |. B0AK rendered RECEP-
TION BY WOODMEN
More Than Eight Hundred Members
Attend Services Presided Over
by Visiting Officials
from Denver

More than SEQ woodmen witnessed
the services conducted by the head
camp officers of the Pacific jurisdiction
at Woodmen temple last night.
A class of 1856 candidates were initiat-
ed, the largest of its kind for some
time in Southern California.
The stations of counsel, banker and
escort were filed respectfully by /. l.
Boak of Denver, head consul of Pacific
jurisdiction; NJ. L. Moses of San Fran
cisco, past head consul; L. Clinton
veale of Pasadena, head adviser; John
H. Foley of Los Angeles, past head
consul, and Peter F. Gilroy of San
Francisco, state organizer.
Pasadena camp degree team assisted
in the ceremonies, and throughout the
service was void of hitch or error.
The camp was called to order at p.
m. by the consul of La Fiesta camp
and Immediately turned over to Head
Consul Boak.
After two hours of hard work by the
camp head officers the camp was adj
journed, formed in two sections and
marched to Elks' hall, where a. public
reception was held in honor of 1. 1.
Boak and members of the head camp.
There were delegations from the fol-
lowing camps; Santa Monica No. 906,
San Bernardino No. 1886, Pomona No.
7S9, Riverside No. SAB, Redlands No.
$50, San Luis Obispo No. 322, San
Diego, Bakersfield No. 1866, San
Pedro No. 966, Long Beach No. SSS,
Santa Ana No. 749, Pasadena No. 672,
Santa Barbara No. 613 and Fresno No.
439. Vernon and Fremont camps teams
of this city were the guard of honor.
A. o. Baily of Whittier was the tenn
porary chairman, followed by I. Clin-
ton Veale of Pasadena, who gave the
address of welcome and introduced Mr..
Boak
Addresses were made by NJ. T. Moses,
Peter F. GilrUy and others. A pleasing
program was also rendered. Billy
Howard, musical and singing come
dian; the Imperial quartet and Prof.
j. A. Zinzk, baritone singer, added to
the entertaining feature of the evening.
The head officers will attend large
class initiation at Riverside tonight.
Head Consul Boak was born Feb
ruary 2, 1860, on a farm in Central
Iowa, and the first twenty-tow years
of his life were spent amidst the work,
influence and surroundings of the
country and pioneer western life. Much
of the time, especially in the fall and
winter months, was spent in the woods
and where daily he was associated with
actual woodsmen-the kind that know
how to handle the ak, beetle and
wedge with practical results.
After securing an academic educa-
tion, at the age of Il he took up the
study of life insurance.
Mr. Boak was present at the organ
ization meeting of the Pacific jurisdic-
ton, Woodmen of the World, in 1890,
and installed it's first head camp Of
ficers A commission as general or
ganzier for the state Of California was
rendered by the late Head Consul F. A.
Falkenburg, and he held the position
from this first meeting of the head
camp to the date that his successor,
the late w. l.. Temple, was commits
stoned.
In September of 1890 he removed with
his family to California and there
spent the next six years of his life as
state organized planting the seeds of
perfected woodcraft. A majority of the
Woodmen camps in California hail
Boak as their founder.
He was elected as a member OF the
board of head managers of the order
at the session of the head camp in
Helena, Montana. in 1896. and re-
elected at the San Francisco session
in 1898.
On the resignation of Head Clerk
General ]. w. Browning, the unex-
pired term of the head cierkship was
rendered to Mr.. Boak. and he severed
his business relationships, and with his
family returned to Colorado taking
charge of the head clerks office Feb
ruary Is. 1900.
f. A, Falkenburg, the first head con-
sui of the western jurisdiction of the
order, died early in 1905, and the rep
resentatives of the membership elected
Mr.. Boak as his successor. 81