Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-28
ARTHUR 1. PEALE REELECTED BOY SCOUT COUNCIL PRESIDENT

foot scouts g second class scouts, 2s first class scouts, associate scouts total 235. g merit badge scouts. , veteran scouts. life and star scouts|and 1 eagle scout.
 Several other troops are organizing and will probably be registered by Feb. 15.
 The scoutmaste are as follows:
 Troop No. 1-Alfred A. Gobeille, scout master, United Congregational church; Robert Huggard, assistant scoutmaster; Ralph Marsh, assistant scoutmaster.
 Troops No. 2-Albert F. Eoren, scout master, Church of the Good Shepherd; Lucius P. Davis, ssistant scoutmaster.
 Troop No. S-Victor Davis, scoutmas- ter. Taftvile Congregational church; Raymond Pingree, assistant scoutmaster; George W. Meyer, assistant scoutmaster.
 Troop No. 4-Rev. Henry F. Chagnon, scoutmaster. Church of the Sacred Heart Joseph A. Waldron, assistant scoutmas- ter; John H. Keeley. assistant scoutmas- ter.
 Troop No. 5-P. J. Desmond. scoutmas- ter. St. Patrick's church.
 Troop No. S-J. B. Stanton, scoutmas- ter. Trinity Methodist church Lewis B. Mousley, assistant scoutmaster.
 1TOOp NO, I-J. L.. haulS1li SCOulIudStSt tacting), Y. NJ. H. A.
 Troop No 8-Rev Charles E. Ricketts, seoutmaster. Greeneville Congregational church; Allan Brown, assistant scout master.
 Troop No. 9-Rev. E. c. Dunbar, scout master, First Baptist church; Lawrence Browning, assistant scoutmaster.
 Troop No. 10--Alfred Adj, scoutmas- ter. St. Patricks church.
 Troop No. 12-Jonathan L. Johnson, scoutmaster, Park Congregational church William H. Latham. assistant scoutmas- ter; H. DowHer J0iaEso77i. 5T., assistant sceutmaster.
 Troop No. 15-Albert T. Fairbanks, scoutmaster, Christ Episcopal church.
 Troop No. 1, Plainfefd-Philip R. Peterson. scoutmaster, Congregational church; Milton Winsor, assistant scout master.
 Troop No. 2, Wilbur Devoe, Wilfred LaCourse, assistant scoutmaster.
 Council Members and Committees.
 We have enrolled as council members S4 citizens serving on 13 committees. Fifty citizens of Norwich are serving as merit badge examiners. There has been the following meetings of the commit tees:
 Six executive committee meetings 1 civic service committee meeting, 1 scout extension committee meeting, 4 camp committee meetings, 4 court of honor meetings, finance committee meetings, 1 Sea Scout committee meeting, leader ship and training committee meeting. The regional executive, R. N. Berry, has made two visits during the past year and Assistant Regional Executive ". E. Brown aided in the financial campaign. Scout Headquarters. Room 2S. Shannon building, is occupied as the scout executives headquarters. Badges, insignia. scoutmasters' hand | books, Boy Scout handbooks and diaries are sold at cost. Various troops have i contributed samples of their scoutcraft and handfcraft which is placed on exhibi tion there Pamphlets and literature con corning the Boy Scout movement are or hand for free distribution. l The office is open from SIP and from 1-5 daily. Scouts, officials and parent. are invited to visit the executive ire quently.
 l During the F months there has beer l 1,476 visitors at headquarters; 3,346 let ters and circulars have been sent out ant 1 about 4.000 pieces Of mail have been re ceived. An employment bureau fo scouts has been established and freuuen calls have~been made for scouts to worl 1 for compensation. -
 A scout bulletin of notices, activities etc. is sent monthly, each scout receivin, a copy. Seventeen editions have bee distributed to date.
 l. The executive made 47 official visits | I troops during 1922
 The executive took part in ii hike with scouts and officials
 The scout executive was sent by coun cii to the biennial national scout confer
 eRce at Blue Ridge, N. C.. for two weeks This was the greatest scout conference
 both in numbers and in educational value
 ever held; 450 executives were present.
 Sea Scouts.
 School Troop and Sea Scouting Com
 mlttee: Chairman. Henry G. Peck; Her
 bert B. Cary, Frederick B. Craven
 Charles V. James, William IF. Mannine Sea Scouting has been continued dur
 ing the year and the troop met in tn Chamber of Commerce rooms until .th resignation of Skipper Craven. Chair
 man Henry G. Peck of the Shippin Board and the scout executive have bee
 promised assistants from the Subtna
 rine Base by Captain Berrien.
 < Court of Honor, T Chairman, Prof. Henry A. ITirreIl
 Rev. A. H. Abbott, Gresrenor Ely, Re, r William A. Keefe, pr. L. F. LaPierr, John F. Rogers, Howard l.. Stanton, Three Courts of Honor were held dul i, ing 1922. February, June and Oetobe,
 at the mayors office, in the city hal :. Also Court of Honor was held a 7 Plainfield, Sunday, November 18th, 2 : which were present the scout executiV
 and Messrs. Peale, Young, Packer. i. The honorary tenderfoot scout wa conferred upon Hon. Mayor Waters an "Occuma Fielding, Medicine Man of tr Mohegans at the October Court of Hor or.
 :. There were awarded 132 Merit Badge ito 22 Scouts in SS. subjects as follows Agriculture, automobiling, athletics, be
 keeping, bird study botany, camping
 carpentry, chemistry, civics, conserve tion. cooking, craftsmanship, cyclin " electricity, firemanship, first aid, first al i to animals, forestry, handicraft, hikini Interpreting, leather working, life sal ing. craftsmanship, mining, painting T pathfnding, personal health, physic, ? development, pioneering. poultry keepin scholarship, signaling, swimming, wirt s less.
 There were awarded at these. Court : of Honor: Four Camp Tippecan prize 2S camp letters, 6 training course eel n tihcates, 50 pet show prizes. The Ferg1 s son challenge cup to Troop No. l, for tf
 highest rank at the annual inspection n troops.
 Boy Scout Services. e Civic Service committee: Chairman, I ' M. Lerou; Rev. U. 0. Bellerose, Jam, 2 l.. Case, James c. Macpherson, Johl ' IO'Rourke Hon. T. Murphy. 2 At a meeting of the above commit, 2 2 the following policy of the Scout Sc Y vice was adopted: