The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1923-05-04
BOY SCOUT WORK
REPORT IS MADE
BY ". D. MYERS

w. D. Myer who was appointed
Scout Executive for the council, COM
posed of Apache, Navajo, and Coco
nino counties about the first of the
year, seems to have been busy in
his territory according to the report
he has just submitted. A brief sum-
mary of this report shows the follow
ing things: The office at Flafstaff
which re found in more or less
unorganized condition, thoroughly re-
organized and system of records
installed that gives a complete record
of every registered scout to agree
with the records in the national Of
flee.
In the field he found no troop Of
ficially organized at Williams, two
troops organized at Flagstaff, with
total of thirty-tWo scouts, but with
enthusiasm and interest very low,
two troops organized at Winslow,
with a total of twenty-seven scouts,
one troop at Holbrook, organized
with a membership of eight scouts,
ScOutmaster inactive and the scouts,
practically dead, one organized troop
Of thirteen scouts at Snowflake with
a good Scoutmaster and doing good
work, one troop organized with
thirty-two scouts on paper at st.
Johns, but inactive, several other
communities where organizations had
been started but had died, giving
total of one hundred and two scouts
officially registered and functioning.
AS to work accomplished he re-
ports as follows: Completed the or
ganization of a troop of ten scouts
at Williams but has found it hard
to secure a Scoutmaster; enthusiasm
and interest increased at Flagstaff,
organization of older boys effected,
additions made to other troops bring
ing the number up to total of fifty
four scouts, and advanced seventeen
scouts to the rank of second class
scouts interested two men to the
extent of getting them to become
Scoutmasters at Winslow,N received
financial aid for the Council to the
amount of $4,000, increased enroll
ment of scouts to thirty-nine; in
creased enrolment at Snowflake
from thirteen to twenty-eight scouts,
and working for an organization at
Lakeside through Scoutmaster at
working on reOrganiza-
tion of troop at st. Johns with new
Scoutmaster and twenty-five scouts;
troop of nine scouts organized at
Showlow; troop organized at Taylor
with fifteen scouts and an additional
enrolment of seven making a total
of twenty-five scouts; troop organlZ-
ed at Eagar with ten scouts and an
additional enrolment of eleven MAX
ing a total of twenty-one scouts;
troop organization at Lakeside prac-
tically completed with ten scouts;
making a total enrolment for the
Council of two hundred and three
scouts This is only fifty less than
that of the Yavapai-Mohave Council.
The objective, as stated by the
Scout Executive, is to have the Of
flee so completely organized that
there will be at all times a complete
record of each scout, scoutmaster,
assistant scoutmaster, troop commit
teemen, council members, and expert
examiners throughout the council;
and to increase the membership
twenty percent over the present
council to organize two new troops
out of the four unorganized COM
munities where an organization is
probable; to establish Just basis
for the financial support throughout
the various communities of the COun-
Gil; to organize district committees
in the various outlying districts for
the carrying out of the Scout pro-
gram in their own district, the
chairman of these committees to be
a member of the Executive Board.
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