page_title: Harold Roe Bartle
section_title: Scouting career
hierarchical_section_title: Harold Roe Bartle / Scouting career
caption_attribution_description: English: H.Roe Bartle (c.1926) as Scout Executive of the St Joseph Council, BSA.
context_page_description: Harold Roe Bennett Sturdyvant Bartle was an American businessman, philanthropist, executive, and professional public speaker who served two terms as mayor of Kansas City, Missouri. After Bartle helped lure the Dallas Texans American Football League team to Kansas City in 1962, owner Lamar Hunt renamed the franchise the Kansas City Chiefs after Bartle's nickname, The Chief.
context_section_description: Bartle was admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1920 (before completing his correspondence degree) and worked for a Lebanon firm; he was also the Lebanon prosecuting attorney, 1920–22.  Nevertheless, Bartle's gifts were as an organizer and promoter, and he was unwilling to spend his life in the law. Bartle had supervised a Boy Scout troop in Lebanon, and in 1923–24, he accepted a position as the executive of the Cheyenne Council of the Boy Scouts of America in Casper, Wyoming, a responsibility that included oversight of the entire state. From 1925 until 1928 he held a similar position in St. Joseph, Missouri; and from 1928 until 1955, he was the Scout Executive at the Kansas City Area Council.
  In 1925 Bartle created the Tribe of Mic-O-Say, an honor camper program, in Agency, Missouri at Camp Brinton. (In 1935 it moved to Camp Geiger.) In 1929 he brought the Tribe of Mic-O-Say program to a Boy Scout Camp in Osceola, Missouri, at the time known as Camp Osceola but later named the H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation in his honor. Roe's inspiration for this program dated to his Wyoming years.
caption: H.Roe Bartle (c.1925)
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