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21st Annual Meeting of the National Council
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On To Memphis
HERE is every
indication of a
good attend-
ance at the Annual
Meeting of the National Council, to be held in Memphis on
May 5th and 6th. This is the first time that the Annual
Meeting has been held in the south, and the National Council
members from all over the United States will have a chance
to experience a real southern welcome.
It is important that Councils make a special effort to see
that their representatives attend, because this is our twenty-
first birthday year—and the com-
ing-of-age of the Boy Scouts of
America will be the occasion of
a notable program with features
of unusual interest.
The Conference Program
The theme subject of this "21st
birthday" Annual Meeting will
be "The Nation's Tribute to
Scouting." The two luncheon
meetings and the banquet meet-
ing will have addresses from
leading personalities at home and
abroad on such subjects as "The
Tribute of the Schools" by a
leading educator; "The Tribute
of the Churches" by an outstand-
ing clergyman; "The Tribute of
the Home" by one capable of
speaking intimately of the influ-
ence of Scouting upon home life;
"The Tribute of Citizenry" by
an outstanding statesman of na-
tional reputation; "The Tribute
of Youth," by some outstanding
Scout who has grown up under
the influence of the Scout Oath
and Law; "The Tribute of the
World" by a leading representa-
tive of the International Com-
mittee; and "The Tribute of the
Romanticist, Explorer and
Woodsman," by a man capable
of expressing the place of Scout-
ing as an out-of-doors and ad-
venture movement. We are very happy to announce that al-
ready Dr. Willias A. Sutton of Atlanta, former President of
the National Education Association, has been secured to speak
for the schools. Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas, Texas, an
outstanding clergyman of the south, will speak for the churches.
Lord Hampton to Attend
A notable international figure in Scouting will attend the
Annual Meeting of the National Council in Memphis on
May 5th and 6th. Lord Hampton, Chief Commissioner of
Great Britain, will be our guest, and will deputize for
the Chief Scout of the World, Lord Baden-Powell, who
is on a Scouting tour in Australia. He will bring to us the
greetings of our brother Scouts in Europe, and in his message
in behalf of the Chief Scout, the greetings of the Scouts of
the world.
Lord Hampton, D.S.O. (Distinguished Service Order), the
Chief Commissioner of the British Boy Scouts Association,
first joined the Movement in 1911 as Assistant Scoutmaster.
Lord Hampton, Chief Commissioner of Great Britain
who will represent the Chief Scout of the World
at the Memphis Meeting
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The Twenty-First Annual Report Is Out
He w a S Com-
mandant of Olym-
pia during the see-
on d International
Jamboree in 1920, and was appointed Deputy Chief Com-
missioner at Imperial Headquarters. He was made Chief
Commissioner in 1921, which position he still holds, being
recognized as one of the outstanding personalities of interna-
tional Scouting. He was Chairman of the Committee of the
the World Jamboree in 1929, and frequently deputizes for
Lord Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout of the World.
For some years he was a mem-
ber of the Boy Scout Interna-
tional Committee, and will be
one of Great Britain's delegates
to this year's International Con-
ference at Vienna. Lord Hamp-
ton was a British delegate to
both the Third and Fourth In-
ternational Scout Conferences
and has participated actively in
them. He was awarded the Sil-
ver Cross for Life Saving in 1919
and the following year at the
Olympia Jamboree he received
the award of the Silver Wolf,
the British Scout decoration for
Distinguished Service to Boys
and comparable to the American
Scout decoration of the Silver
Buffalo.
Routine Business Will Be
Minimized
The regular business of the
Annual Meeting will be reduced
to a minimum. All of the An-
nual Reports aside from the re-
port of the President and the
Chief Scout Eecutive will be re-
duced to five minutes. This will
make possible the devotion of an
entire afternoon to group con-
ferences, and to these confer-
ences, as well as to the luncheon
meetings and the dinner meeting,
and other open sessions, all
Scouters will be eligible. This will be repeating the interest-
ing experience at the San Francisco meeting when large num-
bers of Scoutmasters, Troop Committeemen, Commissioners
and Local Council members were in attendance.
The Theme of the Group Conferences will be "Motivating
the Troop." Each discussion as far as possible should deal
with the strengthening and advancement of the Troop Pro-
gram. The following Group Conferences, together with their
subjects, and Chairmen and Advisors have been arranged for:
Council Presidents and Members of Executive Boards
—Stuart W. French, Chairman; James E. West, Advisor.
Deputy Commissioners. Scoutmasters and Troop Com-
mitteemen—G. Barrett Rich, Chairman; Harold F. Pote,
Advisor.
Troop Organization Committeemen—Charles L. Som-
mers, Chairman; George W. Ehler, Advisor.
Court of Honor Members—Colin H. Livingstone, Chair-
man; E. Urner Goodman, Advisor. (Continued on Page 30)
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