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Delegates saw BOYPOWER '76 exhibits in corridors
going to and from meetings.
Edward Belason photo
Chief of Staff (Army) William C. Westmoreland's address to packed
house highlighted recognition program.
Dominick Spilatro photo
business. In the annual business meeting at Thursday's
opening luncheon, Irving J. Feist was reelected President
of the Boy Scouts of America, and two new Vice-Presi-
dents were elected—Robert W. Reneker of Chicago, 111.,
and Roger S. Firestone, Pottstown, Pa. All other national
officers were reelected.
Seven new members were elected to the National Execu-
tive Board. They were: James E. Johnson, Washington,
D.C. (vice-chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commis-
sion); Morton D. May, St. Louis, Mo. (chairman of the
board. The May Company); Perry R. Bass, Fort Worth,
Tex. (president, Sid Richardson Foundation); Forrest N.
Shumway, Los Angeles, Calif, (president and chief execu-
tive officer, The Signal Companies); Louis W. Menk, St.
Paul, Minn, (president-director. Northern Pacific Railway
Company); Samuel R. Pierce, New York, N.Y. (outstand-
ing attorney and jurist); and Robert W. Sarnoff. New
York, N.Y. (president, Radio Corporation of America).
The opening luncheon program also included remarks
by President Feist, a brief report of 1968 activities and
accomplishments by Chief Scout Executive Alden G.
Barber, and presentation of the Lorillard Spencer Trophy
to Region 12 (recognizing the best 1968 regional gains in
boy membership, units, registration, and Boys' Life sub-
scriptions).
During the last several years, training opportunities at
National Council Annual Meetings have increased. The
Boston gathering provided a wide variety of informative
subjects on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning and
afternoon. Regardless of a delegate's Scouting position,
there was training aimed directly at his responsibility. Nat-
urally, many sessions dealt with the challenges of bringing
Scouting to boys in the hard-to-reach inner-city and rural
areas. The sessions were conducted by top volunteers from
across America.
This year's training was enhanced by the innovation of
sending agendas and outlines of the sessions to all dele-
gates before they left home. To the credit of these hundreds
of dedicated Scouters, practically all of them took ad-
vantage of this training and thus became better equipped
to fulfill their responsibilities back in their councils and
districts.
As previously mentioned, two Explorers sat in on Thurs-
day's National Executive Board Meeting. They were Tom
Fielder of Paducah, Ky., and Jim Marley of Boston. Both
young men also participated in all of the other sessions
and features of the meeting, after which they were asked
to sum up their experience in one word. "Impressive"
President Irving J. Feist tested bosun's pipe presented to him
aboard Old Ironsides in Boston harbor.
Dominick Spilatro photo
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