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The first Council President was Lyle G. Hall (1930 – 1938, 1971), the first Council Scout Executive was H. B. Knepper (1930 – 1937), and the first Council Commissioner was H. T. Gray. The name of the Council references the 13th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment , also known as “Bucktails”, a volunteer infantry regiment that was part of the ...
Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America The Ideal Scout, a statue by R. Tait McKenzie in front of the Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center, the former headquarters of the Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia Scouting portal The program of the Boy Scouts of America is administered through 248 local councils, with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a single city ...
The Covenant of the Goddess approached the BSA for recognition of these programs. The BSA declined and later adopted the policy requiring that a religious group must first charter at least 25 BSA units before its religious awards program may be recognized. P.R.A.Y. currently does not list any of the Covenant of the Goddess religious programs.
This category is intended for council-level and lower articles about the Boy Scouts of America. For BSA national level camps, see Category:National camps of the Boy Scouts of America. Please refer to WP:S-BSA for project guidelines on notability and layout for BSA articles at the council level and below.
The council headquarters is located at the Cedar Run Corporate Center, 901 E 8th Ave, Suite 103, King of Prussia, PA 19406. The council sold the Roger S. Firestone Scout Resource Center, in Wayne, Pennsylvania. The Bruce Marks Scout Resource Center in Philadelphia was built in 1929 and served as the council headquarters until 2013.
The Chester County Council was formed by a charter by the National BSA Council in 1919. It was charged with overseeing the Scouts in Chester County under the leadership of Dr. Arthur A. Schuck, who later became the third Chief Scout Executive in the BSA and who had previously been Deputy Chief Scout Executive under Dr. James West.
The Silver Beaver Award is the council-level distinguished service award of the Boy Scouts of America.Upon nomination by their local Scout council and with the approval of the National Court of Honor, recipients of this award are registered adult leaders who have made an impact on the lives of youth through service given to the council. [1]
The Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award (ESSPY) was created in 2010 to "recognize valuable service of an exceptional nature by a Scout to a religious institution, a school, community, or other entity." It is presented at council, regional, and national levels.