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Baden Powell’s Original Wood Badge Beads from the collection of the WSM
The silver beads are cast from beads on the original Dinizula necklace given to Baden Powell. To preview and order them, please visit Silver Beads.
Venturing Knots
A set of Venturing green background knots is being offered by Craig Murray as a fundraiser for the museum.
Please stop by www.sageventure.com/store/special.html to learn more.
Books
- One World, One Promise: The Promise & Law of 500 Million Scouts
compiled by Robert Lynn Horne, M.D.
Published in 2007 - The Undaunted
by Piet J. Kroonenberg
Volume 1 was published in 1998. - The Undaunted II
by Piet J. Kroonenberg
Volume 2 was published in 2003. - Patches and Memorabilia of the Order of the Arrow, Volume 1
by Ronald Aldridge, Ph.D.
Volume 1, all NOAC’s from the beginning through 1992. - Patches and Memorabilia of the Order of the Arrow, Volume 2
by Ronald Aldridge, Ph.D.
Volume 2, 1994 and 1996 NOAC’s, and other National events and awards. - To Do My Best: James E. West and the History of the Boy Scouts of America
by Edward L. Rowan, M.D.
Published in 2005.
You can email our Museum Curator by clicking here to order books with your order and address and he will call you to complete the purchase over the phone. We take Credit Card Payments via Zeffy for these books at this time if you would like us to send you one out. Please note we have not updated the PDF to reflect the change in our address and location at this time.
Robert Lynn Horne, MD
Second Edition Available Now! First published July 23, 2007, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the scouting movement. One World, One Promise: The Promise & Law of 500 Million Scouts.
Piet has been a Scout since he took his Cub Scout Promise on his eighth birthday. During World War II he was active in Scouting in the Netherlands at a time when it was illegal and everything had to be “underground”. After the war, he worked with displaced persons, some of whom were Scouts eager to continue Scouting wherever they went. Over the years, he volunteered much of his time as a member of Scouting Nederland, often working in functions with an international dimension
His interest in Exile Scout Movements and the Scouting left behind in their countries of origin, has led to substantial research and eventually the writing of The Forgotten Movements which was published in 1989. He continued his research, and at the request of Jacques Morellion, Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, expanded the book into The Undaunted, Volume 1 (c.1998) and Volume 2 (c.2003). Volume 1 includes Russia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, and Armenia. Volume 2 includes Albania, Estonia, Lithuania, and Viet Nam. 508 pages.
Piet is the Historical Consultant to the European Scout Committee. He has received many awards, including in 1996 the Bronze Wolf. This award is given by the World Scout Committee for outstanding service to International Scouting.
Undaunted
These books are about Scouts in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia who kept the Scouting spirit alive, despite oppression and persecution during many decades, and revived the Scout Movement at the earliest opportunity.
Scouting was born in 1907 and quickly spread to many parts of the world. By the late 1930s Scouting was well established in more than 50 countries, but dark days were ahead for some: the values that Scouting stood for were unacceptable to totalitarian and communist regimes.
Scouting was banned, and Scouts were oppressed and persecuted for 30, 40, or even 50 years. But the Scout spirit never died. It lived on in the hearts and minds of those it had touched, and it became a hope and dream of many young people who waited for the day that they could openly be Scouts.
In the 1990’s Scouting revived throughout Eastern Europe and also spread to newly independent countries where it never before existed. Today there is Scouting in 216 countries and territories.
Ronald Aldridge, PhD
Ron is an Eagle Scout with 51 merit badges, former Scoutmaster of an inner-city Boy Scout troop in Lansing, Michigan, founder and Advisor of the largest Medical Explorer Post in the Washington D.C. area, and served on the NESA staff of the 1977, 1981, and 1985 National Jamborees. He served for two years as Editor of the Eagletter, the national newsletter of the National Eagle Scout Association, and received the NESA Silver Wreath Award for national service.
In 1982, after serving on the NESA National Committee for seven years, he was awarded NESA’s highest national award, the NESA Distinguished Service Award.
Ron’s extensive collection of memorabilia related to the Order of the Arrow at National Events was purchased by the World Scouting Museum and joined Robert Lynn Horne’s collection now on display in Charleston, WV.
Edward L. Rowan, M.D.
Ed has been affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America for more than fifty years. He has served as a professional scouter and curator of both the Lawrence Lee Museum and later the World Scouting Museum.
His grave in Valhalla, New York is untended. No one has asked for directions to it from the cemetery office in years. The stone itself has British emblems instead of the American ones he had designed to distinguish his organization from its English counterpart. His wife is buried at his side despite her wish not to be there. He had cultivated his legacy very carefully. He ended in obscurity.
The man had been a crippled orphan, but, driven by ambition, he rose to head the largest youth organization in the free world. He knew seven presidents and was honored by another. He was on the cover of Time magazine.
He was described as the consummate organization man, an educator, and a leading progressive. He was also characterized as autocratic, chauvinistic, and racist. All of these terms have also been applied to the organization he once headed. He was James E. West and the organization is the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
When West took over the BSA in 1911 there were 61,000 members, and when he retired thirty-two years later the organization had grown to over one and one-half million members and over ten million boys had been in the program. He brought order out of chaos and mediated among the powerful personalities who, if left to their own devices, would have destroyed the fledgling organization. He was the right man for the job. Once a powerful presence, he is now largely forgotten.
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