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History Highlights-Saving A Child’s Life

History Highlights-Saving A Child’s Life

by Neal Robison | Jan 16, 2022 | History Highlights, Uncategorized

History Highlights: Saving A Child’s Life Welcome to the first article of A Look Back – an ongoing series that highlights a moment in the rich history of Latter-day Saint Scouting. Before the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints received their...

The Final Years of Latter-day Saint Scouting: 2013 – 2019

by Vanguard Contributor | May 15, 2020 | Current Events, History Highlights, LDS-BSA Blogs, Uncategorized

Few chapters in the Latter-day Saint Scouting history have more flair than the final six years of the partnership, from 2013 through 2019. As both the Church and the BSA experienced major changes, relationships grew increasingly vital and—in some cases—became stronger...

History Highlights: A Poem ~ by Vaughn J. Featherstone

by Vanguard Contributor | Apr 26, 2018 | History Highlights, LDS-BSA Blogs

S.M.E. (A Discourse on Funding for Scouts) By Vaughn J. Featherstone Boy Scouts of America National Executive Board Shared at Philmont Scout Ranch 1989 *Note: S.M.E. stands for Sustaining Membership Enrollment. Today, BSA council fundraising is referred to as Friends...

History Highlights: Prophets and Scouting

by Vanguard Contributor | Mar 15, 2018 | History Highlights, LDS-BSA Blogs

When President Thomas S. Monson passed away in January 2018, we heard much from the media about his great love and support of the Scouting program. Yet, he was not alone among Latter-day prophets in his enthusiasm and espousal of the Boy Scouts of America. For over...

History Highlights: Roll Out The Thunder! – The Story of the Camp Bartlett Staff Song

by Vanguard Contributor | Mar 8, 2018 | History Highlights, LDS-BSA Blogs

Did you “Roll out the Thunder” at Boy Scout summer camp? Can you “hike the whole day through?” Or, “Row or paddle a canoe?” Can you “shoot or swim or trap a BEAR o’er the mountains…?” If these phrases are familiar to you, then you likely sang the camp song, “Roll out...

History Highlights #7: STANDARDIZED SCOUTING 1920 ~ 1939

by Vanguard Contributor | Mar 1, 2018 | History Highlights, LDS-BSA Blogs

I am happy to give the Boy Scout movement my full endorsement…. I was active in the promotion of this program. I feel that thousands of our boys have been helped in becoming good men by living up to the principles of the Boy Scout movement. —President Heber J....
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