Scouting, Volume 4, Number 22, April 1, 1917 Page: 18
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18 SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT
officials. After a most thorough canvass, Lome W. Barclay,
A.M., B.D., was selected as Director of the Department of Edu-
cation, and already plans have been formulated for a series of
conferences and institutes in different parts of the country.
The Great Need of Trained Leaders.
The first conference recently held at Teachers' College through
the courtesy of Columbia University has demonstrated not only
the willingness of men who are serving as scoutmasters to make
further sacrifices in time and expense to more thoroughly equip
themselves in order that their efforts might be most effective
in working with boys, but that our leading educators and public-
spirited citizens are willing to show their interest by giving of
their time and means to make such gatherings effective.
It is distinctively the responsibility of the National Council,
not only through its publications, but through every other means
at its command, to stimulate the interest and to educate along
scouting lines the large army of men who appreciate the value
of scouting to the extent of justifying their obligations as leaders.
These men for the most part have not had special training for
the work they have undertaken, and are invariably anxious to
take advantage of every opportunity to increase their effective-
ness. This has been clearlv demonstrated time and time again
by the large number of men who have given up a part, if not all,
of their summer vacations in order to take advantage of train-
ing courses for scout leaders conducted in connection with vari-
ous universities in different parts of the country. At Culver,
Indiana, through the courtesy of the officials of the Culver
Military Academy, a. course for scoutmasters was conducted.
Thirty-two men paid their own expenses to the school and while
at the school, in order that they might be able to do more as
scoutmasters, or in other official capacities. Similar courses were
conducted last summer at Teachers' College, under the direction
of Dr. Norman E. Richardson; at the University of California
under the direction of Prof. James C. Elsom; at the University
of Virginia under the direction of Mr. Francis C. Bacon.
Perhaps the most intensive effort undertaken for the training
of scoutmasters was the course at the Boston University which
had been made possible by the Memorial Endowment Fund.
Here 228 men enrolled in the various classes under the direction
of Dr. Norman E. Richardson, and Mr. James A. Wilder, Special
Field Scout Commissioner of Hawaii. Various local councils
throughout the country have conducted helpful courses for the
training of scout leaders.
Evidence of Educators' Interest.
It was my privilege, as Executive Officer of the Movement, •
to present the subject of Scouting before the Convention of
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 4, Number 22, April 1, 1917, periodical, April 1, 1917; New York, New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth282861/m1/20/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.