Scouting, Volume 48, Number 9, December 1960 Page: 20
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By
MILTON
S. ROWEN
City Schools
Whittier
California
BOY
SCOUT
WEEK IN
SCHOOL
Scout color guards from the four troops in East Whittier
school district conducted flag raising and lowering cere-
monies daily at Hillview School during Boy Scout Week.
"M
■ Billview School is extremely proud of its Boy
Scout activities," Principal Tom Wood said as students
marked the fiftieth anniversary of Scouting with appro-
priate activities during Boy Scout Week last February.
Mr. Wood, principal of the Hillview Intermediate
School, Whittier, California, beamed as he related the
program conducted by the school's 113 Scouts in the
week-Ions celebration.
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Scouts arrange bulletin board display in gym locker room.
Featured were merit badge pamphlets on Personal Fitness,
Hiking, and Lifesaving, and Boys' Life stories on fitness.
The biggest event was the general assembly with First
Class Scout Greg Evans, vice president of the student
body, presiding. The program featured the seventh-
grade chorus; Life Scout Pete Bergstrom gave a brief
history of Scouting; a showing of the 1957 Scout jam-
boree film was followed by an Order of the Arrow In-
dian dance team led by Life Scout Brian Elliott.
Color guards from East Whittier Troops 531, 990,
939, and 898 attended ceremonies of flag raising and
lowering held on the school grounds daily.
Various displays linked Scouting with scholarship.
Science, crafts, books, and art displays were assembled
and placed throughout the campus.
A different outdoor display was arranged by one of
the troops in the school's quad area each day. In every
classroom a small bulletin-board display was made by
the Boy Scouts of that room.
Hillview's faculty members are doing their share to
promote Scouting outside the classroom and school-
related activities. In addition to Principal Wood, eight
men are merit badge counselors. One member, Tom
Boyd, assistant district commissioner for the Pioneer
District, Los Angeles Council, assisted the Hillview
faculty in the anniversary week observance.
Commissioner Boyd said, "More than two thousand
boys in the fifteen East Whittier schools are on Scout-
ing's rolls. The cooperation between the schools and the
Boy Scouts of America assures the citizens of East
Whittier district that citizenship, scholarship, and
creativity are well coordinated to develop outstanding
young men. "
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