Scouting, Volume 3, Number 17, January 1, 1916 Page: 16
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SCOUTING.
NEW EXECUTIVES NAMED
IN FOUR SCOUT CENTERS
Local Councils in Milwaukee, Spokane,
Queensborough, N. Y., and Worcester
Announce Appointments.
OUR new scout executives have re-
cently been appointed and are now at
work in the field. The new executives
are William L. Davidson, Milwaukee; W.
Edgar Wylie, Spokane; C. Arthur Worden,
Borough of Queens, Greater New York,
and H. E. Shaffer, Worcester, Mass.
M r. Davidson
is a graduate of
the Michigan
Agricultural Col-
lege in the class
of 1913. In the
summer of 1911
he made a trip to
England for the
purpose of mak-
ing an observa-
tion of the Eng-
lish scouting
methods. After
graduation he be-
came director of
the school gar-
William L. Davidson dens for the city
of Detroit. Later he taught science and
agriculture in the public schools of Es-
canaba, Mich. Three years ago Mr. David-
son first became identified with scout work.
He has been a scoutmaster for two and a
half years.
W. Edgar Wy-
lie, the new Spo-
kane Executive,
is already known
to a large num-
ber of scout offi-
cials through his
connection with
the local office in
Pittsburgh, P a.,
where he was as-
sistant scout ex-
ecutive. Mr.
Wylie entered
scout work in
December, 1910,
when he became
assistant scout -
W. Edgar Wylie master of Troop
6 in Pittsburgh. He received his commis-
sion as scoutmaster the following year and
remained in active charge of his troop until
he left Pittsburgh to accept the position
in Spokane.
His Work in Pittsburgh
In January, 1914, Mr. Wylie entered the
Allegheny County scout headquarters as
assistant to Scout Executive Charles B.
Horton. His duties in this connection con-
sisted largely of field work with the scout-
masters, organizing new troops and con-
ducting scoutmasters' training courses.
In October Mr. Wylie came to the Na-
tional Headquarters office in order to fa-
miliarize himself with the national aspects
of the Boy Scout Movement. He spent
six weeks at Headquarters, devoting his at-
tention mostly to field work. This study
convinced Mr. Wylie that the Pacific Coast
district will experience a 'rapid develop-
ment in scout work during the next few
years. This was one of the deciding fac-
tors in his acceptance of the Spokane
position. .
The new Queensborough Executive, C.
Arthur Worden, has been actively inter-
ested in Scouting since 1912 when he be-
came assistant scoutmaster of Troop 1,
Richmond Hill. Mr. Worden served as
scoutmaster of this troop, as deputy com-
missioner for the
Borough of
Queens and a s
district commis-
sioner for the
Richmond Hill
district. He has
been serving vol-
untarily as scout
executive for the
Borough since
last July, but the
Movement grew
so rapidly that it
became necessary
to employ a man
to devote his full
time to the work
and Mr. Worden
FIELD EXTENSION WORK
IS PROGRESSING RAPIDLY
January and February Will Be Busy
Months for the National Field
Representatives.
Arthur Worden
was the logical choice for the position
Successful Business Experience
Mr. Worden has had a successful busi-
ness experience. For nine years he was
connected with the Guarantee Construction
Company, of New York City, where he
held the position of auditor and assistant
secretary. Under his enthusiastic and effi-
cient direction the scout authorities of
Queensborough are convinced that the
Movement will rapidly advance to a new
standard of efficiency and usefulness.
H. E. Shaffer,
new scout exec-
utive in Worces-
ter, has been con-
nected with the
Boy Scout Move-
ment since i t s
organization and
probably no man
in the country
has had a wider
experience in the
work than h e.
Before the first
handbook was
printed o r uni-
forms decided
upon Mr. Shaffer
had a troop of
scouts organized
in Porto Rico
modelled after
the English or-
ganization. H e
was one of the
first men to make
application for a
scoutmas-
ter's commis-
sion. Later Mr.
Shaffer became
scout commis-
sioner for Porto
Rico and within
a year organized nearly a thousand scouts
in the various troops on the Island.
Serves as Field Secretary
In 1911 Mr. Shaffer was called to Na-
tional Headquarters to fill a position as
Field Secretary. He remained in New
York for over a year and then returned to
Porto Rico to accept a position as mana-
ger of a steamship company and once
again became scout commissioner for the
Island.
Two years later Mr. Shaffer returned to
New York where he received the appoint-
ment to take charge of scout work in the
Fleet School in North Carolina. Last sum-
mer Mr. Shaffer had charge of the scout
camp for Worcester at Buzzards' Bay.
Mr. Shaffer is a graduate of Princeton
University.
H. E. Shaffer
T-IE aggressive campaign for extending
boy scout work through various parts
of the field is being continued by the
special representatives of National Head-
quarters who are busy organizing councils
and raising budgets to finance the work
of the Movement.
H. L. Eddy has completed the campaign
for funds in St. Paul and is now at work
in St. Louis, Mo., setting up a campaign
for $16,000 to finance the work of the
Movement for three years. The St. Louis
campaign will close on January 15, after
which Mr. Eddy will come to Headquarters
for a conference. According to present
arrangements he will go to Davenport,
Iowa, on February 1, and to Kansas City,
Mo., on March 1.
Housman's Southern Trip
W. J. B. Housman has been on a tour
through the southern states making plans
for extension work to be conducted in the
near future. On this trip Mr. Housman
visited Philadelphia, Pa., Camden, N. J., St.
Louis, Mo., Birmingham, Ala., Memphis, /
Tenn., Atlanta and Savannah, Ga., Charles-
ton, S. C., and Knoxville, Tenn. Mr.
Housman is enthusiastic over the prospects
for extending Scouting through the South.
H. M. Butler is now engaged in a finan-
cial campaign in Birmingham, Ala., which
will be concluded on January 15. Mr. But-
ler will go from Birmingham to Memphis,
Tenn., where an effort will be made to raise
a $10,000 budget to support the work for
three years.
Utica Campaign Succeeds
J. Buckner Debnam has successfully
completed a $7,000 campaign in Utica, N.
Y., and will begin work in Delaware and
Montgomery Counties, Pennsylvania, on
January 23 on a $15,000 budget to finance
the work for three years. According to
a tentative schedule now arranged, Mr.
Debnam will go from this field to Camden,
N. J., on February 1, and from Camden
to Newark on March 1.
Circumstances have arisen in Johnstown,
Pa., which have made necessary the post- /
ponement of the campaign in that city until x
February 1 and W. H. Weisheit is now at
work in Brookville, Pa.
The campaign in Lowell, Mass., for
$2,500 which is being arranged by W. H.
York, will be held from January 12 to 15.
■At the conclusion of this campaign, Mr.
York will go to Springfield, Mass.
Reports have been received from Scout
Executive J. St. Clair Mendenhall, of To-
ledo, O., that the campaign for $6,000 in
that city has been a complete success.
Interest Growing in the West
H. D. Cross, National Field Scout Com-
missioner for the Pacific Coast District, re-
ports that interest in the Boy Scout Move-
ment is growing rapidly throughout all
parts of the Pacific Coast. The financial
campaign in Spokane, Wash., has aroused
the people of the other cities to the possi-
bility of obtaining funds to advance the
Boy Scout Movement in the proper man-
ner. Interest in Portland, Ore., Seattle,
and Tacoma, Wash., San Francisco, Berke-
ley, Oakland and San Diego, Calif., is es-
pecially keen. Mr. Cross expects to do im-
portant work in these cities during the
months of January, February and March.
Judson P. Freeman, National Field Scout
Commissioner for the Middle West Dis-
trict. has brought to a successful^ close the
$10,000 campaign in Grand Rapids, Mich.
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