Walter Head Acorn Award Info circa 1936
Boy Scout Walter Head Acorn Award Pin
From time to time we get one of these pins in from the 1930s. This is the called the President Walter Head Acorn Award named after the BSA National President of the time.
Membership recruitment programs are not new to Scouts. We have been doing them since the founding. Although the pin pops up from time to time, what does not turn up is the documentation about the program. Until a recent estate. Here’s the cover of the brochure explaining the program. The name of the award is about turning an acorn into a might oak. Or for Scouts developing our youth into leading citizens. Neat piece of nostalgia.
Here’s the back page showing the requirements for the pin.
Here’s the inside back showing the requirement for the troop plaque. I’ve had a few of these. They’re not really collected but again a nice piece of history.
on October 24th, 2012 at 9:15 pm
I did a search on the note on the manual that said “*tribes, ships, “neighborhood patrols”, crews” as I wanted to know more about tribes and neighborhood patrols in BSA. It came up with a Boy’s Life article from 1938 scanned by Google that also goes over the Arcon program. If you haven’t started already, Google books scanning of Boy’s Life and making it searchable should help uncover a bunch of these old national programs.
http://books.google.com/books?id=akyuoFINx-YC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=tribes,+ships,+%22neighborhood+patrols%22,+crews+boy+scouts&source=bl&ots=TLABrPClkh&sig=fwTPeH-uYkgPSICZYGpqR4Ehz5Y&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tp-IULDqMs6J0QGV4YHAAQ&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=tribes%2C%20ships%2C%20%22neighborhood%20patrols%22%2C%20crews%20boy%20scouts&f=false
on October 25th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
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