In Memory of Col. Carroll A. Edson
Posted in Scouting News by John E. Pannell on October 31st, 2006 at 7:42 am Joseph Buchanan reminded us on arrow-l that twenty years ago this past week, October 25, 1986, Carroll A. Edson passed away. He is often the forgotten Founder of the Order of the Arrow, being relegated to “co-founder” status behind the much more gregarious E. Urner Goodman. Regardless, his contributions to the Order and Scouting were great.
Joseph shared with us a 1986 article from the Syracuse Post-Standard, which contained several interesting details about Edson’s life that I am sure are not commonly known to Arrowmen. The text of the article follows:
"We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures."
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