Featured On Wikipedia
Posted in OAImages News by John E. Pannell on March 28th, 2008 at 11:03 am Today’s featured article on Wikipedia will be of interest to OA brothers and members of the Scouting community at large.
“Edward Urner Goodman (May 15, 1891 à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â‚¬Å“ March 13, 1980), more familiarly E. Urner Goodman, was an influential leader in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) movement for much of the twentieth century. Goodman was the national program director from 1931 until 1951, during the organization’s formative years of significant growth when the Cub Scouting and Exploring programs were established…”
– quoted from Wikipedia.org
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[...] John Pannell points out todays featured article on Wikipedia; on E. Urner Goodman who with Caroll A. Edson founded the Order of the Arrow. Goodman is best remembered today for having created the Order of the Arrow (OA), a popular and highly successful program of the BSA which continues to honor Scouts for their cheerful service. Since its founding in 1915, the Order of the Arrow has grown to become a nationwide program having thousands of members, which recognizes those Scouts who best exemplify the virtues of cheerful service, camping, and leadership by membership in BSA’s honor society. As of 2007, the Order of the Arrow has more than 183,000 members. [...]