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SCOUTERGRAM
"The Eagle has landed." That message
from Tranquility Base on July 20 carried
double meaning for BSA members: Apollo 11
LEM had touched down on the moon—commanded
by Troop 14's Eagle Scout Neil A. Arm-
strong from Wapakoneta, Ohio. Piloting
the Eagle was Troop 12's Second Class
Scout Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., f rom Montclair,
N.J. As we go to press they are earth-
ward bound aboard the Columbia module.
These first men-on-the-moon head a list
of 65 present and former astronauts of
whom 52 were Scouts. The ranks they
attained include 8 Eagle, 7 Life, 5 Star,
and 9 First Class. Seven were Cub Scouts.
Several were Scouters including Armstrong
who was an Air Explorer Advisor in Lancas-
ter, Calif.
Of the 23 astronauts who crewed the total
of 21 Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo flights,
all but two have been Scouts, and one of
these two was an Explorer leader.
Walter M. Schirra, Jr., the only astronaut
to make all three types of flights, was
a First Class Scout. Correlation between
high flying Scouts and high flying
astronauts is close.
The following 24 councils have been
recognized by The Sears-Roebuck Foundation
and the Rural Relationships Committee of
the BSA as Blue Ribbon Councils for ex-
tending Scouting to boys in rural areas
in 1968: Black Beaver, Lawton, Okla. ;
Buttes Area, Marysville, Calif. ; Central
West Virginia, Clarksburg, W. Va. ;
Cherokee Area, Chattanooga, Tenn. ; Chief
Cornplanter, Warren, Pa. ; Daniel Boone,
Asheville, N.C. ; Daniel Webster, Manches-
ter, N.H. ; Eastern Arkansas Area, Jones-
boro, Ark. ; Gamehaven, Rochester, Minn. ;
Kootaga Area, Parkersburg, W. Va. ;
Lewis-Clark, Lewiston, Idaho; Long Trail,
Burlington, Vt. ; Missouri Valley, Bismarck,
N. Dak. ; Mohican, Glens Falls, N.Y. ; Mount
Whitney Area, Visalia, Calif. ; Netseo
Trails, Paris, Tex. ; Old Dominion Area,
Suffolk, Va. ; Piankeshaw, Danville, 111. ;
Pioneer Trails, Elkhart, Ind. ; Prairie
Gold Area, Fort Dodge, Iowa ; Santa Fe Trail,
Garden City, Kans. ; Susquenango,
Binghamton, N.Y. ; Tuscarora, Goldsboro,
N.C. ; and Twin Harbors Area, Aberdeen,
Wash.
A $5,000 writing competition on "Private
Philanthropy—the Next 50 Years" is being
sponsored by Ketchum, Inc. Uncopyrighted
1,000- to 1,500-word articles, essays, and
other written presentations are eligible.
Entries must be mailed no later than
October 24, 1969, to Philanthropy Award,
314 Chatham Center, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15219.
Competition is open to anyone except
employees of professional fundraising
firms and families. Views of volunteer
workers are particularly invited.
Coming Events
Sept. 15-Dec. 19—BSA Fall Roundup
1971—XIII World Jamboree, Asagiri Heights,
Fujinomiya, Shizuoka, Japan,
August 2-10
Boy Scout Ham Radio Net, Saturdays, 1800
GMT, 21.360 mHz ; net control WA7G00
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