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  • Jan 31, 2007 - Ernest Thompson Seton (August 14, 1860 - October 23, 1946) was an Anglo-Canadian (and naturalized U.S. citizen) who became a noted author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians, and founding pioneer of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Seton also heavily influenced Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting. His notable books related to Scouting include The Birch Bark Roll and The Boy Scout Handbook. He is responsible for the strong influence of American Indian culture in the BSA.
  • Feb 28, 2007 - E. Urner Goodman (1891-1980) is one of the two founders (along with co-founder Carroll A. Edson) of the Order of the Arrow (OA), an official program of the Boy Scouts of America designed to recognize Scouts and Scouters for their service, and to aid in the retention of older boys in the Scouting program. One must be elected into the OA by fellow Scouts. Goodman first became involved in Boy Scouting in 1911 when he became Scoutmaster of Troop 1, the first Scout Troop Philadelphia. In 1913 he took a position teaching at the Potter School in the Philadelphia school system.
  • Mar 31, 2007 - J. S. Wilson was a Scottish Scouting luminary and friend and contemporary of Lord Baden-Powell, recruited by him to head the International Bureau, later to become the World Bureau of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. B-P met Wilson when Wilson was serving with the Calcutta police in 1921 and as Calcutta's District Scout Commissioner. Colonel Wilson ran Gilwell Park for The Scout Association in the early 1920s. He served as Director of the Boy Scouts International Bureau for 15 years, tasked with coordinating various Scout movements within countries and between them prior to the establishment of World Scout Regions. After retirement, he served as Honorary President of the Boy Scouts International Committee for a further four years. Colonel Wilson was awarded the Bronze Wolf.
  • Sep 30, 2007 - Frederick Russell Burnham, DSO (May 11, 1861–September 1, 1947), was an American scout and world traveling adventurer known for his service to the British Army in Colonial Africa and for teaching woodcraft (i.e., scoutcraft) to Robert Baden-Powell, becoming one of the inspirations to the founding of the Scouting Movement. Burnham had little formal education; attending but never graduating from high school. He began his career at the age of 14 in the American Southwest as a scout and tracker. Burnham then went to Africa where this background proved useful. He soon an officer in the British Army, serving in several battles there. During this time, Burnham became friends with Robert Baden Powell. Burnham passed his outdoor skills and spirit on to Baden-Powell. Burnham eventually moved on to a career in writing and business. His descendants are still active in Scouting.
  • Oct 31, 2007 - Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska (January 9, 1888 - January 15, 1979, with her husband, founded Scouting in Poland. Olga Drahonowska was introduced to Scouting by her friend, and later husband, Andrzej Juliusz Małkowski. She became Scoutmaster (harcmistrzyni) of the 3rd Lwów Girl Scout Company (the 1st, 2nd and 4th Companies were Boy Scouts). This consisted of about twenty girls aged between 15 and 20 years. In the summer of 1914, just before the start of World War I, her health having recovered, Drahonowska-Małkowska organised the first national camp. Girls (by now renamed Guides) from the Russian and German controlled areas of Poland came to the camp under assumed names and false passports. At the start of World War II, Drahonowska-Małkowska was running a school using Scouting principles. When war broke out she took them by train to a neutral country. The train was frequently under fire from machine guns mounted on aeroplanes. Drahonowska-Małkowska claimed that the children's Scouting training saved their lives, as when the train was attacked, the children were disciplined enough to obey her order to scatter, which made them far less easy targets for snipers than other passengers who formed huddles. When Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska reached the U.K., the Girl Guides Association (now Girlguiding UK) awarded her their Bronze Cross for Gallantry.