Arthur Rodgers, Finance Chairman of the Old Colony Council, Boy Scouts of America, has just released the following information concerning the Annual Independent Finance Campaigns which are scheduled to be launched on or about October 12.
He explains that this IS the time of year when the funds for the operation of a Boy Scout Council, Old Colony Council in this case, are requested of the towns which comprise a geographical area known as a Council. The independent drives coincide with the United Community Fund and Local Chest Campaigns to raise the necessary funds with which to serve the youth in the 23 towns of the Old Colony Council for the Scouting year of 1956.
Scouting membership is to cooperate in every way possible with the Community Chest efforts in Hull, Scituate, Cohasset, Norwell, Hingham, Weymouth, Braintree, Stoughton, Canton, Sharon, Norwood, Medfield, Millis, and Foxboro. The pattern of the cooperation will follow the patterns of the past and equivalent fine results are anticipated.
A separate Scouting Organization has been created to plan, supervise, and conduct the 9 Independent drives which comprise the Independent Campaign Chairman of this year’s Campaign is Ernest Paciorkowski of Norwood, Vice Chairman is William Pratt of Norwood, Auditor is Lewis Severance of Walpole, Publicity and Public Relations is Julius Stuck Ill of Norwood, Advisors are Donald Morrison of Randolph, Elmer Derby of Braintree. Calvin King of Medway, and Lewis Rawl of Norfolk, Chairman of Special Gifts is John Ilalkyard of Sharon Working closely with the above group will be District Chairmen William Lynch of Norwood and the Neponset District, Russell Eliot of Foxboro and the King Philip District, and Mitchell Gawlowicz of Braintree and the Blue Hills District. District Finance Chairmen are Ralph Hersey Jr of Norwood and the Neponset District and Albert Macdonald of Franklin and the King Philip District.
Town Chairmen selected to date are Ralph Gardner of and for Randolph, John Kurzon of and for Franklin, Robert Hall of and for Wrentham, Weston Bonney and Hartley O’Brien of and for Norfolk, Don McAlpine and Robert Fawcett of and for Norfolk No chairmen have been selected as yet for Medway, Walpole, and Holbrook.
Scouting depends upon the support of the citizens of the towns whose youth are being trained in Character Building, Citizenship Training and Physical Development through Scouting, the largest volunteer movement for youth