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So ... it would be interesting (and challenging) to add another article on scouting's innovators (or as some here might say, heretics) since Hillcourt ... at least try to bring it to the close of the century.

 

From folks who influenced the BSA since 1980, whose bios would you want everyone to see?

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Pee Wee Harris? :D

 

All joking aside, I do not think anyone has made the impact that Green Bar Bill has made since 1980. Afterall, he came out of retirement to save the BSA.

 

The closest I could get, and this may be because I'm biased towards them, but how about the guys who created the OA Trail Crew program at Philmont, which inspired the other HA bases to have OA programs.

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Pee Wee Harris? :D

 

All joking aside, I do not think anyone has made the impact that Green Bar Bill has made since 1980. Afterall, he came out of retirement to save the BSA.

 

The closest I could get, and this may be because I'm biased towards them, but how about the guys who created the OA Trail Crew program at Philmont, which inspired the other HA bases to have OA programs.

 

Pee Wee Harris isn't such a stretch, along with Westy Martin, Mark Gilmore, Tom Slade, Roy Blakeley, Skinny McCord, and Wigwag Wiegan all comprise the literary achievement of a Percy Keese Fitzhugh who wrote some great stories about how scouting played out in the early scouting movement.  It would be interesting to know about Percy Keese Fitzhugh and get an insight into the 25 year literary career of this man.  After all his Pee Wee Harris legacy is still there today.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Keese_Fitzhugh

 

I'm thinking the dork factor was introduced when the Boy Scout was exemplified by a donkey named Pedro.  That was a marketing disaster.

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