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My current involvement as a Scouter:

  • Mason-Dixon Council Maryland
  • Life Member of the National Eagle Scout Association (NESA)
  • Religious Award Counselor for Joyful Servant and Good Servant, Member of Churches of Christ for Scouting (MCCS)
  • 1987-present - Merit Badge Counselor for BSA Computer Merit badge and Art (Click Patch to go to Computer MB page)
  • 2006-present -
    Committee Chairman     Venturing Crew 258

Philippians :-
  • 2002-2003 - Scouter Reserve
  • 2000-2002 - Den Leader, for Den 3, Pack 36. My son completed Wolf, Bear, and two Webelos Activity Badges as a Cub Scout, before deciding that he preferred to baseball, football, basketball, skateboarding, snowboarding, paintball...
  • 1999-2000 - Tiger Cub Coach for Pack 36
  • 1993-1999 - District Member at Large
  • 1991-1993 - Unit Commissioner for Pack 36
  • 1989-1991 - District Member at Large
  • 1987-1989 - Merit Badge Counselor
  • Other:
    • Collect handbooks, patches, mugs, and hats
    • Have an original Boy Scout calendar from 1964, with Norman Rockwell's A Great Moment, with an Eagle Scout receiving his award.


1990-May 23-25
 National Eagle Scout Dinner, National Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland

My involvement as a Boy Scout included:

  • Baltimore Area Council -- Dulaney District, Maryland
  • 1968-1975 - Boy Scout, Troop 112
  • Wolf Patrol, Bald Eagle Patrol, Senior Patrol
  • Summer camps: [see Old Camping Grounds]
    • 1969, 1970 - Broad Creek (Baltimore County)
    • 1971, 1972, 1973 - Lil-Aaron Strauss
    • 1974 - Troop 112 celebrated its 50th Anniversary by spending two weeks (June 22 - July 5) on the Shenandoah River by canoe, from Front Royal to Harpers Ferry (received 50 Miler Award and Historic Trails Award).
  • Awards:
    • 3/31/1975 Eagle Recognition Banquet, Day host Dan McConoughy - Project Forester; sponsor Robert Graf
    • 6/2/74 - Eagle Scout
    • 7/6/73 - Order of the Arrow Ordeal member of Nentico Lodge 12, Broad Creek Scout Camp)
    • 11/72 - Pro Deo et Patria Religious Service Scouting Award, November 1972
    • 7/31/69 - Mile Swim, first summer camp at Broad Creek
    • Valley Forge Historic Trails medal
  • Training:
    • 8/73 - National Ecology / Environmental Science Workshop at Schiff Scout Reservation, in New Jersey (also received college credit, see continuing ed). Schiff Hall was a big building used as a dining hall and meeting room. I remember it having nice wood walls with Norman Rockwell paintings displayed on the walls around the room. See BSALinks page for more information.
    • 10/1972? - Junior Leadership Development (JLD) Leadership Corps
    • 10/7-10/1971 - Pine Tree Leadership Training (like a junior woodbadge, we received 2 green beads on leather cord), Fantabulous Falcons, PT 7-2 (second year), Broad Creek, Camp Saffran
    • 1/23/71 Den Chief Training
    • 9/18/70 - Junior Leadership Training (JLT)
  • Offices held: Assistant Senior Patrol Leader, Troop Instructor, Den Chief (for Den 5 of Pack 112), Patrol Leader, Assistant Patrol Leader

My involvement as a Cub Scout included:

  • 1965-1968 - Cub Scout, Pack 112
  • Recruiter
  • Bobcat, Wolf, Bear - Den 1 (my mother was Den Mother)
  • Webelos (my father was a Webelos leader)
  • Arrow of Light

 


N.R. Of course, one of my favorite artists is Norman Rockwell. The first time I was able to see some of his originals was as a boy at Schiff Scout Reservation. Some of the paintings exhibited were painted at the places that I visited while at Schiff. Paintings that I remember include:
  • "Beyond the Easel" done in 1969 for the BSA calendar. This self portrait of Norman, I believe it was done at Schiff. His clients (Brown & Bigelow) made him put himself in the picture and used it to celebrate Norman's 75 birthday. A scout in the far left of the painting is wearing a Schiff patch on his uniform.
  • "Come and Get it" 1970. This painting I have confirmed was done at Schiff. It shows scouts cooking dinner on the island and other scouts preparing to come from shore. In the book "Norman Rockwell's World of Scouting" by William "Green Bar Bill" Hillcourt, (Abrams Publishers), 1978, the description reads "The setting is a small island in Lake Therese at the Schiff Scout Reservation, the national training center of the Boy Scouts of America near Mendham, New Jersey." I think we called the island, Bear Island, but when I was there 3 years after Norman, it was more overgrown! This picture was used as the cover of the 9th edition of the Boy Scout Handbook.
  • "Men of Tomorrow" 1948 (patrol carrying canoes), I think was there, too.

In 1996, I was able to see some of the collection, at Walter's Art Gallery in Baltimore, when BSA went on tour. I hope to be able to visit the National Scouting Museum someday.

  • "We Thank Thee O' Lord" 1974 (scouts under tarp at table saying prayer before a meal).  [I thought I saw this at Schiff, but I was there before the date given -- maybe I saw it in Baltimore and noticed it was done at Shift?]

Joseph Csatari, who studied under Norman Rockwell, is now illustrating for BSA.

  • Joined staff of BSA National Council in 1953 as a layout artist.
  • He became art director of Boy's Life magazine in 1973.
  • He did the cover of the 1976 Scout handbook and, also that year, took over the calendar commission when Norman Rockwell retired.
  • His paintings frequently tour with Norman Rockwell's.
  • I saw the exhibit at Hershey at a gathering of Golden Eagles and other donors, in August of 2001. [See, Scouting 1997, pp. 26-29,52.]

©1995-2007 Gregory M. Bowen