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A9362-2
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- 1940-01-30 (Creation)
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These 60+ Eagle Scouts and adult leaders met at the First United Presbyterian Church (now Trinity Presbyterian Church) on January 30, 1940 to take the first step in organizing the former 15,000 Boy Scouts of America who had called the Tacoma area home into an alumni group. It had been decided that the Eagle Scouts, the highest ranking in scouting, would be the first group formed in the new alumni organization. Among those attending were four sets of brothers who were all Eagle Scouts: Mike & Pat Brendel, Bill & Charles Rohrs, Dick & Frank Clinton and Harold & Don Foster. The Tacoma Area Council of Boy Scouts were formed about 1918 although a few troops had been organized in earlier years. (T.Times 1-31-1940, p.3- article & photo of the four sets of brothers)
Boy Scouts (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Eagle Scouts (Tacoma); Meetings--Tacoma--1940-1950;