
The
first two Eagle Scouts from this Concho Valley Council were Lee Woods and
George Brown, both of Troop 1 of Del Rio. Wood received his award
on July 18, 1921, and Brown within a few days there of. Woods was later
awarded the State Eagle Scout scholarship at the University of Texas, where
he took the degrees of Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts. The
third Eagle Scout was Charles Leel of Uvalde who earned his award in 1922.
We believe that he was a member of Troop 1 of Uvalde.
The only other known Eagle Scout in West Texas before 1927 was Hubert Baldwin, a 16 year old of 215 West Ave. B in San Angelo who earned his Eagle in 1926 and received this honor in Shawnee, Oklahoma. It took him four years to accumulate the twenty-one merit badges that were required for the honor. His parents moved to San Angelo after he received his Eagle and he became a member of Troop 3 of the First Presbyterian Church. It was not until early December 1927, when twelve Scouts appeared before an examining board, made up of local Scoutmasters, that the new Concho Valley Council produced its own Eagle Scouts. Passed by the board that evening were: Willard Crotty and John H. Jones of Troop 1 and Taylor Cole of Troop 2,.Dwight Hunter, Jr., Sam Scheuber and Ford Boulware of Troop 3, Louis Gallemore and Lynn Metalfe of Troop 4 and Luther Coulter, Bomar Horton, Robert Hodges and Jake Wardlaw of Troop 7. The twelve Eagle Scouts were awarded their badges at a Scout Week Court of Honor held February 8, 1927, at the Tom Green County Court House. In addition to the Scouts from San Angelo present for the court some 65 Scouts from Miles, Bronte, Christoval and Ozona were also there. The Guards of Honor from each of the troops escorted their Eagle Scouts to the Court of Honor and with an archway of American and Troop Flags a most impressive ceremony was held. The Eagle Scout candle investiture was then said by Brice Draper, Scout Executive. Each Eagle Scout, individually, reconsecrated himself to the Scout Oath. John Y. Rust, president of the Council, then presented the Eagle badges. The colors of all the troops were then amassed in the square and the DeMolay Band played "America" while the audience stood with bowed heads. The ceremony was the climax of a Court of Honor in which the DeMolay Band presented a concert and several other awards were presented. The twelve Eagle Scouts, so honored at the Court of Honor, were required to pass twenty-one merit badges. To become eligible for the merit badge tests, the applicants first had to pass the Tenderfoot, Second Class and First Class tests, requiring a minimum of ninety days. Each of the merit badges comprised a set of 10 to 20 requirements in the 70 subjects of pre-vocational training that they were intended to cover. The Eagle Scout badge was awarded to a First Class Scout who had a record of satisfactory service as a First Class Scout for a period of a full year, showing that he had actually put into practice the ideals and principles of the Scout Oath and Law, the motto "Be Prepared" and the Daily Good Turn and had made an earnest effort to develop his leadership ability. He must have earned the merit badge tests in twenty-one subjects which included First Aid, Swimming, Life Saving, Personal Health, Public Health, Cooking, Camping, Civics, Bird Study, Pathfinding, Pioneering, Athletics or Physical Development, with nine additional merit badges. First Eagle ScoutOutside of San AngeloBy 1928 we began to see more
Scouts outside of San Angelo receive the Eagle Award. They included
George Yamini of McCamey, Jack Walcher of Rankin, Woodrow Leonard of Bronte,
Conrade Geeslin and Paul Mann of Brady. Adults could earn the Eagle
Award, too, in those days and in 1931 Brice W. Draper, the local Scout
Executive, received the award.
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| 1921
Lee Wood T-1 Del Rio
1922 Charles Leel T-1 Uvalde 1923 George McCall T-4 San Angelo 1926 Ford Boulware T-3 San Angelo
1927 Dick Arnold Unk San
Angelo
1928 Gordon Buttery T-2
San Angelo
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1929
George Brockman T-7 San Angelo
1930 Alvin Andrus Unk San
Angelo
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| 1931
Harold Albert T-7 San
Angelo
1932 Archie Braley T-28
Menard
1933 Billie D. Baker T-1
San Angelo
1934 Frank Arnfield T-55
Texon
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1935
Charles Atlas T-49
Iraan
1936 Wilbur Atchison T-20
Junction
1937 Mike Adams T-55 Texon
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| 1938
Robert C. Adams T-31 McCamey
1939 Evans Adkins Ship 24
Brady
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1939 Continued
Aldon S. Coward T-84
Sabinal
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| 1940
John E. Allison T-43 Water
Valley
1941 Gus Allen T-12 San
Angelo
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1941 Continued
Archie Pittman Post
52 Bronte
1942 James H. Bird T-40
Carlsbad
1943 Billy L. Bailey T-6
San Angelo
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| 1944
Bobbie Bell T-56 Rankin
1945 Evan Adkins T-24 Brady
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1945 Continued
Roy Lee Bell
T-56 Rankin
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| 1946
George A. Aldrete T-65 Del
Rio
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1946 Continued
Wylie Simmong T-16 Brackettville
1947 Bob Babb T-2 San Angelo
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| 1948
Dickie Alexander T-93 Asherton
1949 Harvey Birdwell T-94 Quemado
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1949 Continued
Buddy Crawford T-47 Pacios
1950 Gordon Barrow, Jr. T-94 Quemado
1951 Frank Aguero T-77 Del
Rio
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| 1952
Thomas Belote T-1 San
Angelo
1953 Loyd Bedingfield T-66 Comstock
1954 Wayne Anderson T-70 Del Rio
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1954 Continued
Billy Clifton Post
30 Ballinger
1955 William D. Anderson Post
70 Del Rio
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| 1956
Robert C. Adams Post 31 McCamey
1957 Jim Avera T-1 San Angelo
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1958
Neal Aylor T-3 San
Angelo
1959 Jack Black Post 49
Iraan
1960 Jim Atherton Post 402
Brady
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