Scoutmasters Awarded For Training

Troop 70 held its annual Dinner and Court of Honor on March 13, during which scoutmaster Edmund Breitling, Sr, and assistant scoutmaster Edward Wold, Sr, were awarded their Woodbadge beads, neckerchiefs, and woggles. The Woodbadge award is the highest level of adult leader training offered by Boy Scouts of America.

Lord Robert Boden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, started the Woodbadge training class in 1910 as a training class for the first group of scoutmasters. The two wooden beads that Mr Boden-Powell awarded each graduate of the class were from a large wooden necklace that he had captured from the Zulu Chieftain Dinizulu during his service in the British Army during the Zulu Wars in the 1870s.