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E. Urner Goodman was the founder (along with co-founder Carroll A. Edson) of the Order of the Arrow (OA), an official program of the Boy Scouts of America designed to recognize scouts and scouters for their service, and to aid in the retention of older boys in the Scouting program. Goodman, a native of Philadelphia, was a teacher before he entered the professional service of scouting in 1915 (interrupted only temporarily between 1917 and 1919, when he served as an Army 1st lieutenant), along with being a Scoutmaster of the first troop in the city. He eventually received a doctorate in education and retired as National Program Director in 1951. Goodman died March 13, 1980 at the age of 88. Image File history File links Portal. ...
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The Boy Scouts of America(BSA) is an organization designed for boys between the ages of seven and eighteen, and for both young men and women between the ages of 14 and 21, based in the United States of America, with some presence in other countries. ...
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Order of the Arrow
The Order of the Arrow is a recognized official program activity of the Boy Scouts of America, intended to recognize those scouts who best exemplify the Scout virtues of cheerful service, camping, and leadership. The two men most involved in its creation were camp director Dr. E. Urner Goodman, and his assistant Carroll A. Edson. It was founded in 1915, when Goodman was just 25 years old and just seven years after British General Sir Robert Baden-Powell invented scouting in the United Kingdom. The Order of the Arrow is the uniquely American "honor society of scouting". It has been suggested that Founders Award be merged into this article or section. ...
The Boy Scouts of America(BSA) is an organization designed for boys between the ages of seven and eighteen, and for both young men and women between the ages of 14 and 21, based in the United States of America, with some presence in other countries. ...
1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
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The Scouting movement was already flourishing in an America still at peace in 1915, while young men in Europe were dying in horrific numbers in World War I. Boys in the United States seemed to be donning scout uniforms everywhere as membership grew rapidly. Prominent businessmen, civic and religious groups, and politicians were embracing the organization. World map showing Europe Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiogeographic one. ...
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Goodman wanted to develop methods to teach boys that skill proficiency in Scoutcraft was not enough. Rather, the principles embodied in the Scout Oath and Scout Law should become realities in the lives of Scouts. Scoutcraft is a term coined by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). ...
Since the birth of Scouting in 1907, all Scouts around the world have taken a Scout Promise or oath to live up to ideals of the movement, and subscribed to the Scout Law. ...
Goodman and Carroll were director and assistant director, respectively, at a Scout camp on Treasure Island, in the Delaware River near Philadelphia. It had come to their attention that many other camps had created honor societies for Scouts who had attended them. They were also inspired by the use of Native American culture by Ernest Thompson Seton in his Woodcraft Indians program. They decided to create an honor society of their own. Map of Treasure Island (note that on the left Marshall Island is obscured). ...
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An Atsina named Assiniboin Boy Native Americans in the United States (also Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are those indigenous peoples within the territory that is now encompassed by the continental United States, and their descendants in modern times. ...
Ernest Thompson Seton (August 14, 1860 - October 23, 1946) was a noted author and founding pioneer of the Boy Scouts of America. ...
The Woodland Indians was a youth program established by Ernest Thompson Seton. ...
As a means of accomplishing this in a manner fitting a boy's interest and understanding, Goodman would utilize the appeal of Indian lore and the recognition of the scout's peers. He devised a program where troops would choose, at the conclusion of their summer camp, those boys from among their number who best exemplifyied the ideals of scouting. These scouts would be honored as members of an Indian "lodge". Those elected would be acknowledged as having displayed, in the eyes of their fellow scouts, a spirit of unselfish service and brotherhood. Summer camp, principally a North American phenomenon, is a common destination for children and teenagers during the summer months. ...
Assistant Camp Director Carroll A. Edson helped Goodman research the traditions and language of the Lenni Lenape (also known as the Delaware Indians) who had inhabited Treasure Island. They combined these traditions with fictional characters from James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans to develop dramatic induction ceremonies for the Order of the Arrow. Even today, these rites make a lasting impression on scouts who have been elected to the Order of the Arrow. The Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) were, in the 1600s, loosely organized bands of Native American people practicing small-scale agriculture to augment a largely mobile hunter-gatherer society in the region around the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River, and western Long Island Sound. ...
The Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) were, in the 1600s, loosely organized bands of Native American people practicing small-scale agriculture to augment a largely mobile hunter-gatherer society in the region around the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River, and western Long Island Sound. ...
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Cooper portrait by John Wesley Jarvis, 1822 James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. ...
The Last of the Mohicans is an epic novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826. ...
By 1921, Goodman and Edson's idea had spread to a score of scout councils in the northeast and the first national meeting of the Order of the Arrow was held. The organization was initially viewed with suspicion by many scouters as a secret society and as an affront to the egalitarian ideals of scouting. For many years, the "OA" was considered to be an "experimental" program only. Not until 1948 was E. Urner Goodman's innovation fully integrated into the Scouting program. As of 2005 every BSA council has an OA lodge except for two councils who run similar programs of their own. 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
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E. Urner Goodman Camping Award Each year, the National Council of the Order of the Arrow selects two lodges from each of the (currently four) regions to receive the E. Urner Goodman Camping Award. This award recongnizes lodges that have made outstanding contributions to promoting (and increasing) camping within their host council. Also considered is the number of Arrowmen who serve on their councils summer camp staff. The award was established in 1969. Currently, Octoraro Lodge #22, located at the Chester County Council in West Chester, Pennsylvania, is the only lodge in the Order of the Arrow to have earned five E. Urner Goodman Camping Awards; the most recent being in 1999.
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E. Urner Goodman Scholarship Fund The E. Urner Goodman Scholarship is awarded annually by the Boy Scouts of America to members of the Order of the Arrow who are preparing for a professional career in scouting. The scholarships are provided to help cover the financial costs of a college education.
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