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General Description

Using the word "legend" may be an understatement when talking about Harold Roe Bennett Sturdevant Bartle. There has probably never been a professional Scouter on the local or national scene quite like him. A big man with a big voice who was bigger than life, he was born in Virginia on June 25, 1901. Known simply as "The Chief", the massive Kansas City Convention Center is named in his honor not to mention the Kansas City Chiefs NFL football team. He was a professional Scouter extraordinaire and during his lifetime also managed to be a lawyer, banker, cattleman, politician, college president and renowned public speaker. State nickname: Old Dominion Other U.S. States Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Governor Mark R. Warner (D) Official languages English Area 110,862 km² (35th)  - Land 102,642 km²  - Water 8,220 km² (7. ... Kansas City generally refers to the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, including: Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Kansas Other Kansas City areas include: Kansas City, Oregon Kansas City, Tennessee In computing, the term Kansas City standard refers to a standard for storage of data on audio cassettes. ... Conference AFC Division West Year Founded 1960 Home Field Arrowhead Stadium City Kansas City, Missouri Team Colors Red, Gold, and White Head Coach Dick Vermeil All-Time Record (W-L-T) (At Start of 2005 Season) 364-320-12 The Kansas City Chiefs are a National Football League team based... NFL logo The National Football League (NFL) is the largest and most popular professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities. ... The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is an organization for boys between the ages of 7 and 18, 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. ... A lawyer is a person licensed by the state to advise clients in legal matters and represent them in courts of law (and in other forms of dispute resolution). ... The essential function of a bank is to provide services related to the storing of deposits and the extending of credit. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... An academic administration is a branch of university or college employees responsible for the maintenance and supervision of the institution and separate from the research and teaching faculty. ... A public speaker is one who makes speeches in public settings, such as at parks or other public locations. ...

Childhood and Voice

His father was a Presbyterian minister and he was an only child weighing nearly eleven pounds when he was born. He enlisted in the Army when he was 13 years old but his father, armed with a birth certificate, pulled him out three days later. He was a big man standing 6' 4" and weighing in at 375 pounds. They say his voice was even bigger. He overcame an early shyness and became a professional public speaker who was in great demand and was highly compensated for his efforts. He gave hundreds of speeches every year. One Kansas City Scouter I communicated with told me that legend has it when the Chief wanted to contact someone in a nearby town he would walk out to a high point five miles from it and yell. They would hear him. The Scouter, who knew him, always wanted to ask if it were really true but never had the courage. When Chief Bartle spoke he didn't need a public address system. There was a number of times where he actually blew out the public address system he happened to be using. He said "God had wired me for sound" so he spoke without one. He was dynamic to the core with his rich and high powered voice and eloquence of language. He was one of the most sought after speakers in the country yet when he was a 15 year old cadet at the Fork Union Military Academy in Virginia he hid under a bed once to avoid a debating class. Presbyterianism is a form of church government, practiced by many (although not all) of those Protestant churches (known as Reformed churches), which historically subscribed to the teachings of John Calvin. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... In most forms of government, a birth certificate is an official legal document usually describing Name at Birth Date of Birth Sex (Gender) Place of Birth (City, Region, Country) Birth Registration Number Legal Parent(s) Time of Birth (if known) The certificate is issued shortly after a persons birth... A sound reinforcement system is an electromechanical system for accurately amplifying, reproducing, and sometimes recording audio, so that persons not near the original source may experience the sound as if they were. ...

Kansas City Mayor

He was Kansas City's most celebrated mayor, having served two terms starting in 1955. It was "Chief" Bartle who negotiated with Lamar Hunt to bring his NFL team to Kansas City from Dallas in 1963. Mr. Hunt renamed the team "The Chiefs" in honor of Bartle, which is documented in NFL history. He had a fireman's hat, coat and boots and went to all two alarm fires while he was mayor to support the firemen and assist the victims. Every morning he had a radio broadcast at 8am to give a daily report on the city. He did not wish to serve a third term and although on the ticket, asked voters not to vote for him. Some did anyway but he got his wish and was not reelected. 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lamar Hunt, born August 2, 1932 in El Dorado, Arkansas, is one of the most influential sports promoters in the United States. ... Dallas redirects here. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Firefighter in full turn out gear with a pickhead axe. ... Ticket (unseperated) of the Kurkino in Berchtesgaden CeBIT Home 1998 student day ticket with Barcode Ticket for Rock am Ring(2004) with Hologram (right hand) Ticket can mean one of several things: // Permission A ticket is a voucher to indicate that one has paid for admission to a theatre, movie...

American Humanics

H. Roe Bartle is considered the founder of American Humanics. He had worked for ten years on developing the program. For nearly thirty years the Chief led the Kansas City Area (now the Heart of America) Council of Boy Scouts. As Council Executive, he was responsible for hiring qualified staff members. He had no trouble finding good people, but most knew nothing about running an organization. With the help of longtime civic leader Jerry Cohen and others, Chief Bartle founded the American Humanics Foundation in Kansas City in 1948. His idea was to teach college undergraduates how to run the business side of nonprofit organizations. Courses would be conducted on campus and experienced agency executives would present classroom lectures and workshops. Students would volunteer in community agencies and learn from on-the-job experience. Upon graduation, they would have the management skills to run nonprofit agencies. Fifty years ago, most college campuses were not interested in adding American Humanics courses to their curriculums. American Humanics started at Missouri Valley College and grew within a small number of colleges. That situation has changed in recent years. The program may be the least known part of the legacy of H. Roe Bartle yet may be the most far-reaching, with hundreds of alumni serving various nonprofit organizations across the land. He considered it his greatest contribution to America during his lifetime. Chief Bartle had originally started it to help the Boy Scouts but it carried over to benefit many organizations. At a major American Humanics dinner in 1964, twelve speakers described the profound influences Mr. Bartle had on youth serving organizations across America. They say it was the only time that H. Roe Bartle was speechless. American Humanics, Inc. celebrated it's 50th anniversary in 1998. Chief Bartle reportedly used a good amount of his public speaking income to keep it going in the early years. 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... A college (Latin collegium) can be the name of any group of colleagues; originally it meant a group of people living together under a common set of rules (con-, together + leg-, law). As a consequence members of colleges were originally styled fellows and still are in some places. ... A non-profit organization (sometimes abbreviated to not-for-profit or non-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ... Categories: Stub | Education ... Academic procession during the University of Canterbury graduation ceremony. ... Campus is Latin for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Alpha Phi Omega

It was Chief Bartle who was elected the National President (then called Supreme Grand Master) of the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity in 1931 and remained in that position until 1946. It had eighteen chapters when he took it over and 109 chapters when he stepped down. He is largely credited with the growth of the organization. He followed the founder of the group, Frank Reed Horton, as the group's leader and was continuously reelected until he finally chose to step down. The handbook of the organization has a full page on him to this day and he is still referred to as "The Chief". At least one retired professional Scouter who knew him said that it was Chief Bartle who personally financed APO when it was a young organization. Alpha Phi Omega (most commonly APO, but also ΑΦΩ, A-Phi-O, and A-Phi-Q) is a co-ed service fraternity organized to provide community service, leadership and social opportunities to college students. ... A fraternity is an organization that represents the relationship between its members as akin to brotherhood. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Frank Reed Horton, the founder of Alpha Phi Omega. ... Alpha Phi Omega (most commonly APO, but also ΑΦΩ, A-Phi-O, and A-Phi-Q) is a co-ed service fraternity organized to provide community service, leadership and social opportunities to college students. ...

Scouting

While Chief Bartle accomplished much during his lifetime, Scouting was his passion. He was a professional scouter who knew how to lead and possessed magnetic qualities. He entered professional Scouting at age 21 in 1922 as the Scout Executive for the state of Wyoming. It was at the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming that he spent a great deal of time learning about the values and culture of the American Indian. Bartle was inducted into the Northern Arapaho Tribe as a blood brother and was sponsored into it by a Chief named Lone Bear. Roe Bartle was given the name of his sponsor, "Lone Bear". He arrived in Saint Joseph, Missouri in 1925 and remained until late December, 1928 when he left and came to Kansas City which became his home for the remainder of his life. He was the Council Executive in Kansas City for 27 years. While he was the executive in St. Joseph he had appointed a Roman Catholic man as a commissioner. After he did a Ku Klux Klan mob came calling one night and demanded that he get rid of the man. His answer to them was "If any three or four of you want to step forward, I'll show you who is running Scouting in St. Joseph." The mob left. The commissioner stayed. Chief Bartle never took a salary while serving as a Council Executive, he donated it back to the council each year to be used to further the cause of Scouting. It is hard to imagine someone working a full-time job for free and doing it over thirty years but he did. State nickname: Equality State Other U.S. States Capital Cheyenne Largest city Cheyenne Governor Dave Freudenthal (D) Official languages English Area 253,554 km² (10th)  - Land 251,706 km²  - Water 1,851 km² (0. ... Wind River Indian Reservation is a reservation shared by the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes of Native Americans in central western Wyoming. ... Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ... Scabby Bull, Arapaho 1806 Arapaho camp, ca. ... Chief can refer to The chief engineer of a naval vessel or anyone with the rank Chief Warrant Officer in the Canadian Forces In heraldry, a chief is a band of colour or metal making up the top (usually the top third or slightly less) of a shield. ... Saint Joseph (also known as St. ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Roman Catholic Church is the largest Christian body in the world. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... Salary is a form of periodic payment from the employer to the employee, which is specified in an employment contract. ...

Mic-O-Say

He created the Tribe of Mic-O-Say honor society in Saint Joseph, Missouri in 1925 when he became their council executive and created a second Tribe in Kansas City in 1929 after he transferred there. It is believed that Bartle arrived in Missouri in 1925 with the basics of Mic-O-Say in place. There was an existing society in St. Joseph named Manhawka that Bartle incorporated into Mic-O-Say. Kansas City's current Scout reservation is named after Chief Bartle. The two Scout reservations in St. Joseph and Kansas City are said to have the highest retention of older scouts returning each year of any reservations or camps in the country. The Tribe of Mic-O-Say is given much credit for this. The Tribe of Mic-O-Say is the honor camping society of the Boy Scouts of America. ... An honor society (or honour society) is an organization or rank, the induction into which recognizes excellence among ones peers. ... Saint Joseph (also known as St. ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Instance of retaining (e. ...

Conclusion

H. Roe Bartle served so many organizations and had so many honors and awards bestowed upon him during his lifetime that it boggles the mind. He received honors and distinguished service medals from Great Britain, Ecuador, Belgium, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Guatemala and Mexico. When Harry Truman asked him to serve as a regional public official in 1951, Chief Bartle reportedly had to resign from 57 boards he was a member of in order to comply with the non-conflict of interest requirement of the job. He was a trustee for hospitals, foundations and helped found such things as the Kansas City Boys Club. He served on boards for religious and osteopathic colleges, corporations, banks, trade commissions and more. After everything I found and read about him, I concluded Chief Bartle was a towering example of what an American citizen should be. He deeply cared about his community, his fellow man and lived a life of extraordinary service to others. Maybe above all he genuinely cared about children. He had instilled in his Scouts for years that when your family, church, community or country called upon you that you fulfilled the call. A group of former Scouts visited him one day to say the city needed honest leadership and asked him to run for mayor. He made no political deals on the way there. His only campaign promise was "I will take my honor, integrity and ability to City Hall and nothing else ." When he was elected he retired from his career in Scouting. This giant of a man had a profound influence on many thousands of people that lasts to this day. He counted among his friends the high and mighty including U.S. President Harry Truman yet took the time to help the common man and his beloved Kansas City in so many ways. The legacy of his life and the wide ranging effects of it are almost immeasurable. In the Christmas movie, "It's A Wonderful Life," the angel Clarence said "Each man's life touches so many other lives...". His statement rings true above and beyond in the case of H. Roe Bartle. "Chief" Bartle lived and remains an almost mythical legend of scouting and perhaps of life. For the victim of Mt. ... For the Babylon 5 episode, see Conflicts of Interest A conflict of interest is a situation in which someone in a position of trust, such as a lawyer, a politician, or an executive or director of a corporation, has competing professional and/or personal interests. ... The word trustee is a legal term that refers to a member of a trust, which can be set up for any of a variety of purposes, and is entrusted with the administration of property on behalf of others. ... A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ... Fishers of men; Oil on panel by Adriaen van de Venne (1614) Religion—sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system—is commonly defined as belief concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine, and the moral codes, practices, values, and institutions associated with such belief. ... Osteopathy is the body of medicine that originally used strictly manipulative techniques for correcting somatic abnormalities thought to cause disease and inhibit recovery. ...

Passing and Funeral

The mighty "Lone Bear" passed away on May 9, 1974. May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...

His funeral was attended by the Director of the FBI as well as Chief Scout Executive Alden Barber and others who left a national meeting in Hawaii to be there. The church overflowed with people from all walks of life, all faiths and all color, who came to honor a man who had befriended many. His pallbearers were six firemen and six police officers, public servants, as was he. As the funeral procession moved along the streets to the cemetery, all the citizens who were passed along the way stopped and saluted; men removed their hats and many crossed themselves. From the gates of Forest Hill Cemetery to the gravesite there were literally thousands of saluting Cubs, Scouts and Scouters lined up on both sides to say farewell. Official FBI Seal The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... State nickname: The Aloha State Other U.S. States Capital Honolulu Largest city Honolulu Governor Linda Lingle (R) Official languages Hawaiian and English Area 28,337 km² (43rd)  - Land 16,649 km²  - Water 11,672 km² (41. ... A pallbearer is a person who helps carry the casket of a deceased person from a religious service or viewing to their final resting place, or to and from the hearse which does so. ... Firefighter with an axe A firefighter, sometimes still called a fireman though women have increasingly joined firefighting units, is a person who is trained and equipped to put out fires, rescue people and in some areas provide emergency medical services. ... For the band, see The Police. ...

Quotes

H. Roe Bartle Quotes:

"What America needs is more lovers of children and fewer lovers of things."

"There are three Bartles: The Bartle who makes money, the Bartle who gives it away, and the Bartle who works for free."

"I condemn representatives who represent no one but themselves"

Quotes about H. Roe Bartle:

"This was a man who created an attitude in people to go out and do the very best you could. He stood for all the right things in his day." - (A retired professional scouter who knew him)

Originally compiled by David Eby, who gives permission for it to be placed here.

Sources

• Down Home with the Chief and Miss Maggie, Jimmy Bartle Taylor, ISBN 0964689804(bio of Bartle by his only daughter).