John Cook Parish

John Cook Parish
International Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America

John Cook Parish (-‡ 2005 to 2008[1]) was an International Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America and elected as such to the World Scout Committee.[2] At the 64th annual meeting of the BSA in May 1974, he was re-elected to the post and elected vice-president of the association.

Parish reached the rank of Eagle Scout in 1926, and was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.[3]

Parish was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.[4] He was also a 1962 recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award.

References

  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-27. Retrieved 2008-08-29.
  2. https://books.google.fr/books?id=-UI6AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA5-PA7&lpg=RA5-PA7&dq=John+C.+Parish+bsa&source=bl&ots=q2YgzBoCZu&sig=zx-3C5mrBJ0i2C43bN554MMKMCo&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiywuiluLPKAhUKPxoKHTe0D1cQ6AEIMDAC#v=onepage&q=John%20C.%20Parish%20bsa&f=false
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-04-05. Retrieved 2014-04-13.
  4. https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/list complete list


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