John Cook Parish Explained

John Cook Parish
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Office: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.

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  1. Web site: Archived copy . 2008-08-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090327024400/http://www.scout.org/en/content/download/11624/94866/file/Triennial_Report_EN_5.pdf . 2009-03-27 .
  2. Web site: Scouting.
  3. Web site: Distinguished Eagle Scout Award . 2014-04-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140405091513/http://www.scouting.org/About/FactSheets/Distinguished_EagleScouts.aspx . 2014-04-05 .
  4. Web site: List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award . . scout.org . 2019-05-01 . 2020-11-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201129053624/https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/List . dead .

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