Special awards of the New J Orleans Area Council, Bo;y( Scouts of America, were pre-] sented at the 50th anniversary^ banquet of the Scout movement( Thursday night at the Roosevelt( hotel.
Winners of the Silver Beaver' awards for "distinguished service to boyhood" were Thomas 0. Hendry of Norco and Georgep E. Rombach, Dr. Lawrence! Strohmeyer and Leonard C.: Russo of New Orleans. The! awards were presented by George R. Simpson, deputy regional executive of the Boy Scouts.
The Webelas awards for "outstanding service to scouting" were won by Mrs. S. M. Leiws, Mrs. A. F. Shambley and Mrs. Roy Bankston, all of New Orleans. Presenting the awards I was C. E. Vetter, chairman of I the special awards committee. J The Silver Pelican awards of I the New Orleans newspaper I Publishers Association were won by Explorer Scout John Hebert of Houma and Explorer Sea Scout Phillip Scheps, New Orleans. The awards, for outstanding service rendered by scouts of the council, were presented by Donald W. Coleman, vice-president of The Times-Picayune Publishing Company. I 'OUTSTANDING SCOUT 'j The American Legion award j to the, "outstanding Boy Scout j of 1959" was given to Guy Cher-' amie of Algiers Methodist church Troop 69 by John A. Guirovich Jr., First District commander of the legion.
Cheramie was given the award for quick thinking in stopping the flow of blood of an accident victim, sving the victim's life.
A special award of a 49-star American flag was given to Dr. Willard R. Wirth, president | of thex council, by Crescent City IPost 125, American Legion. The, I flag, which has previously flown1 jover the nation's capitol, will I be used at one of the council's! I summer camps. Making the pre-jsentation was Dewey Nassar Jr., I vice-commander.
The annual award of the president of the council to the district having the highest percentage of its enrolled Boy Scouts and Explorers attend council camp was won by the Plaque-mines district. The district had a 41 per cent attendance at J1ie camp. The Rev. Warren Beale, district chairman of camping and activities received the award.
AIMS FOR '60 OUTLINED Also honored at the banq et was a group of former Boy Scouts who were in the move* ment as far back as 1910. Melville Sternberg, an adjutant in
the American Boy Scouts in 1910, conducted the recognition ceremonies for the group.
Speaking before the group, Wirth outlined the council's aims for 1960 and called for "re-dedication to all our ideals and aims of scouting." He said that
all of us should determine to do everything within our power to do bigger things in the years to come."
A visual presentation showing scenes of the 50 years of scouting in the New Orleans area was presented by Harry Maxfield,; Scout executive of the council, PHOTO: Handshake Spans 50 Years in Scouting - A HALF-CENTURY in scouting was covered with a firm handshake Thursday night as Melville Sternberg (left) congratulated Sea Explorer Scout Philip Scheps. Sternberg was an adjutant in the American Boy Scouts in 1910. Looking on are Dr. Lawrence Strohmeyer and Mrs. S. M. Lewis. Scheps, Dr.* Strohmeyer and Mrs. Lewis were among those receiving awards at the golden anniversary banquet of scouting at the Roosevelt hotel.
