The seeds of were planted on a Donna Stalter small island with the help of a MacLaren. A 20451 Powell Rd., #25 short time later, another MacLaren gave the Dunnellon, FL 34431 world the place where Scouting was 352-489-6248 nurtured and became its worldwide home, [email protected] . Today, Gilwell Park, in Essex, is the principal training centre for Membership Application British leaders. Full Name (First, Middle, Last): The Clan MacLaren Society in North America has established a special associate ______(non-voting) membership for any Scouter Preferred Name (for Name Badge): who has earned his or her Wood Badge. Wood Badge membership in the Clan MacLaren Society of North America ______(CMSNA) is therefore extended to all Wood CLAN MACLAREN Badge-trained Scouters who have completed Address: their "ticket" and have received their Wood Badge beads. Membership is $15 per year. ______AND THE Pick up a membership form and complete this form at the Clan MacLaren tent at a ______Highland Games. Or, fill out the next panel SCOUTING on this brochure and mail with $15 to the ______CMSNA Treasurer: Phone: ______CONNECTION

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Baden-Powell Revised: 21 June 2018

Scouting began in England in 1907 on a spent 11 days camping at Gilwell Park doing shortly changed to the beads being attached small island located near Poole, England, things in the same fashion as the 21 boys did to a leather thong that could be worn as a called BROWNSEA. The leader was the at Brownsea 12 years earlier. The necklace with one bead on each end of the youngest major general in the British Army participants used the Patrol Method devised thong as pendants. and a national war hero for leading the by Baden-Powell to accomplish the many defenders of the nearly yearlong siege of varied tasks that this training program At first, in honor of Commissioner Mafeking during the Boer War in South presented. When it was over, Baden-Powell MacLaren’s generous gift of Gilwell Park, Africa was in a quandary over how to recognize the Gilwell Park staff members wore these leaders for the completion of his neckerchiefs of full MacLaren tartan. This war hero was Robert Stephenson training course. He remembered a long However, to reduce the high cost of these Smyth Baden-Powell and his assistant at string of curiously carved, small wooden neckerchiefs, one of dove grey cloth with a Brownsea was his long-time friend, Major beads that he had recovered as a military warm red lining and a patch of ribbon in Kenneth MacLaren. In 1908, when the souvenir from his South African military MacLaren tartan at the point was adopted. Scout Association was formed, Major days. He decided to present one of these After 1924, this neckerchief was restricted to MacLaren became its first Secretary. beads to each leader that completed the Wood Badge holders only, a tradition that training course. This training program soon remains to this day. (The now Scouting simply took off and soon was acquired its familiar name from these small, have their own tartan, based on the spreading rapidly throughout not only the curiously carved wooden beads – WOOD MacLaren tartan.) This neckerchief is held United Kingdom but also the world. The BADGE. together with a special leather thong Turk's modest experiment of Brownsea with its 21 head knot "woggle," or neckerchief slide boys expanded beyond its founder's dreams. The first Wood Badge beads were worn on originally conceived at Gilwell Park by a But Baden-Powell felt that there was an area the end of a leather thong suspended from young staff member, Bill Shankley, about of the Scouting program that needed the buttonhole of the uniform coat or shirt, 1920. These three unique symbols – the attention. Scouting needed trained leaders to then the beads were attached to the ends of carved look after its Scouts. To that end, a search the Scouter's hat cords, but then they would was made for a place to establish a "training only be seen when the Scouter wore his hat! centre." A from This Rosneath, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, near Glasgow, came to the rescue. William F.

DuBois MacLaren (no relation to Major Woggle Kenneth MacLaren) purchased a derelict estate near near the town of wood beads, the neckerchief with a piece of (about an hour from London) and ribbon in MacLaren tartan, and the woggle – presented GILWELL PARK to the Scout continue to be used today around the world Association in July 1919. Scouting now had by Scouters in over 120 countries that have its training facility. Wood Beads Scouting programs.

In September 1919, the first Scout Officers' Training Course took place. Adult Scouters