For nearly a century, Nebraska
scouts have fulfilled the tenets
of the scout oath, scout law, scout motto, and scout slogan by
serving their communities, their state, and their country. Some
of them have made the supreme sacrifice.
Inspired by the slogan, "Every Scout to Feed a Soldier,"
Boy Scouts in Nebraska and throughout the country planted thousands
of gardens in 1917-18 to support U.S. participation in World
War I. Scouts also sold nearly $200 million worth of bonds and
savings stamps as represented by this poster.
Artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker, who emigrated from Germany
in 1882, is noted for more than three hundred Saturday Evening
Post covers.
Source: 4541-44, courtesy
of Addison E. Sheldon, Lincoln
Scouts also made many
contributions
to allied victory in World War II.
Source: 4541-710, 712, courtesy
of Addison E. Sheldon, Lincoln
Nebraska Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts, such as
these from Lincoln in 1943, helped "get
in the scrap" during World War II.
Source: RG2183:PH1943-08-11:5
When the Nebraska
Theater at 1144 P Street in Lincoln featured the Paramount
film Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout in June 1944, local scouts
took advantage of the screening to remind theater-goers that
scouting develops character and good citizenship.
Source: RG2183:PH1944-06-28:6
William E. Green
(1925-1945)
Corp.
William E. Green, a former Lincoln Cub Scout and Boy Scout,
made the supreme
sacrifice for his country when he died in Germany on February
27, 1945, of wounds received in action. He was awarded the Bronze
Star and the Purple Heart
posthumously.
Source: RG2025, William E.
Green Collection
William E. Green's Cub
Scout shirt and neckerchief. He probably made the "woggle"
used to fasten the neckerchief. In 1930 the Boy Scouts of America
established a program for boys ages 9 to 11. At first the program
was called "Cubbing" and the boys were called "Cubs,"
as indicated above the right breast pocket of the shirt and on
the neckerchief. In 1945 the names were changed to "Cub
Scouting" and "Cub Scouts."
Source: 9234-45; 9234-33,
William E. Green, courtesy of Norma Kidd Green, Lincoln
William E. Green's Wolf
Cubs membership card and a photograph of Pack 9 members Eddie
Allen, "Billy" Green, Max Miller, and Chuck Bouwsma,
1935.
Source: RG2025, William E.
Green Collection
These manuals,
one from 1943 and the other from 1951, span the 1945 name change
from Cubbing to Cub Scouting. In 1949 the age range for Cub Scouts
became 8 to 10. In the mid-1980s "Tiger Cubs" was created
as a beginning scouting program for first grade boys.
Source: NSHS Collections
Department Reference Library
William E. Green's Boy
Scout shirt and merit badge sash. The patch on the left breast
pocket signifies the rank of "Star Scout," meaning
he had earned at least five but fewer than ten merit badges.
The badges on the sash represent firemanship, safety, carpentry,
drafting, personal health, first aid, and home repairs.
Source: 9234-37; 9324-34,
William E. Green, courtesy of Norma Kidd Green, Lincoln
Certificate
attesting that William E. Green had earned the rank of Star Scout,
and his study guide for the physical
development merit badge.
Source: RG2025, William E.
Green Collection.
