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Show Y Scout Pow Wow Features Studies In Merit Badges Scouts of Alpine and Timpanogos districts will hnve an opportunity to receive training from experts, in more than 35 merit badge studies, at the first annual Scout Merit Badge Pow Wow sponsored by Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university, May 5, 6 and 7. All Scouts of Second class rank and the above are invited. The Pow Wow, the purpose of which is to stimulate merit badge advancement, is similar to the one held at the University of Utah each year. Reed H. Robinson of American Fork, Alpine district chairman, was informed this week. i An outstanding opportunity will be afforded Scouts who have been held back by swimming and life-saving life-saving requirements. A pool near I the university campus has been ob-I ob-I tained for the Pow Wow, and a I first-class swimming instructor will give instructions. Courses tentatively are limited to First class Scouts or above, but if there is sufficient demand, requirements require-ments will be lowered to include j Second class. General assemblies j will convene at 1:30 p. m. each day. I with instructions following right up j to 6 o'clock. Scouts will then go to ' the B. Y. U. cafeteria, where dinner I will be served. Following the meal, j the group will reassemble in College j hall for motion pictures and other I recreational activities. An outside campfire program has been arranged arrang-ed for May 6. Courses of study include agriculture, agricul-ture, astronomy, animal industry, architecture, athletics, automobiling. bird study, botany, bookkeeping, camping, chemistry', conservation, civics, cooking, dairying, dramatics, electricity, first aid, forestry, Indian I lore, insect life, interpreting, journalism, jour-nalism, life saing. mining, path-finding, path-finding, personal health, photography, photogra-phy, pioneering, public health, public pub-lic speaking, reptile study, swim- ming. safety, stamp collecting, taxidermy, taxi-dermy, weather, wood work, and zoology. |