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Show Former resident presented high Scouting honors in Northwest Mr. Thorpe gives much credit cred-it for his early Scout training to Springville Scout leaders Leo Felix, his father, Jacob Felix and and to the late John Boyer. For his early training in his vocation of electronics, he gives much praise to the late Warren Beardall, who he said, introduced him to the wonders of being a ham operator. Jay N. Thorpe of Bellevue, Wash., a former well-known resident of Springville, was recently re-cently presented with the Silver Beaver Award, at the Chief's Seattle Council's annual recognition recog-nition dinner at the Seattle, Washington Center, according to word received here. He is a son of Mr .and Mrs. Arthur Thorpe of Springville. Information concerning Mr. Thorpe's activities presented at the dinner, stated among other things that he began his Scout work in 1936, when he became a Boy Scout and attained the rank of Eagle Scout. After five years of military service he took over the work of Scoutmaster of two different troops here. He was then recalled re-called to active duty in the Navy and served two more years. After advancing in Scout work through a number of years, he moved to Seattle, where he has served as post committeeman, post advisor, member of the district cabinet and chairman of the post committee. com-mittee. He has several training keys and is a member of the Order of the Arrow and the Brotherhood honor. He served as a member of the LDS planning plan-ning committee for the Scout encampment at Farragut, Idaho Ida-ho for the U. S. and Candadian troops in 1966. He is active in LDS Church work and professional engineering engineer-ing organizations. He and his wife have two daughters and a son. By profession he is an engi-neef engi-neef and his job is in the research re-search field. |
