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Show k -3. f I" I i 1 s i . I 1 RULON DEAN SKINNER Rulon D. Skinner Named District Scout Executive Appointment of Rulon Dean Skinner, formerly District Scout Executive at Roosevelt, as the new District Scout Executive in Utah County, filling the vacancy of Woodrow Dennett, was announced an-nounced by Floyd Loveridge, Scout Executive of the Utah National Na-tional Parks Council, recently. In his new service area, Mr. Skinner will serve the districts- of Lehi, Alpine, Timpanogos, Palmyra, Palmy-ra, Nebo, Santaquin-Tintie. . For the past six years, Mr. Skinner has served the Utah National Na-tional Parks Council as District Scout Executive for the Uintah Basin. During that period there was a 58 per cent growth in boy membership, 44 new units organized, organ-ized, 500 per oent increase in scout camping, and 100 per cent increase in scout rank advancement. advance-ment. While Mr. Skinner served the Uintah Basin, the annual rate of leadership training certificates issued jumped from 20 to 550. Three of the five boys from the State of Utah to attend the Boy Scout 1959 World Jamboree were from the Uintah Basin, and nearly near-ly 100 of the 450 Boys the Council Coun-cil sent to the Colorado Springs National Jamboree were from the Uintah Basin. Mr. Skinner graduated from the Brigham Young University in August 1954 with a major in accounting. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he filled a mission in 1950-53 in the Uruguayan Mission, spending time both in Uruguay and Paraguay. Para-guay. During his LDS mission, he was seleoted by the Boy Scouts of Uruguay as their representative representa-tive to the Interameriean Scout Conference in Cuba in 1953. During his stay at Roosevelt, ' for 5 years, Mr. Roosevelt served in the Roosevelt LDS Stake Sunday Sun-day Superintendency. His work was twice reviewed in the INSTRUCTOR, IN-STRUCTOR, monthly magazine of the Sunday School Association. He is a native of Safford, Arizona, Ari-zona, his wife Ruth is a native of Bridgeland, Utah, and the Skinners Skin-ners have two children, a boy, Kumen, 3 and a girl, Diane, 1. As he continues to serve the Utah National Parks Council, of the Boy Scouts of America, he will make his home in Provo, concluded con-cluded Mr. Loveridge. |