Eagle Scout Book of Gold

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Books based on Girl and Boy Scouts have grown popular recently with the release of The Daring Book for Girls and The Dangerous Book for Boys. Complementing those scout-style guides are the actual Scout materials, like the Eagle Scout Book of Gold from which the page above comes.
This wonderful artifact, the Eagle Scout Book of Gold is from the Alachua County Public Library’s Heritage Collection. The book shows Eagle Scouts in Gainesville, Florida from 1941-1965 (the cover says it only goes until 1955, but the contents cover through 1965). The pictures of each of the Scouts and their short letters on what becoming an Eagle Scout has meant to each of them is a wonderful snapshot of history, of the individual Scouts, and of the Gainesville community.

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  1. In case people are looking for family histories, Google seems to pick up blog entries better than many other types of content, so these are the names of the Eagle Scouts listed in the Eagle Scout Book of Gold for Gainesville, Florida. Many of these names are familiar, but I think that’s because many of these scouts made an impact on Gainesville and they, their children or other relatives continue to do so. The names:
    Robert Bless – 1941
    Allan Tisdale – 1941
    Ballard Simmons – 1941
    George Thomas – 1941
    Byron Wise – 1941
    Jim Clayton – 1942
    Bruce Martin – 1942
    Bobby Adams – 1942
    Jim Bishop – 1942
    Jim Leukel – 1942
    Fred L. Vidal – 1942
    Ralph Morgen – 1942
    Louis Tatom – 1942
    Phil Constans – 1943
    Buddy Stringfellow – 1943
    Bobby Wright – 1943
    Lee Nelson – 1943
    Bobby Graf – 1943
    Ben Covington – 1943
    Rudolph Fagan – 1943
    Foster Olroyd – 1943
    E.C. Hogan, Jr. – 1943 – Field…
    Bob Clayton – 1943
    Robert E. Hull – 1944
    Harold Voyle – 1944
    Tom Fay – 1944
    Charles French – 1944
    Eugene Waddell – 1944
    Jack Smith – 1944
    Charles B. Larson – 1944
    Joe Dowdy – 1944
    Herbert Bevis – 1944
    Jimmie Carlton – 1944
    Yale Gunn – 1944
    Norwood Guilford – 1945
    Joe Wilder – 1945
    L.D. Bochette, Jr. – 1945
    Bill Millican – 1945
    Howard Dean – 1945
    Walter Matthews, Jr. – 1946
    Sammy Fisher – 1946
    Billy Uthlaut – 1946
    Bobby Rich – 1946
    Ronnie Hayward – 1946
    Randal Beck – 1946
    John Brabham – 1946
    Anthony Stella – 1947
    Henry Waters – 1947
    Oliver Johnson – 1947
    Dick Lagasse – 1947
    Dorsey Sanders, Jr. – 1947
    Hoyt T. Jackson – 1947
    Allie Cone – 1948
    Billy Shanley – 1948
    Herbert Holman – 1948
    Tyler Coburn – 1948
    Hugh MeL. Fisher – 1949
    Alton Moring – 1950
    Chuck Geltz – 1951
    Benny Walker – 1952
    Rufus Kite-Powell – 1952
    Robert Bell – 1952
    Fred Olinger – 1952
    Hank Beale – 1952
    Kessler Meyer – 1952
    Harold Gertmer – 1953
    Roy Radford – 1953
    Jan Mundalf – 1953
    Douglas A. Deurloo – Services for,…
    Douglas A. Deurloo – 1954
    John Stout – 1954
    Bobby Mounts – 1955
    Missing
    Missing
    John Paul Jones, III – 1955
    George Sanders – 1955
    William D. Olinger – 1955
    Billy H. Wills – 1955
    Robert Olin Stripling, Jr….
    Milledge Murphey, III – 1955
    George Wallace Dekle, Jr….
    Richard Marder – 1966
    Glenn Decker – 1956
    Dell Jernigan – 1956
    Stuart D. Campbell – 1956
    Charles W. Campbell – 1956
    Stephen Gregory Sisk – 1956
    Bill Thompson – 1956
    Ross Sanders – 1956
    Herbert Silber – 1956
    Jimmy Butler – 1956
    Jimmy Butler – 1958 (letter from…
    Brian Kelly – 1956
    Joe Dennard Thigpen, Jr. -…
    Gary Edwin Richburg – 1956
    Larry Thigpen – 1956
    Leighton Waters – 1956
    Michael Waters – 1956
    Andy Horne – 1956
    Sunny Whitlock – 1956
    Harlan Reed Ellis, II – 1956
    Byron M. Winn, III – 1957
    George Marion Harris – 1957
    George W. Swinford – 1957
    Frederick Earl Killgore – 1957
    Ernest Killgore – 1957
    A. Frank Green – 1957
    David Decker – 1957
    Michael Green – 1958
    John Reames – 1958
    Paige Pinnell, Jr. – 1958
    Bill Weimer – 1958
    Tom Gaitanis – 1959
    Bobby Gaitanis – 1959
    Lamar Richardson – 1959
    Jeff Williams – 1959
    Bert Kinzey – 1960
    Randy Dixon – 1959
    Joe Reames – 1960
    Herman Greene – 1960
    De Mi Kern – 1960
    Richard Olinger – 1960
    K. Covington Johnston, Jr….
    Kenneth Winters – 1960
    Ricky Anderson – 1960
    Marvis B. Roberts, Jr. (Sonny)…
    Mike Justiss – 1960
    Harry Horne – 1960
    Gega Was(illegible) – 1960
    Stephen Nadeau – 1960
    Charles Roy – 1960
    Guery Platt – 1960 (deceased -…
    Harry Karabinis – 1961
    Boyd Welsch – 1961
    Ralph E. Paige – 1961
    Harvey Baxter – 1961
    George Andrew Jones – 1961
    John Allen – 1961
    Joe Boyles – 1961
    Daniel Dennison – 1961
    Alan Summers – 1961
    Winkle Van Summers – 1961
    Michael P. Walker – 1961
    Howard Keefer Wallace, Jr….
    Max Newell – 1962
    Bruce Brasington – 1962
    George Dekle, Jr. – 1962
    Richard Mooneyham – 1962
    Stephen Hunter – 1962
    Frank Blanton – 1962
    Robert Batey – 1962
    Porter Horne – 1963
    Kenneth Williams – 1963
    Robert A. Boyo – 1963
    Robert Douglas Bradbury – 1963
    James Warner Harrison – 1963
    John A. Kilby – 1963
    Robert W. Cowperthwaite – 1963
    Larry A. Rigg – 1964
    Jim Aorsm(illegible) – 1964
    Carl Horne – 1964
    Patrick J. Fry – 1964
    Mike Webb – 1965
    Joe Bolton – 1965
    Ray Bryant – 1965
    Bill Deese – 1965
    Carl Horne – 1964
    Paul Miller – 1964

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