John Cook Parish
International Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America

John Cook Parish (-‡ 2005 to 2008[1]) was an International Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America and elected as such to the World Scout Committee.[2] At the 64th annual meeting of the BSA in May 1974, he was re-elected to the post and elected vice-president of the association.

Parish reached the rank of Eagle Scout in 1926, and was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.[3]

Parish was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.[4] He was also a 1962 recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award.

References

  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-27. Retrieved 2008-08-29.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Scouting".
  3. "Distinguished Eagle Scout Award". Archived from the original on 2014-04-05. Retrieved 2014-04-13.
  4. "List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award". scout.org. WOSM. Archived from the original on 2020-11-29. Retrieved 2019-05-01.



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