Chief Cornplanter Council

Chief Cornplanter

Chief Cornplanter

 In 1910, members of the community of Warren, first explored Scouting activities. In 1913, the Boy Scouts of America gave a charter to an organization known as the Warren County Council. Then in 1954 the council's official name was changed to Chief Cornplanter Council to honor a famous Seneca-Iroquois Indian.


America's Oldest Council
A National Centennial Quality Council for 2008

Celebrating 95 years of service to the youth of Warren County,
and Ludlow - Mckean County

CHIEF CORNPLANTER EARNS QUALITY DISTINCTION   

Our Council has been awarded with the Centennial Quality Council designation for 2008 by the National Council of the BSA. In order to earn this important distinction we had to be plus in membership, balance our operating budget, and meet eight other requirements for the award. We haven't been able to make Quality Council recognition since 2001, and its only the second time we've achieved it since 1998. All adult volunteers and Scouts in our Council should be proud of this achievement as it takes everyone pitching in to make it happen.

2009 COUNCIL LEADERSHIP

BOARD OFFICERS (Executive Committee)

Skip Marsh - Council President
Jim Marshall* - Immediate Past President
Dan Wolboldt - Member Emeritus/Order of the Arrow
Daniel H. Glotz - Council Commissioner
John Elchert - Council Treasurer
Kevin Bonner - Scout Executive
Gary Landrio - VP Properties & Program
Dave Porter - VP Revenue
David Bauer - VP Administration
Jim Holding - VP Public Relations
Brad Peterson - VP District Operations

BOARD MEMBERS

John Anderson - Member
Douglas L. Angove - Campmaster Chair
Wes Augenstein - Member
John Beard - Revenue Committee
Mike Boyd - Finance Committee
Ed Burris - Spring Popcorn Chair
John Crone - Member
John Eggleston - Nominating Chair
Chris Evans - Member
Carmen Feranto - Forest Stewardship Chair
Tim Greenlund - Audit Chair
Kevin Haley - Member
Peter Harrington - Member
 Charlene Hoffmann - Finance Committee
Gary Lester - Member
Leanne Marten - Member
Greg Mayer - Member
Leslie M. Sanford - Camp Infrastructure Chair
Chuck Schrader - Finance Committee
John Sechriest - Council Long-Range Plan Chair
Patty Sherbondy - Nominating Committee
 Dart Summerson - Jamboree/In-Council Treks
Gregg Trisket  - Olmsted Engineers Chair
Randy Voty - Risk Management Chair
John Wagner - Legal Affairs
 Jack Werner - Venturing/LFL Chair
Kent D. Wilcox - Olmsted Long Range Chair
William M. Wilson - Properties Committee/Summer Camp
William Yeager - Member Emiritus

ADVISORY BOARD

Chad Betts *
David R. Carlson
Sean Ellsworth
Charles R. Frantz
Denny Hedges
Paul N. Higby
Donald T. Johnson
Edward J. Loutzenhiser
Dennis Mattison
Martin J. Sedlak
Guy J. Summerson
Bill Wagner*
Kris Whitaker
Frank C. Wilcox*
David Winans, Jr.*
David G. Winans, Sr.*
Bob Zimmerman*

* - Past Council President

Betts Scout Service Center and Camp Olmsted Staff

Kevin J. Bonner - Scout Executive
Ernest M. Crawford - District Executive
Timothy Leichtenberger - Camp Ranger

CHIEF CORNPLANTER SCOUT EXECUTIVES

Kevin J. Bonner 2006 - Present
Dana Kuhns 2001-2005
Jamie Shearer 1997-2001
Charlie Grogan 1986-1996
Charlie Bosch 1974-1986
Nartz Gajewski 1971-1973
Charlie Housel 1968-1971
Bill Wolfesberger 1964-1968
H. Bruce Ayers 1959-1963
Elmer Morgan 1955-1959
Rutledge Sanford 1950-1954
Frank Parker 1946-1950
Chet Seymour 1943-1945
Cal Hall 1938-1942
Tom Ewing 1933-1937
Carl Rodgers 1932-1933
Frank Roud 1923-1932
C. L. Akeley 1923
Kenneth Davis 1922-1923
E. O. Bacher 1921-1922

Prior to E.O. Bacher, the Council's day-to-day business was run by volunteers. But, by 1921, with the surge in membership and new units, the Council needed to hire someone for the Scout Executive position. The first Scout Executive's position was funded by a grant from the Warren Rotary Club.

CHIEF CORNPLANTER COUNCIL PRESIDENTS
 

Murray "Skip" Marsh 2006 - Present
James L. Marshall 2005-2006

William J. Wagner 

2002-2004
John A. Lasher  1999-2001
Charles A. "Chad" Betts 1996-1998
Robert C. Finzel 1994-1995
Frank C. Wilcox 1992-1993
Charles R. Frantz 1990-1991
James Keller 1988-1989
Harold A. Johnson 1986-1987
M. Dennis Hedges, Jr. 1984-1985
Robert J. Zimmerman 1981-1983
Robert S. Hinricksen 1979-1980
David W. Winans 1977-1978
William E. Yeager, Jr. 1974-1976
Jack Brown 1973-1974
Dr. Khlar E. McDonald 1971-1972
Ralph Grimm 1969-1970
William F. Crossett 1967-1968
Hon. Alexander C. Flick, Jr. 1965-1966
Alexander F. Fino 1963-1964
William R. Walker 1961-1962
James Blomquist 1958-1960
Clifford R. Betts 1956-1957
William M. Hill 1954-1955
Byron W. Knapp 1952-1953
Carl L. Whipple 1950-1951
Harold L. Banghart 1940-1949
Francis M. Caughey 1933-1939
James E. Hazeltine 1926-1932
Merle H. Deardorff 1925
Charles W. Moffett 1924
Herbert P. Stone 1921-1923
R. C. Thompson 1917-1920
Emil H. Lampe 1916

While the Warren County Council received its first charter in July of 1913, we did not have a fully operational Executive Board until 1916.

CHIEF CORNPLANTER COUNCIL COMMISSIONERS
 
Dan Glotz 2008-Present
Dan Wolboldt 1996-2007
John Lasher 1993-1995
Robert J. Zimmerman  1984-1992
John E. Greer 1979-1983
Dr. Khlar E. McDonald 1976-1978
John Cox 1975
Robert J. Zimmerman 1974
Robert Hinricksen 1970-1973
Charles Schaaf  1969
Dr. Khlar E. McDonald 1966-1968
Earl Mohnkern 1961-1965
Joe Wick 1958-1960
James Blomquist 1958-1960
William Whener 1953-1954
Cecil Winans 1950-1952
Charles A. Babcock 1947-1949
Leo Gleese 1943-1946
H. A. Otterson 1941-1942
Carl W. Rogers 1935-1940
Warren A. Shawkey 1932-1934
Francis M. Caughey 1925-1931
George W. Olmsted &
Kenneth Davis		 1924
Dr. Joseph T. Danforth 1921-1923
Clare J. Crary 1919-1920
William E. Yeager 1916-1918

CHIEF CORNPLANTER COUNCIL'S "GOOD TURN"


"PENNSYLVANIA'S MONUMENT TO CHIEF CORNPLANTER, CORNPLANTER GRANT - WARREN COUNTY"

Resulting from many years of hard work on the part of several council presidents, Representative Jim Lynch, and Robert Dilks (Council Member at Large), the Chief Cornplanter Council's dream of replacing the weathered century-old Chief Cornplanter monument became a reality in 1998. Culminating with a formal ceremony in October at the Riverview-Corydon Cemetery, a new replica monument made of granite was dedicated. The ceremony was attended by Scouts and Scouters, council officers, Pennsylvania Legislators, and Descendants of Chief Cornplanter.

The efforts of everyone involved will be forever remembered as the fourth panel of the monument, blank on the original, has been inscribed:

"Good Deed"
Chief Cornplanter
Council
Boy Scouts
Of America
Funded By
Commonwealth
Of Pennsylvania
Replica Set 1998