Chief Cornplanter Council
 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
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
QUALITY RECOGNIZED
Setting the pace for the Northeast Region and the nation as well, the Chief Cornplanter Council continues to provide the Scouting program to the greatest percentage of available youth than any other local council throughout the country. The Chief Cornplanter Council has earned QUALITY COUNCIL FOR THIRTEEN OF THE PAST TWENTY YEARS!
2008 COUNCIL LEADERSHIP
BOARD OFFICERS (Executive Committee)
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Skip Marsh - Council President |
BOARD MEMBERS
| John Anderson - New Member Douglas L. Angove - Campmaster Chair Mike Boyd - Finance Committee Ed Burris - Spring Popcorn Chair Ian Eastman - New Member John Eggleston - Board Development/Nominating Chair John Elchert - Council Treasurer Sean Ellsworth - Compensation & Benefits Chair Carmen Feranto - Forest Stewardship Chair Howard Ferguson - Long-Range Plan Chair Matt Franklin - Finance Committee Tim Greenlund - New Member Mary Gustafson - Fall Popcorn Chair Peter Harrington New Member Charlene Hoffman - Finance Committee Leanne Marten - New Member Leslie M. Sanford - Camp Infrastructure Committee Chuck Schrader - New Member Patty Sherbondy - New Member Dart Summerson - Activities Chair Karen Thomas - New Member Gregg Trisket - VP District Operations Randy Voty - Risk Management Chair John Wagner - New Member Jack Werner - LFL/Venturing Chair Kent D. Wilcox - Olmsted Long Range Chair William M. Wilson - COPE & Climbing Chair/Summer Camp William Yeager - Member Emiritus |
HONORARY BOARD
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Chad Betts * |
* - Past Council President
Betts Scout Service Center and Camp Olmsted Staff
Kevin J. Bonner - Scout Executive |