John Cook Parish

{{Infobox officeholder | name = John Cook Parish | native_name =  | native_name_lang =  | image =  | alt = | caption = | order = | office = International Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America | predecessor = | successor = }}

'''John Cook Parish''' (-‡ 2005 to 2008<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scout.org/en/content/download/11624/94866/file/Triennial_Report_EN_5.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-08-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327024400/http://www.scout.org/en/content/download/11624/94866/file/Triennial_Report_EN_5.pdf |archivedate=2009-03-27 }}</ref>) was an International Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America and elected as such to the World Scout Committee.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-UI6AQAAIAAJ&q=John+C.+Parish+bsa&pg=RA5-PA7 | title=Scouting}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scouting.org/About/FactSheets/Distinguished_EagleScouts.aspx |title=Distinguished Eagle Scout Award |accessdate=2014-04-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140405091513/http://www.scouting.org/About/FactSheets/Distinguished_EagleScouts.aspx |archivedate=2014-04-05 }}</ref>

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.<ref name="wolfie">{{Cite web | url = https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/List | title = List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award | publisher = WOSM | website = scout.org | access-date = 2019-05-01 | archive-date = 2020-11-29 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201129053624/https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/List | url-status = dead }}</ref> He was also a 1962 recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award.

==References== {{Reflist}} *Dr. László Nagy, ''250 Million Scouts'', The World Scout Foundation and Dartnell Publishers, 1985, complete list through 1981

==External links== {{Portal|Scouting}} *{{cite web| url = http://www.scout.org/en/content/download/11624/94866/file/Triennial_Report_EN_5.pdf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090327024400/http://www.scout.org/en/content/download/11624/94866/file/Triennial_Report_EN_5.pdf | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2009-03-27 | title = In Support of World Scouting | accessdate = 2009-03-27 }}

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