Movers and Shakers: Silver Bay Camp’s Importance to Scouting History

The YMCA’s Boys Work Secretary of the International Committee in the early 1900s was Edgar M. Robinson, who was quite adept at finding interesting programs to test out using YMCA facilities. Robinson had enlisted Ernest Thompson Seton and his Woodcraft program in 1909 for an August 1910 camp. Meanwhile, Robinson and his colleagues at YMCA became interested in the newly chartered “Boy Scouts of America”, which had no program itself save the Boy Scouts program from England.

This presentation will reveal how the YMCA was instrumental and essential in establishing the Boy Scouts of America and the people who got it started.