1930 - 1939: Younger Scouts Join In The Fun

• In 1930, The Cub Scout program is launched and membership tops 5,000 by year’s end.
• The first National Jamboree is held in Washington, D.C. with 27,232 Scouts attending.
• In 1934, Boy Scouts respond to President Franklin Roosevelt’s request and perform a nationwide “Good Turn” to help the distressed and needy.
• The 35,000 acre Philmont Scout Ranch, Scouting’s premiere training ground, is gifted to the BSA by Waite Phillips, founder of the Phillips Petroleum Company.
• In 1935, the Boy Scouts’ 25th anniversary year, membership passes the million mark, and the national jamboree is cancelled because of an outbreak of infantile paralysis.
• Paul Siple, a Sea Scout, accompanies Admiral Richard Byrd on his first expedition to Antartica.

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