Mount Diablo Silverado Council
Scouts BSA council for San Francisco, California, U.S. (1992-2020)
| Mount Diablo Silverado Council (#023) | |||
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| Owner | Boy Scouts of America | ||
| Headquarters | Pleasant Hill, California | ||
| Country | United States | ||
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Mount Diablo Silverado Council was a local council of the Scouts BSA and was one of six councils that serves the San Francisco Bay area in California, United States. The council's office was located in Pleasant Hill, California. It served chartered organizations and BSA units in Contra Costa County, Lake County, Napa County, Solano County (except the cities of Dixon, Rio Vista, and Vacaville), and the cities of Albany and Berkeley in northern Alameda County. The council is located in BSA Western Region Area III. It merged with Alameda Council #021 and San Francisco Bay Area Council #028 in June 2020 to form the Golden Gate Area Council (#023).[citation needed]
History
The Mount Diablo Silverado Council (#023) was formed in 1992 as the result of a merger between the former Silverado Area Council (#038) and the former Mount Diablo Council (#023).[1]
The Mount Diablo Silverado Council can trace its history back to the Berkeley Council (#023). The Berkeley Council received its charter from the Boy Scouts of America in March 1916.[1][2][3][4] The Berkeley Council expanded to become the Berkeley-Albany Council and in 1932 merged with the Contra Costa Council to become the Berkeley-Contra Costa Council[1][4] which was renamed the Mount Diablo Council in 1951.[5]
In 1916 the Berkeley Council was the first council in Northern California to receive a charter from the Boy Scouts of America National Council. The Oakland-Piedmont Council followed later in 1916.[6] The San Francisco Council and also the Alameda Council followed in 1917.[5][7] The Silverado Area Council was founded in 1917 as the Napa Council, changing its name to the Napa County Council in 1922, and again in 1928 to the Silverado Area Council. The Luther Burbank Council (#034) merged into Napa County in 1927.[1]
In 1981, the council was subject to the lawsuit, Curran v. Mount Diablo Council of the Boy Scouts of America.[8]
In 2012, the Mount Diablo Silverado Council voted against a merger with the San Francisco Bay Area Council.[9]
In June 2020, the council merged with the San Francisco Bay Area Council, Alameda Council, and the Mount Diablo Silverado Council to form the Golden Gate Area Council.[citation needed]
Organization
- Briones District - the Aklan[10] and Iron Horse districts[11][12][13] were reorganized to form the district[14]
- Chief Solano District - named after Chief Solano.[15]
- Diablo Sunrise - the Black Diamond and Marsh Creek districts merged in 2011
- Herms District - The Herms District and Camp Herms are named after Professor Emeritus (University of California, Berkeley) and Lieutenant-Colonel William (“Billy”) Brodbeck Herms (1876–1949). He was a founding Council Executive Board Member (in 1916) and also the Council President (1926–1949).[4]
- Lake District [16]
- Meridian District - named after the Mount Diablo Meridian that runs north-south through the district.[17][14]
- Muir District - named after John Muir (1838–1914).[18] The John Muir National Historic Site is located in the Muir District.[citation needed] [14]
- Silverado District[19]
- ScoutReach District[20][21][14]
Camps
- Camp Herms is located in El Cerrito, California. This camp serves as a year-round camp with Cub Scout Day Camp during the summer. It is situated atop the El Cerrito Hills and can be used as the hub of local historical site visits to San Francisco and the surrounding area. Camp Herms was originally named Camp Berkeley and opened for use in 1930. The camp was renamed Camp William B. Herms in 1939.
- Camp Lindblad (CLOSED) offered year-round traditions and wilderness camping on over 200 acres (0.81 km2) in the beautiful Santa Cruz Mountains. Camp is open year-round, with five fully staffed weekends of Cub Scout family camping opportunities throughout the year. The rest of the year is open for use by all interested groups. The camp is currently on the market for US$4 million and is likely to be sold to private interests.[22][23]
- Camp Silverado (closed) is located on Silver Lake near Kit Carson, California. The Council leases the land from the United States Forest Service.
- Camp Wolfeboro is a Boy Scout summer camp located on the north fork of the Stanislaus River near Bear Valley.[24] The council leases the land from the United States Forest Service. Camp Wolfeboro is currently used for eight weeks each summer as an accredited BSA summer camp, hosting up to 500 Scouts per week, with a total summer attendance of more than 1,600 Scouts. The camp has traditionally relied upon its youth staff to develop and present the "Wolfeboro Rassle" quick skits at each morning's flag assembly to present the week-long theme culminating in a campwide game Thursday, with a concluding skit at the final campfire on Friday evening. Since 2005, the camp has also run an approximately six-week Fall Camp program designed for individual Scout troops and Venturing crews to use the property for rock-climbing, waterfront activities, and shooting sports. Although the waterfront is infamous for its cold mountain river water, the pristine water quality has allowed this camp to continue to offer the Snorkeling BSA Award at a time other camps have dropped the program for lack of water clarity at their locale. The Snorkeling BSA Study Guide, formerly on file at Newport Sea Base BSA and the Catalina High Adventure program, was originally designed in 1992 by waterfront staff member, J.S. Fox and his Scuba certified father, at Camp Wolfeboro and is still used at the waterfront during the summer season. The camp's fall program immediately follows the end of the regular eight-week summer season. Camp Wolfeboro was founded by the former Berkeley Council in 1928 in the area known as Hell's Kitchen, across the river from a family-oriented camp, Camp Baxter. Camp Baxter later closed down and its property was absorbed by Camp Wolfeboro, who built campsites and remodeled the Camp Baxter dining hall and medical shack into a nature lodge and hike shack.[25]
Wolfeboro Pioneers
The Wolfeboro Pioneers is one of the last surviving local BSA honor societies in the United States that has not been absorbed by the Order of the Arrow,[citation needed] the others being Tribe of Mic-O-Say, Firecrafter, and Tribe of Tahquitz[26] The Wolfeboro Pioneers is a Boy Scout camping honor society based out of Camp Wolfeboro near Arnold, California.[27][28] The society was founded in the summer of 1929 by returning Scouts and Scouters who were devoted to creating and preserving the camp's unique tradition.[29] An insight into the society in 1996 is given by a Scouter on the Scouts-L list.[30]
Beginning in the 1930s, the Order of the Arrow absorbed many of the small Boy Scout honor societies that had thrived during Scouting's first two decades. This happened in 1944 in Silverado Council.[31] The Order of the Arrow established itself in Mt. Diablo Council in the early 1950s.
Every summer, it inducts several adult leaders and roughly 100 Scouts, a good annual induction rate for a minor organization[citation needed]. These Scouts come not only from California, but from around the nation and world.
Order of the Arrow
Mount Diablo Silverado Council's Order of the Arrow lodge is the Ut-in Silica Lodge #58.[32]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Hook, James; Franck, Dave; Austin, Steve (1982). An Aid to Collecting Selected Council Shoulder Patches with Valuation Guide.
- ^ Rickles, Rena (March 7, 2005). "Attachment D to Ward Hill letter" (PDF). Retrieved 14 February 2013.
- ^ Dobkin, Marjorie (2005). "citing Lindbald, Victor. circa 1965". History of Mt. Diablo Council Boy Scouts of America. Mount Diablo Silverado Council, Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
- ^ a b c Lindbald, Victor. 1958 Some Historical Data on Camp Herms Archived 2011-02-02 at the Wayback Machine, pp. 2–3, 8
- ^ a b San Francisco Bay Area Council History 1964–2008
- ^ Oakland-Piedmont Council History 1910–1921
- ^ San Francisco Council History 1917–1964
- ^ "Timothy Curran v. Mount Diablo Council of the Boy Scouts of America" (PDF). Supreme Court of California. March 23, 1998. Retrieved March 10, 2021.
- ^ "MDSC and SFBAC Merger: Voted No". Mount Diablo Silverado Council. 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-12-13. Retrieved 2013-12-10.
- ^ The name Aklan appears to be derived from the word ″Saclan″ which is the name of the language spoken by the Bay Miwok.[citation needed]
- ^ The Iron Horse District appears to be named after the railroad that passed through it.
- ^ "Iron Horse District". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011.
- ^ Part of the Iron Horse Regional Trail is located in this district.[citation needed]
- ^ a b c d "Districts". Mount Diablo Silverado Council. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
- ^ "BSA Chief Solano biography".
- ^ "Lake District". Mount Diablo Silverado Council. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012.
- ^ "Meridian District".
- ^ "Muir District". Archived from the original on 22 May 2010.
- ^ "Silverado District". Mount Diablo Silverado Council. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012.
- ^ "Mt. Diablo Silverado Council Districts". Archived from the original on 29 November 2010.
- ^ Not listed as a current district on Council web site.
- ^ "Special Purpose Property For Sale — BSA Camp Lindblad". Retrieved 2009-07-12.
- ^ "Camp Lindblad". Archived from the original on 7 March 2016.
- ^ 38°24′39.83″N 120°4′41.81″W / 38.4110639°N 120.0782806°W / 38.4110639; -120.0782806 (Camp Wolfeboro)
- ^ "Camp Wolfeboro". Archived from the original on 7 March 2016.
- ^ "Non-OA Camp Fraternities". oa-bsa.org. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012.
- ^ "USSSP: Scout Honor Societies - Wolefboro Pioneers". Archived from the original on 13 April 2008.
- ^ "Wolefboro Pioneers". wolfeboropioneers.org. Archived from the original on 21 April 2001.
- ^ "Camp Wolfeboro". Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
- ^ A letter to the Scouts-L list
- ^ "Ut-In Silica Order of the Arrow lodge". Archived from the original on 2012-05-13. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
- ^ "Ut-in Silica Lodge #58".
