Federico Díaz Legórburu
Federico Díaz Legórburu | |
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| First Chief Scout of the Asociación de Scouts de Venezuela | |
| In office 7 September 1945 – ? | |
Federico Díaz Legórburu (12 September 1915 – 21 March 2002) served as the first
He joined the Scout movement in 1926 at the Alemán Valencia Catholic College and made his Scout promise on September 9, 1933. He translated several classics of Scout literature into Spanish, such as The Patrol System by Roland Philipps and wrote many Scout manuals.
The first Constitution of the Asociación de Scouts de Venezuela was adopted on 22 August 1934 in the National Assembly, headed by National Commissioner Henrique Sapene, Scoutmaster Marcel Granier Doyeux, Assistant Scoutmaster Federico Diaz Legorburu, and Enrique Tejera Paris as witness. Following the 1935 resignation of National Commissioner Henrique Sapene, the Federation appointed Enrique Tejera Paris and Federico Diaz Legorburu as Interim Commissioners. On 7 September 1945, the National Assembly amended the Constitution, changing the designation of National Chief Scout Commissioner for Venezuela, choosing Federico Diaz Legorburu as first Chief Scout.[2]
Venezuelan Scouting was deeply involved in the 1946 creation of the
In 1979, he was awarded the 135th
References
- ^ John S. Wilson (1959), Scouting Round the World. First edition, Blandford Press. p. 232, 237, 239, 240, 282
- ^ Manual El Camino hacia los Bosques (Road to the Forest), Scout Association of Venezuela. Caracas, 1973
- ^ http://fm44.tripod.com/scouts1.htm/ History of Asociación de Scouts de Venezuela
- ^ "List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award". scout.org. WOSM. Archived from the original on 2020-11-29. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
- ^ "Museo Virtual Scouts Venezuela: Federico Díaz Legórburu - un defensor del escultismo". 2010.
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