Delta Area Council
| Chickasaw Council (#558) | |||
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| Owner | Boy Scouts of America | ||
| Headquarters | Memphis, Tennessee | ||
| Country | United States | ||
| Founded | February 22, 1916 | ||
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7,339 youth 4,135 adults (as of January 13, 2015) |
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| President | L. Hunt Campbell | ||
| Council Commissioner | Danny Van Horn | ||
| Scout Executive | Richard Fisher | ||
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Website www.chickasaw.org |
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| Kia Kima Scout Reservation | |||
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| Totem | Thunderbird | ||
| Location | Hardy, AR | ||
| Coordinates | 36°20′40″N 91°35′32″W / 36.34455°N 91.59223°W | ||
| Founded | 1916 | ||
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Website http://www.kiakima.com/ |
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| Camp Currier | |||
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| Named For | Charles C. Currier | ||
| Location | Eudora, MS | ||
| Camp size | 300 acres (1.2 km2) | ||
| Founded | 1925 | ||
| Ranger | Marc Brinkley | ||
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| Camp Tallaha | |||
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| Location | Charleston, MS | ||
| Camp size | 165 acres (0.67 km2) | ||
| Founded | 1925 | ||
| Defunct | 2002 | ||
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| Name Translation | We Who Love The Outdoors | ||
| Totem | Bear | ||
| Location | Section SR-6 | ||
| Founded | January 1, 1995 | ||
| Membership | 850 | ||
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Website http://www.chickasawoa.org |
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7,339 youth 4,135 adults
The Chickasaw Council is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America that serves Scouts in Shelby County, Tennessee, as well as Crittenden county in eastern Arkansas and fifteen counties in northwest Mississippi. It was founded on February 22, 1916 to oversee the many Boy Scout troops already present in Memphis, Tennessee. The Chickasaw Council has two camps: Kia Kima Scout Reservation and Camp Currier. The Chickasaw Council is also home to the Order of the Arrow Ahoalan-Nachpikin Lodge 558.
Scouting came to Memphis in 1910 with the founding of Troop 1 by the downtown YMCA. Several other troops formed including Troop 25 of Temple Israel which is still in operation. The local board was formed in 1915 which was then organized as the Chickasaw Council on February 22, 1916 with Bolton Smith as the Council President and Edward Everett as the first Scout Executive.
During World War I the Boy Scouts of America undertook selling war bonds to help the effort. Troop 22 of the Chickasaw Council sold the most in the country and was recognized by President Woodrow Wilson.
The Chickasaw Council became a leader in racial integration in Scouting. Bolton Smith, the first Council President, became the Vice President of the National Boy Scouts of America and helped form the National Committee on Interracial Activities in 1926. When Gordon Morris became Scout Executive in 1928 (in that position from 1928 to 1959), he brought J.A. Beauchamp to Memphis to organize the first African-American Troop, Troop 100 at Centenary Methodist Church. Beauchamp was the first African-American Scouting professional and was later hired by the Council in 1934. By 1943 the Council was commended by the National Director of Interracial Activities for becoming the sixth Council in the nation with more than 1000 African-American Scouts and that Memphis should be an example to other Councils.
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