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Item Name: Reading 1969 - 1972

Item ID: Readin-G

Collector Rating: 1

Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge

Requirements June 1952 until June 1972

1. Have read at least twelve books within the past year (not more than three of these from school outside reading requirements). The twelve books to include at least one each from three of the following classifications--fiction, adventure, Scouting, biography, technical or scientific reading, travel, poetry, the arts or books on hobbies. Present list of books read and authors.

2. Indicate the places in your community or county from which you may borrow, rent, or purchase books, and present library card or other evidence of how you secured the books read in Requirement No. 1.

3. Explain how you became interested in your favorite hobby and how you acquired the information or material to make your hobby worth while. Make a list of books, pamphlets, and magazines which you could suggest to a friend just starting this hobby.

4. List the books you own as a start toward a personal library.

5. Report on newspapers or news magazines you read to keep posted on current events.

6. Be a subscriber or a regular reader of a magazine for at last the preceding six months. Report any other magazines read.

7. Locate and deliver reading matter to some shut-in or sick person; or help someone find books on his hobby; or render service to your school or public library; or perform some similar service.

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NOTE: Books and magazines must be approved by counselor.

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Scouting has undergone considerable transformation in recent years. Once known as an organization for the development of life skills, character and civic duty in young males across America and then internationally, the BSA brand is now all but put to rest.

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