Salvador Fernández Beltrán

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Salvador Fernández Beltrán D.J.C. (born at Matanzas, Cuba - 1987 in Venezuela) was among the first in the Americas to receive Wood Badge training, at Gilwell Park, England. He was the first to receive honorary appointment as Deputy Camp Chief of Gilwell. With this influence, the Scouts of Cuba began to use short trousers like those worn by the English.

With the support of the Boy Scouts of America, he was appointed in November 1947 as Traveling Commissioner of the World Scout Office for Latin America, the first professional Scout executive, whose operations center was first in Mexico and then in Cuba. In 1955 he held the first Wood Badge training in Venezuela.

Fernandez Beltrán was known for his work within the Scouts of Cuba, as well as assisting in the creation of the InterAmerican Scout Office, the divisional office of the World Scout Bureau of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, founded and maintained with headquarters in Havana from 1946 to 1960. At the beginning of the 1960s Fernandez Beltrán was appointed to the office of Deputy Secretary of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in Geneva, Switzerland. He retired to Venezuela where he died in 1987.

[edit] Published works

  • RSA. EL GRUPO SCOUT, Mexico, Scout Interamericana, April 1964, Escultismo, publicaciones periodicas

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