Greater Los Angeles Area Council

Greater Los Angeles Area Council (#33)
Owner Boy Scouts of America
Headquarters Los Angeles and Pasadena
Country United States
Founded 2015
Membership Los Angeles Area Council and San Gabriel Valley Council
Website
www.boyscoutsla.org and www.sgvcbsa.org

Greater Los Angeles Area Council (GLAAC) is a new Boy Scouts of America Council created from the merger of the Los Angeles Area Council and the San Gabriel Valley Council. The vote to merge was held on March 21, 2015.[1] The new name for the Council, Greater Los Angeles Area Council, was announced on June 11, 2015. The new Council will continue with Scouting Service centers in Los Angeles and Pasadena. GLAAC has three Scout shops in Los Angeles, San Pedro and Pasadena.[2] GLAAC operates eight Camps in the greater Los Angeles area.[3][4] Due to the large size of the two original councils, the merger is a process that will be completed over a time span.

San Gabriel Valley Council #40
Founded 1919		Los Angeles Area Council #33
Founded 1915
Greater Los Angeles Area Council #33
Merged July, 2015

Los Angeles Area Council

Founded in 1915,[5] the Los Angeles Area Council (LAAC) (#033) serves most of the City of Los Angeles as well as several other cities in the greater Los Angeles area. It is one of five Boy Scouts of America councils in Los Angeles County, California. Since its founding in 1915, the Los Angeles Area Council has brought its purpose and values to millions of youth. The Council served 54,567 youth in the Greater Los Angeles Area in 2008 alone.[5]

The Los Angeles Area Council was founded in 1915 as the Centinela Council, changing its name in 1925 to the Los Angeles Council. In 1934 the San Antonio District (#046), founded in 1922; and the South Pasadena Council (#067), founded in 1927 merged into the LAC, with the name of the organization changing to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Council. The council name changed to LAAC in 1945. The LAAC was one of the first councils organized in the United States and is one of the largest councils still in existence.

San Gabriel Valley Council

Located in Los Angeles County, California's San Gabriel Valley, the Boy Scouts of America's San Gabriel Valley Council (#40) is one of five councils serving Los Angeles County. It is headquartered in Pasadena. With the founding of the BSA in 1910, the first goal of the San Gabriel Valley scout leaders was to organize as new troops. Paid professionals, many of whom were YMCA leaders, were recruited to help start new Troops and spread the new scouting program. They were sent out into the San Gabriel Valley towns to organize new troops and recruit leaders. By March 1919, there were nine active troops with 190 boys in the SGV. The Pasadena Council (also known as the Pasadena District Council) of the Boy Scouts of America was organized March 3, 1919, with jurisdiction over Pasadena, Altadena and Lamanda Park.[6]

A charter was granted by the BSA National Headquarters dated April 1, 1919 to the Pasadena District Council. Tallman Trask was hired to be the first Scout Executive. Trask had been a District Executive for the Los Angeles Council. He had also served as Los Angeles' Camp Director. Prior to joining the BSA, Trask was an executive for the YMCA and had run several camps for them. By October 1, 1919, there were 15 active troops with 299 Scouts. The east part of the San Gabriel Valley Council came from the dissolved Old Baldy Council on May 1, 2006.

Council Camps

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ scoutsunited.org, SGVC/LAAC UNITED - UPDATES
  2. ↑ Los Angeles, San Pedro Scout Shops
  3. ↑ SGVC BSA camps
  4. ↑ LACC BSA Camps
  5. 1 2 Boy Scouts of America, Los Angeles Area Council
  6. ↑ sgvcbsa.org, San Gabriel Valley Council
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