Historian Excerpted from BSA Junior Leader Handbook 
Copyright 1990, Boy Scouts of America, ISBN 0-8395-3500-7
Revised 1998
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Job description: The librarian/historian takes care of troop literature and keeps a historical record or scrapbook of troop activities.
Reports to: the assistant senior patrol leader.
Historian duties:
- Gather pictures and facts about past troop activities and keeps them in an historical file or scrapbook
 - Takes care of troop trophies, ribbons, and souvenirs of troop activities
 - Keeps information about former members of the troop
 - Sets a good example
 - Enthusiastically wears the Scout uniform correctly
 - Lives by the Scout Oath and Law
 - Shows Scout spirit
 
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Last revised 8/22/02
John D. McCarthy