Norman S. Johnson

Norman S. Johnson (d.1989) was a dentist and an Australian and international Scouting official.

Norman S. Johnson
Chairman of the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement

Background

Johnson was a student (1931-43) and Scout and, subsequently, a Scoutmaster of Trinity Grammar School at Kew in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He also became an official of The Boy Scouts Association Victorian Branch, serving as a leader trainer, commissioner and, from 1976-79, as its Victorian Chief Commissioner. He became the chairman of The Scout Association of Australia's national executive committee. He served as a member then chairman of the World Organization of the Scout Movement's World Scout Committee.

In 1990, Johnson was posthumously awarded the 212th Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by its World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.[1]

In 1945 Johnson authored Camping for scouts and others which ran to three further editions.

gollark: What, an inefficient compass?
gollark: It could be used as a very inefficient and inaccurate compass?
gollark: SHA256 probably not, but mining krist on there would be... silly?
gollark: Or is it just 16KB? Anyway, it can't do that much.
gollark: The RAM is measured in *tens of kilobytes*.

References
  1. "List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award". scout.org. WOSM. Retrieved 21 August 2019.


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