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10th World Scout Jamboree

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Country
  
Philippines

Attendance
  
12,203 Scouts

Date
  
1959

Theme
  
Building Tomorrow Today

The 10th World Scout Jamboree was held 17–26 July 1959 and was hosted by the Philippines at Mount Makiling, Los Baños, Laguna. Dubbed "The Bamboo Jamboree" due to the prevalence of bamboo and nipa palm. There were a total 12,203 Scouts from 44 countries. The theme was "Building Tomorrow Today". It was the first World Scout Jamboree to be held outside Europe and Canada.

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Memorable Facts

  • His Excellency Carlos Polestico Garcia, President of the Republic of the Philippines spoke at the opening.
  • Attendees of the event included:
  • Daniel Charles Spry, Director of the Boy Scouts World Bureau.
  • The Right Honourable Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, the 2nd Baron Rowallan of Rowallan, third Chief Scout of the British territories.
  • BSP President Jorge Bartolomé Vargas received the Bronze Wolf.
  • The jamboree logo featured a Filipino salakót.
  • The Manila firm of Charles W. Miller Sons Studio took formal photographic portraits of a representative Scout from each of the national contingents.
  • The BSA contingent was led by Arthur Aloys Schuck (1895-1963), Chief Scout Executive (1948–60).

    • The Tenth World Jamboree Song

    From every clime and region, we crossed mount, vale, and seaWe're in the Philippines now for our World Jamboree.Here East and West are meeting, as Heaven so decreesWe live and work and play in true fellowship and peace.Mabuhay to all Scouts who are hereLet the message of BP now resound loud, long, and clear.I am your brother and friend, so take my handFor God and Country, Mankind and ScoutingWe shall stand, forever stand.

    Participation

    Australia: 19. Österreich: 3. België: 3. Brunei: 16. Burma: 1. Cambodia: 17. Canada: 93. Ceylon: 22. Zhōnghuá Mínguó: 545. Danmark: 2. Fiji: 1. Suomi 6. France & associates: 81. Bundesrepublik Deutschland: 1. Ellas: 12. Hong Kong: 62. Bharat: 14. Indonesia: 73. Irān: 4. Ireland: 2. Israel: 3. Italia: 3. Nihon: 519. Dae Han Min Guk: 121. Kuwait: 19. Laos: 21. Persekutuan Tanah Melayu: 122. Nederland: 6. New Guinea: 4. New Zealand: 15. North Borneo: 12. Norge: 2. Pākistān: 11. Pilipinas: 7863. Sarawak: 8. Singapore: 31. Sverige: 35. Suisse: 9. Thailand: 54. United Arab Republic: 7. United Kingdom: 112. United States of America: 309. Venezuela: 1. Việt Nam Cộng Hòa: 59. Scouts-in-Exile (Estonia, Magyarország, Lithuania, Polska, Ukrayina, Rossiya): 23.

    References

    10th World Scout Jamboree Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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