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"Panayotis Cangelaris",
1982
by Dimitris Mitaras (1934)
Oil on canvas, 100X150 cm.
Inv. No P-27
SCOUTING |
INITIATION:
Panayotis D. Cangelaris was initiated into scouting as a Cub Scout in the 3rd Cub Scout
Pack of Ramleh District, in Alexandria Egypt (1960). He became a Boy Scout in the 9th
Scout Troop (1963) and a Venture Scout in the 9th Venture Scout Unit (1968) of Areos
District, in Athens Greece.
ACTIVITY:
Assistant Scout Leader in the 20th Scout Troop of Areos District, in Athens Greece
(1969-1970).
Assistant Scout Leader (1970-1971), Scout Leader (1971-1974) and Group Leader (1972-1974)
in the 2nd Scout Group of Psychico District, in Athens Greece.
Chief of Scout (1973-1976) and Cub Scout (1975-1976) Sections of Psychico District, in
Athens Greece.
Assistant Commissioner for Leader Training (1975-1977) in Psychico District, in Athens
Greece.
District Commissioner for Lycabettus, in Athens Greece (1979-1981).
Member of the International Relations Committee of the Scout Association of Greece
(1990-2003).
Member Emeritus (since 1994) and Honorary (since 1999) of the General Assembly of the Scout Association of Greece Foundation.
He has also published (in Greek language) the gazette
"Scout Annals" (1966-1967), the booklets "The 2nd Scout Group of Psychico
Year-Book", for the years 1970-1973 (1971-1974) and "The 1980 Album of the
Lycabettus District Commission" (1980), as well as the book
"Athanasios Lefkaditis 1872-1944, Founder of the Greek Scout Movement" (1972 and
1994).
A philatelist since his early Scouting
years, he owns one of the most interesting Scouts on Stamps collections, has
organized in Athens
Greece "The Scouts on Stamps Exhibition" (1970) and created the philatelic exhibits
"World Scout
Movement" (thematic) and "The Czech Scout Post
1918" (one frame), which he exhibited
in numerous philatelic exhibitions.
TRAINING :
He has successfully attended Basic Training Courses for Scout Leaders (1971), Cub Scout
Leaders (1973), Group Leaders and Commissioners (1973) and Venture Scout Leaders (1975).
Attained the "Wood Badge" for Scout Leaders (1972), Group Leaders and
Commissioners (1974), Cub Scout Leaders (1977) and Venture Scout Leaders (1977).
He has also attended successfully the Assistant Scout Leader Trainers Course (1974) and
the National Scout Leader Trainers Course (1975) in Athens Greece, as well as the
International Training the Team Course at the World Scout Training Centre at Gilwell Park,
in London U.K. (1976).
He has been Assistant Scout Leader Trainer (1974-1978) and (1978-1981).
AWARDS:
He has been awarded with the Golden Jubilee Commemorative Badge (1960), the Long Service
Medal (1980) and the Distinguished Services Medal (1994) of the Scout Association of
Greece (Soma Hellinon Proskopon).
He has been elected a Baden-Powell Fellow (1986) and a Member of the
Benefactors' Circle (2000) of the Honours Programme of the World Scout Foundation. As
a holder of a Private Pilot License he has been awarded the Scout Association of
Greece Flyer's Badge, the (Golden) Scout Flying Wings (2003). |
