The history of Boy Scouting in Cooperstown goes back more than fifty years. Cooperstown has had all branches of scouting: Cub packs, Scout troops and Explorer posts. Very few records are available about the earlier years. One thing is sure, people in Cooperstown community and specifically
Cooperstown Commercial Club, Trinity Lutheran Church Brotherhood, Gordon Lindgren American Legion Post 143, and Cooperstown Jaycees have been strong supporters of scouting. Cooperstown is the only community in North Dakota with its own Scout house located in the city park.
Hundreds of boys have been members over the years in the local scouting units. Thirty-four scouts and explorers have reached to the highest rank in Scouting, Eagle Scout. They are:
The Scout House has a trophy case full of trophies from District and Council activities where the local explorers, scouts and cubs have been successful in competition. Several scouts have attended national Jamborees and our scouters have served as leaders in national and world jamborees.
Seven Explorer Scouts have earned the high recognition from American Lutheran Church receiving the Pro Deo et Patria Scout Awards. They are Robert Syverson, Glenn Solberg, Robert Ohman, Larry Ellingson, Jerry Haugen, Larry Tang and Elliot Haugen. Three scouters from Cooperstown, Edgar Multer, L.A. Sayer and Bert Hoffman, are the recipients of "Silver Beaver" awards, highest recognition the local Boy Scout Council can bestow on a scouter. Those fifty years of scouting in Cooperstown have been possible only thanks to the many men and women in the community who were willing to serve as unit leaders, den mothers, committeemen, merit badge counselors, commissioners and members of the district committee.
Source: Cooperstown, North Dakota 1882-1982 Centennial Page 231