October, 2007

World Scout Committee conferred the world highest scouting award “Bronze Wolf” upon Mr. Toby Suzuki during the Asia Pacific Scout Conference held in October 2007 at Tokyo.
World Scout Committee of WOSM is honored toward Mr. Toby Suzuki, former member of World Scout Committee (1999-2005) with the highest award in World Scouting. On October, 2007, the commencement ceremony of the presentation of the Bronze Wolf Award was held at the Yoyogi Olympic Youth Center, Tokyo.
This conferral of the Bronze Wolf Award is to recognize Mr. Toby Suzuki’s outstanding contributions to the World Scouting. Mr. Jorgen Rasmussen, who is the President of Honor Committee, World Organization of Scout Movement had announced the citation for the award of the Bronze Wolf to Mr. Toby Suzuki.
Citation for the award of the Bronze Wolf to Toby Suzuki
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After many years involvement in Scouting as a youth member and in various leadership capacities within his National Scout Organization and the Asia Pacific Region, Toby Suzuki was elected to the World Scout Committee in 1999.

Among his contributions to the work of the World Committee, special mention is made of his contribution as sponsor of the Communications work streem of the McKinsey study and report. The recommendations arising from this work formed the basia for a report on Image and Communication to the 2005 World Scout Conference.
By services to WOSM World Events by using his professional management skill as IBM Managing Director of Olympic projects at Nagano and Sydney, were also of great benefit to Scouting. As World Scout Committee, liaison person to major world events, he helped solve a number of complicated issues concerning the 20th World Scout Jamboree in Thailand in 2003 and the 12th World Scout Moot in Republic of China in 2004.

17 Bronze Wolf Recipients from Japan

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Dinner for holders of the Bronze Wolf Award
 - Hosted by His Majesty, Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden -
His Majesty, Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden has hosted the dinner for the Bronze Wolf Award on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 at London, UK during the World Scout Jamboree, on the cerebration day of 100 years of Scouting.

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A Short History of The Bronze Wolf
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(2008.9.14)

Reference Materials

   Congratulatory Messages from the World
   The Memorial Reception held at Yokohama (pdf)
   Pictures of the Memorial Reception in January 13, 2008
News article in Scouting Magazine (pdf)
News article in Asahi Advance News (pdf)
The Cerebratory Banquet by Kanagawa Scout Concil (June 28, 2008)
     
   
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