Win Davis

The author, Win Davis, is located in Florida.  Men of Schiff:  A History of the Professional Scouters Who Built the Boy Scouts of America, is his first work for publication.

He is a former professional Scouter, retired attorney, retired  Air Force officer and lives with his miniature schnauzer, Pepper.

An Eagle Scout, the author has been a registered member of the Boy Scouts of America for more than sixty years, as Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Scoutmaster, Sea Scout Skipper, Commissioner, Commodore and other positions too numerous to mention.  He spent five years as a professional Scouter and attended the National Executive Institute at Schiff Scout Reservation in 1970, which gives him a unique perspective on Boy Scouting.  He was fortunate enough to meet and talk with many Scouting notables and non notables.  Win had the privilege of being a personal friend of William L. “Green Bar Bill” Hillcourt during the last years of his long life.  He has traveled and met Scouters from all around the world, professional and non professional.

As a longtime, dedicated Scouter, Win has felt for some years that this is a book that needed to be written, believing that it would appeal to many readers who were never a part of Scouting and never knew any professional Scouters. Certainly, those who have known and worked with these dedicated men and women will recognize their dedication and love of Scouting. Perhaps the reader will share the author's interest in the historical aspects of the early years of Boy Scouting in the United States.  These “Men of Schiff” built a movement out of nothing but a book written by an English general, the interest of boys and the willingness of men like fictional Lem Siddons of MacKinlay Kantor’s great book For God and My Country, later a movie called Follow Me, Boys to take on the job of teaching boys to love the outdoors and live comfortably there.


Men of Schiff will be published in March of 2013.  I believe it will interest not only professional Scouters and their families, but also volunteer Scouters and people who have never been a part of Scouting.  Their story is integral to the history of the United States.  Interested? Take a sneak preview now.