Dick Elliott – A Life of Scouting
Boy Scout
- Boy Scout: 1945-1952
- Troop 18, Dubuque
- Troop 101, Marengo, Iowa
- Explorer Post 37, Earlville
- Troop 37, Farley
Adult Scout Activity
- Assistant Scoutmaster Troop 48: served troop as SM and/or ASM since 1967
- Scoutmaster, Troop 48: 1968-1973 & several other times since
- Unit Commissioner
- Assistant District Commissioner
- Served as first Council SME Chairman, 1976 (Sustaining Membership Enrollment)
- Camping Committee
- Camp Burton Committee
- OA Timmeu Lodge Member, Ordeal, 1970, Brotherhood, 1971, Vigil, 1976
- OA Lodge Advisor: 1977, 1978, 1979
- Taught Adult Leader Training several times.
- Adult Lutheran Lamb Award
- Merit Badge Counselor
- NEIC Executive Board member
- District Award of Merit: 1974
- Silver Beaver: 1977
- Scoutmasters Key (5 times)
- Woodbadge trained, received beads in 1984.
- District Eagle Board of Review Committee: 1998 – 2010
Other
- 1953 served in the Navy; was Scout leader in Guam in 1954
- Contingent Leader, 1976 National Order of the Arrow Conference
- Completed 10 high adventure trips.
- 1972 Region 10 Canoe Base trip
- Philmont, 8 times
- 1997 trip included himself, his son, and his grandson on same contingent.
- Over 100 years of adult Scouting leadership in his family, between his father, himself, 2 brothers, and son.
- NEIC James E. West member
- 2010 National Hall of Leadership representative from NEIC