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White Stag Leadership Development Program

White Stag Leadership Development Program
a green circle superimposed with a stylized white stag or deer leaping to the left
Logo of the White Stag Leadership Development program, derived from the badge of the 1933 World Scout Jamboree and the white stag of Hungarian mythology
Formation June 8, 1959
Legal status 501(c)3 Non-profit
Purpose Youth leadership development
Headquarters Monterey, California, and Concord, California
Location
Region served
California, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, and internationally
Membership
600
Program Director
Connie Halbach, Larry Challis
Affiliations Scouting
Budget
US$180,000, US$12,000
Volunteers
140
Website http://whitestag.org, http://www.whitestagcamp.org, http://whitestagsierra.org

The White Stag Leadership Development Program, founded in 1958, is a summer camp for youth 11-18 led by two California-based non-profits that sponsor leadership development activities. The teen youth staff of the two programs develop and produce several week-long leadership summer camps every year for several hundred youth from Central and Northern California and a few youth from other states and countries. The outdoors program relies on hands-on learning methods to help develop leadership competencies in youth.

Originally founded on the Monterey Peninsula, California, in 1958 by Dr. Béla H. Bánáthy, there are currently two programs. One program in Concord, California is sponsored by the White Stag Association and a second program in Monterey, California is sponsored by the White Stag Leadership Development Academy. The entire program traces its history to the 1933 World Jamboree in Gödöllő, Hungary, which took as its emblem the white stag of Hungarian mythology. Four boys who did not know each other attended the Jamboree and met in the 1950s to lead the White Stag program. Founder Béla H. Bánáthy, a junior officer in the Hungarian Army during World War II, served on the National Council of the Hungarian Scout Association and became the voluntary national director for youth leadership development. At the end of the war, he narrowly escaped Soviet capture and likely execution. After considerable personal trials he arrived in June 1951 in Monterey, California to teach at the Army Language School. There he met two other Hungarians who had escaped the country before Soviet occupation, Joe Szentkiralyi and Paul Sujan, who had also attended the 1933 World Jamboree. They were initially assisted by a local American Scouter, Fran Peterson.

Bánáthy became the Monterey Bay Area Council Training Chairman and developed an experimental program to train Scouts in leadership skills. He collaborated with research psychologist Paul Hood, who was leader of Task NCO (Non-Commissioned Officer), a research project by the U.S. Army that sought to identify the essential leadership skills of non-commissioned leaders. As part of his Master's thesis, Bánáthy identified eleven specific leadership competencies that he taught in the program's summer camp. The efforts of the four men, assisted by Maury Tripp, rapidly gained the attention of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. They conducted extensive research that validated Bánáthy's leadership model and developed its own version for nationwide use. They introduced the leadership competencies during the 1970s into both the adult Wood Badge program and youth-focused National Youth Leadership Training. These two programs had originally focused primarily on teaching Scoutcraft skills and the Patrol Method. The change to teaching leadership was a marked cultural shift for how both adults and youth were trained in the skills of Scouting.


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