Border Colors Used on Position Patches
| The BORDER COLOR of a badge of office would distinguish the primary leader (in SILVER), his or her staff or assistants (in GOLD) and those on some sort of committee (in BRONZE). White would be used for provisional leaders (like Junior Assistant Scoutmasters) and blue would be used for those special members of a unit, district, local Council, Region on at the National level. Red was used for Musicians and members of special Scouting groups. | |
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For instance, both the Scoutmaster AND Senior Patrol Leader emblems would be be "bordered in silver" because both serve as leaders of the Troop; the Council President, Regional President, and National President would also be bordered in silver as well as the Council and National Commissioner (Regions do not have Commissioners, which is a serious underpinning in *my* opinion) and the District, Council, Regional and Chief Scout Executives.
Their Assistants or Staff members -- Assistant Scoutmasters, Assistant Senior Patrol Leaders, Council Vice-Presidents, Regional Vice-Presidents, and National Vice-Presidents -- position emblems would be bordered in gold (yellow, actually); likewise, the Assistant Council and District Commissioner's badges of office are in gold as well as Associate District Executives, Council Staff members, Regional and National Executive Staff members' badges of office are bordered in gold.
Those on a Committee -- at the unit, District, Council, Area, Regional or National levels -- their badges of position would all be bordered in bronze. This also includes members of Council, Regional and National Executive Boards and Advisory Boards.
So, the Scribe position badge looked like this during this time:
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You can see from the border color that this person "supported" the primary leader (in this case, the Senior Patrol Leader).
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