{"id":335023,"date":"2026-05-27T22:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335023\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:17:10","slug":"faculty-member-donates-historic-boy-scouts-books-to-pollak-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/335023\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Member Donates Historic Boy Scouts Books to Pollak Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2026-04-08-15.16.11-800x500.jpg\" class=\"attachment-story-main-image size-story-main-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"A collection of historical Boy Scouts of America books\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>The collection of historical Boy Scouts of America books includes over 160 titles. \t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Stout, CSUF alum and lecturer in child and adolescent studies, donated his collection of historical Boy Scouts of America books to the Pollak Library\u2019s Special Collections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The collection of over 160 books includes early editions of the \u201cBoy Scout Handbook,\u201d \u201cPatrol Leader Handbook\u201d and \u201cScout Master Handbook.\u201d It also includes nearly 40 early Boy Scouts of America storybooks from the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI collected these for many years as a youth and young adult, but I really haven\u2019t done anything with them in the last 20 years. I am delighted to give them a permanent home at CSUF,\u201d said Stout \u201994 (B.S. human services).<\/p>\n<p>Stout coordinated the donation with Lisa A. Mix, director of university archives and special collections.\u00a0\u201cThere is already a student interested in using them to research the history of scouting,\u201d said Mix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Megan Graewingholt, liaison librarian for American studies added, \u201cThere is definitely a scholarly conversation around the Boy Scouts, particularly regarding gender roles, soldiering, and masculinity and manhood since the start of the 20th century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; The collection of historical Boy Scouts of America books includes over 160 titles. &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-335023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}