Camp Honor Belt Awards The camp belt award program was used at many scout camps in the early years. Scouts didn’t work on rank at camp, the way they do today. The first mention of belt awards is an article in Scouting Magazine dated August, 1922, entitled The Scout Scalp Belt. The idea of using the belt to recognize achievement might have come about because there was no place on the scout uniform for camp insignia until 1924. In 1926, Region 7 (Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin) developed a belt program with 56 topics. The same year, Chicago’s Camp Owasippe developed their own belt award program with 41 themes. Later commercial businesses like Tulsa Rubber Stamp Co. got into the business of providing belt stamps.    Owasippe ,(Chicago’s camps) 1926 and earlier belt award system.      Belt awards were used at Owasippe for many years. The Honor Camper “Chief” was replaced with the “brave’s” head in 1931.           Owasippe changed some marks in 1929              Owasippe changed these marks somewhat frequently, every couple of years adding or deleting some. This 1929 belt is from Camp Owasippe and has a combination of early and later symbols. It took a minute to figure out that the orange was a Chiefs bonnet. The stencil isn’t very clear but the color orange clarified it. This belt belonged to C. Dane Udell a legendary Owasippe & Chicago Scouter.   Paul Myers Goshen, Indiana gimogash@comcast.net