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WCOs graduate; Hunt among them
Among those will be Wayne Hunt of St. Marys. He has been selected to take over the WCO duties in Cameron County. Hunt, who has been working as a deputy here for the past six years, will start immediately. Selected from a competitive pool of over 900 applicants, the 22 WCO Cadet graduates will fill most of the 32 vacancies throughout the state. These 22 individuals will join a field of 575 graduates since it opened in 1932. Districts had been left vacant because of the game commission's limited amount of financial resources. Other counties slated to receive one of the graduating WCO Cadets include Adams, Allegheny, Beaver, Bradford, Centre, Cumberland, Fayette, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Mercer, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike, Schuylkill, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Westmoreland and York. In 1930, Ross Leffler, who was the Pa. Board of Game Commissioners president at that time, proposed the establishment of a training school for game protectors. When the training school opened its doors in 1932, in Brockway, it was the first conservation officer training school on earth and would soon serve as a model for other states. From 1932 until 1935, the Ross Leffler School of Conservation offered training for game protectors. In 1936, the PGC voted to make the school a permanent facility and enrolled its first class of trainees. Training would continue at that facility for 50 years until the training school was moved to the Harrisburg headquarters in 1987, which had just opened the doors to its current facility in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County. Applications are currently being accepted for the 28th Class of WCO Cadets scheduled to start in April 2009. For more information, visit the PGC website at pgc.state. pa.us. |
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