Adolph E. Peschke was a veteran outdoorsman,[1] author, and pioneering project designer[2] in the Boy Scouts of America.
When he was twenty years old, he got married and lived with his wife, Grace in Webster Groves, MO where they raised their children, Don and Jayne.
Adolph Peschke served as a volunteer in the Greater Saint Louis Area Council for sixty years where he dedicated much of his time to Beaumont Scout Reservation and was a director for more than twenty Wood Badge courses.
Through his decades of service to the Boy Scouts of America, some of his most noteworthy contributions were: Adolph Peschke was keenly attuned to providing the assurance that boys of Scouting age could successfully build pioneering structures themselves.
[7] Five of these are included in the pamphlet for Pioneering merit badge along with well-presented explanations and instructions:[8] With the intention of making Pioneering more within the reach of those Scout units in geographic areas where access to natural spars was limited, he devised a design for making a pioneering kit consisting of laminated spars from materials readily available at a lumberyard.