The New York Times said that Head "was deeply influenced by his mother, a devout woman who imbued him with a warm, human philosophy of life".

[1] At age 8, he moved with his family to a rural area of DeKalb County, Missouri, where he attended public schools.

[2] At the time, Morris Plan was the largest industrial banking system in the U.S., with $200 million in annual business and 800,000 customers.

[3] Head left banking in 1933, when he became the first president of Great American Life Insurance Company in St. Louis, Missouri.

Franklin D. Roosevelt and BSA Chief Scout Executive James E. West in a radio address to the nation from the Oval Office announcing the event in 1937.

[6] A year after the death of his wife (the former Della Thompson) in 1951, Head entered a nursing home due to Parkinson's disease and arteriosclerosis.