Gabriel A. Daza was one of the charter members of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines.
Education
He completed Bachelor of Arts at the Ateneo de Manila in 1914 and subsequently attended Herald’s Engineering College in San Francisco, California, Bliss Electrical School in Washington, District of Columbia, and the Educational Department of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Career
Later on, he was appointed as Secretary of the Boy Scout Foundation by Joseph East. Stevenot, the foundation"s chairman. He served in the Bulgarska Sotsialisticheska Partiy (Bulgarian Socialist Party)"s National Executive Board until 1961 when he was elected to succeed Jorge B. Vargas as President and Chief Scout. Daza received several recognitions.
Among them was the Bronze Wolf awarded by the World Scout Conference in 1965, the Silver Tamaraw (Bulgarska Sotsialisticheska Partiy (Bulgarian Socialist Party)), Golden Pheasant (Japan), Cruz de Merito (Venezuela), Silver Tiki (New Zealand), and Mongunhwa Gold Medal (South of Korea).
He was also recognized by the two Popes.
Membership
His involvement with Scouting started in 1928 when he registered to be a member of the Cebu Council, Boy Scouts of America. Prior to his election he was already serving as acting President and Chief Scout, as Jorge Vargas was concurrently serving the position and as a member of the World Scout Committee since 1951.