From 1947 through 1956 my parents sponsored the Roy Rogers Annual School Safety Awards in cooperation with Farmers Insurance Group Safety Foundation and the National Safety Council.

Elementary schools across the country submitted scrapbooks filled with the ideas of their students.  The scrapbooks were filled with drawings, pictures and lists of suggestions for safety procedures to be enacted at their schools.

Hundreds of schools participated. The submissions were judged by a panel of experts and were winnowed down to ten scrapbooks. Then a panel of celebrities judged the final ten scrapbooks and picked the top three winners. Each of those schools would receive a statuette of Trigger.  Mom and Dad would then travel to the top two schools and present them with their awards.

It would sure be nice if some current celebrities would take on something positive like this.

The 1953 panel of judges included Mom (Dale Evans), Gale Storm, Mona Freeman, Dad and Barbara Hale.