Fall 2014 - National Eagle Scout Association

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FALL 2014
THIRST
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Eagle Scout Buey Tut’s
Aqua-Africa Brings Drinking
Water to South Sudan
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
Applying Scouting Lessons in Haiti
A New Way to Wear Eagle Palms
The Year’s Best Eagle Project
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On the Cover
Eagle Scout Buey Tut, founder of
Aqua-Africa, builds wells in his
native country of South Sudan
to bring citizens better access
to drinking water. Much of his
drive to give back comes from
lessons he learned in Scouting.
Photo by W. Garth Dowling.
Boy Scouts of America
President of the United States Barack Obama
Honorary President of the Boy Scouts of America
Robert M. Gates ............................ National President
Tico Perez .................................National Commissioner
Wayne Brock ............................. Chief Scout Executive
National Eagle Scout Association
Contents
Glenn A. Adams ........................................... President
C. William “Bill” Steele ................................ Director
NESA Committee
Rick Bragga, Dr. David Briscoe, Howard Bulloch,
Nick Dannemiller, Clark W. Fetridge, Marshall
Hollis, Dr. Ken King, Dr. Michael Manyak,
Lou Paulson, Rich Pfaltzgraff, Todd R. Plotner,
Congressman Pete Sessions, Frank Tsuru,
Joe Weingarten
Michael Goldman........................... Editorial Director
Eric Ottinger ....................................... Design Director
Paula Murphey .................................. Managing Editor
Bryan Wendell ........................................ Senior Editor
Gretchen Sparling ............................ Associate Editor
Elizabeth Hardaway Morgan ..... Senior Art Director
W. Garth Dowling.................... Photography Director
Edna J. Lemons........................................ Photo Editor
Bryan Wursten .........................................Online Editor
Special Contributors
Lois Albertus, Johnny D. Boggs, Teresa Brown,
Keith Courson, Ryan Larson, Jeff Laughlin,
Mark Ray
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Lenore Bonno ............................. Production Manager
Marcie Rodriguez .................................Imaging Artist
Judy Bramlett .............................. Circulation Manager
Barry Brown ................................. Advertising Director
Kenneth Lipka .............Regional Advertising Manager
Patricia Santangelo .....Regional Advertising Manager
Cheryl Solomon ................... Midwest Publisher’s Rep
Chuck Carroll ..................West Coast Publisher’s Rep
Lisa Hott....................Advertising Production Manager
Brian Cabanban ............................. Business Manager
Jillian Foley.................................. Marketing Specialist
Jennifer Chan................... Assistant Research Analyst
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Making a Splash By Mark Ray
Eagle Scout Buey Tut knows of the hardships that
come without easy access to drinking water. That’s
why he’s made it his mission to help people in his
native country of South Sudan by building wells.
Learn more about his nonprofit, Aqua-Africa.
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Making It Real By Mark Ray
An Eagle Scout engineering student at the University of Massachusetts Lowell enlisted several
other Eagles and experts to take his senior capstone
project across borders. The focus? Building new
structures in Haiti.
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Features
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News From the Trailhead
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NESA President
Glenn A. Adams
NESA Director
C. William Steele
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From the Director
If you have been reading Glenn Adams’ and my letters in “News From the Trailhead” the past
year, you’re already aware of a developing program that now has the official name “NESA World
Explorers.” Here’s a little history of where this program came from and where it’s going.
In 1928, The New York Times ran the headline “Scouts in race for honor of joining Byrd’s
expedition,” and Eagle Scouts have played significant roles in America’s discoveries of the world
and universe ever since. Eagle Scout Paul Siple was a critical member of Expedition Commander
Richard Byrd’s two-year exploration of the South Pole.
Forty-one years later, Eagle Scout Neil Armstrong captivated a nation with the phrases “The
Eagle has landed” and “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” And there have been
many others blazing trails, including top mountain climbers like Eric Simonson and Wally Berg
as well as top scientists like Dr. E.O. Wilson, a Distinguished Eagle Scout and the father of the
concept of biodiversity (he’s also considered to be the world’s leading authority on ants).
These men are Eagle Scout explorers, and I consider myself one of them. I started exploring
caves as a Boy Scout in the ’60s and have never slowed down. Outside of my career with the BSA,
my personal passion is cave exploration. When I take a vacation, it’s to participate in or lead an
expedition to the longest, deepest and most vast caves on Earth. I’ve written two books on the
subject and am a Fellow Emeritus member of The Explorers Club.
NESA is now three years into developing the World Explorers program. We conduct nationwide
searches for the best possible Eagle Scouts to send on world-class expeditions with modern
explorers. Three years in a row, Eagle Scouts who plan to become marine scientists have gone to
sea with Dr. Bob Ballard aboard his research ship, Nautilus. In 2013, we also selected an Eagle
Scout Astronomer, who got to meet with the country’s top astronomers at a mirror-casting event
in Tucson, Ariz., where they were making a 25-foot-diameter mirror for the Giant Magellan
Telescope.
This year, in addition to Eagle Scout Explorer Alex Houston’s trip to Antarctica with noted
British polar explorer Robert Swan, the 2014 NESA Nautilus Sea Eagle Jacob Fisk will climb
aboard Ballard’s ship, and Larry Gumina, the Eagle Scout Biologist, will travel to Ecuador to
study jungle biology.
Paul Siple was the first, many years ago, but NESA has brought back inspiring and lifechanging programs several times over. And even more opportunities are planned for next year.
Don’t forget: Follow our Facebook page, facebook.com/nationaleaglescoutassociationBSA, to learn
how to apply to NESA World Explorers.
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Yours in Scouting,
C. William Steele
Director
Two modern-day Eagle Scouts
— CB Wren, 2013 NESA
Nautilus Sea Eagle (middle),
and Tristan Bullard, 2013 NESA
Astronomer (bottom) — carry
on the legacy of Eagle Scout
Paul Siple (top), one of the first
Eagle explorers representing the
Boy Scouts of America.
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MEMBERS // Mabel and Lawrence S. Cooke Scholarship
The Gift That Keeps on Giving
two, who had no children, were active
antiques collectors and authorities on
make-do items like primitive tools.
Fast-forward to 1987, the year Mabel
died. As Mabel’s health began to fail, Larry met with Boston attorney Brian Bixby
to update his estate plan. Scouting seemed
a logical beneficiary, and the two eventually settled on a scholarship program. “We
had this idea of setting up a foundation
that would provide scholarships every
year to Eagle Scouts graduating from high
school,” Bixby says. “And not just a simple
little one-time scholarship but a scholarship for all four years of college.”
Bixby says Larry was so excited about
the idea that he wanted to start giving
scholarships right away. “So we actually
started awarding these scholarships while
he was still alive,” Bixby says. “He would
write the check himself, and he got the joy
of seeing the first recipients and what they
were doing.”
Larry died in 1997, seven years after the
first Cooke scholarships were presented.
Over the years, as the foundation has
grown, so has the number of scholarships awarded. Last year, 44 Eagle Scouts
received Mabel and Lawrence S. Cooke
scholarships totaling $223,000.
Bixby emphasizes that Larry was never
wealthy. “He was just a hardworking guy
who didn’t spend much and didn’t have
children to spend it on,” he says. “He
wasn’t the guy that owned the factory or
anything like that.”
In embracing the ninth point of the
Scout Law — a Scout is thrifty — Larry
created a fund that continues to enrich
the lives of his fellow Eagle Scouts and
to honor the woman who took away his
Eagle badge.
The Story Behind NESA’s Biggest Scholarship Program
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ou’ve heard the names Mabel
and Lawrence S. Cooke. You
might have applied for their
scholarships. But do you
know who they were and
why the foundation that bears their name
gives away so much money every year?
from the council office. The clerk had
made a mistake, it seemed, and Larry
needed to return the badge so he could
receive it in a proper ceremony.
Larry grudgingly returned the badge to
the same clerk who’d given it to him. Her
name was Mabel Sager, and the third time
The couple’s story begins in 1918,
when Larry Cooke, the only child of a
single mother, joined a Boy Scout troop
in Springfield, Mass. The program gave
him something to do while his mother
was working long hours, and it introduced
him to leaders — many of them veterans of
World War I — who served as positive male
role models. (Larry said Scouting also took
the place of a formal college education.)
In 1923, Larry completed his last Eagle
Scout requirement. When notification came
from the local council office, he promptly
stopped by to claim his badge. The clerk, a
young woman on her first day on the job,
handed over the badge, and Larry went
home with his prized possession.
He didn’t keep it for long, however.
The following week, another letter arrived
they met was on a date. Five years later,
they were married.
Over the next several decades, Larry
worked for a number of power and electrical
equipment companies, including General
Electric, while Mabel was a housewife. The
Applying for NESA Scholarships
Each year, NESA awards 250 scholarships ranging in size from $1,000 to $50,000.
Academic scholarships, including the Cooke scholarships, go to graduating high-school
seniors and may be renewed for up to four years. Merit scholarships are one-time
awards; Scouts may apply in their senior year of high school through their junior year
in college. The application deadline is Dec. 31.
NESA scholarships are not available to students attending trade schools, two-year
colleges or U.S. service academies (where academic expenses are covered by the U.S.
government). Recipients must be NESA members. For more information and to view a
list of this year’s scholarship recipients, visit nesa.org/scholarships.html.
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MEMBERS // Aligning Scouting’s Programs / Eagle Scouts at Philmont
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Changes to Venturing and Boy Scouting
VENTURING
The new Venturing awards and recognitions program is built on the ALPS model,
which stands for “adventure, leadership,
personal growth and service.” New
Venturers will earn the Venturing Award
— the Venturing equivalent of the Bobcat
or Scout badge — and then work on the
Discovery, Pathfinder and Summit awards.
Each of these awards includes ALPS requirements, but each also has a unique focus: participation for the Discovery Award,
leadership for the Pathfinder Award and
mentoring for the Summit Award.
That last award is intended to show that
a Venturer is prepared for college, career or
military service and has “those skills that
Eagles Flock to
Philmont Staff
Each year, Philmont Scout Ranch hires
more than 1,000 seasonal staff members, most of them college-age men and
women. While you’d expect many to be
Eagle Scouts, the actual numbers are
pretty amazing. Of the 857 males on the
summer staff, 79 percent are Eagle Scouts.
Even when you take into account Philmont’s female staff members, nearly six of
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will better prepare him or her to be successful in education and in the marketplace —
skills like goal setting, time management,
building relationships, team building,
project management, etc.,” says Venturing
Task Force Chairman Charles Dahlquist.
To that end, members of the task force
vetted the proposed requirements with
corporations and universities to make
sure they were focusing on relevant skills.
“Every one of them said, ‘You’re right on
the mark,’” Dahlquist says.
The new program went into effect in
May. Venturers may continue working on
the current awards until the end of 2014,
after which time they may pursue only the
new awards.
BOY SCOUTING
While relatively minor, the changes to the
Boy Scout advancement system do help
better align the BSA’s flagship program
with its mission. Tweaks to the requirements will add emphasis on physical
fitness, healthy living, outdoor ethics and
weather safety. Community service will be
required for each rank (with a conservation project required for Life), and duty to
God will be incorporated into the requirement to show Scout spirit.
Also, for the first time, the Scout badge
will be considered a rank. Currently, it’s
simply a badge Scouts receive for completing the Boy Scout joining requirements.
Specifics of the new requirements will
be announced at the National Annual
Meeting in May 2015 and will become
effective on Jan. 1, 2016. However, a transition plan will allow those who joined
Scouting prior to that date to complete
their current ranks before switching to the
new requirements.
every 10 staffers are Eagle Scouts.
And those Eagles make a difference,
says Associate Director of Program David
O’Neill (himself an Eagle Scout from San
Angelo, Texas). “When I am hiring staff, I
definitely look for ‘Eagle’ being placed on
the rank question,” he says. “They help set
the example for other former Scouts and
Venturers on our staff and give us great
role models for the 22,500 participants we
see each summer. We have a very diverse
staff at Philmont, and having Eagle Scouts
on board helps us bring that group together that much faster for our campers.”
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n the last issue of Eagles’ Call, we
highlighted changes to Cub Scouting
that were announced at the BSA’s
National Annual Meeting in May.
Also announced were changes to
Venturing (effective immediately) and Boy
Scouting (effective at the end of next year).
All the changes stem from the 20102015 National Strategic Plan, which calls
for Scouting’s core programs to better
align with the BSA’s mission. The Venturing changes are also a reaction to declining
membership and a low level of engagement
with Venturing’s previous recognition program. Details are available at scouting.org/
programupdates, but here’s an overview.
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NESA Committee Spotlight / Eagle Palms // MEMBERS
NESA
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Great Rivers Council, Columbia, Mo.
Councils across the country used 2012’s
100th anniversary of the Eagle Scout
Award as a springboard for new Eaglerelated projects. The Great Rivers Council was no exception. Assistant Scout
Executive John Fabsits, the council’s NESA
staff adviser, says the council celebrated
the anniversary by expanding its Eagle
Scout recognition program and creating a
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EAGLES IN THE CAPITAL
For more than a decade, the council has
held an annual Eagle Scout Recognition
Day in the state capital, Jefferson City,
which is in the council’s territory. Since
2012, the council has opened the event to
Eagle Scouts from the five other councils
that serve the Show-Me State.
“If you’re in St. Louis, Kansas City or
Springfield, you’re a little farther away
from the state capital, so you’re not going
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there on a yearly basis,” Fabsits says. “It’s
a chance for Scouts to come down and be
recognized by the governor. A lot of them
meet with their representatives as well.”
(Because Missouri’s governor and lieutenant governor are both Distinguished Eagle
Scouts, getting top-level support is easy.)
This year’s event, held in the Missouri
Capitol rotunda, attracted about 500
Scouts and family members. “It keeps
growing a little each year. We’re starting
to have to limit the attendance in terms
of the number of guests they can bring,”
Fabsits says.
REWARDING HARD WORK
The other new program is the Dr. Robert
M. Doroghazi Eagle Scout Award. Named
for the former council president (and Distinguished Eagle Scout) who underwrites
it, this $10,000 award recognizes three
recent Eagle Scouts each year.
Unlike scholarships that go to new
high-school graduates, this award goes
to somewhat older Eagle Scouts who
have completed at least 60 hours of college coursework and meet certain other
requirements. While the money can be
used for higher education, it doesn’t have
to be. Recipients have included a U.S.
Army captain, a Rhodes scholar and a
young man who used his award to expand
his landscaping business after earning an
associate degree.
Doroghazi “is rewarding hard work,”
Fabsits says. “He’s not looking for someone who’s a 4.0 student.”
$1,000 FOR YOUR
NESA COMMITTEE?
A key role for NESA at the national level is to
support local council NESA committees. To
increase that support in 2014, NESA awarded
eight $1,000 grants to help NESA committees accomplish their goals. The $1,000 grant
will be awarded again in 2015 to at least one
NESA committee in each BSA region.
To apply, your committee must complete the form at nesa.org/committeegrants
starting in December 2014. Special consideration is given to innovative and creative
ways to help Scouts achieve the Eagle
rank. The deadline: Feb. 28, 2015.
NESA LEGACY
SOCIETY MEMBERS
Richard M. Brenner Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council
Michael J. Freeman, M.D. North Florida Council
Col. John J. Halloran Jr. Calcasieu Area Council
Joel C. Hamsher Great Trail Council
Richard A. Howett Hawk Mountain Council
Cooper W. Jager Longs Peak Council
Leland M. Kammerer Three Harbors Council
David A. Keller Sr. Cascade Pacific Council
Devin D. Koehler Sam Houston Area Council
James C. Langridge Northeast Iowa Council
Peter N. Mastopoulos, Ed.D. Coastal Georgia Council
Douglas R. McDonald Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council
Gary L. Mueller, M.D. Middle Tennessee Council
Steven H. Rose Hawkeye Area Council
Zachary S. Rose Hawkeye Area Council
David P. Rumbarger Jr. Yocona Area Council
Capt. Frederic M. Sieg Chattahoochee Council
Joe Weingarten Crossroads of America Council
Hon. Gordon J. Whiting Westchester-Putnam Council
Putting on
the Palms
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ach year, the BSA
awards more than 5,600
Eagle Palms to Eagle
Scouts who have continued to
earn merit badges, participate in
their units and show leadership ability.
The Bronze Palm represents five merit
badges, the Gold Palm 10 and the Silver
Palm 15. (Scouts who’ve earned 20 or
more extra merit badges wear the appropriate combination of Palms.)
Prior to this year, Scouts
could display their Palms in
just two places: on the Eagle
medal and on the Eagle
square knot, worn by adults
in lieu of the pocket patch
Scouts wear. Because the
medal is typically worn only
on formal occasions, that left
current Scouts without a way to
show off their Palms. In January, the BSA
fixed that problem by approving a third
location: the Eagle Scout pocket patch.
Now, every overachieving Eagle Scout
can show off his accomplishments to
encourage his fellow Eagle Scouts.
JOIN THE NESA LEGACY SOCIETY
By making a contribution to the national
NESA endowment, you will help fund
Eagle Scout scholarships, NESA committee service grants, career networking
opportunities and more. (Note: You must
first become a James E. West Fellow in
your local council.)
Visit nesa.org/PDF/542-121.pdf to make
a contribution. All NESA LEGACY SOCIETY
FELLOWS will be recognized with a unique
certificate, a pin to wear on the James E.
West knot and name recognition in the
pages of Eagles’ Call magazine. Don’t miss
your chance to be a founding member of
the NESA Legacy Society, an opportunity
ending Dec. 31, 2014.
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COMMUNITY // Eagle Scout Projects
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hen it comes to Eagle
Scout service projects,
change is the only constant: Workdays get
rained out. Volunteers
don’t show up. Project plans get reworked.
But few projects change as much as
Cody Eckels’. In the summer of 2012, the
14-year-old Life Scout from Troop 300 in
Tyrone, Pa., set out to install seven flagpoles
in his town’s Soldiers Park at the request of
Mayor William Fink. “The mayor was like,
‘It’s a three-grand project — maybe five if
you light the flagpoles,’ ” Cody recalls.
Turns out, Cody had that much money
left over when the project ended. By the
time he dedicated his flagpoles on Memorial Day 2013, he had raised $86,000 and
logged 2,923 volunteer hours (460 on his
own). And those seven flagpoles were just
one facet of his project, which he called
Eagle for Freedom. Besides installing and
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lighting them, Cody created a plaza studded with more than 600 pavers honoring
veterans, built a 45-foot retaining wall,
installed a Fallen Soldier statue and added a
few benches for good measure. Oh, yes, and
he also helped launch a foundation that
continues to improve Soldiers Park.
It’s no wonder that his project won this
year’s Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams
National Eagle Scout Service Project of
the Year Award. “It’s just crazy,” Cody says.
“From a conversation at the borough office,
it’s turned into this. It’s real cool.”
Not long after Cody won the Adams
Award, Eagles’ Call caught up with him and
his dad, Joe, to learn more about his project.
country’; they didn’t say, ‘We’ll fight for our
region of our country,’ ” he says.
HOW THE PROJECT GREW: Joe Eckels says a
chain reaction of events made the project
grow in scope. “You can’t fly the flags without lighting them,” he says. “Then there
was a power pole in the way. Then Cody
and his mother decided they wanted to
spread them out. The electrician is a retired
Marine, and he had big ideas. It just continued to tumble. It really never stopped.”
tags. “We didn’t leave any stone unturned,”
Cody says.
OTHER NOTABLE EAGLE PROJECTS
TELLING HIS STORY: Cody, who was once too
shy to speak in front of his own troop, made
30 to 35 speeches about the project, appeared
on live radio and television eight times, and
spoke with several newspaper reporters. “He
did better with each one,” Joe says. “He did a
couple of speaking events for the local council, and he did really well with them.”
ON PARADE: Cody and his volunteers appeared in several local parades to spread the
word. From their float, they tossed 5,000 lollipops to which they’d attached promotional
FRANK SCHAD; TULSA, OKLA.
If you think solving a Rubik’s Cube sounds
impossible, imagine solving 2,544 of them to
create a wall-sized mural of Albert Einstein.
That’s just what Frank Schad did for his Eagle
project last year.
Using photo-editing software, Frank turned
an image of the famed physicist into a grid
of 22,896 pixels and assigned each pixel to
one of the six colors on a Rubik’s Cube. His
fellow Scouts then solved the puzzles to match
assigned sections of the computer image, a
process that took about two days. (It took four
days just to unbox all the Rubik’s Cubes.)
Frank’s mural is on permanent display in the
lobby of the Tulsa Air and Space Museum’s James
E. Bertelsmeyer Planetarium, helping bring visitors — and money — to the facility. Frank said
visitors often stop, stare and say, “Those can’t
be real.” But they are. Scout’s honor!
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PLANNING FOR PAVERS: The idea of selling
pavers came from Cody’s girlfriend’s dad
during a family campout. Cody ended up
selling 628 of them; 4-by-8-inch pavers cost
$75; 8-by-8-inch pavers cost $150. Although
Soldiers Park originally honored only local
veterans, the pavers Cody sold honor veterans from across the country. “When they
signed up, they said, ‘We’ll fight for our
A ROUSING RESPONSE: Cody’s promotional
efforts paid off when paver orders began
pouring in. “At one point, we were sitting
down trying to eat supper and working
on the brick orders,” Joe says. “We were
working three phones at the same time. It
was amazing how our little community just
rallied around this project.”
WILLIAM BAUMAN; GRAYSLAKE, ILL.
William Bauman won’t be eligible for his driver’s license until June, but he already knows
he shouldn’t text and drive. And thanks to his
Eagle Scout service project, so do thousands of
people in and around his hometown.
For his project, William planned and led a
campaign on the dangers of distracted driving.
He produced a public service announcement,
appeared on the local news and led a group of
supporters who marched in a local Memorial
Day parade. He also pushed for a state law banning the use of handheld phones while driving.
William’s project ended last October, but
his commitment continues. With a grant from
Youth Service America, he created a training
program called On the Road to Safe Driving,
which he is presenting to teenagers and their
parents in Grayslake this fall.
NEXT STEPS: Today, Cody and Joe sit on the
Eternal Flame committee, which is continuing the work Cody started. They unveiled
an additional 200 pavers this past Memorial
Day and are making plans to add an eternal
flame to the site. “Since his project ended,
we’ve raised another $48,000,” Joe says.
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KEN WHISENHUNT
At a Friends of Scouting dinner in his hometown of Augusta, Ga., in 2009, someone said
Ken Whisenhunt was an Eagle Scout. He
quickly corrected them: “I still am.”
Football coaching jobs come and go, but
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heavy. “One of the dads was a woodworker,
and he got us making racing paddles,”
Cichanowski says. “That’s kind of where it
started.”
What began as a high-school hobby
turned into a college job. Cichanowski
worked his way through three years at
Winona State University building boats and
doing fiberglass repair. During his senior
year, however, the building he was using
was being torn down, and he faced a decision: Should he give up the business or leave
college and try to make boat-building a
career? “That was the year I applied for a
Small Business Administration loan,” he
recalls. “Somehow that came through; I
don’t know how.”
Cichanowski originally called his new
company Midwestern Fiberglass Products,
but it soon became Wenonah Canoe (after
the legendary American Indian maiden for
whom his hometown is named). The name
change made sense because the company
quickly abandoned fiberglass for more
advanced composite materials like Kevlar,
becoming a pioneer in vacuum-bagging, a
process that sucks excess resins out of boats
to reduce weight and improve strength.
Forty-six years later, Cichanowski’s
company is a leading canoe manufacturer with 400 dealers spread around the
globe. And canoes are not all it produces.
Wenonah also owns the Current Designs
and QCC kayak brands (purchased in 1999
and 2011, respectively) and the stand-up
surfboard brand C4 Waterman (acquired
this year). All told, the company can
produce up to 1,000 boats a month, and 40
weeks a year it ships a container full of boats
to Europe, South America, Asia or Australia.
Cichanowski, who was named a
Distinguished Eagle Scout in 2006, credits
his Scouting experience with preparing him
for his career. “It was pivotal,” he says. “I
think anyone who’s been an Eagle Scout has
figured out at some point that it’s shaped
your life. There’s no question that it’s an
advantage most kids don’t have.”
What makes Eagle Scouts different? “They
tried things when they were young. They’ve
had successes. They’ve had failures. I think
it’s self-confidence. It’s instilled in these kids
a level of self-confidence that they wouldn’t
have had,” he says.
That spirit guides Cichanowski today.
“Every day’s a challenge,” he says. “If I don’t
come to work in the morning and see a
problem I haven’t seen before, it’s not a
normal day.”
And it’s not a normal week if he doesn’t
get out in a canoe. He paddles four or five
days a week, takes bigger trips in the summer
and invites guests from around the world to
join him at his Mississippi River guesthouse.
He won the American Canoe Association’s
adult-youth canoe-racing championship with
each of his daughters and was on the first
American team invited to race dragon boats
in China. In the winter, he switches to crosscountry skiing, competing in marathons like
the American Birkebeiner, which he has done
36 times.
“All of these things are part of being a Boy
Scout,” he says.
Whisenhunt will always be an
Eagle Scout. This season he joins
the Tennessee Titans as head
coach, but Whisenhunt has
been coaching in some capacity
for 20 years.
He held NFL coaching
jobs in Baltimore, Cleveland,
New York (Jets) and Pittsburgh
before landing the head-coaching spot with
the Arizona Cardinals in 2007.
He spent six seasons there
and led the team to an NFC
Championship in 2008. Now,
Whisenhunt finds himself at the
helm of an exciting Titans team.
We know of at least one milestone
he’ll reach this season: On Sept. 28,
he’ll coach his 100th regular-season
game. Nicely done.
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heard the call to “paddle
your own canoe,” but
few have taken that
advice as literally as Mike
Cichanowski. As a teen Scout in the early
1960s, the Winona, Minn., native started
building his own wood-strip canoes from
plans he had ordered from the Minnesota
Canoe Association. One reason: The aluminum boats his troop used on three-day races
from Red Wing to Winona were slow and
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The ones that got away? John and Bryan
Boesenberg talk about the ones that got
weighed instead. Between them, the father
and son Eagle Scouts from Pocono Pines, Pa.,
hold more than 70 world fishing records
with the International Game Fish
Association (IGFA).
“I started pursuing world records
because I needed something extra,” says
John, the dad. “I always liked the challenge.”
John started fishing at age 3 and usually
found a way to incorporate fishing into his
Scouting adventures, including a trip to
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eat dehydrated food every day,” he says.
He compares pursuing records with
completing an Eagle Scout service project
because you have to plan ahead and follow
the rules. Once, for example, he caught three
record-breaking fish only to discover that his
gear wasn’t IGFA-qualified. “The next time
I had a little time for myself, I went out and
did it again, and I had the right stuff,” he says.
“Within two months, I broke five records.”
Bryan, now a junior at West Virginia
University, has also been fishing his whole life
and says fishing was a big part of Troop 94’s
program. “We always made sure there was water
around,” he says. “Everybody got the Fishing
merit badge. My dad was certified to teach the
merit badges, which made it a lot easier.”
The elder Boesenberg didn’t just teach
Scouts how to bait a hook or tie a fly,
however. He recalls mentoring one fatherless Scout who wanted to learn how to fish.
“I took him under my wing,” he says. “We
never thought he would go on in Scouts, but
he actually made Eagle Scout.”
How’s that Scout doing now? “He’s in his
20s and fishes all the time,” John says. “He’ll
call me up and tell me what kind of fishing
he’s doing.”
Boy Scouts in the Bully Pulpit
A
fter its founding in 1910, the
Boy Scouts of America was just
one of several fledgling scouting
organizations in the United States. As it
competed for attention with groups like
the militaristic American Boy Scouts and
the nature-focused Woodcraft Indians, the
BSA received two crucial endorsements.
Former President Theodore Roosevelt —
who undoubtedly would have been an
Eagle Scout had he been born 50 years
later — became the first and only Chief
Scout Citizen, and President William
Howard Taft agreed to serve as the BSA’s
honorary president.
Those endorsements, along with a 1916
congressional charter, cemented
the BSA’s position as America’s
premier scouting organization.
It also launched a relationship between Scouting and
the presidency that continues
to this day. In his 2014 book
My Fellow Americans: Scouting,
Diversity, and the U.S. Presidency
($25), Eagle Scout David C. Scott
traces that relationship in great
detail. “There’s such a tight relationship between the U.S. presidency
and the Boy Scouts,” Scott says.
“I wanted to document it from
Theodore Roosevelt on. And as
research progressed, it was clear that
Scouting’s values and American
values are one and the same.”
Scott’s book offers Scouting
biographies of the presidents and
transcripts of their speeches and
messages related to Scouting. It also
includes scores of photos, including
Franklin Roosevelt — complete
with suit and Indian headdress — being
inducted into the Order of the Arrow and
presidents accepting the BSA’s
annual Report to the Nation.
An appendix describes how
Scouts paid tribute to Gerald
R. Ford after his death in 2006.
In speaking to some of those
Scouts, Marty Allen, chairman emeritus of the Gerald R.
Ford Presidential Library and
Museum, captured the essence
of Scouting’s impact on the first
Eagle Scout president. “Do not ever forget all
that President Ford believed in, stood for and
represented,” he said. “All the things people
have been saying about him these last 30 days
started that night in 1925 when he raised his
right hand in the Boy Scout sign and said the
Scout Oath for the first time. President Ford
was proud to have been a Boy Scout and
never forgot what his leaders taught him —
and neither should you.”
My Fellow Americans is available at
Amazon.com and ScoutStuff.org. For more info,
visit MyFellowAmericansBook.com.
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By Mark Ray
How one Eagle Scout is bringing
water — and a whole lot more —
to South Sudan.
L
ike most kids, Buey Tut hated doing chores when he was
young. And in his Sudanese village, one chore ranked
by far the worst: fetching water from a river 3 or 4 miles
away. Today, he jokes that he missed out on a soccer career
because he was always fetching water for his mother.
But, of course, access to clean drinking water is no laughing
matter in Tut’s homeland of South Sudan, which declared independence from Sudan in 2011. Only half of the country’s residents have
access to improved water sources like wells. The rest must make long
treks to rivers and waste precious resources purifying surface water.
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“None of it would be possible
if I was doing it by myself. The
reason I’ve been able to build
up the support is because of
my Eagle Scout experience.”
Tut left his homeland at age 8, as a part of a wave of refugees
escaping civil unrest. After he arrived in Omaha, Neb., in 1998,
he had to worry about fetching water only when he was camping
with Boy Scout Troop 33, in which he became an Eagle Scout. But
memories of trips to the river with Stubborn, his family’s mule, never
left him. Nor did those memories leave fellow refugee and Troop 33
Eagle Scout Jacob Khol. At the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the
friends began dreaming of ways to support their hurting homeland.
In 2011, the same year Tut became a U.S. citizen, he and Khol
founded the nonprofit organization Aqua-Africa, along with fellow
South Sudanese expatriate Buay Wiyual. As of this summer, AquaAfrica has drilled 13 wells, which now serve 6,500 people. And
that’s just the beginning. Aqua-Africa’s five-year goal is to provide
200,000 people with clean water.
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school, is the work of Eagle Scout
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Each water system Aqua-Africa builds costs about $15,000. Most of the organization’s support comes from foundations (40 percent), churches and other organizations (40 percent),
and individuals (10 percent). To raise the last 10 percent — and to raise awareness —
Aqua-Africa holds an array of events, such as “Drink for Africa” nights at pubs around
Omaha. Last year, the group tried something new: “Laugh for Africa,” a comedy night
featuring local stand-up comics, including one Buey Tut.
Much of Tut’s material came from his many trips to South Sudan. “I don’t think anything
should be taken too seriously,” he says.
On a more serious note, Tut testified before
Congress in August 2013, appearing before
a panel examining the effectiveness of U.S.
government funding of international water
programs. And last fall, he accepted a Sustainability Award (right) at the BSA’s second
Sustainability Summit.
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away raises more questions than it answers:
Who will manage this precious resource?
Who will fix the well if it breaks? How
invested is the village in the well’s success?
To answer some of those questions,
Aqua-Africa conducts feasibility studies of
proposed sites, favoring villages that are
already making progress. It also expects
the village to be a partner in the project.
“Eighty-five percent of the responsibility is
on Aqua-Africa in terms of machinery and
things of that nature,” Tut says. “Fifteen
percent becomes their responsibility.”
Moreover, water is just the beginning.
While it takes only a few days to install a
well, Tut and other Aqua-Africa workers
typically stay in a village for up to two
months. Much of that additional time
is spent teaching resource management
and microdemocracy. The vehicle for that
teaching is the water committee, a local
board formed to manage and maintain
each new well, decide what to charge for
the water and ensure that everyone has
equal access to it. To form a water committee, Aqua-Africa teaches villagers how
democracy works, then runs elections —
complete with secret ballots, term limits
and official announcements of the results.
Don’t be surprised if that sounds
familiar. “We’re basically using the patrol
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Tut (lower left), Aqua-Africa’s executive director, visits his
organization’s first well in Langabu village, South Sudan.
Before breaking ground on a well in Nuglere village
(upper left), Tut honors village elders’ requests to form a
circle and pray for water. Elsewhere, Tut and a child from
the village (above) test Aqua-Africa’s “Village Supplier”
water-delivery system.
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process that starts at Tut’s office in Omaha, Neb. That’s
where he meets with board members (above), plans
routes for supplies to safely enter South Sudan (above
right) and designs fundraiser T-shirts (right). Tut’s board
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And just as patrol elections prepare Scouts
to vote in “real” elections, water-committee
elections are preparing villagers to vote in
South Sudan’s first general election, slated
for 2017. Tut envisions villagers who’ve
formed local water committees demanding
fair national elections.
Tut is also working to build a sense of
national unity in a fledgling nation beset
by tribal fighting. “In South Sudan and
other developing countries, the biggest
issue you have is different groups, like
the Nuer and the Dinka, fighting against
each other,” he says. “What we wanted to
do is bridge that gap.” To that end, he has
intentionally not drilled wells in his home
Upper Nile State, where his own Nuer
tribe dominates, choosing instead to serve
villages in Dinka-dominated states.
Although Tut has high aspirations for
the villages he serves, he doesn’t spend all
his time in South Sudan bridging gaps and
teaching democracy. He also enjoys simply
getting to know people, visiting schools
and even playing pickup games of soccer.
After all, kids who don’t have to fetch
water have time to sharpen their skills on
the soccer pitch.
From South Sudan to Scouting and Back
Buey Tut joined Scouting when fellow Sudanese refugee (and future
Aqua-Africa cofounder) Jacob Khol invited him to a troop meeting. The
pitch was simple: “They talk about a lot of character-development
stuff, and you get to play basketball.” But Troop 33 offered more than
basketball: It offered a refuge from Omaha’s dingy and dangerous
Wintergreen Apartments, where Africans like Tut were constantly
harassed. “For us to get to go somewhere on Saturday afternoons
where it was safe, where nobody bothered us, where nobody called us
names was just amazing,” he says.
The troop also offered Tut his first introduction to leadership. He
remembers when, on his third or fourth campout, Scoutmaster Dr. Lyn Graves sent him to
deliver some instructions to a group of older Scouts. “I was like, ‘Dr. Graves, they’re kind of
big. I can’t tell these guys what to do,’” he recalls. Graves insisted, the older Scouts obeyed
and Tut was on his way to being a leader.
For his Eagle Scout project, Tut worked on a trail in Hummel Park, a favorite troop destination. He refurbished the first half of the trail, while Khol did the second half. They later
became Eagle Scouts in the same order. “I’m pretty sure we’re the first South Sudanese to
become Eagle Scouts,” he says.
After graduating from college with a degree in economics and political science, Tut worked
as a district Scout executive for the Mid-America Council. There he learned many of the
community-building skills he uses today when he works with South Sudanese villagers.
Tut, now 27, remains an assistant Scoutmaster with Troop 33, and Graves, who still leads
the troop, chairs Aqua-Africa’s board of directors. “It’s been pretty amazing to have a
friendship with Buey,” Graves says. “He certainly credits Scouting with developing the
leadership skills that have enabled him to step out as a small-businessman to start this
nonprofit.”
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Collegiate Eagle Scouts
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service at UMass Lowell.
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art degree by painting a copy of the “Mona
Lisa” or finishing your creative-writing
master’s by retyping The Great Gatsby.
That sort of derivative project is what
awaited civil-engineering student and Eagle
Scout Per Onsager at the University of
Massachusetts Lowell this past school year.
But instead, like any good Eagle Scout, he
dreamed bigger.
Seniors in the university’s civil and
environmental engineering program must
complete a capstone, a project that typically consists of working as a group to do
something like designing a bridge that has
already been built. (That’s mostly because
the planning and permitting involved in
an actual building project would take far
longer than a semester.)
“I started thinking about doing something different with the capstone as soon
as I found out what the capstone really
was: the bridge,” Onsager says. “I was
underwhelmed. There are 50 engineers
with all this knowledge, and we are
going to spend four months designing
something that has already been built? It
seemed like a waste of potential.”
At the end of his sophomore year,
Onsager hit on the idea of doing a more
meaningful project and quickly found
support at UMass Lowell’s Francis College of
Engineering. He enlisted engineering professor Edward L. Hajduk and service-learning
coordinator Linda Barrington. (Barrington’s
husband and son are Eagle Scouts.)
The three began looking at project
ideas. “The point of the capstone is to
encompass the four major disciplines of
civil engineering, which are geotechnical,
environmental, structural and transportation,” Onsager says. “The challenge in
having a unique project is that the project
is supposed to include all those things.”
A PROVIDENTIAL MEETING
After some fits and starts, Onsager found
his project at a meeting of the college’s
industry advisory board, of which Craig
Miller, the owner of Waterfield Design
Group, is a member. “Craig was making
small talk with some of the other guys at
the table, and he said he was leaving to go
to Haiti,” Onsager recalls. “Dr. Hajduk said,
Eagle Scouts Per Onsager and Jonathan Ernst (opposite page, from left) use their engineering skills to collect and record
survey measurements at the site of St. Boniface Hospital in Fond-des-Blancs, Haiti. The two are part of a group from
the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Francis College of Engineering that includes one other Eagle Scout: Brendan
Sprague. Meanwhile, construction is already underway on the new maternity ward at the hospital (above).
‘You need to go talk to him.’ ”
Miller, it turned out, has been going to
Haiti, the poorest country in the Western
Hemisphere, for nearly two decades —
basically ever since he graduated from
UMass Lowell. He has lent his engineering
expertise to projects there, including an
orphanage and school for the group Hope
for the Children of Haiti and a 15,000-acre
free-trade zone backed by U.S. investors.
He has also led hundreds of American volunteers on short-term mission trips to the
island nation and had long been advocating for the civil engineering department to
create an overseas program.
“I have seen firsthand how civil engineers help save lives in developing nations,”
Miller says. “This is an important place for
UMass Lowell to be strategically sending its
students out to change the world as part of
their curriculum.”
From that initial meeting, Onsager,
Miller, Hajduk and Barrington worked
to identify an appropriate project — and
to develop the required coursework to
complement their work.
They also had to build a team to
carry out the project. Four other students
signed on: Eagle Scouts Jonathan Ernst
and Brendan Sprague, former Scout Mark
Georgian and Karen Yaipen-DeFinis, a
native of Peru.
“I couldn’t imagine a better group,”
Onsager says. “Everyone was kind of taking
a risk with it being the very first time that
we did this.”
“There may have been disagreements
when it came to the design work,” Sprague
adds, “but it all stemmed from wanting
the best for those who would use what we
were working on. We would rally at every
obstacle and in the end achieved something rather special.”
That special something was engineering
and surveying work for a 25,000-square-foot
medical supply warehouse that Bostonbased charity Partners in Health hopes to
build in Santo, a suburb of Port-au-Prince.
Onsager says working in Haiti offered a
couple of real advantages. First, engineers
with little experience can do real work
there. Second, because of the country’s
sketchy infrastructure, every project has to
be started from scratch. “You’re guaranteed
to include all the aspects of engineering,
which is convenient for our purposes as
well,” he says.
The work the team envisioned didn’t
require travel. However, all five students
committed to spending their spring break
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The impact of Eagle Scouts is felt across Haiti, as (clockwise from
bottom left) a worker mixes cement at St. Boniface Hospital; Karen
Yaipen-DeFinis and Brendan Sprague record survey readings; Mark
Georgian and Sprague organize their notes at a planned warehouse site;
Jonathan Ernst and Craig Miller perform soil testing for a new hybrid
septic system; and construction crews help excavate the test site.
there, which meant raising roughly $9,500.
Having met that goal, they boarded a plane
in March and headed for Port-au-Prince. “It’s
a beautiful country, but it can be scary at
times because the country has unexpected
turns and chaos around every corner,” Ernst
says. “I pushed out of a lot of my comfort
zones when we went on this trip, and I feel
that I am better for it.”
In Haiti, the team completed a survey
of the warehouse site, conducted penetration and percolation tests on the soil, and
created before-and-after site designs. Along
the way, they had to work through realworld problems, like figuring out how to
establish sightlines for surveying when trees
blocked the way.
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If you think this all sounds like an Eagle
Scout service project, you’re right. Onsager
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believes his work as an Eagle Scout
prepared him well. “If you can manage
however many people in successfully
accomplishing an Eagle project, there’s
nothing new to doing anything like this,”
he says.
Just like Eagle projects often do, the capstone quickly outgrew the team’s original
plan. When word spread that the students
were bringing down sophisticated surveying equipment, they got recruited to do
additional site work at a hospital in the
remote village of Fond-des-Blancs. “They’d
had no surveys done of the site at all, so we
ended up spending three days there completing a whole survey of the site, which
was pretty neat,” Onsager says.
What wasn’t so neat was how the hospital disposed of medical waste in open
pits. “Every couple of days, they burn it,”
he says. “We were doing surveying back
there, and on the ground there’s needles
and bloody rags.” Sewage, meanwhile, was
pumped into separate pits that were then
covered with dirt when they got full.
Again, the Eagle Scouts felt comfortable thanks to their Scouting background.
“Portions of Haiti were very much like
roughing-it camping, while other parts had
more comforts than home even,” Sprague
says. “Ever since my days in Scouting I’ve
had a grand sense of adventure, which was
a necessity.”
That sense of adventure helped all five
students graduate from UMass Lowell
in May. Onsager received a Chancellor’s
Medal for Distinguished Academic
Achievement, while Ernst took home an
engineering award.
Barrington, the service-learning coordinator for the engineering school, offered
further praise. “I’ve been on many trips
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“Well before we went down to Haiti, I made sure I was prepared for anything. We did not have
much space to carry our belongings, but I made sure to have what I needed to survive. We all
had to make sure that we had places to stay, food to eat and most importantly water to drink.
All of this can be attributed from things I have learned in Scouting and life experiences.”
– Jonathan Ernst
“[Without a Scouting background] maybe
the project would have worked and maybe
it wouldn’t have, because I wouldn’t have
necessarily even known where to begin. It
would be so intimidating. Instead, it really
wasn’t, because I’d seen it before.”
– Per Onsager
“Solid teamwork was how we
accomplished all our goals and
then some. One thing I learned
from Scouting was just how much
you can do with a well-defined
team, and that proved to be true
yet again.”
– Brendan Sprague
with many students, and I thought this
group was terrific,” she says.
LEAVING A LEGACY
Beyond the work they did, the group’s greatest legacy is the example they’ve set. Eighteen
students have signed on for this year’s Haitifocused capstone. Among other things, they
plan to continue the work this year’s team did
at the hospital in Fond-des-Blancs. “That actually laid the groundwork, no pun intended,
for next year’s project,” Onsager says. “They’ll
take the survey we did and then do the actual
sewer, septic, water and drainage design.”
Hajduk credits Onsager for starting what
will undoubtedly become a UMass Lowell
tradition. “All of these students want to
change the world, which is a fantastic thing,
but it was Onsager who had the idea of
making the capstone a project that would
help people,” he says.
Onsager, meanwhile, credits Scouting.
“In Scouting you’re doing new things in
the real world before everyone else,” he says.
“You’re literally a step ahead of the game,
which is awesome.”
The crew at the St. Boniface Hospital site included (from left): Craig Miller, Jonathan Ernst, Per Onsager, Karen YaipenDeFinis, Brendan Sprague, Mark Georgian and alumna Linda Barrington.
Key Players
THE UNIVERSITY OF
MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL
traces its history to two
historic institutions: Lowell
Normal School, a teaching
college founded in 1894,
and Lowell Textile School,
founded in 1895 to train
technicians and managers
in the textile industry. That
heritage is reflected in the
university’s emphasis on
learning with a purpose
through internship, coops, clinical experiences,
research and servicelearning opportunities.
WATERFIELD DESIGN GROUP,
founded by Craig Miller in
1998, has worked on numerous infrastructure projects,
including the $14 billion
Central Artery/Tunnel project, the largest public works
endeavor in the United
States. Miller has served as
both president and director
of Hope for the Children of
Haiti, served on the board
of the ROME Foundation and
worked with Oprah Winfrey’s
organization on physical
enhancements to a Haitian
school it supports.
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PARTNERS IN HEALTH
was founded in 1987 to
deliver health care to the
residents of Haiti’s mountainous Central Plateau
region. By establishing
long-term relationships with
sister organizations based
in settings of poverty, it
strives to achieve two overarching goals: to bring the
benefits of modern medical
science to those most in
need of them and to serve
as an antidote to despair.
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ACHIEVEMENTS // Bob Williams / Porcher L. Taylor Jr. / Boggess Family
Stars and Stripes and Sports
B
ecause he earned his Eagle badge
in 1935, Bob Williams didn’t have
to do an Eagle project. That’s OK,
however, because he has completed countless projects since. In fact, he’s something of
a project magnate.
As the president of the American
Society of Chartered Life Underwriters,
Williams convened the industry’s first
Ethics Tribunal and reshaped its code of
ethics. As a member of the
Stanford Athletic Board, he
persuaded fans and football
players to join in singing
the alma mater after every
home game. He has also
been a forceful advocate of
sportsmanship and ethics
in sports, a cause that has
earned him national attention and the Stanford
Sportsmanship Award.
But the 92-year-old’s biggest project
— so far at least — has been persuading
hundreds of colleges around the country
to recognize veterans at their November
football game that falls closest to Veterans
Day. Over the past few years, he has written
more than 600 letters to colleges at every
level, prodding them to find ways to honor
those who have served. Hundreds of college
presidents, athletic directors and other
administrators have replied, praising his
effort and often sharing the details of their
plans to honor veterans.
Honoring veterans at football games is
an appropriate cause for Williams. A twosport athlete at the U.S. Naval Academy
(where he was president of the Class of
1945 and his roommate was future astronaut Alan Shepard), he served in World
War II and for a decade afterward.
In 2012, when he was named a
Distinguished Eagle Scout, Williams
talked about how Scouting
prepared him for a life of
leadership and service. “The
lessons learned in the process
of becoming an Eagle Scout
shaped my future life —
creating an interest in subjects about which I knew
little or nothing,” he said.
“I learned many people skills
— that a smile and a hello
can take one a long way, the
importance of remembering names and
the deliberate asking of questions as a way
to learn and to connect.”
And connect he has. Vice Adm. Jim
Sagerholm spoke for many when he
wrote, “The seeds that Bob Williams has
planted will long serve future generations,
inspiring them with the ethic of good
sportsmanship, a love of their schools and
heightened respect and admiration for
those who have served and are now serving
their country.”
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oldier. Educator. Civil rights pioneer.
Humanitarian. Those are just a few
words describing Porcher L. Taylor Jr.
This spring, the Virginia Press Association
named the 88-year-old Distinguished Eagle
Scout its 2014 Virginian of the Year — and
it’s hard to imagine the vote was very close.
A veteran of World War II, Korea and
Vietnam, Taylor served in the Navy for
three years and in the Army for a quartercentury. He received numerous military
honors, including the Legion of Merit and
the Bronze Star, and in 1971 became the
first African-American to be promoted to
full colonel at Fort Jackson, S.C. Among
the younger soldiers he inspired was former
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who
called him “an early role model.”
While still in the Army, Taylor became
one of the first African-Americans to receive
a doctorate from the University of South
Carolina. After retiring from the military
in 1976, he began a career in education
that included 11 years as vice president of
student affairs at Virginia State University.
A resident of Petersburg, Va., Taylor has
raised money for an array of causes, including the Petersburg Symphony Orchestra.
He has organized Petersburg’s annual Walk
Against Hunger for 37 consecutive years.
From Generation to Generation
Like names and family heirlooms, the title
of Eagle Scout is often passed down from
one generation to the next. But unlike
other legacies, this one must be earned
anew in each generation. Perhaps that’s
why it’s increasingly rare to find four generations of Eagles in a family.
One such family is the Boggess family,
now of Flagstaff, Ariz. Thomas Shelton
Boggess Jr. earned his Eagle Scout badge
in 1926, the first Eagle Scout in Noxubee
County, Miss., to do so. His son Thomas
III became an Eagle Scout in 1956, fol18
lowed by his grandson Thomas IV in 1985
and his great-grandson Thomas V in 2008.
In 2008, four generations of Boggess
Eagle Scouts got to meet President George
W. Bush when he was visiting Phoenix. It
was a special moment for the Boggesses, but
it wasn’t the first time the family’s first Eagle
Scout had met a U.S. president. That happened in 1931 when Thomas Jr. traveled to
Washington, D.C., to meet Herbert Hoover.
Little did he know that 77 years later he
would meet another president — this time
with his own Eagle Scout descendants.
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Once an Eagle ... / Awards & Recognition // ACHIEVEMENTS
Once an Eagle ...
... Always an Eagle. NESA remembers Eagle Scouts
who have passed. Recognize the life of another
Eagle by completing the form found at nesa.org/
eaglegonehome. This link also provides more
information on how to make a Living Memorial
donation in the name of a deceased Eagle.
Jacob Lee Felts, 38
Pearland, Texas
Eagle: 1990
Passed: September 2013
Lloyd B. Gottesman, 87
Buffalo, N.Y.
Eagle: 1940
Passed: August 2011
Robert S. Gottesman, 81
Greenbrae, Calif.
Eagle: 1945
Passed: Jan. 1, 2011
Robert N. Hunter, 92
Jefferson City, Mo.
Eagle: 1936
Passed: June 2013
Richard H. Leet, 87
Former National President of BSA
Gainesville, Ga.
Eagle: 1940
Passed: Aug. 9, 2013
Shawn C. Malone, 28
West Wyoming, Pa.
Eagle: 2001
Passed: May 2013
James E. Murphy, 79
Carbondale, Pa.
Eagle: 1947
Passed: July 2011
Chris Pullen, 27
St. Joseph, Mo.
Eagle: 2002
Passed: October 2013
Samuel W. Williams, 16
North Potomac, Md.
Eagle: 2012
Passed: June 2013
Living Memorials
Richard T. Marzolf, 83
Alma, Mich.
Eagle: 1945
Passed: Nov. 7, 2013
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Eagle Scouts shine, even after reaching the top honor in Scouting. NESA celebrates the achievements
of the Eagle Scouts shown below. Recognize the success of an Eagle by completing the form found at
nesa.org/eaglemagawards.
Atlanta, Ga.
After a national search for new
leadership of its School of Computational
Science and Engineering (CSE), Georgia
Tech’s College of Computing has selected its own
David A. Bader, a renowned leader in high-performance
computing, to chair the school.
Dan-Yves Curran
Carmel Valley, Calif.
Curran, airline captain, former Air
Force pilot and University of California,
Davis graduate, has just published his
first e-book. The Golden Gift (The Adventures of Baxter
Heavytread) is a work of epic fantasy available on
Amazon.
Titusville, Pa.
Appointed Junior Master of Ceremonies
for 2014 for Crawford Lodge No. 234 in
Meadville, Pa. Awarded his Bachelor of
Fine Arts in graphic design in 2009 from California State
University, Northridge. Currently completing CompTIA A+
and Microsoft Networking Fundamentals certification.
Christopher Andrew Kwiecien
Livonia, Mich.
Graduated cum laude with a Juris Doctor
degree from the University of Detroit
Mercy. He earned his Bachelor of Arts
in history and political science from the University of
Michigan. Kwiecien passed the bar exam in November 2013.
Sean McCarthy
Aaron N. Cutshall
Judge James P. Flanagan
Port Jefferson, N.Y.
Completed his 10th year as a judge
in Suffolk County, N.Y. He sits in the
County Court. He’s also the dean of
the Suffolk Academy of Law, which is the teaching and
continuing legal education branch of the Suffolk County
Bar Association.
Archer S. Hadley
Austin, Texas
Earned the 2014 Texas Environmental
Excellence Award Youth Category
from
the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality while working with the Lady Bird Johnson
Wildflower Center. Hadley’s Eagle project entailed
locating and identifying Texas ash trees throughout
Central Texas. He then collected, cleaned and
prepared more than 90,000 seeds from those trees for
seed
banking, research and replanting once the emerald
ash borer is eradicated.
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The Consul General of France presented
the French Legion of Honor to Neuwirth
for his service during World War II.
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Graduated from Penn State University
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psychology.
Martinsville, Ind.
Earned a Master of Science in health
informatics from Indiana UniversityPurdue University Indianapolis in
December 2013.
Pocatello, Idaho
Graduated from the University of
Missouri-Kansas City in December with
his doctorate in philosophy in physics
with a co-discipline in chemistry. He completed his
Master of Science in physics from the same school in
2009. Driver is doing post-doctoral research at the
University of North Texas with the chemistry department.
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Rev. James Pratt
Montreal-Ouest, Quebec
Elected to the Board of Governors of
the Montreal Diocesan Theological
College, the Anglican (Episcopal)
component college of the Montreal School of Theology
at McGill University.
Stephen Jabari Redmon
Alexandria, Va.
Received a nomination to the U.S. Air
Force Academy. At Hayfield Secondary
School, Redmon was a member of the
Hayfield advanced band and the National Honor Society,
as well as the Hayfield cross-country, indoor and outdoor
track teams. He plans to study medicine.
Jaret Thomas Thacker
Columbia, S.C.
Received his doctorate in pharmacy from
the College of Pharmacy at Philadelphia
College of Osteopathic Medicine’s
Georgia Campus in Suwanee. He is a 2005 graduate of
Clemson University.
Connor Wood
Southbury, Conn.
Received the Four Star Award for
Christian faith and service.
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ACHIEVEMENTS // Family Affair
Eagle Scouting Is a Family Affair
Scouting’s highest honor is best shared with other generations of family members. Join NESA in celebrating the families of Eagle Scouts shown
below. Recognize the Eagles in your own family by completing the form found at nesa.org/eaglefamilyaffair.
Auslen Family Arvada, Colo.
Helpinstill Family Bellaire, Texas
Motola Family Colts Neck, N.J.
Stoll
Michael Auslen (2007),
Richard “Jack” Auslen (2012) and
Jim Auslen (1979)
Ezra Charles Helpinstill (1959) and
Jakob Helpinstill
(2013)
Christopher Motola (2011) and
Matthew Motola (2013)
Samu
B. Sto
Buzenas-Tarleton Family Tucson, Ariz.
Herr Family Athens, Ill.
Ramunas Buzenas (grandfather; Lithuanian Eagle Scout,
Skautas Vytis, 1947), Joseph Tarleton (2013) and James
Tarleton (1975)
Anthony Herr (2009),
Mark Herr (2013) and
Miles Herr
(2009)
Chilcote Family Little Rock, Ark.
Martin Chilcote (1969),
Brad Chilcote (1975),
Remy
Chilcote (2013),
David Chilcote (1975, passed
1986),
David Chilcote II (2009) and
Fred Chilcote (1973)
Hoitt Family Manassas, Va.
Stephen Hoitt (1984),
Eugene Hoitt (2013) and
Rob Hoitt
(1987)
Ineich Family Garland, Texas
Stult
John C. Pastino (1983), Matt J. Pastino (2013) and Alex J.
Pastino (2010)
James
Rosenbaum Family Arthur, Ill.
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Michael Aaron Rosenbaum (2009) and
David Elliot
Rosenbaum (2013)
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Ryan Family Collingdale, Pa.
Currier Family Hampton, N.H.
Jonathan Currier,
Christopher Currier (1979) and Collin
Currier (2012)
Pastino Family Springfield, Va.
Nicholas Ineich (2013), Peter Ineich (1972) and Robert
Ineich (1947)
Matthew E. Ryan (2009)
and Andrew J. Ryan (2013)
Jeffre
Sykut
Mortensen Family Leonardtown, Md.
Stern Family Rosemount, Minn.
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Sean Nugent (1997), Aaron Mortensen (2012), Ryan
Mortensen (2009) and Joe Mortensen (1973). Quentin
Mortensen (not pictured) earned his Eagle Scout Award
in 1939.
John Stern (1960), David Stern (2006), Jacob Stern (2011)
and Samuel Stern (2012)
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(1992
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Dye Family Pacifica, Calif.
David A. Dye Sr. (1967) and David A. Dye Jr. (2013)
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For God and Country // ACHIEVEMENTS
For God and Country
Many young men exchange their Scout uniforms for fatigues, dress blues or battle dress uniforms. NESA salutes the
Eagle Scouts shown below who are serving our nation in all branches of the armed forces. Recognize another Eagle by
completing the form found at nesa.org/eaglegodandcountry.
Stoll Family Festus, Mo.
Samuel B. Stoll (2013), Mark T. Stoll (1965) and Thomas
B. Stoll (2010)
Stultz Family DeRidder, La.
Lt. Ryan Baxter
U.S. Coast Guard
Pvt. 2nd Class Benjamin H. Leman
U.S Army
Recently transferred from
Sector San Juan, Puerto
Rico, where he served as
the assistant chief of the
enforcement division to U.S.
Coast Guard Headquarters.
He’s the coordinator of counterdrug operations at the Maritime Law Enforcement Office.
Attended basic training in May.
He plans to attend Southern
Illinois University of Edwardsville,
Ill., and take part in the ROTC
program while stationed in St.
Peters, Mo. He plans to major in
psychology or journalism.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Patrick R. Brown
U.S. Navy
Recently returned from a ninemonth deployment aboard the
USS Harry S. Truman. Has been
in the Navy for four years and
is stationed in Norfolk, Va.
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James A. Stultz (1974) and J. Austin Stultz (2012)
Sullebarger Family Harvard, Mass.
Dave Edmundson (1960), Franklyn Sullebarger (1944),
William Sullebarger (2012), Bob Sullebarger (1976), Tom
Sullebarger (1972) and Jeff Sullebarger (2005)
Sykuta Family Columbia, Mo.
3rd Class Midshipman Daniel R. Flack
U.S. Navy
Appointed to the U.S. Naval
Academy out of high school
and is a member of the
Drum and Bugle Corps. Flack
also made the dean’s list
in academics. His major is
information technology.
Boatswain Matt Geisberger
U.S. Navy
Graduated from high school
in June 2013 and immediately
went into Navy boot camp. He
is serving as a Boatswain’s
Mate Striker on the USS Port
Royal, a guided-missile cruiser
stationed at Pearl Harbor.
Jeffrey Sykuta (1962), Grant Sykuta (2013) and Michael
Sykuta (1982)
Lance Cpl. M. Joshua Horne
U.S. Marine Corps
Vermeulen Family Newfane, N.Y.
Attended Texas A&M for
one year, during which time
he was part of the Navy
ROTC program. In 2013,
he attended Marine Corps
boot camp in San Diego and
graduated Aug. 30, 2013.
He then completed Combat Engineer Training at Camp
Lejeune and is assigned with the 3rd Marine Regiment in
Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii.
Stacy Vermeulen (Gold Award, 1991), Steven Vermeulen
(1992), David Vermeulen (1985), Lee Vermeulen Jr.
(1983), Lee Vermeulen Sr. (1956) and Sue Vermeulen
Maj. Christopher Rouse, M.D.
U.S. Air Force
Graduated with academic
distinction from the U.S. Air Force
Academy in 1999 and Loyola
University School of Medicine in
2003. Rouse and his family are
stationed in Okinawa, Japan,
where he serves as a neonatal
intensive care physician and medical director for all Western
Pacific neonatal critical care aerovacuation missions.
2nd Lt. Anthony D. Setley
U.S. Army National Guard
Commissioned as a chaplain
candidate in the Pennsylvania
Army National Guard in August
2013. A 2008 graduate of
Lebanon Valley College and a
former district executive in the
National Capital Area Council,
Setley is a student at the Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg
and a candidate for ordained ministry in the Evangelical
Lutheran Church.
Airman 1st Class Tyler M. Wallwin
U.S. Air Force
Completed basic training
at Lackland Air Force Base
in Texas on January 17.
Graduated Aerospace Ground
Equipment Technical School
as a distinguished graduate
at Sheppard Air Force Base in
Texas on May 28. He will be stationed at Luke Air Force
Base in Arizona.
Lance Cpl. Adrian L. Quintana
U.S. Marine Corps
Quintana is on deployment
overseas, serving on the
USS Bataan with the 22nd
Marine Expeditionary Unit. His
military occupation specialty is
Mortarman.
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CLOSING SHOT // Stories From the South Pole
www.NESA.org
NESA.
photograph by
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AARON LINSDAU // EAGLE 1992
On Jan. 21, 2013, Eagle Scout Aaron Linsdau became the second American in
history to reach the South Pole solo and on skis — a journey of roughly 720 miles
from the Antarctic coast. He was a long way from San Ysidro, Calif., where he grew
up, but he says he draws a direct line between his years in Boy Scout Troop 134 in
nearby Imperial Beach and his Antarctic adventure, although the beach conditions
differ dramatically from those when camping in the Transantarctic Mountains,
shown above. Linsdau shoveled snowdrifts in front of his tent to help block what
he describes as “hurricane force” winds.
Linsdau, who lives in Jackson Hole, Wyo., tells his story in the new book
Antarctic Tears. Order a copy ($17 plus shipping) and view even more photos
from his journey at antarctictears.com.
Calling all Eagle Scout photographers: We’re looking for images
that represent the essence of Eagle Scouting. Send an email to
eaglescoutmag@scouting.org with your name, the year you achieved
Eagle and any low-resolution images that you’d like us to consider.
We’ll showcase our favorites on future “Closing Shot” pages.
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