Crowley Fuel Supports Boy Scouting

Originally published March, 2016

The Mohegan Council BSA held a Prepared for Life Breakfast on Thursday, March 31 at the Hogan Center on the College of the Holy Cross campus. I am proud to say that Crowley Fuel Company was one of the major sponsors of this event, which had 160 people in attendance.
 
Besides a wonderful breakfast provided by Holy Cross, we got to hear the important message about how Scouting positively impacts the lives of our youth. Between the opening message from Council Volunteer President Jeremy Ahearn to the closing remarks of Council Scout Executive Jeff Hotchkiss, we heard testimony from three Cub Scouts, two outstanding Scoutmasters and one Eagle Scout candidate. The impact that the program had on their lives was evident and profound. Please read about these Scouts and Scout leaders in the program that is attached.

Keynote Speaker Dan Warren was a doctoral candidate at Tufts University and was part of a study on the impacts that Positive Youth Development (PYD) had on the youth of Boy Scouting and 4-H programs. The statistics that were generated by their study were extremely impressive and, in some cases, surprising. But this was information that most of us in the room who support Scouting already knew. To learn more about this presentation, please see the power point presentation that is attached.

I have chosen Scouting Programs as the major recipient of our contributions, not just because of the positive impact that it has had on my life, but because of the impact that it has on our youth currently in the program. We will continue to support local organizations and youth sports as we have for all of these years. There was an interesting statistic showing that young people involved in Scouting and sports scored high on the values that were being looked for in the study.

I encourage anyone who has a Scout-age child (5 to 18) to find out more about your local Scouting program, and for those of you who are older, like me, to consider volunteering time, knowledge and skill to an organization that makes a difference for youth. You can contact Mohegan Council BSA at 508-752-3769 or mohegancouncilbsa.org. You can always contact me for information, as well.

​Bob

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