Lifelong impact is easy to see

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February 13, 2010

By Rowe Ray Managing Editor The San Marcos Record Sat Feb 13, 2010, 03:00 PM CST

— 100 years of helping to build better individuals, better leaders and better citizens.

100 years of providing a nurturing environment in which young people learn to set goals, work together as a team and provide service.

100 years of making a real difference in the lives of millions of Americans.

The Boy Scouts of America has accomplished these things and many more since the organization was formed in February of 1910.

Scouting in recent years has taken a bit of a public relations back seat to some of the other activities keeping this country’s youth busy these days.

Some of them good. Some of them not so good.

But Scouting’s important work continues to have an impact not only on those currently involved but also on alums who play major roles in the nation’s government, military, business, industry and social service sectors.

The oath, law and motto seem to have a way of becoming an integral part of the character of those who pass through the portals of the Scouting world.

There are few organizations which can lay claim to this type of lifelong impact.

The Boy Scouts of America, however, can do so with certainty.

Not all of us are Scouts. But we know Scouts, we work with Scouts and we serve in various organizations with Scouts.

That the virtues of Scouting so often etch a lasting code onto the lives of those it takes under its wing is obvious ... even to those of us who have never taken its pledge. RHR

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