One of the finest character-building organizations in existence surely is the Boy Scouts of America.
That’s indicated by its high standards: “A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.”
Our country has more than 1.2 million adults volunteering to lead and inspire more than 4.5 million Boy Scouts – many of them active in troops in the Chattanooga area.
Chattanooga was honored Thursday by having the head of all of our Boy Scouts of America speak at the Downtown Rotary Club. He’s Chief Scout Executive Robert “Bob” Mazzuca, and he is based at Boy Scout headquarters in Irving, Texas, near Dallas.
He praised Chattanooga Rotary President Tom Edd Wilson as one of very few in our country who have been presented the national Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. And he also recognized the head of our local Cherokee Area Council of Boy Scouts, Scott Fosse.