For most of adults who were scouts, scouting came back to us when our kids could join Cub Scouts/Boy Scouts. But if you are still young and haven’t started a family, how would scouting come back into your life for a moment, an event, an action, etc.
For some it might be an accident or need for first aid that triggers your memory for skills learned awhile ago.
Or as a new manager you have to call on some leadership skills techniques you may have learned while a patrol leader, ASPL, Troop Guide, etc.
This leads me to my son Jeremy who is one of our Eagles. Jeremy has gone on to excel at being a Pastry Chef for Emeril Lagasse. He has competed on TV shows for Guys Dessert Games (Guy Fiori), Best Baker of America, Chopped, Beat Bobby Flay and Chopped Sweets which the last two he won. He has worked events with many celebrity chefs and one of his friends is Duff Goldman who is known as the “Ace of Cakes”. He was select the Best Pastry Chef of Louisiana in 2015 and received a Zagat Award as one of the best 30 chefs under the age of 30 in America.
When Jeremy was going to compete on Beat Bobby Flay the Boy Scouts Boys Life/Scouting Magazine did a whole article and bio on him just prior to the airing of the show. This has resulted in multiple requests for him to write inspiring “congratulatory” letters for Eagle Scouts who are pursuing culinary training and aspire to a chef one day. He writes a letter for each request and does it right away so it can make it back for their Eagle Court of Honor.
Jeremy also had a first aid incident bring scouting back into his life, a new girl in the restaurant tripped in the kitchen and as she tried to catch herself she put the ticket spike through her hand. Co-workers were yelling for her to pull it out. Jeremy took charge, wrapped it up and took her to the hospital. When he came back he sat everyone in the kitchen down and covered the incident (as he had a report to write). The question came up why he did not pull it out, he explained that with it lodge in the hand, the pressure from the spike was essentially stopping the blood which would be a huge problem if it was out. It would be better if the hospital pulled it out for that. Plus they could assess for nerve damage and make decisions without the co-workers causing further harm by pulling it out. They asked how he knew to do this, he said I am Eagle Scout and i learned that in the First Aid Merit Badge.
YIS
Duane Fogg
Scoutmaster