Our Thanks To You

Illustration By Richard Sparks

Frankly, we don't thank you nearly enough for your dedication to what is good and true: teaching our youth members—our children—the virtues of what a Scout should be.

And you never know when and where those patiently taught lessons in character that you imbue our young membership with will shine forth—but they will shine forth—even if you don't get to see it. Which brings us to a story we heard...


This is a little incident. Not a heroic rescue. Not the stuff of the National Court of Honor. The kind of thing that should and could happen every day. As the poet Wordsworth described it, "That best portion of a good man's life—his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."

A Scout is kind—and an awful lot more. And all our young people in the Boy Scouts of America—three million of them—have you, the volunteer leaders of the BSA, to thank for your great dedication in forming them, ethically and morally, one day at a time, one value at a time, during many activities, and over many years.

You're really making a difference—in the lives of these children and, ultimately, in the life of this great nation.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from a couple of your staunchest fans.

Roy S. Roberts
President

Roy L. Williams
Chief Scout Executive

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