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ATLANTA AREA COUNCIL, // NEWS AND UPDATES FALL 2019 ATLANTA’S ANNUAL YOUTH PROTECTION SEMINAR COUNCIL SNAPSHOT: Youth Serving Professionals Coming Together to Learn about Preventing, Responding to and World Overcoming Abuse of the Youth They Serve. e all have a role to play in creating The 24th World Jamboree an environment where kids can took place at the Summit Bechtel grow,W excel and reach their full potential. Reserve in West Virginia this The , Boy Scouts of summer. Over 150 countries are America will be holding the 6th Annual represented with 45,000 Scouts, supported by 10,000 volunteer Youth Protection Seminar at the Volunteer leaders. Service Center in Atlanta on October 10th where youth serving professionals will learn The Atlanta Area Council had together how to protect our children from a contingent of 62 youth and harmful influences and to recommit to serve 14 leaders, many attending on in a stronger, safer community for children. This is part of the continued effort to advocate scholarships. Additionally, 57 Atlanta volunteers are there on behalf of Atlanta’s youth by the Atlanta Area Council, Boy Scouts of America. leading everything from food “The Youth Protection Seminar is the perfect platform to unite all of the youth serving service, program activities, agencies throughout Metro-Atlanta in the common cause that we all share, protecting logistics and more. youth,” explains Atlanta Area Council’s Safe and Operations Director Joshua Kirkham. Professionals in Atlanta’s youth-serving organizations will learn from experts about Preventing, Responding to and Overcoming Abuse. Accompanied by some of Atlanta’s top youth serving organizations, Atlanta’s Chief of Police, Erika Shields is serving as this year’s Event Chair. The seminar features breakout presentations from leading experts and a keynote presentation by author and child sexual abuse survivor David Moody. Moody’s book Fighting Through the Fear: My Journey of Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse is a powerful Scouts connected with one another memoir about his journey of overcoming childhood sexual abuse and how he works to from all corners of the world. advocate for today’s youth to educate in prevention and healing. The intent is to engage Metro-Atlanta’s youth serving agencies and professionals in discussion and in sharing best practices to build safer communities for all.

Board Member, Scott Sorrels, served as the co-chair of the 2019 World Jamboree, what is now the largest

Dr. Rachel Lynch, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Scouts with GA State Senator Kirkpatrick and Tracy Over 200 participants gather together to engage, in history. Medicine and Avril Beckford MD, FAAP, WellStar Techau, Scout Executive/CEO, Atlanta Area Council, share and learn how to best protect youth. Heath System. Boy Scouts of America.

Scouts filled with excitement as the opening ceremonies commenced.

Proud Partners of the Atlanta Area Council’s Youth Protection Seminar WelcomeAboard Volunteer President of the Atlanta Area Council Board and Chief Executive Officer of Oxford Industries, Tom Chubb, is pleased to introduce you to the newest members of the Council’s Board of Directors.

Bill Roach Richard Peretz Chief Executive Officer & President Chief Financial Officer GLOBALT Investments UPS Bill is responsible for the day-to-day operation of Richard is responsible for accounting, finance, the firm as well as client service and business development. Bill financial planning, taxes and treasury, as well as audit and earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University. compliance activities at UPS. Richard graduated from University of Texas San Antonio and earned an MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Brian Moore Partner Clyde Tuggle Grant Thornton, LLP Partner Pine Island Capital Partners Brian serves as the Tax Practice Leader for the Southeast Region of Grant Thornton. Brian graduated from Clyde is a Co-Founder of Pine Island Capital Emory University’s Goizueta Business School with an MBA, Partners, a private investment firm. He formerly served as the Finance. He is an Eagle Scout and has two sons in Scouting. Senior Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of The Coca-Cola Company. Clyde and his son are both proud Eagle Scouts. Glenn Garde Jill Robinson Vice President, AfterSales Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Porsche Cars North America, Inc. Atlanta Braves Glenn is responsible for all internal departments Jill oversees the Braves’ entire accounting, finance and related to dealer and field support in the areas of parts and service, information technology operations, leading a team of 25 finance as well as vehicle certification and regulatory matters. Glenn has and accounting professionals and 20 information technology also played an integral role in coordinating the Porsche Merit professionals. Jill and her family are involved in Scouting at the Badge Day for the past six years. Troop level. SCOUTING SNAPSHOT // ATLANTA TROOP AIDS UGANDA TROOP TO WORLD SCOUT JAMBOREE IN WEST VIRGINIA Not all Scouts have the resources to attend the World Scout Jamboree. However, a partnership between two Scout Troops from different corners of the world helped to make sure no one missed out. Scout Troop 197 from Atlanta raised funds to help Ugandan contingents attend this year’s World Scout Jamboree. For the Scouts in Atlanta, especially coordinator Fontaine Kohler, the World Scout Jamboree wouldn’t be the same

Atlanta Troop 197 and the Ugandan contingent arrive at World Scout Jamboree in West Virginia. without their Uganda friends. “Our Troop began mobilizing to raise funds in order to bring them here and to secure donations for the time that we have here with them,” Kohler said. “As well as to organize supplies, like toiletries and clothing… because they came with very little.” The Troop raised around $5,000 through pine straw and Christmas wreath sales to cover trips and Jamboree fees for some of the Ugandan Scouts. Troop 197 has been connected

Ugandan Scouts explore the city with their Atlanta Uganda Scouts arrive in the U.S. with the Scouts from Uganda for over 9 years, forming lifelong friends before heading to World Jamboree. friendships and sharing their Scouting journey together. WESTSIDE EXPANSION MAKES IMPACT Executive Committee Tom Chubb, Council Board President, Oxford Industries, Inc. he September 6th Transform Westside Summit featured a panel with several members of the Atlanta Area Council, Boy Scouts of America: Tracy Techau, Scout Executive/CEO; Faye Jenny Chapin, Council Commissioner, Hammonds,T Assistant Director of Field Service and Director of Scoutreach; and Marcellus Walker, Savell & Williams, LLP Scoutreach Program Specialist. Also participating in the panel were Scouts stakeholders and Tracy Techau, Scout Executive/CEO, participants: Board Member Deitra Crawley, Partner, Taylor English; Zachary Bryant, Scout with Atlanta Area Council, BSA Troop 213; and Dr. Margul Retha Woolfolk, principal for M. Agnes Jones Elementary School. With 32,030 Scouts in Metro-Atlanta, 758 partnerships across the city and 8,200 volunteers, Alton Adams, Member at Large, the Atlanta Area Council is making a profound impact in the community and on Atlanta’s Historic Fulton County Westside. Scouting programs have existed in the Westside for over a century and some of these Farideh Azadi, VP Family Scouting, The Farideh & Ali Azadi Foundation programs have been operating continuously since 1967. Over the last three years Faye Hammonds, Director of Scoutreach and her team have started an additional eight programs. Mike Bartlett, VP Properties, M. Agnes Jones Elementary is one of those new programs recently formed in the JE Dunn Construction Westside. Principal Dr. Margul Retha Woolfolk explains, “Scouting is extremely important at Jon Bridges, VP Marketing, M. Agnes Jones”. Woolfolk’s school reminds its students daily that each is born for greatness, Chick-fil-A a message she feels is reinforced by BSA’s investment in her students and the opportunities Ted Crouse, VP Program, provided for Scouts. Apek, LLC

Mike Doss, VP Development, Graphic Packaging International, Inc.

Mike Dubose, VP Scoutreach, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Jay Gratwick, Council Treasurer, Delta Community Credit Union

Doug Turner, VP Membership, Control Southern Inc.

Daniel Degraffenreid, Atlanta Area Council District Executive; Dr. Margul Retha Scout Zachary - Troop 213 and his mom Deitra Crawley, Atlanta Randy Miller, VP Exploring, Woolfolk, M. Agnes Jones Elementary Principal; Tracy Techau, Atlanta Area Council Area Council Board Member. Scout Executive/CEO; Kelsey Wright, Atlanta Area Council District Executive. Novelis, Inc.

Dave Moody, Past Council President, C.D. Moody Construction Co.

Ken Neighbors, General Counsel, McGuireWoods

Eddie Northen, VP Finance, Rollins, Inc.

Randy Rizor, Member at Large, The Physicians’ Spine and Rehabilitation Specialists Marcellus Walker, Atlanta Area Council Program Specialist, Tracy Techau, Deitra Crawley, Scout Zachary, Dr. Retha Woolfolk, Faye Hammonds speaks about his experience and passion for Scouting. and Marcellus Walker discuss the importance of Scouting on the Westside. Steve Tipton, VP Camp Experience, Innvision Hospitality

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THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING ATLANTA YOUTH THROUGH SCOUTING. Golden Eagle Luncheon STAKEHOLDER’S ore than 1,800 of the Metro-Atlanta Area’s top business and community leaders REPORT will come together on December 13, 2019 to celebrate Scouting’s 2019 successes, IN THIS EDITION andM pledge our support to its future in Metro-Atlanta. This year we are excited to have the CEO of one of the nation’s largest airlines in the world as our keynote speaker. Delta Air Lines’ Ed Bastian has been a critical leader in Atlanta Annual Youth Delta’s long-term strategy and champion of putting Delta’s shared values of honesty, Protection Seminar integrity, respect, perseverance and servant leadership at the core of every decision. This annual luncheon is named in honor of donors who pledge to support at the $1,000 level and above. The support from this year’s Golden Eagle Luncheon will help to provide first-class character education for the youth in our community. Scout Spotlight

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