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The Scouting Rotarian Fostering the idea of service by Rotarians to advance the growth and develop‐ ment of the Scout movement around the world IFSR Newsleer February 2017 TROOP 68 OF BERKLEY HEIGHTS RECEIVES ROTARY COMMUNITY We’re on the web: SERVICE AWARD BY BERKLEY HEIGHTS www.ifsr-net.org NJ ROTARY DISTRICT 7510 IFSR 2016-2017 Officers World President: PDG Mark Kriebel [email protected] Vice President WOSM: Michael Bradshaw [email protected] Vice President WAGGGS: Joie Hain [email protected] Internaonal Commissioner: PDG Brian Thiessen [email protected] Internaonal Secretary: Fred Gervat [email protected] Photo (from le): Kyle Engemann, Doug Ladzinski, Hal Daume Treasurer: Ralph Winter The Boy Scouts of Troop 68, a backbone of Berkeley Heights since 1936, have [email protected] received the presgious Rotary Community Service Award. This recognion is presented to the Scouts by their sponsoring organizaon, the Rotary Club of Berkeley Heights, and the Internaonal Fellowship of Scoung Rotarians. Among the troop’s contribuons to the beerment of their community are seng up a temporary homeless shelter at St. Joseph's Shrine, assisng at Cub Scout Pinewood Derbies and graduaon ceremonies, collecng food for Execuve Secretary: Randy Seefeldt homeless youth who have aged out of the foster care system, parcipang in [email protected] the town’s annual Relay for Life and Rotary Club Rubber Ducky Fesval, gar‐ IFSR - Editorial Staff: dening at the Wagner Farms Arboretum, and collecng trash and recycling for Editor, Steve Kesler the Berkeley Heights Town Clean-Up Day. In addion, the Scouts have super‐ [email protected] Asst Editor, Pam Blankenzee vised children’s games at the Mary Kay McMillin School’s “Welcome Back” [email protected] picnic, carried out ecological projects at the Summit Arboretum, and sorted food donaons for local food banks. Troop 68’s Life rank Scouts on their way to Eagle Scout status have led a variety of local improvement projects at the Page 2 The Scouting Rotarian Hughes and Woodruff schools, the Lile-Lord Farmstead, and the Watchung Reservaon and Deserted Village. A project unique to Troop 68—iniated by Scout Alton Grossman—is the collecon and delivery of chil‐ dren’s toys to impoverished areas of the Appalachia area in West Virginia. Through this project, the Scouts have learned that these toys are oen the only toys the children living in the region will receive during the winter holiday season. This award was presented by Dr. Hal Daume, Rotary Club representave and Scoung Commissioner, to Senior Patrol Leader Doug Ladzinski and Assistant Senior Patrol Leader for Service Kyle Engemann. DISTINGUISHED EAGLE—HAL DAUME Editor’s Note: Less than 2,200 out of over 1,000,000 age-qualified Eagle Scouts have ever been selected for the BSA Naonal Disnguished Eagle Scout Award. This is a special award indeed. All of us at IFSR are grateful for Hal and every‐ thing he does for Scoung and Rotary. Dr. Hal Daume earned the Eagle Scout rank in 1957 and the Explor‐ er Silver Award—the “Double-Eagle” as it was called—a year later. He was inducted into the Patriots’ Path Council Eagle Scout Hall of Fame in 2008. Hal’s family has a long tradion of community service and Scoung. His grandfather was a mul-decade councilman of the Town West New York and mayor 1931-1935. His father received the BSA Silver Beaver Award in 1960. His Eagle Scout brother is a James E. West Fellow, and his younger son earned Eagle in 1998. Hal is President of The Daumé Group, global consultants to For- tune 1000 clients. Hal Daume He is former Managing Director of Research Internaonal-USA and has held senior posts with Audits & Surveys, Inc.; Ipsos Worldwide; and Marschalk Adversing. He has received two American Markeng Associaon Markeng Success of the Year awards. He has served as Market Measurements Council and Futures Commiee member of the Adversing Re‐ search Foundaon; Director of the Chicago, Cleveland, and Southern California chapters of the Ameri‐ can Markeng Associaon; and as featured speaker at the 52nd Internaonal Congress of the European Society for Opinion & Markeng Research. For Rotary Internaonal, Hal served as District Governor in 2015-16, presiding over 39 Rotary Clubs rep‐ resenng over 1,000 individual members. Page 3 He is a member of the Alumni Associaon and Metropolitan Club of Stevens Instute of Technology, and was Naonal Umpire and Internaonal Official at the 1996 Centennial Olympics-Atlanta. A recipient of the Silver Beaver, Daniel Carter Beard Masonic Scouter, and Cliff Dochterman Rotarian Scouter awards, Hal is twice a James E. West Fellow and holds the rare Inter-American Scoung Associa‐ on Order of the Condor recognion. He has been honored by the U.S. Army and the Iraqi Scoung Ser‐ vices-Green Zone Council. Hal and Linda reside in Watchung, NJ. They have six children, four grandchildren, and one grand-dog. LETTER FROM OUR PRESIDENT PDG MARK KRIEBEL Happy New Year! As we begin 2017, I’d like to take the opportunity to share some thoughts on our great organizaon, let you know what I’ve been up to, and hopefully enlist you help for some important events this year. Last October I had the opportunity of addressing the Tri-Annual Eurasian Scout Conference in Yerevan, Armenia about the long history between Scoung and Rotary, and how both organizaons work to‐ gether to develop youth into character driven ethi‐ cal leaders. Along with an IFSR booth, I was able to meet with representaves of Scoung from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and other members from the old Soviet Union block of countries. Scoung is growing in those Countries as is Rotary, but it was interesng to note that while addressing the group and I asked for a show of hands of Rotarians, the only hands to raise were the interpreter in the translaon booth (from Russia) and Bill Finnerty, a representave of the Boy Scouts of America, who was there to pro‐ mote the upcoming 2019 World Jamboree in West Virginia. I must say when I address groups in the US and Europe and I ask how many in the audience are both Scouts and Rotarians, the majority of hands are raised! As both Rotary and Scoung have only been acve since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there is a lot of potenal for both organizaons to grow there and hopefully IFSR will be able to assist in their efforts on both fronts. While there, I was approached by a Ukrainian Scout leader who wanted to share with me the support our own Internaon‐ al Commissioner Brian Thiessen provided in making a Rotary grant in support of Scoung available in the Ukraine. Thanks Brian! Upcoming are two events that are important to the IFSR and I’m asking you to consider aending and/ or helping at both: The Rotary Internaonal Convenon in Atlanta in June, and the BSA Naonal Page 4 The Scouting Rotarian Jamboree in West Virginia in July. This newsleer has the informaon you need on both events in‐ cluding who to contact to help. We are all fortunate to be members of two organizaons that are working to create a beer World – and as members of the IFSR it is incumbent on all of us to help Scoung, Rotary and the IFSR grow! Thanks for your support, and see you in Atlanta and West Virginia and, for BSA members, at the IAR meeng in Orlando in May! Mark WE NEED YOUR HELP If you love Scouting and Rotary and would like to volunteer as an IFSR District Coordinator, or for another position, email these IFSR officers: For international positions Mark Kriebel, [email protected] For Inter-American Section: Jack Young, [email protected] For the RIBI Section: Shirley Kirk, [email protected] IFSR AT BSA 2017 JAMBOREE AT SUMMIT, WV The BSA Naonal Jamboree will host over 30,000 in 2017, in‐ cluding more than 1000 internaonal Scouts, leaders, and staff. It will again include an IFSR booth in the Faith and Be‐ liefs Area at Summit Center at the BSA Summit located near Beckley, West Virginia. For informaon visit www.summitbsa.org/events/jamboree/overview/ Our booth will again be chaired by Angus and Susan McFar‐ lane of Ada, Oklahoma, and we certainly want to applaud then for “stepping up” to again chair this important Rotary outreach to Scouts and Scouters. Special patches and pins have been produced under the able supervision of our past IAR Chair Dan O’Brien, and we’re sure that the patch will become a real collector’s item! Costs are $6 for patches and $3 for pins, including postage. Those who have contributed to the cost of booth at the $50 level will receive a special patch. For those of you that are members of the BSA and want to serve on staff, there are sll openings in a va‐ riety of areas! IFSR President Mark Kriebel, is serving as chief of staff housing (Echo Base Camp) again this year, and promises you a great experience July 19 – 28 2017. Posions are available in all areas for either the full Jamboree or for the first or second half, and the website noted above has all the details. You can help at our IFSR booth without serving on staff. Angus and Suzanne McFarlane, 920 Nancy Drive, Ada, OK 74820 Phone: Home – 580 332 3564 Suzanne’s Cell – 580 310 2840 Angus’ Cell – 580 272 7130 [email protected] Page 5 The Scouting Rotarian LEADERSHIP 2016-2017 PRESIDENT * PDG Mark Kriebel 607-727-2420 [email protected] President Elect Vacant Vice President WOSM * Michael Bradshaw 011-868-681-3787 [email protected] Vice President WAGGGS Joie Hain 770-855-7042 [email protected] International Secretary * John Bradshaw 860-599-3654 [email protected] Treasurer * Ralph Winter 732-738-4400 [email protected] International Commissioner