2010 Vol 2 May-July 2010 Wente Scout In this issue: New Cub Scout Reservation’s Focus on Finance - page 2 Program and Memorial Weekend Whitney M. Young, Materials Family Vacation Camp Jr. Awards Dinner - page 3 Information Where can you get camping, hiking, boating, swimming, Friends of Scouting Victory -- see page 17-18 horseback riding, campfi res, ice Celebration cream, great food and usually, great - page 3 weather, all for little more than it costs to stay home? At Family 100th Anniver- th sary Jamboree and 100 Anniversary of Scouting Vacation Camp of course! Camp Commemorative 2010 Eagle Scout is a great place to let your kids have Patches - page 5-6 fun without worrying about them 100th Recognition Dinner tracking in dirt or dripping water. Anniversary Honoring the Rick K. Pickering They can shoot archery, BB guns, Awards - page 6 rifl e, make handicrafts, swim, fi sh Eagle Scout Class (bring your fi shing gear!), go for World Jamboree Sweden - page 7 Wednesday June 2, 2010 hikes, ride horses*, and even take Hilton Oakland Airport a drive to many of the local scenic Membership One Hegenberger Road, Oakland landmarks. - page 8 Memorial Weekend is a Rick K. Pickering, Chief Executive great place to be. It’s inexpensive. From Your Registrar - page 9 Offi cer, Alameda County Agricultural It’s fun! That adds up to a fabulous Fair Association will be receiving the vacation weekend. You can cook Distinguished Eagle Scout Award at the Cub Scout your own food or for a small amount Adventures th San Francisco Bay Area Council’s 100 choose camp meals which include - page 10 Anniversary of Scouting – Eagle Scout breakfast, lunch and dinner on Recognition Dinner. NEW Popcorn Sale Saturday and Sunday. A Monday - page 12 morning breakfast option is also The Distinguished available. There is still space Wente Scout Eagle Scout Award available so sign up today on line at Reservation New is a distinguished Camp Director - www.sfbac.org and don’t miss out page 13 service award of on a great activity for you and your the Boy Scouts whole family. History of the San of America. It is Francisco Bay *24” inseam and age requirements, Area Council - awarded to an a small charge is also required. page 14 Eagle Scout for Rick K. Pickering distinguished Venturing - service in his profession and to his page 16 community. Only 1 out of every 1,000 Eagle New Cub Scout Program Scouts are awarded the Distinguished Eagle - pages 17-18 the Bay Area Scouter Scout Award. --see page 3 well as perpetuating its 2010 Friends Endowment News future for generations to come. The Heritage Society HERITAGE SOCIETY of Scouting is a program for individuals that have included Scouting The Heritage Society has Campaign in their Estate Planning or been established by the San have made an outright gift to Francisco Bay Area Council, The Annual San Francisco Bay Area the Endowment Fund. The Boy Scouts of America, to Council Friends of Scouting has numerous ways to make a gift recognize those who believe kicked off. The 2010 Campaign as to the Endowment Fund are as in preserving the tradition Scouting celebrates 100 years of follows: serving young people, will be led by: and values of Scouting, as continued on page 4 Council Chairman Alan Olsen 2010 FRIENDS OF SCOUTING Managing Partner May 10, 2010 Greenstein, Rogoff, Olsen & Company CPA’s Chair Campaign Director Goal Raised to % Of District date Goal Golden Gate Vivian Tom Kenney $ 83,000 $ 32,706 39.4% District Division Chairman Chang Richard King Peralta Errol Najee William English $ 40,000 $ 18,214 45.5% Attorney at Law Mission Don Uriu Joe Barton $ 115,000 $ 90,233 78.5% King, King, & King Peak Tres Ed Bertola Chris Terril $ 78,000 $ 31,843 40.8% Ranchos There are many ways in Twin Valley Kris Bortz Alexis Peterson $ 138,000 $ 79,410 57.5% which you can participate: Districts Richard Matt Myers $ 454,000 $ 252,406 55.6% King If your unit has not scheduled a presentation please contact Scoutreach Leroy Smith Tony Perez $ 20,000 $ 5,570 27.9% your District Executive or Matt Myer, Campaign Learning For Marie Olsen $ 15,000 $ 4,020 26.8% Life Director for the District Division Campaign at 510- 577-9209 or matt.myers@ Gift in Kind Dennis Kai Jason Lewis $ 25,000 $ 486 0.2% scouting.org Special Brett Ryan DiBernardo $ 25,000 $ 1,300 5.2% Effort Hodson Major Gifts Bruce Matt Myers $ 25,000 $ 1,000 4.0% If your unit has scheduled Callendar a presentation please Direct Mail Alan Olsen Sonia Castillo $ 125,000 $ 25,609 20.5% participate fully. Golden Edward Scott Evans $ 100,000 $ 35,842 35.8% Eagle Friedrichs If you are not connected with a unit contact Frank Leadership Frank Yoke $ 200,000 $ 125,000 62.5% Gifts Yoke, Director of Finance Executive Ron Sabraw Frank Yoke $ 145,000 $ 112,500 77.6% Services at 510-577-9242 or Board Pacesetter Roger Carter Ken Mehlhorn $ 75,000 $ 3,000 4.0% [email protected] to Richard S. discuss ways in which you Kopf Alan Olsen 52.9% can participate. Council Frank Yoke $1,074,000 $ 566,733 Amount raised May 11, 2009 $ 625,072 for 63.1% page 2 The Fourth Annual Eagle Scout Banquet Golden Eagle Reception --from page 1 & This year’s Eagle Scout Class The Dinner will be held on Friends of Scouting Honoree will be Eagle Scout Rick Wednesday June 2, 2010 at the Pickering. The Dinner Keynote Oakland Airport Hilton. The Eagle Victory Celebration Speaker will be Richard King past Scout Recognition Dinner honors president of Rotary International. more than 200 young people who This event is in recognition of all have attained Scouting’s highest If you have any questions or need Golden Eagle Donors youth award, the Eagle Scout Award to the additional information please contact in 2009/2010 from the San Francisco 2010 Friends of Scouting Campaign Scott W. Evans Finance Director at Bay Area Council. Our Celebration will be held on 501-577-9254 or [email protected] Thursday, June 17th, 2010 at the Eighth Annual USS Potomac WHITNEY M. YOUNG, Jr. President Roosevelt’s SERVICE AWARDS DINNER “Floating White House” Jack London Square Please join us in honoring Oakland the corporations and individuals 6:00-7:30 p.m. who will receive the 2010 WHITNEY M. YOUNG, JR. SERVICE Please R.S.V.P. by June 10th AWARDS Whitney M. with Scott Evans, For their contributions to youth and character education in Yioung, Jr. Finance Director for the Oakland and San Francisco San Francisco Bay Area Council at 510-577-9254 or Given on behalf of by email at [email protected] THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA COUNCIL, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Serving young people in Oakland and San Francisco Tuesday, MAY 18, 2010 · 7:30 p.m. · Reception 6:00 p.m. HILTON OAKLAND AIRPORT One Hegenberger Road · Oakland, California DINNER CHAIR Yvonne Watson Union Bank of California KEYNOTE SPEAKER GONE Joe Morgan Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame HOME Co-host, ESPN Sunday Night Baseball CELEBRITY HOST Joe Beltran Martin Wyatt Troop 272 and Troop 2 Retired Sports Director, KGO-TV Mission Peak District For more information on how to reserve your place at 8th Annual Whitney M. Young, The circle with the dot in the center Jr. Service Awards Dinner, please contact has long been Scouting’s trail sign to indicate that one has gone home. Frank R. Yoke, III Lord Robert S. Baden-Powell’s resting Director of Finance Services place is marked by just such a symbol. San Francisco Bay Area Council 510-577-9242 [email protected] page 3 JAMES E. WEST FELLOWSHIP of the first official American Scout handbook and many other books Bronze--$100,000 minimum gift James E. West was the first chief important to Scouting; commitment Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts Seton Level membership: $25,000 Silver--$250,000 minimum gift of America, and he served in that minimum gift commitment position for more than three decades. 2) Daniel Carter Beard, first Gold--$500,000 minimum gift The James E. West Fellowship chairman of the National Court of commitment Award is available for gifts of Honor, national Scout commissioner, Platinum--$1,000,000 minimum gift $1,000 and up in cash or marketable and author of many well-known commitment securities to the council endowment books and stories for youth; The early founders of the BSA fund. The gift must be in addition Beard Level membership: $10,000 had the vision and commitment to--and not replace or diminish--the minimum gift to make Scouting the number one donor’s annual Friends of Scouting 3) Theodore Roosevelt, first Chief youth organization in the world. In support. Many individuals and Scout Citizen, first Vice President of that spirit, we honor the modern- corporations make these gifts either the BSA, and President of the United day visionaries who qualify for the on behalf of someone else--such as States; Founders Circle in their commitment in honor of an Eagle Scout, Silver Roosevelt Level membership: to perpetuate the visions and beliefs Beaver recipient, a retirement, $500,000 minimum gift of those founders. a special accomplishment, or 4) Waite Phillips, one of the BSA’s For more information on how you anniversary--or in memory of a first benefactors, and donor to the can participate in one of these special individual. If an institution is BSA of almost 130,000 acres of endowment recognition programs, truly “the lengthened shadow of one land in New Mexico which became contact Frank R.