James E. West Fellowship Award
The James E. West Fellowship Award is a national recognition for individuals who contribute $1,000 or more in cash or securities to the Sam Houston Area Council's permanent endowment trust fund. Organizations or individuals may contribute monies toward a fellowship in honor of someone else: an Eagle Scout, a Silver Beaver recipient, council president or special loved ones including non-Scouters, youth or adults.
Fellowships can also be provided in memory of a departed loved one, business associate or special Scouter or non-Scouter.
The award is named after the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America who exemplified Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation that "an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man." Today, Scouting is the "lengthened shadow" of the more than three decades of the farseeing and dedicated leadership of Dr. James E. West.
Monies contributed to the Endowment Fund through the James E. West Fellowship are never spent; only the interest is used to further the programs and outreach of the Sam Houston Area Council.
Names of members of the Sam Houston Area Council's endowment societies will be etched in beautiful glass panels that are located in the lobby of the Cockrell Scout Center. For more information on this or other endowment societies, please call Jim Head, Endowment Director (713) 756-3319.
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