When I got my Eagle Scout Award that years class of Eagle Scouts was given a Awards Banquet at The long Gone Three Rivers Stadium Club
Each of us had a sponsor for the dinner which cost around $50.00 for the sponsor which was matched up to us with our career path.
Of course I later found out Electrician was not deemed as good enough path for an eagle scout they expected you to be more corporate business or professional career related
Little did they know I would go and open my own business which was y plan all along but everyone just assumed I would be another hunky working in the mill.
My Sponsor was a very nice gentleman from Alcoa unfortunately i can not remember his name it has been to many years.
I met him at his office we talked about career choices then we went by his car over to
the Stadium which was a big deal .
Unfortunately I got to see out big corporations business leaders at work and disagreed with several of them during dinner conversation something an eagle was not suppose to do sorry i don't kiss anyone's ass when it comes to degrading our country and its technology at the time .
The dinner program went well even Earl Schriber was there with a real live Eagle .
I thanked my sponsor sent him a nice thank you card and that was it never to hear from him again
The big picture of what i heard at that dinner would become clear several years later when i was at an eagle scout luncheon
and David Roderick laid out the big new world plan which saw the destruction of our country as jobs went overseas .I just wonder all who sat at that dinner table that night realized what they had set in motion.
I would meet my sponsor in 78 at a Explorer event at now closed Kings Mountain Resort in Fayette County said hello told him how i was getting ready to start a full time business he congratulated me and last time i ever saw him.
My Scout Master would ask me often did you hear from your sponsor No would always be the answer while his sons sponsor was still in contact and helping him.
When i talked with other eagle scouts it seems many like me never heard again from their sponsors it was a one time deal. That is OK it was very nice of them all to do such a nice thing for us.
I sponsored an eagle one time who wanted to be an electrician and every time i called he was never home but talked to his father who told me of his progress. I told him to call me if he ever needed help but he never did . Don't know if he ever got a job and stayed in the electrical field last time i tried to contact him number was no longer in service.
and so it goes.
Had i known then what i know now things would have been different.
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