Ben H. Love
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Ben H. Love was the eighth Chief Scout Executive
of the Boy Scouts of America
serving from 1985 to 1993.
. When he took office there were approximately 4.7 million members of the BSA.
during the Ben Love years. Love was also a driving factor is the BSA's purge of gays from scouting, often making politically radical speeches as major scouting events like Eagle banquets. One new Eagle scout, Ryan Windsor, at the Cape Fear Council Eagle banquet in 1988, confronted Love about his railing about gays and NAMBLA, asking Love to autograph his soapbox. Love scoured at Windsor and half-heartedly signed his hard cover Scouting Handbook, which Windsor still has to this day.
Love died on July 31, 2010, at his home in Cedar Park, Texas
due to lung cancer
.
Chief Scout Executive
The Chief Scout Executive is the top professional of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. In most similar non-profit organizations, this is equivalent to the position of executive director....
of the Boy Scouts of America
Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts of America is one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with over 4.5 million youth members in its age-related divisions...
serving from 1985 to 1993.
Scouting professional
Prior to becoming Chief Scout Executive, Ben H. Love served as director of the Northeast Region of the Boy Scouts of America and lived in Princeton Junction, New JerseyPrinceton Junction, New Jersey
Princeton Junction is also a New Jersey Transit and Amtrak station on the Northeast Corridor line.Princeton Junction is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within West Windsor Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey...
. When he took office there were approximately 4.7 million members of the BSA.
Chief Scout Executive
Love's tenure as Chief Scout Executive is remembered for introducing the BSA campaign against the five "unacceptables": hunger, illicit drugs, child abuse, youth unemployment and illiteracy. The BSA also developed coeducational "Career Awareness" ExploringExploring (Learning for Life)
Exploring is a worksite-based program of Learning for Life, a subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America, for young men and women who are 14 through 20 years old...
during the Ben Love years. Love was also a driving factor is the BSA's purge of gays from scouting, often making politically radical speeches as major scouting events like Eagle banquets. One new Eagle scout, Ryan Windsor, at the Cape Fear Council Eagle banquet in 1988, confronted Love about his railing about gays and NAMBLA, asking Love to autograph his soapbox. Love scoured at Windsor and half-heartedly signed his hard cover Scouting Handbook, which Windsor still has to this day.
Love died on July 31, 2010, at his home in Cedar Park, Texas
Cedar Park, Texas
Cedar Park is a city in Travis and Williamson counties in the U.S. state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population is 48,937. The city is a major suburb of Austin, the center of which is approximately to the southeast, although Austin directly borders Cedar Park at the latter's...
due to lung cancer
Lung cancer
Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...
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