I’ve conducted legacy interviews with some long-term Scouters but realized that we can also learn much from our younger members as they create their own legacy. Here is the first of my ‘youth’ legacy interviews.

I recently served on staff of the 2007 National OA Conservation and Leadership Summit held at Indiana University. The OA membership includes some of our best and brightest young men in the country. I had the pleasure of serving under Summit Vice Chief (SVC) Jake Wellman of Yah-tah-hey-si-kess lodge 66 out of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Jake shared some of his Scouting background both in Ini-to lodge 324 in Georgia and lodge 66 as well as his experiences serving on a National Leadership Seminar staff in Far East Council in Tokyo, Japan. I am struck by the incredible opportunities Scouting offers to young men and the impact that Scouting can have on developing tomorrow’s leaders. Even at his young age Jake got to see and experience another country and US Scouts living overseas.

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