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“selfless Scoutmasters gave us their time not because they knew what we’d become, but because they knew what we could become.”
― Alvin Townley, Spirit of Adventure: Eagle Scouts and the Making of America's Future

“The boys teach; the Scoutmaster tests.”
― Alvin Townley, Legacy of Honor: The Values and Influence of America's Eagle Scouts

“At Sanford’s 1998 funeral in Duke Chapel, childhood friend Dickson Philips eulogized this Eagle from Troop 20 in the town of Laurinburg. To the assembled crowd, he eloquently said, “[Terry Sanford] took an oath when he was twelve years old and kept it. It started out, ‘On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country,’ and included such things as ‘help other people at all times.’ He believed it: He was the eternal Boy Scout.”
― Alvin Townley, Legacy of Honor: The Values and Influence of America's Eagle Scouts

“We sat together in three leather chairs next to a painting of nineteenth-century statesman Henry Clay and turned the conversation to Scouting and citizenship.”
― Alvin Townley, Spirit of Adventure: Eagle Scouts and the Making of America's Future

“Troop 75 of Ridgefield, Connecticut.”
― Alvin Townley, Spirit of Adventure: Eagle Scouts and the Making of America's Future

“Troop 75 of Ridgefield,”
― Alvin Townley, Spirit of Adventure: Eagle Scouts and the Making of America's Future

“If you stay neutral, you’re in the wrong as an Eagle Scout. In my vision, being an Eagle Scouts is actively trying to do good.”
― Alvin Townley, Spirit of Adventure: Eagle Scouts and the Making of America's Future