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Wellesley man awarded Outstanding Eagle Scout Award

April 3, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

Award winner George Ecker, with his wife Ruth

The Knox Trail Council National Eagle Scout Association (NESA) Committee recently awarded the Outstanding Eagle Scout Award to George Ecker of Wellesley at its annual recognition dinner. The award is presented to Eagle Scouts who have demonstrated outstanding achievement at the local, state or regional level.

Ecker is a scholar and leader in the fields of sociology, higher education administration and organizational behavior. Ecker, who earned the rank of Eagle Scout in 1956, earned advanced degrees at Cornell and Stanford Universities, working as a National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Fellow and then becoming a member of the Ohio State University Graduate School faculty where he received an Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. Ecker later entered the business world as a consultant to several firms, working on projects including one with NASA in the wake of the Columbia disaster. Earlier in his career, Ecker served with the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps in Europe.

Ecker is an Assistant Scoutmaster with Troop 185 Wellesley, and coordinates the rollouts of American Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED and Wilderness and Remote First Aid training throughout Knox Trail Council.

Boy Scout councils across the United States are eligible to award the Outstanding Eagle Scout award based on the number of Boy Scouts achieving the rank of Eagle Scout in a given calendar year. leadership, and lifelong ethical values.

Wellesley Boy Scout Open House

February 5, 2015 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

Wellesley Boy Scout Troop 182 would like to invite interested boys in grades 5 and above to an Open House on Sunday, February 8 to celebrate Scouting’s 105^th anniversary. The Open House will be held from 7:15 to 8:30 p.m. in the basement of the Wellesley Hills Congregational Church, 207 Washington Street. No previous scouting experience is required. For more information about Troop 182 or the February 8 event, please email troop committee chair Paul Hurney.

New Wellesley Eagle Scout inspired by family’s military history

October 19, 2014 by Bob Brown Leave a Comment

Here’s an early Veterans Day story with a local angle: 15-year-old Wellesley resident Max Morelli is being honored this month as a new Eagle Scout, a recognition earned in part through a service project that involved interviewing 10 military veterans.

The veterans’ stories were captured on video and have been archived as part of the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress, where they are now available for future generations.

Morelli, whose achievement of Boy Scouts of America’s highest rank, will be celebrated on Oct. 25 at a ceremony at the Italo-American Club in Wellesley. He received his official Eagle Board of Review recognition as an Eagle Scout in May.

For his Eagle project, the Troop 185 member conducted and recorded interviews of veterans who served in conflicts ranging from World War II to the most recent deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. Interview subjects included veterans George Ecker and Ronald (Chuck) Tiberio, both residents of Wellesley, as well as Bill Mills-Curran, who resides in Westborough but is actively involved with scouting leadership in Wellesley. The remainder of the interviews took place in St. Simons Island, Ga., where Morelli’s Eagle Scout grandfather helped arrange things during school holidays.

In his Eagle Scout application, the Beaver Country Day School 9^th grader stated:

My project was inspired by important veterans in my family: my grandfather, Donald Morelli, a 2-star Army general; my great-uncle, George Kane, a World War II POW; and Buck Good, my grandfather and a Navy veteran injured in a blimp crash in 1956. My grandfather Good and my great-uncle Kane were both Eagle Scouts. George Kane attributed his survival of the Bataan Death March and four years as a prisoner of war during World War II to the training he received in Boy Scouts.