National Eagle Scout & Alumni Associations of the Monmouth Council, BSA

*** FSR CAMP STAFF MEMBER HELPS SAVE LIFE ON CROSS COUNTRY FLIGHT ***

The National Eagle Scout & Alumni Associations of the Monmouth Council, BSA is honored to recognize Forestburg Scout Reservation Aquatics Staff Member Moshe Grimaldi and members and advisors in his fellow Philmont Contingent who collectively successfully administered CPR to a stricken passenger on their return flight from New Mexico to New York on July 11, 2024.

Life Scout Grimaldi was trained in Basic Life Support for the Healthcare Provider, in part, by National Outstanding Eagle Scout Award Recipients Will Vaughan and Paul Usechak. Vaughan and Usechak are both active members of Monmouth Council's Health & Safety Committee and NESA Chapter.

"We are exceptionally proud of these guys who, along with a nurse practitioner performing ACLS, successfully resuscitated a passenger in cardiac arrest on their flight back from Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico," said Vaughan.

Brian Valentino, Chairman of the National Eagle Scout & Alumni Associations of the Monmouth Council, added, "Moshe and his friends and advisors are among our most distinguished alumni. As scouts we all promise, on our honor, to help other people at all times and sometimes that means using our skills, talents, training, leadership and example to save another person's life. Their bravery, helpfulness, and scout spirit were used to their best possible use and their actions are in keeping with the highest traditions of the Scouting movement."

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Jewish Boy Scouts save life with CPR on flight home from New Mexico Two Jewish Boy Scouts and their adult advisors saved a man’s life with CPR on a flight home from New Mexico.

Join us in celebrating several of our Eagle and Alumni colleagues who are competing in a 636 mile Race To Bermuda aboard a Boat that has 8 past Scouts--6 are Eagle Scouts and a current ASM for Troop 32, River Plaza. The entire crew was previously involved in Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts with 6 achieving the rank of Eagle.

Troop 79 Eagle Mike Cassidy
Painted Post, NY

Troop 22 , Atlantic Highlands, Pierce Niles

Troop 22 Eagle Taylor Niles Atlantic Highlands

Troop 201 Aidan Ehrenberg

T157 Eagle Mike Neubelt Manchester, CT Scoutmaster Troop 126 Little Silver

T126 Eagle Max Neubelt Little Silver "The lightning unit"

Troop 157 Rick Hough, Corpus Christi, TX.
Scoutmaster, 126, Little Silver

Troop 72 Eagle Brian Dellett, Neptune City
ASM Troop 32 River Plaza

Eagle Ethan Neubelt (who was to participate) was lost to a Merchant Marine assignment and replaced with Eagle Mike Cassidy.

Follow the race starting June 21st and cheer for ASSARAIN IV out of Atlantic Highlands, NJ

https://bermudarace.com/follow/

IG: ASSARAIN_IV

Congratulations to our own Na-Tsi-Hi Lodge Chief and all around great guy, Cole Philipczak on passing his Eagle Board of Review!

Congratulations to the Eagle Scout Class of 2023!

2024 Eagle Scout Recognition Dinner- On May 20, 2024, at the American Hotel in Freehold, NJ, the Monmouth Council recognized the Eagle Scouts from the Class of 2023 at its Annual Eagle Scout Recognition Dinner and Hall of Fame Induction. Fifty Eagle Scouts from the Class of 2023 attended the dinner and participated in a Mentoring Reception prior to the dinner. The reception had mentors from the various career fields identified by the Eagle Scouts attending the dinner as a potential future career. Joseph Valentino, the Glenn A. and Melida A. Adams Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award Recipient for the Monmouth Council, addressed the Class of 2023 Eagle Scouts and the guests at the dinner. Over 180 people attended the dinner. The 2025 Eagle Scout Recognition Dinner, recognizing the Eagle Scouts from the Class of 2024, is scheduled for Monday, May 19, 2025.

This week we began another year of our statewide Environmental Professional Development Academy. The five weeks that I am the lead instructor are mostly about administration and leadership. One of the biggest takeaways I have gleaned in years as a fire service and environmental sector instructor is that MOST people have a hard time transitioning from follower to leader. Elections, appointments, promotions, and good will DO NOT automatically come with the knowledge, skills, abilities, characteristics, attitudes and grit necessary to LEAD. Leadership requires a certain mindset and that mindset can be taught and it can be learned but we ALL must MODEL that mindset in our leadership actions. Those who climb up the leadership ladder behind us will have a much easier time doing so when they know what LEADERSHIP looks, sounds, and feels like from great leaders who personify those BEST behaviors.

Note: Thank you to Ryan Szimanski, Curator of the Battleship New Jersey, for sharing a page from BB-62's Emergency Plan that inspired this post. P.S. If you aren't already following Ryan and the NEW JERSEY on social media, you are missing some of the best content on the internet.

To all of our fellow Alumni & Eagles who serve our nation in the armed services, thank you for your continued commitment to the USA. Happy Armed Forces Day!

Jambo ‘26

This is a great and exciting rebirth of our movement! All of our values. Into the future.

Brian Valentino
Chairman

The Boy Scouts of America today announced that it will rebrand to Scouting America, reflecting the organization’s ongoing commitment to welcome every youth and family in America to experience the benefits of Scouting. The change will go into effect on February 8, 2025, the organization’s 115th anniversary.

Learn more here: https://www.scoutingnewsroom.org/press-releases/boy-scouts-of-america-to-become-scouting-america

Today is International Firefighter Appreciation Day. Did you know that NESA has many affinity groups you can belong to? One of our favorites is the National Eagle Scout Association Firefighter Affinity Group.

Congratulations to Monmouth Council's newest Eagle Scout, Ryan Kee of Matawan!

We are very pleased to learn that our very own Joe Valentino has been named as the *National Junior Firefighter of the Year* by the National Volunteer Fire Council! In addition to his service to both the Long Branch FD and the Oakhurst FD, Joe's Eagle Scout Service Project was a volunteer firefighter recruitment drive that won the Glenn & Melinda Adams Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award for the Monmouth Council.

Joe is a member of the MCBSA Eagle Scout Class of 2023, a Brotherhood Member of Order of the Arrow - Na Tsi Hi Lodge 71, Troop 71 Oakhurst Boy Scouts, and Environmental STEM Explorer Post 1972.

National Eagle Scout Association Firefighter Affinity Group
National Eagle Scout Association

For those of you with wistful thoughts of Forestburg, help us celebrate the newest members of Scouts BSA who earned their Arrow of Light Rank at Forestburg Scout Reservation this weekend. Despite the rain, they hiked to Darlington Falls, had a long conversation with Ranger George Kaiser, practiced some shooting sports, toured the Reservation, and held their promotion ceremony in the Housman Memorial Lodge, lit with luminaries featuring memories of their Cub Scouting years in Ocean Township Pack 143.

The MCBSA mourns the passing of one of our oldest Eagles, 97 year old Robert Stillwagon, Class of 1942

Obituary for Robert Charles Stillwagon

Obituaries in Neptune, NJ | Asbury Park Press Robert (Bob) Charles Stillwagon, 97, of Wilmington, NC passed away Monday, January 29, 2024 at home. Bob was born in Red Bank, NJ, the first child...