John Mathias Engler is an American politician,lawyer,businessman,and lobbyist who served as the 46th governor of Michigan from 1991 to 2003. Considered one of the country's top lobbyists,he is a member of the Republican Party.
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States. It borders Wisconsin to the northwest in the Upper Peninsula,and Indiana and Ohio to the south in the Lower Peninsula;it is also connected by Lakes Superior,Michigan,Huron,and Erie to Minnesota and Illinois,and the Canadian province of Ontario. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of 96,716 sq mi (250,490 km2),Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population,the 11th-largest by area,and the largest by area east of the Mississippi River. Its capital is Lansing,and its largest city is Detroit. Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies. The name derives from a gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe word ᒥᓯᑲᒥ,meaning "large water" or "large lake".
The Boy Scouts of America is one of the largest scouting organizations and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States,with over 1 million youth,including 176,000 female participants. The BSA was founded in 1910;about 130 million Americans have participated in its programs. Served by 477,000 adult volunteers. BSA became a founding member organization of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922.
Ferris State University is a public university with its main campus in Big Rapids,Michigan. It was founded in 1884 as Big Rapids Industrial School by Woodbridge N. Ferris and became a public institution in 1950. The university also has a satellite campus in Grand Rapids,Michigan.
The program of the Boy Scouts of America is administered through 253 local councils,with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a single city to an entire state. Each council receives an annual charter from the National Council and is usually incorporated as a charitable organization. Most councils are administratively divided into districts that directly serve Scout units.
John Burley Swainson was a Canadian-American politician and jurist who served as the 42nd governor of Michigan from 1961 to 1963.
Robert Anthony Lutz is a Swiss-American automotive executive. He served as a top leader of all of the United States Big Three automobile manufacturers,having been in succession executive vice president of Ford Motor Company,president and then vice chairman of Chrysler Corporation,and vice chairman of General Motors.
Scouts Australia is a trading name of The Scout Association of Australia,which is the largest scouting organisation in Australia,claiming 48,796 children and youths and 2,792 young adult participants in 2022,and is a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement. It was formed in 1958 and incorporated in 1967. It operates personal development programs for children and young adults from 5 to 25 years of age with programs successively opened to girls after 1971.
Scouting Ireland is one of the largest youth movements on the island of Ireland,a voluntary educational movement for young people with over 45,000 members,including over 11,000 adult volunteers early 2020. Of the 750,000 people between the ages of 6 and 18 in Ireland,over 6% are involved with the organisation. It was founded in 2004,following the amalgamation of two of the Scouting organisations on the island. It is the World Organization of the Scout Movement-recognised Scouting association in the Republic of Ireland. In Northern Ireland it operates alongside The Scout Association of the UK and the Baden-Powell Scout Association.
Fred Warren Green was an American politician who served as the 31st governor of Michigan from 1927 to 1931,and he was the mayor of Ionia,Michigan,from 1913 to 1916. Active in athletics during his time as a student at Michigan State Normal School,and at the University of Michigan,Green earned a varsity letter playing for the Michigan State Normal football team in 1895 and is credited as the team's head coach during the 1896 season in which they were declared champions of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Green served as a delegate to the 1932 and 1936 Republican National Conventions.
Edward Nicholas Cole was an American inventor,automotive engineer and executive,widely known for leading critical projects for General Motors,including development of the Chevrolet Corvair and Chevrolet Vega;developing GM's Small Block V8 and its rotary engine,championing the catalytic converter to migrate cars from leaded gasoline,and advocating for air bags. He was President of General Motors from 1967 through 1974.
Don Gabriel Amando Daza,KGCR,KC*SS was the first Filipino electrical engineer and one of the charter members of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP). He co-founded the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT),Philippine Telegraph and Telephone Co. (PT&T),Philippine Electric Manufacturing Company (PEMCO),Phelps Dodge Philippines. He was the supervising engineer and assistant general manager of Visayan Electric Company (VECO) and led its expansion out of Cebu City. President and chief scout of the BSP in 1961–68. In 1945,President Osmeña appointed Daza to be a member of the board of directors of the Manila Railroad Company and the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office. In 1950,he was vice-chairman of the National Power Corporation and on the board of directors of the Manila Hotel Company. In 1951,Daza was appointed by President Quirino as a founding member of the board of directors of the National Shipyard and Steel Corporation. President and director of the National Economic Protection Agency (NEPA) in 1956.
The Great Lakes Field Service Council was a field service council of the Michigan Crossroads Council,a local council of the Boy Scouts of America. It served the Detroit metropolitan area and covers all of Wayne,Oakland and Macomb counties. The council had eight districts,one council service center,and four camp properties.
John E. Gottschalk is the retired chief executive officer and publisher of the Omaha World-Herald and was the national president of the Boy Scouts of America from 2008 to 2010.
Orion Assembly is a 4,300,000 sq ft (400,000 m2) General Motors vehicle assembly plant located in Orion Township,Michigan. From late 2025,the plant is slated to assemble battery electric pickup trucks such as the Chevrolet Silverado EV and the GMC Sierra EV. As of September 2019,the plant has approximately 1,032 salaried and hourly employees. It assumed operations of Buick City,and Pontiac Assembly.
Roy S. Roberts is an American business executive who had a long career at General Motors before retiring as group vice president,North American Vehicle Sales,Service and Marketing in 2000. He is also a former managing director at Reliant Equity Investors. From 2011 - 2013 he was the Detroit Public Schools' Emergency Financial Manager and board chairman of the Education Achievement Authority of Michigan.
Alex Gorsky is an American businessman. He is the former chairman and CEO of Johnson &Johnson. Gorsky stepped down as CEO of Johnson &Johnson in January 2022 and was succeeded by Joaquin Duato. He was the seventh person who served as the company's chairman and chief executive officer since it became a publicly traded company in 1944. He is a board director of Apple and JP Morgan Chase.
Mary Teresa Barra is an American businesswoman who has been the chair and chief executive officer (CEO) of General Motors since January 15,2014. She is the first female CEO of a 'Big Three' automaker. In December 2013,GM named her to succeed Daniel Akerson as CEO. Prior to being named CEO,Barra was executive vice president of global product development,purchasing,and supply chain.
The National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America governs the Boy Scouts of America organization. One source reports that there were 72 members of the board in 2001.
In the Boy Scouts of America,a Scout leader refers to the trained leaders of a Scout unit. Adult leaders are generally referred to as "Scouters," and the youth leaders are referred to by their position within a unit. In all Scouting units above the Cub Scout pack and units serving adolescent Scouts,leadership of the unit comprises both adult leaders (Scouters) and youth leaders (Scouts). This is a key part of the Aims and Methods of Scouting. In order to learn leadership,the youth must actually serve in leadership roles.
