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SAR Honors Scout Volunteer in London O n Friday afternoon, May 10, Compatriot Wayne Philip Wilcox came to the Waterloo Hotel in London, England, and met with the SAR members and their wives. Wilcox had taken a train in for the meeting but was unable to spend the evening with the group because he had to return home to prepare for a Boy Scout campout early Saturday morning. President General Stephen A. Leishman arranged this special meeting to present Wilcox, the son of President General Bruce A. Wilcox (2007-08) and Theresa, with the prestigious Robert E. Burt Boy Scout Volunteer Award. Wilcox has been serving as a volunteer in the Boy Scouts since 1990, when he began his scouting volunteer work in Mountain View, Calif. In 1991, he received the Cub Scouter of the Year Award for his outstanding leadership as assistant cubmaster of Pack 1509 in Alexandria, Va. The Robert E. Burt Boy Scout Volunteer Award is based upon his service in numerous Boy Scout volunteer leadership positions in the United States, China and the United Kingdom, where he now lives. Some highlights of Wilcox's volunteer service are: hiking along the Great Wall of China; attending the 2011 From left, Treasurer General Lindsey Brock, Wayne Wilcox of the Virginia Society, President General Stephen A. Leishman (2012-13), PG Larry J. Magerkurth (2011-12) and National Trustee Jack Manning of the New Hampshire Society. Council Camporee in Normandy, France; serving as the Baden-Powell High Adventure Camp aquatics director; backpacking up Mount Snowdon, the highest mountain in England and Wales, in February; and completing a 50-mile segment of the Hadrian's Wall National Trail between SAR Commemorates French Treaty of Alliance On May 22, then-Secretary General Joseph W. Dooley joined George Washington Chapter President Michael J. Elston and former Historian General Robert L. "Bob" Bowen at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., to meet with Ambassador François Delattre, who has been France's ambassador to the United States since February 2011. He previously served as France's consul general in New York from 2004 to 2008. Dooley and Elston presented Delattre with a plaque commemorating the 235th anniversary of the Treaty of Alliance between France and the United States. They also discussed the annual commemoration of Yorktown Day and invited Delattre and his family to attend the event in 2013. The compatriots and the ambassador discussed their mutual inter- 26 Scotland and England. He considers his biggest accomplishment "to be weaning the boys from traveling 'heavy' to traveling 'light' and bringing backpacking and expeditionary canoeing back into the program." — Lindsey C. Brock est in history and the longstanding relationship between France and the U.S., which was most evident At left, Joseph Dooley with Michael Elston, right, in the lobby of the French Embassy in Washington, D.C.; above, Dooley and Elston presented the plaque to Ambassador François Delattre. during the Revolutionary War and World Wars I and II. Delattre recommended the moving video at www.thefrenchwillneverforget.com as an example of the importance France places on our shared history. SAR MAGAZINE