“The worst thing that happened to the Boy Scouts was accepting corporate funding.”
After graduating college in ‘71, I went to work for the BSA as a Professional Scouter in Buffalo/Niagara Falls, and Dir of PR for Dade/Broward/Monroe Ctys, to pay back for the 9-10 wonderful yrs I had as a kid (Cubs, Webelos, Scouts, Explorers) and young man.
The business shit hit in 1972, and it became a corp-controlled business, with fake packs/troops/posts and NUMBERS. The whole BSA was crooked and receiving corp money to grow fake numbers, just as many businesses do.
I saw it happen gradually, first-hand.
After 2yrs in Buffalo/The Falls and 5yrs in Miami, I quit, and went back to the marketing world in Midtown Manhattan.
I was involved in scouting as a boy in the mid 70’s, and even then it became a numbers game, with my troop pushing membership at all costs, waiving age and other requirements to get recognition for being the “fastest” and “largest” growing troop in our council. I left shortly after all that.