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Dick Leet as a Boy Scout in 1940, and as a Standard chemist and an ACS member in 1955. Leet says the encouragement scouting gives a boy to investigate nature helps steer him toward science. Learning specific facts and working on their own, as Scouts do in the merit-badge program, are similar to requirements expected of a scientist

Scouting Leads t o Science Wondering where tomorrow's technical men can

be found? Take a long, long look at the Boy Scouts

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τ s THERE a definite relation betw&en -"• Scouting and technology? R. F. Marschner, senior research associate at the Whiting, Inch, research laboratories of Standard Oil (Indiana) and himself a former Eagle Scout, wondered. He had often noted the large number of his fellow chemists and chemical engi­neers who were unusually active Boy Scouts in their precollege days.

In an informal survey of 100 of his fellow ACS members during 1952 and 1953 meetings and a canvass of 27 student holders of Standard Oil Foun­dation chemistry scholarships, Marsch­ner found that more than 60% of each group had been Boy Scouts. Of triose who had been members, half or more had reached the three highest ranks. The percentage who became Eagles was more than 12 times the national average. Marschner decided that the two groups that had been surveyed were statistically too small and age-biased for firm conclusions to be drawn from the results.

Standard Oil's Whiting research laboratories provided a far larger group with an intermediate peak in age dis­tribution. So Marschner surveyed the entire 432-male technical staff tliere early last? year. Results showed that

49% of them have been Boy Scouts and most of the 49% are ACS mem­bers. The 49% compares with a na­tional average of about 28% of all American males that have been eligible for scouting since the movement started in 1910.

Moreover, one out of six of the Whit­ing researchers, or about 36% of those who had been Scouts, reached the three highest ranks—Star, Life, or Eagle Scout. That's more than three times the percentage shown by all former Scouts. And the 11% of the former Scouts at Standard's Whiting labora­tories who became Eagles compares with a national average of less than 2%.

When we're wondering where to­morrow's technical men can be found, w e can take a long look at the Boy Scouts, says Marschner. Whether the relation is expected or not, he con­tinued, it does exist and has for dec­ades. However, Marschner points out that the relationship is not direct. Al­though many chemists and chemical engineers were once high ranking Scouts, more were not. Still, today's high-ranking Scouts are many times as likely as other boys to enter those pro­fessions.

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