Scouting Alumni Newsletter – January 2026

Dear Fellow Scouting alum,

Happy new year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and that your 2026 is off to a great start.

There is so much to anticipate in 2026, from unit camping and hiking trips to summer camp to high adventure treks to the 2026 National Jamboree and beyond! And that’s just in Scouting – this year also brings the Winter Olympics (next month!) and the World Cup, which the U.S. is hosting, along with Canada and Mexico. I am excited for all of these events and activities! But what I am particularly excited for is our country’s Semiquincentennial!

We are all so fortunate to live in the United States and to have the blessings that prior generations strove for and fought to bestow upon us. I am grateful to be a citizen of this wonderful country, and one of the major reasons I give back to Scouting is because of our role in preparing the next generation of our country’s leaders. We prepare young people not only to live by our values, not only to be resilient and physically fit, but also to do their duty to our country.

Scouting America is a leader in patriotic and civic education, so it is only fitting that we are an official partner of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, America250. Councils across the country will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and we have a series of events and programs planned for the year.

I hope you will join us for some of these events. Better yet, invite your friends to join you – they’ll have a great time and, by seeing the incredible young people in Scouting, become even more excited about our country’s future. I know I do whenever I see Scouts in action.

Yours in Scouting,

Andrew Miller
Chair, Scouting Alumni

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