Historical Highlights - 2000's
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- 2000
- The Boy Scouts of America celebrated its 90th anniversary and reached
alarger portion of America's youth than ever before, welcoming its 100 millionth
youth member. Scoutreach's Hispanic marketing emphasis resulted in 148volunteers
being honored with the Whitney M. Young Jr. Service award, thelargest number
of recipients in the award's history. Awards for lifesavingand meritorious
actions were given to 234 Scouts and Scouters. Scouts completedmore than
214 million total hours of service for "America's Promise—TheAlliance
for Youth," surpassing the four-year goal of 200 million servicehours by
the end of 2000. Traditional membership, December 31, was 4,561,046.Total
members to date,104,003,921.
