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Great Southwest Council effort turned up
more than 50 "lost" Eagles within a
three-month period. In effect, this in-
creased the council's NESA membership
by more than one-third, Bingham says,
since there were previously only about
100 members in the council.
This is only a small start, however,
Bingham adds, estimating that there are
1,250 mature Eagles in the Albuquerque
area and up to 2,000 in the entire council.
"If this is accurate," he says, "we cur-
rently have only about five percent of all
our Eagles as NESA members, and we
still have a long way to go to get to where
we want to be. To feel we've really done
our share to help reach the national goal,
we'd like to identify up to 1,000 Eagles in
our council by the end of 1990."
In aiming for this lofty target,
Bingham has enlisted the aid of district
NESA chairmen in most of the council's
11 districts and has broken down each
district into five broad areas of concentra-
tion, including: major professions, in-
cluding law, education, and medicine;
religious and church-affiliated groups;
trade associations, service clubs, and fra-
ternal groups; the sizeable military com-
munity centered in Albuquerque, and
Scouting itself.
Individuals assisting with the cam-
paign range from the Most Reverend
Robert Sanchez, Catholic archbishop of
Santa Fe, to Colonel Thomas Sullivan,
commander of Kirtland Air Force Base,
to Mike Moloney, popular radio personal-
ity on Station KKOB in Albuquerque, to
the Reverend Doug Raun, a parish priest
in the Moriarity community, to U.S. Sen-
ator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico.
Many of those who are helping are Eagles
themselves.
"It's an effort that builds on itself,"
Bingham says. "Once you identify an
Eagle in a service club like, say, Kiwanis
or Civitan, then you get that person to
seek out any others who might be in the
same organization.
"The same holds true for church
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groups, and we're also getting help in
spreading the word about our search from
various professional and trade publica-
tions and newsletters with a high proba-
bility of Eagles among their readership.
We're running small ads in the New Mex-
ico Business Journal, which goes to busi-
nessmen all over the state, and the New
Mexico Bar Bulletin, which reaches vir-
tually all the lawyers."
In addition to serving as council NESA
chairman, Bingham is also a member of
the council's executive board, which aids
communication between NESA and the
board. And he receives a lot of support
from Council President Franklin, a fellow
attorney who was himself a "lost" Eagle
not too many years ago.
"Being an Eagle meant a lot to me
when I was growing up in southern New
Mexico," Franklin recalls, "but like so
many other guys, I drifted away from
Scouting and had no contact with it for 10
or 12 years after I got out of law school.
"Then one night I went to a meeting
and ran into a Scout leader who had been
like a second father to me, and I started
feeling guilty. I felt a real need to repay
something to Scouting, so I did, and, be-
lieve me, I'm not carrying that guilt
around with me any more."
Bingham and Franklin have discovered
that many "lost" Eagles experience simi-
lar feelings. "I wear my Scout pin a lot
and when another Eagle sees it, it usually
evokes a response," Bingham says. "I
think every Eagle takes pride in that ac-
complishment, and that's why most lost
Eagles are glad to be found, even if they
aren't necessarily eager to volunteer for
some hard job."
Council Executive Green credits
Bingham and Franklin and their keen in-
terest in the "Year of the Eagle" project
for the council's initial success.
"In Wayne and Nick, we probably have
two of the most dedicated volunteers in
the country," Green says. "It's a really
unique situation to have two people who
are so committed and willing to spend the
necessary time on a project like this."
Whenever a "lost" Eagle is identified
in the Great Southwest Council, he is
quickly offered an opportunity to get
back into an active volunteer role, but is
allowed to resume his association with
Scouting at his own pace, without undue
pressure.
"I know about the limitations on peo-
ple's time," Bingham says, "because I've
had to give up other professional and vol-
unteer commitments to devote the neces-
sary time to my NESA job.
"I also know that many of the Eagles
we're identifying just don't have the hours
it takes to be Cubmasters or Scoutmas-
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