Scouting, Volume 63, Number 1, January-February 1975 Page: 38
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Dennis Fischer works for the North
Dakota Governor's Council on
Human Resources. Once a
month he gets a paycheck from the
State Capitol—yet he's not obliged to
do a lick of work in the name of Gover-
nor Arthur A. Link.
As regular as the sunrise, Frank
Cuddy, an information representative
for International Business Machines,
gets paid from his company's Mary-
land payroll center even though he
hasn't banged out a single news story,
speech or promotional piece for the
computer giant in the past 12 months.
It's the same with Bob Unwin, listed
on Bendix Corporation's records as a
toolroom foreman, though he hasn't
picked up so much as a Bendix wrench
in almost a year.
These three men aren't on long term
disability. They're not goof-offs. And
they aren't about to retire. They are
youthful, healthy, vigorous, concerned
about the future of their employer,
their country, themselves — and kids.
Officially, on the records of the BSA
and those who sign their pay checks,
they are executives on loan, borrowed
from their employers by Scout coun-
cils or BSA national and located in
Bismarck, N. Dak., Denver, Colo, and
South Bend, Ind.
All three are exhibits "A" in an ex-
periment jointly conducted by the Boy
Scouts of America and a handful of
local and national employers. If suc-
cessful, the trial could eventually
mean the extension of Scouting to
thousands of young people and the
savings of tens of thousands of dollars
for Scout councils.
Besides helping kids and Scouting,
the loaned executives' program helps
the business that loans its employee.
It's no secret that big business nowa-
days suffers from a common malady,
the accusation that it is interested
solely in the annual profit and loss
statement. Not so, says Frank Cuddy
who's been with IBM for 33 years.
Cuddy refers to what former IBM.board
chairman Tom Watson, a past presi-
dent of the BSA, said, that "business
must be responsive to the national
interests."
Dr. W. Michael Blumenthal, presi-
dent of the Bendix Corporation, has
strongly declared, says Bob Unwin,
that he's vitally interested in people
and progress. According to Dr. Blum-
enthal, "You can't have one without
the other. And 'people' means people
outside the corporation as well as
inside." He's backed up his words with
action.
Though the State of North Dakota
isn't an employer like IBM or Bendix, it
is the largest "industry" in Bismarck,
the capital. One of Governor Arthur A.
Link's greatest concerns is to keep
kids in the state where opportunities
await them. "Too many kids," says
Dennis Fischer, "get an education and
leave for some bright horizon outside
of North Dakota."
When people challenged Watson,
Blumenthal, Link and others with,
"Well, you said you want to help the
community —prove it!" they respond-
ed. One of their answers was joining
the executives-on-loan program. That
is how the plan was born.
Though its history isn't old —Scout-
ing has used the method for about four
years — and there have been only a
dozen participants, the plan has been
highly successful. It's a simple ar-
rangement. The loaned executive
agrees to take part in some specific
r
Bob Unwin, in jacket, jokes with fellow
Bendix workers. They claim loaned executive
Unwin has it soft. "Sure," says he, "now
instead of a 40-hour week, it's 60-80 hours."
Unexpected dividend is chance for Frank
Cuddy (center) to work occasionally with
young people. Explorer Luann Ebert gets guided
tour of Denver Post composing room.
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