Great Smokey Mountains superintendent Cassius Cash speaking in Asheville at Friends of Scouting Luncheon

Press release from The Daniel Boone Council of the Boy Scouts of America :

WHAT:
Great Smokey Mountains Superintendent Cassius Cash is the Keynote Speaker for the Second Annual Friends of Scouting Luncheon. The Daniel Boone Council of the Boy Scouts of America will share how our area’s youth through Scouting have contributed more than 10,000 hours of community service throughout the Western North Carolina area.

WHEN:
Thursday, May 18, 2017, 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

WHERE:
Biltmore Double Tree by Hilton, 115 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, NC 28803

WHY:
Cassius Cash is the Superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Cassius attributes his early successes to the values found in the programs of Scouting. Pre-med wasn’t a perfect fit for the job, and Cassius could feel the opportunity slipping away. The turning point came one day during his college career when he interviewed with the U.S. Forest Service for a wildlife internship — when he mentioned that he had been a Boy Scout in Memphis’ Troop 511. “I told them how Scouting taught me to be a team leader and a team player. That’s when the whole tone and tenor of the conversation changed.”

The Boy Scouts of America has taken a leadership role in instructing youth to value family, community, country, their fellow man and themselves by teaching skills that help youth reach their full potential. Their time-tested character and leadership-building programs are established on a foundation of values that will last a lifetime.

Friends of Scouting Partners include Pepsi, Duke Energy, Beverly Hanks & Associates, Doubletree, Bojangles and Sysco. Proceeds benefit over 4,000 local youth in the character, leadership and fitness-development programs of the Daniel Boone Council, Boy Scouts of America.