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Jim Grossman Receives Silver Antelope Award
May, 2009
BSA Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL
Central Region Luncheon
Since earning his Eagle badge 50 years ago, Jim Grossman has been working to repay some of what he has received from Scouting. Before his son Dan was even a scout, Jim was President of the St. Louis Area Eagle Scout Association, as well as Assistant Scoutmaster and later Scoutmaster at the neighborhood elementary school. Jim served a second tour as Scoutmaster after reviving the Boy Scout Troop at a nearby school. Jim and his wife Jane also started a co-ed, high adventure Explorer Post.
He served the New Horizons District as Training Chairman, Friends of Scouting Family Chairman, District Commissioner, and District Vice-Chairman. He served the Greater St. Louis Area Council as Vice Chairman of the Camping Committee and Vice Chairman of the Training Committee, Pow Wow Chairman, and Jamboree Scoutmaster (1989). Jim’s enjoyment of sharing his Scouting knowledge with others shows in years of District and Council training staffs including six Wood Badge Staffs and Wood Badge Course Director in 1997.
In the Central Region, Jim is the Area Coordinator for National Youth Leadership Training. He previously served the region on the faculty of JLTC (junior leader training conference) course directors conferences, and camp visitation teams.
He was a member of the Philmont Training Center Faculty from 1995 to 2008, and is particularly proud of developing a conference on Building Strong Scout Troops. At the national level, Jim served on the National Youth Leader Training Task Force and the task force that wrote the Patrol Leader and Senior Patrol Leader Handbooks. He was a Scoutmaster at Philmont for the NJLIC, National Junior Leader Instructor Camp, from 2003 to 2005, and a Scoutmaster on the pilot course for NAYLE, National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience.
Jim has served on the National Jewish Committee on Scouting since 2003. On that committee he was Vice-Chairman for the Central Region, and now chairs the Leadership Development Committee.
Outside of Scouting Jim served on the Board of Directors of Congregation Shaare Emeth, the Board of Directors of the Parkway Education Foundation, and with wife Jane was President of the Green Trails Elementary School PTO. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and holds 6 patents. Now retired, he founded and was President of Update Systems, Inc, a firm that designed and manufactured electronic controls for industrial machinery.
Scouting is a family thing with the Grossmans. Jim’s father Jack is an Eagle Scout, as was his late father-in-law William Livingston, Sr. Jim’s mother Betty was his Cub Scout Den Leader. His wife Jane is an active Scouter who has long served the GSLAC and national council in Special Needs capacities. Jane received the Silver Antelope Award last year. Their son Dan is an Eagle Scout, past council camp staffer, and past Chief of the Shawnee Lodge, Order of the Arrow. Daughter Leslie was an active Girl Scout and Explorer Scout. |
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