Jason Wolz is the International Scouting Representative for South Florida Council. Jason has been active in Scouting for 25 years, since he was Cub. He serves as Buccaneer District Chairman, South Florida Council, along with his duties as International Representative. He is an Eagle Scout, Vigil Honor member of O-Shot-Caw Lodge, and in 2007 was presented with the Silver Beaver.

Jason’s Scouting experiences include being on the staff at three National Jamborees, seven NOACs, and serving as Assistant Scoutmaster for Troop 216 at the 2007 World Jamboree. He has been married to his very understanding wife, Sharidon, for 10 years. They have two children Julia, 19 months old, and Jackson 6 months old. Jason is the Associate Publisher of SEE Visitor Magazines in Key West.

As a Scout you join a great host of boys and girls of many nationalities and you will have friends in every continent.

This Brotherhood of Scouting is in many respects similar to a Crusade. Scouts from all parts of the world are ambassadors of good will, making friends, breaking down barriers of color, of creed, and of class. That surely is a great Crusade. I advise you to do your best in that work, for soon you will be grown, and if quarrels should arise between any nations it is upon you that the burden of responsibility will fall.

Wars have taught us that if one nation tires to impose its particular will upon others, cruel reaction is bound to follow. A series of Scout World Jamborees and other meetings of Scouts from many countries has taught us that if we exercise mutual forbearance and give-and-take, then there is sympathy and harmony. These Jamborees have showed what a firm link the Scout Law is between boys and girls of all nations. We can camp together, go hiking together, and enjoy all the fun of outdoor life, and so help to forge a chain of friendship.

If we are friends we will not want to be in dispute, and by cultivating these friendships such as have been cemented at our great Jamborees, we are preparing the way for solutions of international problems by discussion of a peaceful character. This will have a vital and very far-reaching effect throughout the world in the cause of peace. Therefore, let us pledge ourselves to do our absolute utmost to develop peace and happiness in the world and good will among men.

In all this, it is the spirit that matters. Our Scout Law and Promise, when we really put them into practice, take away all occasion for wars and strife between nations.

There are great times ahead, and we shall need you!

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD CAMPING

Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell
1940 Kenya
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