Scouting, Volume 61, Number [6], September 1973 Page: 12
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BY AUGUST F. HOOK
SCOUTING
PAYS OFF IN
August F. (Bud) Hook is chairman
of the Board of Hook Drugs, Inc.
Now serving as "Boypower '76"
Capital Funds Committee chair-
man, he is known for his extensive
work in Scouting.
In 1972 Hook gave some of his
personal Hook's stock, valued at
$500,000, to the Boy Scouts of
America in Indiana. In the early
'30's he helped organize a "junior
council" of young men interested in
developing and helping the council
grow. The group later merged in
the Central Indiana Council, now
the Crossroads of America Council.
Hook has received letters of com-
mendation from President Richard
M. Nixon and the late I. Edgar
Hoover. In 1968 Mayor Richard G.
Lugar proclaimed an "August F.
(Bud) Hook Day."
A 1929 graduate of Purdue Univer-
sity, Hook attended Harvard Grad-
uate School of Business, then re-
turned to become a store manager.
In jest, my friends have often
heard me say that the only dif-
ference between my father's suc-
cess and mine is that he started
with no drug stores and I started
with 56.
I was born into a situation of
prosperity, but it became apparent
very early that when it comes to
doing things for yourself, it takes
your own talent, self-confidence and
initiative.
Material wealth has little to do
with one's conquest for self-accom-
plishment. If such a ready-made
situation does anything, it tends to
starve initiative.
When I was a Scout, I walked five
AND LIFE
An Indiana industrialist says that Scouting
has enriched his life, and tells why he
is so actively working to support our movement.
blocks to catch a streetcar that
took me to the small gym where the
meeting was held. My father had
introduced me to outdoor life on
fishing trips—and that's what I
thought Scouting could give me
more of. My Scoutmaster asked me
if I would like to try for Eagle in
the shortest possible time allowed.
Sure, I'd give it a whirl. And two
years later, I got my Eagle Badge.
But it wasn't all that easy. Actually
I found the Eagle achievement far
less difficult than my earlier strug-
gle for First Class.
That was my first great obstacle
and it was my own conquest. My
father's name didn't mean a thing.
And looking ahead, I knew it
wouldn't get me anything in the
future—not even a letter in football
or swimming.
The early Scouting experience
taught me persistence. My Scout-
master "poked" at us constantly.
At troop meetings, each of us had
to stand up and tell the rest of the
group what we had accomplished
the previous week. We had to tell
them something worthwhile or be
put down by everyone else. We used
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