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ALL ABOUT ROB... (Well, maybe not ALL about me, but enough to give you a good idea...)
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Baseball Teams We Have Visited as a Family:
Before those who know me nitpick too much, I have made a point of visiting Fenway Park many times. And I consider myself to be a Red Sox fan, my first game was in September of 1980, when I was 8 years old... My wife has joined me at Fenway a couple of times, but our son has never made the trip, so for now, we are not counting Fenway Park amongst the visited list... Stay tuned...
As for those games we have visited, we've only seen one home team win, so we are running a .250 Home Team Win Average, but the one visiting team who lost was the New York Yankees, which didn't hurt any of our feelings too much...
Personal Tid-Bits
Hello, Welcome to my page, finally I have added some personal information. Here are some things to help let you know a little bit about me... For now, I have my Scouting Bio up, I will try to get more info up one of these days...
Scouting Biography
Growing up in Manchester, New Hampshire, Rob began his Scouting career a little earlier than most, as a "tag-a-long" of his older brother Steve at age 4. Rob was so enthralled with his brother's Cub Scout Den that he begged his mother to come along to every meeting, much to Steve's chagrin. When Rob's opportunity came, he took to the program quickly earning his rank and arrow points. Midway through his time as a Cub Scout, Rob's Cub Scout Pack had some internal issues, and Rob's parents took Rob out of the Pack. (Steve had just completed Webelos at that point.) Rob was heartbroken and waited for his time to join the troop like his older brother.
To Rob, 10½ seemed like an eternity, but when the time came, Rob became a Boy Scout and quickly dove into the program. Almost 5 years to the day, and on the 80th birthday of Boy Scouting, Rob was presented with his Eagle Scout. While for some folks, the adventure may have ended there, Rob's love for Scouting and desire to go further led him in several different directions. Rob was blessed with a father and brother who loved the program and guided him by both example and encouragement. (At this point, Rob's father was a member of the Daniel Webster Council's Committee, and his brother was the Lodge Chief for the Passaconaway Lodge, Order of the Arrow.)
Rob joined Exploring in the fall after earning his Eagle Scout. To Rob, Exploring was a new direction that neither of his family members had taken to. (Rob's father was an Air Explorer in the mid-fifties, but Exploring was radically reinvented in the late sixties to include many other interests, so in reality it was a vastly different program than what his father was involved in.) Rob went to his first national event, the National Exploring Conference in his backyard of Boston, Massachusetts in 1988. That event was to have a major impact on his life, in that it was there he met Beth, an Explorer from Maryland, who would eventually become his wife. (In fact, he proposed to her on the way back from the 1992 National Explorer Conference in Columbia, South Carolina.) Rob was active on the Council level, serving on the Council's Explorer Officer's Association for several terms. Rob became the only person in the Daniel Webster Council to earn the Explorer Achievement Award and was also the 1991 Daniel Webster Council Explorer of the Year.
Rob hadn't left his troop, however, and was as active a Scout as he was an Explorer. He was inducted into the Passaconaway Lodge, Order of the Arrow in 1985, and went to the National Order of the Arrow conference in 1988 and 1990. He also was on the National Shows Staff of the 1989 National Scout Jamboree, where he was blessed to work with Stephen Speilburg. Despite having moved to Maine in 1988, he became the NE-1A Section Secretary in 1992.[1][2]