February 3, 2023
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Christy Cooper, Development Director, 208-597-6044, christy.cooper@scouting.org
FOURTEEN FEMALE EAGLE SCOUTS HONORED AT EXAMPLES OF SUCCESS DINNER
Virginia Beach, Va. – Fourteen young women, the first female Eagle Scouts in the Tidewater Council Boy Scouts of America, were honored at the inaugural Examples of Success Dinner on Wednesday, February 1, 2023.
The event, sponsored by ABNB Federal Credit Union, was held at 6:00 PM in the Town Center City Club, 222 Central Park Avenue, Suite 230, in Virginia Beach. Town Center City Club founder Barbara Lewis hosted the event.
These remarkable young women are the first to earn the Eagle Scout Award, the highest achievement in the Scouts BSA program. The inaugural class of seven earned the award on February 8, 2021, Scouting’s anniversary. Three more earned their Eagle Award in 2021. Another four young women became Eagle Scouts in 2022.
Shelayne Boswell, Senior Vice President/Commercial Lender at Southern Bank and Trust Co., was the featured speaker at the event. She has been a Tidewater Council BSA board member since 2020 and is on the Lake Prince Woods Retirement Community advisory council board. She volunteers at the Crisis Pregnancy Center of Tidewater and Nansemond River Baptist Church.
Two young women also spoke, including one of the Eagle Scouts being honored. Simone Nied is an Eagle Scout from Virginia Beach and is a sophomore at the Entrepreneurship and Business Academy at Kempsville High School. She recently became the first in Tidewater Council to receive the prestigious Duke of Edinburgh International Bronze Award for community service.
The second youth speaker wass Gidget Schlossberg. She is a member of Scouts BSA Troop 1791 in Virginia Beach and attends Norfolk Academy. In 2018, she became one of the first female Cub Scouts in the Tidewater Council.
About Tidewater Council, Boy Scouts of America
Tidewater Council is the fifth oldest Boy Scouts of America council in the United States, established in 1911. Today, the council serves more than 4,100 youth and 1,700 adult volunteers in the Virginia cities of Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach, and the North Carolina counties of Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Pasquotank, and Perquimans. Information about Tidewater Council is available by visiting TidewaterBSA.com, emailing james.parnell@scouting.org, or calling 757-497-2688.
About the Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the nation’s foremost youth programs of character development and values-based leadership training. Since its inception in 1910, more than 130 million young women and men have participated in the BSA’s youth programs. More than 35 million adult volunteers have helped carry out the BSA’s mission.
BSA programs serve girls and boys ages five through 20, and their families, with age-appropriate curriculums that develop character, citizenship, leadership, and personal fitness.
More information about the Boy Scouts of America is available by visiting scouting.org.
About ABNB
The credit union began as NavPhiBase Federal Credit Union in 1960 with eight members and $40 in deposits. Today, ABNB Federal Credit Union celebrates more than 60 years of serving members. As a member-owned financial institution, ABNB has grown to over 78,000 members, has over $780 million in assets, and is a regional financial institution serving members in Greater Hampton Roads and Northeastern North Carolina through the Outer Banks.
ABNB Federal Credit Union has a long and storied history of charitable giving and community involvement dating back to the credit union’s founding in 1960. With a commitment to making a difference in the communities we serve, the ABNB Community Foundation was launched in 2019 to support causes and charities benefiting children and families in our region.
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