Background
Love, Ben Howard was born on September 26, 1930 in Trenton, Tennessee, United States. Son of Ben Drane and Virginia (Whitehead).
Love, Ben Howard was born on September 26, 1930 in Trenton, Tennessee, United States. Son of Ben Drane and Virginia (Whitehead).
Bachelor of Science, Lambuth College, 1955. HHD (honorary), Lambuth College, 1986. Doctor Philanthropy (honorary), Pepperdine University, 1987.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Montclair State University, 1991.
Love died on July 31, 2010, at his home in Cedar Park, Texas due to lung cancer. Love became a District Executive for the West Tennessee Area Council in 1955, and in 1960 he became Scout Executive of the Delta Area Council. In 1968, Ben was named Scout Executive of the Longhorn Council in Fort Worth, Texas and it was during his tenure that the Sid Richardson Scout Ranch was constructed.
In 1971, he was named Scout Executive at the Sam Houston Area Council.
Prior to becoming in 1985, Love served as director of the Northeast Region from 1973 to 1985 and lived in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. As Love introduced the Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture campaign against the five "unacceptables": hunger, illicit drugs, child abuse, youth unemployment and illiteracy.
The Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture also developed coeducational "Career Awareness" Exploring during the Ben Love years. Honors and
lieutenant was Love"s leadership during his tenure as in defending the Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture during the Curran Case, the Randall case and later the Dale case that charted the course for the Boy Scouts eventual legal victories, but loss of public support.
Served with United States Army, 1951-1952. Member La Cima Club (board directors Irving chapter since 1985), Diamond Oaks Country Club.
Married Ann Claire Hugo, March 4, 1933. Children: Ben H. Junior, Phillip H.(deceased), Leigh Anne, Mark E.