Michael A. Boccardi: A Loyal
Scout
Taking more than a dozen 15-year-old Boy Scouts to the
wilds of New Mexico for a 10-day trip on horseback might
not sound like the ideal trip for some people, but it was
for Michael A. Boccardi. "It was a once in a lifetime
thing," said his friend Ed Maselli, an assistant
scoutmaster of Troop 40 in Mount Vernon, N.Y., which Mr.
Boccardi led as scoutmaster. "Snakes, bears, the whole
nine yards. He loved it."
Mr. Boccardi, 30, worked as a senior vice president of
institutional relations at Fred Alger Management.
Scouting captured Mr. Boccardi's imagination from the
age of 10; he had been an Eagle Scout himself. A typical
month might include 20 nights devoted to various
activities and events, according to the
Westchester-Putnam Council of the Boy Scouts of
America.
Scouting was on his mind on the morning of Sept. 11.
From his office, he sent an e-mail message to a mother of
one of the boys just before 9 a.m. It was the troop's
revised newsletter.
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