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Bay Area Council #574
3020 53rd Street
Galveston, TX 77551
P: 409-744-5206
F: 409-744-7850

Council Service Center
& Scout Shop hours: Monday thru Friday ~ 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

About Us

One of the most important documents in the history of Brazoria and Galveston Counties is preserved not in a museum or a library but in the Galveston Island headquarters of the Bay Area Council, Boy Scouts of America.

Dated March 28, 1919, the document is a report from the Galveston Rotary Club to its officers and members with a recommendation to form a Boy Scout movement in Galveston. The three-page document still survives to this day and is now commonly referred to as the Bay Area Council Charter. As early as 1920, the Daily News, the oldest newspaper in Texas, carried a regular column called "The Scout Roundup."

On August 14, 1962, Mrs. Mary Moody Northen donated a check for $100,000 to the council to build a new headquarters (where we are still housed today.) She made the donation in honor of her late husband, Edwin C. Northen, a longtime Scouter who was active in the council. Today, the council serves more than 8,000 youth through the leadership of more than 2,000 adult volunteers.

2025 Executive Committee

James Ware – Interim President

Cory Moss - Immediate Past President

James Ware – VP Development & Immediate Past President

Derick Meadows – Council Commissioner

Myles Shelton – Treasurer

TBD – VP Administration

Mike Henderson – VP Membership/Relationships

TBD – VP Program

Walt Wundrow – VP Properties

2025 Executive Board

Kim Barker

James “Chezo” Cesarini

Brent Cockerham

Joe Dervay

Mark Fridye

Jim Galbraith

Charles Mouton

Fred Raschke

Scott Livingston

Rene Julien

2025 Honorary Board

Charles Doyle

Frank Resch

District Executive - Roland Choate

BAC debut: 2025
Hometown: Pearland, Texas
College:
Coolest Desk Item: 3D printed Face-hugger
Favorite Movie: Alien
Favorite TV Show: Star Trek - The Next Generation
Favorite Band: Grateful Dead. Phish.
Favorite Scouting Moment: Being Cubmaster of Pack 416.
About Me:
Email: roland.choate@scouting.org
Phone: 832-563-9288

Office Assistant - Amanda Ferrovecchio

BAC debut: 2023
Hometown: Pasadena, TX
College: San Jac Central
Coolest Desk Item: Photos of my son and dad.
Favorite Movie: Bringing Up Baby, and Back to the Future.
Favorite TV Show: "Fallout"
Favorite Band: New Found Glory and Panic! At the Disco... But my favorite artist is Michael Jackson.
Favorite Scouting Moment: All of them!
About Me: I love going camping with my family and sleeping. I don't get to do much of the latter anymore, but I still love it.
Email: amanda.ferrovecchio@scouting.org
Phone: 409-744-5206 ext. 2801

Registrar- Sonya Harvey

BAC debut: 2013
Hometown: Galveston
College: UTSA
Coolest Desk Item: Order of the Arrow kazoo.
Favorite Movie: Cool Hand Luke.
Favorite TV Show: War Documentaries & anything with Bear Grylls.
Favorite Band: Luke the Drifter.
Favorite Scouting Moment: Earning Wood Badge. Getting postcards from Scouts.
About Me: Love family, pen pals, finding lost graves, road trips, campfires, and playing guitar around campfires.
Email: sonya.harvey@scouting.org
Phone: office 409-744-5206 ext. 2804

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