This year, Nisqually Lodge donated $1,000.00 to Pacific Harbors Council endowment trust fund. While it is a national recognition, the James E. West Fellowship award is authorized and presented by the local council. The award is named after the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America who exemplified Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation that "an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man." Scouting today is the "lengthened shadow" of more than three decades of the farsighted and dedicated leadership of James E. West. There can be no finer honor paid to a Scouter than to be named a James E. West Fellow, indicating that the nominee is in the same spirit and dedication to Scouting as was James E. West.