Successful applicants must take possession of the funds by July 15, 2015. A final report of the project, including pictures of use are due September 7, 2015. Payments will be made directly to the Scout Council.
Alexander A. Vervaert was a Scout in the Greater Lowell Council in the 1930‘s. In 1937, he was a camper at the first season of Wah-Tut-Ca Scout Reservation. Later he served on the Reservation Staff. After service in the US Army Air Corps during World War II he returned to Scouting and the Reservation. As an adult Scouter he served as District Chairman, Council Commissioner, and served as a member of the Council‘s Executive Board for almost 40 years.
He was the "Grand Sachem" of the Wah-Tut-Ca Braves, a forerunner of the Order of the Arrow in the Greater Lowell Council. In 1951 he chartered a new OA Lodge, number 451, which he would name, "Wannalancit", after the last Bashaba of the Pennacooks who lived in Greater Lowell.
Alex‘s first love in Scouting was Wah-Tut-Ca. He served the Reservation in many capacities. From the end of World War II, until his death in 1991, virtually every building at the reservation, was a product of his handy work.
The Key Foundation named it‘s camping grant after a man who provided opportunity and program to thousands of young people. It is in recognition of his contributions and to perpetuate his spirit to Wah-Tut-Ca and other Scout Camps that the Key Foundation has made this grant available.