Richard "Dick" Burdick, (28 May 1929-February 25 2018) served as the International Commissioner of the

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from 1996 to 2003, after a long career with the BSA. While working at E.I. duPont de Numours in La Porte,

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, he developed Heat Transfer Cement which became the basis of his company, Thermon Manufacturing, founded by him in

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in 1954. In 2004, Burdick was awarded the 299th ''

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'', the only distinction of the

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, awarded by the

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for exceptional services to world Scouting.

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Recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award Boy Scouts of America People from New Braunfels, Texas 1929 births 2018 deaths {{US-bio-stub