As the top volunteer Scouter and BSA National President, Wayne Perry was one of the visionaries for the Summit Bechtel Reserve.
It was his national connections and leadership that assembled the team of Scouters, philanthropists and executives instrumental in the development of SBR.
From creating the financing task force, to visiting all 80 proposed sites in 28 states. In addition to donating to The Summit to fund W.P. Point, Perry was a key advocate of the facility.
“This is Disneyland for kids,” said Perry. “It’s where young people come and are really challenged.” Besides the outdoor wilderness adventure, the Summit has more than five miles of zip lines, a whitewater-rafting circuit, a 120-foot tree house, and a stadium for 85,000 people.
Artist Tom White and BSA National President Wayne Perry at the dedication ceremony of the monumental bronze sculptures during the 2013 National Jamboree.
Tom, a hunter, has many friends who enjoy hunting to provide meat for their families as well and when one of them recently tagged out with a buck antelope, they called Tom to come take measurements for us sculpture.
It was important to Tom that the foundry we used in Wyoming to cast this into bronze, Eagle Bronze Foundry, do the patina in real life colors and shades. He wanted the wildlife bronze of the antelope to look like they had just stepped up to the waterhole.
It is a true pleasure to finally have one of Tom’s many public monumental bronze sculptures in his hometown. The sculpture is located in front of the government offices complex of the Town of Prescott Valley in front of the Police Department at the corner of Skoog and Lake Shore. It is along a favorite walking and running path and, thus, is able to be enjoyed by many folks in Prescott Valley.
The sculpture scene is available for recast in life-size and in the tabletop versions. Small wildlife desktop bronzes of the javelina eating cactus are available at Ian Russell Gallery downtown in Prescott Valley and are named “Snack Time” by Tom White. Call for information or to have your own custom wildlife scene for your ranch, farm, town or park designed by Tom.
