Carroll D. Myers may have retired from his job as chief executive officer of Taneytown Bank & Trust Co. a year ago, but that hasn't slowed the 66-year-old Taneytown resident.
Just ask Todd Walter, the county district executive for the Baltimore Area Council Boy Scouts of America.
"Carroll Myers is very active in the community in various nonprofit organizations," Mr. Walter said. "He was on our district nominating committee, and he and Taneytown Bank have done a tremendous amount for boy scouting in Carroll County."
For that community service, the Carroll district recently presented Mr. Myers with its 1994 Good Scout Award during its annual fund-raiser at Wakefield Valley Golf and Conference Center.
The awards ceremony was a homecoming for Mr. Myers, who was born in the house on the property that is being used as offices for the sporting complex.
"That house was built in the 18th century," Mr. Myers said. "There's a date over the door, I believe. I talked to a girl in the office one day and she invited me to go back and see it."
His history with the scouts dates to the early 1940s when he joined Boy Scout Troop 321 of Westminster. Attending the awards breakfast with Mr. Myers was his Scoutmaster Bernard Wantz, who is in his 80s.
"He enjoyed that, he was very pleased that I asked him," Mr. Myers said.
Mr. Myers fell short of his goal of achieving Eagle Scout, Boy Scouting's highest rank, but he made Life rank, just under Eagle.
"Our merit badge counselors were being sent off to the war, so we never got to some of our badges," he recalled.
But his son, Tom, 35, a banker with Provident Bank, did make Eagle Scout with Troop 381 of Westminster. Mr. Myers and his wife, Jean, also have two daughters, one of whom was a Girl Scout and one who participated in 4-H.
Mr. Myers spent his adult life working first at Carroll County Bank, then Taneytown Bank. He was president and CEO for 16 of his 20 years there.
The community organizations in which he is active include:
* Carroll County Hospital Health Services Corp.
* Carroll County Historical Society Board of Directors and chairman of the North Western Carroll County Communities Publication project.
* Optimal Riding Therapy Center Inc., Board of Directors. The center, which is owned and operated by one of his daughters, offers therapeutic horseback riding to handicapped people.
* Friends of the National Park at Gettysburg.
* Carroll County and Taneytown chambers of commerce.
"Since I've retired, I was appointed by the county commissioners to the Carroll County Industrial Development Authority, which I've enjoyed," he said. "It's a five-member committee that manages the county assets, like the land at the airport."
His interest in American history led him to join the Historical Society and Gettysburg group.
But it is his desire to give back something to the community that keeps him active in so many organizations, he said.
"Surviving a very poor childhood, I was extremely fortunate during my lifetime here in Carroll County," he told the gathering at the Boy Scouts breakfast.
"Because of this, I feel obliged to help others -- to give back to my community . . . then I sleep better knowing I haven't always taken, but have been able to repay a small measure of this obligation," he said.
He calls his community activities "enjoyment -- not like going into the bank and arguing regulations -- I don't miss it at all," he said.
On the other hand, one of the accomplishments he cites as being proudest of is the Taneytown Bank's growth during his tenure as president and CEO.
Aside from the community work, Mr. Myers is also enjoying his family and hobbies. The Myerses' three children and four grandchildren are all close by.
Mr. and Mrs Myers, married for 44 years, collect antiques, which means making the rounds of auctions and flea markets. They also enjoy traveling.
For himself, Mr. Myers likes to collect small farm equipment and implements, a throwback to his childhood days on a Carroll County farm. The basement of his home near Tyrone is filled with collectibles.