The Boy Scouts of Douglas County will honor Julian Carter Thursday for his support and dedication to community organizations.

The breakfast event will begin at 7:30 in the Downtown Conference Center.

Carter called it a “great honor.” He has been active in scouting since shortly after he moved to the county in 1978 and joined Lithia Springs United Methodist Church.

“They encouraged me to help, and I became kind of a fund raiser and ‘helper out’ of people and now have done it for close to 30 years,” he said. “That’s just been my role.”

A role Karmen Thornton, district executive for the Boys Scouts, openly appreciates. She said Carter has been a “great supporter and a great friend of scouting.”

“”He has been a longtime supporter of scouting and a lot of other community organizations for about 30 years,” Thornton said. “He has a great heart and just loves kids.”

Thornton said that there will be lots of community leaders coming to this breakfast.

Carter was only a Boy Scout for a brief time in his childhood, he said. But he wishes he had done more since Boy Scouts is such a worthwhile organization.

“Some of the most successful people today are Eagle Scouts and you never meet a former Eagle Scout. You might have a ‘former’ president of the United States, but you’re always an Eagle Scout. It’s a lifetime thing,” Carter said. “It’s an honor to be recognized for the little bitty role I’ve played.”

Carter’s propensity for fund raising and working with the financial side of community organizations is something that he’s always been involved with, he said.

He loves the thought of “getting out there and getting money” and said he’s done it enough times to have a good idea of what he’s doing since the Boy Scouts have met their fund raising goals every year.

He said Thornton does a tremendous amount of work and just needs someone to help keep score.

Currently the CEO of the College and Career Institute on the campus of West Georgia Technical College, Carter retired from the First National Bank of Georgia. He has been involved in the banking business in Douglas County since 1980 and had 40 years of total banking and finance experience when he retired, he said.

Carter was named Douglas County Citizen of the Year for 2008; is past chairman of the WellStar Douglas advisory board; past chairman of the Douglas County Chamber of Commerce Foundation Board; a member of the West Georgia Technical College Foundation Board; a member of the Douglas County Literacy Board; chairman of the Public Education Trust Board; 2008 Douglas County Mentor Champion and has been a mentor every year for the mentoring program in the county, he said.

His wife is retired from the Douglas County School System and the couple has three adult sons and three grandchildren.