{{Short description|International Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Richard Burdick | native_name = <!--The person's name in their own language, if different.--> | native_name_lang = <!--ISO 639-1 code, e.g., "fr" for French. If more than one, use {{lang}} in |native_name= instead.--> | birth_date = 28 May 1929 | birth_place = New Braunfels, Texas | death_date = February 25, 2018 | death_place = New Braunfels, Texas | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | order = | office = International Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America | term_start = 1996 | term_end = 2003 | predecessor = | successor = }} '''Richard "Dick" Burdick,''' (28 May 1929-February 25, 2018) served as the International Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America from 1996 to 2003, after a long career with the BSA.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://herald-zeitung.com/obituaries/article_1c214a54-1b47-11e8-befa-031dae0f1681.html|title=Richard L. "Dick" Burdick|website=Herald-Zeitung Online|language=en|access-date=2020-01-07}}</ref> While working at E.I. duPont de Numours in La Porte, Texas, he developed Heat Transfer Cement which became the basis of his company, Thermon Manufacturing, founded by him in Houston in 1954.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/richard-burdick-obituary?pid=188290849|title=Richard Burdick|last=|first=|date=25 February 2018|website=www.legacy.com/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>

In 2004, Burdick was awarded the 299th ''Bronze Wolf'', the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/list |title=List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award &#124; World Scouting |publisher=Scout.org |date= |access-date=2018-07-20 |archive-date=2016-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129145907/https://www.scout.org/BronzeWolfAward/list |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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