Posted on 08/18/2006 8:21:55 AM PDT by hiramknight
Troop 4 honors two new Eagle Scouts Friday, August 18, 2006
MILFORD -- Joshua Avery and Alexander Mattscheck were presented with Eagle Scout medals at a court of honor ceremony held recently at St. Mary's church.
Only two percent of all scouts reach the rank of eagle scout. An eagle scout must complete at least 21 merit badges and organize a service project that benefits either his church, community or school. Both Avery and Mattscheck began in scouting as cub scouts with pack 4
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Congratulations to your friends son!
My son gets his Arrow of Light at the end of the month and I'm hoping that he will continue with the drive and determination it takes to reach Eagle Scout.
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My Eagle Scout card is from 1/4/82. It has Ronald Reagan's signature as "Honorary President of Scouting" and I still carry it in my wallet.
Congratulations, young heros! Marvelous work!
Cool. Congratulations to the boys and their families.
It all starts with strong support from the parents. Although I was never a scout as a young man, my time as a scoutmaster has been one of the highlights of my life. I am so sold on the Scouting program as a good foundation in a young man's life. Good luck to you and your young man!
Of course lets not mention Boy Scout's little secrete about their merit programs. The difficulty of obtaining the Eagle Scout rank (as well as all the others) has dropped significantly over the last decade.
These days it seems the Boy Scouts are giving this stuff away. An Eagle scout today isn't the same as 10 or especially 20 years ago.
Earned my bird at age 12. The certificate was signed by JFK (via auto-pen) the week he was assassinated.
Scouting in general, and the Eagle Scout in particular, led to many wonderful memories. Like the two summers I spent on staff at scout camp in the Colorado mountains about 20 miles or so from Breckenridge. And the several hundred days I spent camping out. And the some of the pranks we pulled on everybody from scout leaders to tenderfoot scouts.
The contacts you make as an Eagle Scout are incredible. For about four years running, I knew at least one half of the service academy appointments in my congressional district, and about one half of the student body presidents of about every high school I visited in a 50 mile radius of home. I always had a buddy I could call to sneak away from school function -- and they in turn called on me many times.
I still hear news from time to time about some of my old scout chums -- e.g. appointed federal judge, elected mayor, named superintendent of schools, honored as a noted surgeon, etc.
Perhaps best of all, I will never forget the glow on my mother's face when she pinned the medal on my chest at the Court of Honor.
The Eagle Scout award is one of the things you earn in life that can never be taken away from you. It is an experience I will always cherish.
Please give Alex a pat on the back for me.
Welcome to the club
My son joined the cub scouts last night. I was reluctantly named Den Leader. He was very excited so I guess I will do my best to keep him that way.
My 15 yo is Life and looking now for his Eagle project. 14 yo younger brother is heading toward Star.
I have been volunteered to put together a package on advancement for our district, instructional in nature. Please send any ideas you have to me.
You're full of crap! I've been a Scoutmaster for the past 5 years, and I've seen the merit badge program increase in difficulty significantly! The Eagles today are as great, or better, than they ever were.
I just got back from Cub Scout camp. 14 hrs of rain and climbing a mountain to get to camp. But we had fun.
Good for you! Scouting is more than worth it. The program is outstanding and brings so much to boys.
A lot of people refer to the lessened emphasis om camping as the softening of Scouts.
So true! Merit badges keep getting more difficult and rigorous. My oldest is doing the new one now - Composite Materials. Nothing shabby about this badge, though of course it is not ER.
A decrease in emphasis in camping? Not at all. In fact, camping and the leave no trace program is stronger than ever, making today's Boy Scouts the best campers of all time. Unfortunately, state parks and national parks are in bad shape, and it's getting tougher and tougher to find places that aren't overwhelmed with RVs, etc.
Also, the Scouts of today do a lot more than camping...as they should. Boy Scouts is all about preparing our young men...and women...to be the leaders of tomorrow. Camping, sure, is a part of it. But camping was a way to attract youth to the LEADERSHIP program. BSA, fortunately, is adapting to the changes in our youth and appealing to them in a much broader way.
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