08/Oct/2009
Four
Achieve Eagle Status in
St.
Jude’s Boy Scout Troops
By Paul
Sicard
The celebration lamp is
on as four scouts from Troop 103 at
St.
Jude
School
on
Highland Road
achieved the rank of Eagle Scout this summer, the highest honor in Scouting.
At a
recent Troop 103 (St. Jude School) Court of Honor are (from left) Marshall
Grigg, Matthew Adler, Peter Sicard, Davy Goldsmith (2006 Eagle Scout), Haggai
Davis III, Spencer Billings, previous Scoutmaster Dave Goldsmith, and current
Scoutmaster Cliff Durand. (Not present
was Assistant Scout Master Charles Stephens.)
Scouts are required to
earn 21 Merit Badges and demonstrate Scout Spirit, service and leadership to
earn this all important rank.
This includes
the planning, organizing and leading fellow Scouts in the performance of an
Eagle project.
The Scouts earning Eagle
rank this summer were Charles Stephens, Haggai Davis III, Peter Sicard and
Matthew Adler.
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Charles Stephens is now a freshman at LSU majoring in business. His Eagle project was to organize a drive to collect donations of personal items for residents at Lakewood Quarters nursing home, including building donation boxes.
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Haggai Davis is a junior at
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Peter Sicard is also a
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Matthew Adler is a sophomore at Catholic High. His Eagle project was to build storage lockers and storage hangers for the changing rooms at the St. Jude school gym.
These Scouts are to be
congratulated on their achievements.
Two other Scouts from
the Troop,
Marshall
Grigg and Spencer Billings, became Eagles in 2008.
Several other Scouts from Troop 103 are
expected to earn Eagle rank in the next several months.
Since 1990, Troop 103 has produced 30 Eagle
Scouts.
Only 2 percent of those who
enter Scouting earn the coveted Eagle rank.
Every astronaut who has walked on the moon has been an Eagle Scout.
Troop 103 Scouts spend a
week each summer at Camp working on merit badges and enjoying outdoor
activities such as whitewater rafting.
In the past few years, they have gone to
Camp
Comer in northeast
Alabama ,
Camp
Rainey
Mountain in northeast
Georgia and our own
Camp
Avondale in
Clinton ,
LA.
A group of Troop 103 Scouts participated in a
twelve day backpacking trek at the Philmont Scout Reservation in
New Mexico in 2008,
including climbing 12,000 foot Mt.Baldy.
Congratulations and
thanks go to Dave Goldsmith and Cliff Durand, who have served as Scoutmasters
for these Scouts. Troop 103 is sponsored by Knights of Columbus Council 9692.
The Boy Scout program aims to develop American citizens who
are physically, mentally, and emotionally fit,
who have the desire and skills to help others, and who will be prepared
to participate in and provide leadership in American society.
Scouting instills the values of good conduct,
respect and honesty. Scouts learn skills that will last a lifetime, including
basic outdoor skills, first aid, citizenship skills, leadership skills and how
to get along with others.
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