ot: eagle scout, how many are there are in our midst? Options

[messix]

i went to my nephew's eagle scout ceremony today, one hell of a good kid. in the past year i think that there have been 5 or 6 that have achieved eagle from his troop now him and one more coming in the next month or so.

[Mike Knox]

My two sons are both Eagle Scouts, (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) and I was their Scout Troop Committee Chair. Our Troop (Ashland Oregon Troop 112 Crater Lake Council) is the oldest continuously registered Troop in Oregon, dating from 1919. When I got into the troop heierarchy I discovered that the true philosophy of Baden-Powell was a boy lead troop with adult assistance. His theory was that this was the way to make boys into leaders. Our troop at that time was a top down adult run military organization (the Scoutmaster was a Captain in the Army National Guard).

We (my other leaders and I) did a complete overhaul of the troop structure making it a boy lead troop. The philosophy really worked. We adults facilitated the things the boys wanted to do, and after a few shenanigans they settled right in to doing the right things. They always knew we adults were there to help and facilitate structure. In my 12 years of involvement we had dramatic increases in numbers, and had at least 12 boys achieve Eagle.

Myself? I never made it past Tenderfoot, discovered music and girls (in that order). But as an adult I acheived the Wood Badge (WEI-491-99 Patrol Leader Bear Patrol Gilwell Hall Troop 1) which considered the adult equivalent of Eagle.
I am very proud of that.