OFFICIAL PRESENTATION
PROVES IMPRESSIVE EVENT
Eagle Scout Receives Decoration at Hands of Commissioner
And Officers and Members of Local Council; Band of 40
Boys Act as Escort of Honor.
The ceremony of presenting David Wilt, eagle scout, of Troop 15, with the official decoration by Milton A. McRae, scout commissioner, and officers and members of the local Boy Scout council, last night at the First Presbyterian Church, was declared by many the most impressive event in the history of the local scout activities. As a part of the opening service, scouts carrying the commissioner’s and the council flags, led the procession of officials and scouts of Troop 15 up the center aisle to the music of a march on the great organ. Immediately following the flags was the color guard followed by Scout Commissioner McRae, and Duncan MacKinnon, president of the local scout council, with members of the court of honor and troop committee. Forty neatly uniformed members scouts of Troop 15 accompanied the honor scout to the front of the auditorium, where the interesting ceremony of presentation of the highest rank in the scouting made a most impressive scene.
Before becoming an Eagle scout it was necessary for the honor scout to meet the requirements of a life and star scout by qualifying in given merit badge tests, and in order to reach the goal of eagle scout, the highest rank in scouting, he qualified in all of the following merit badge examinations: Agriculture, athletics, automobiling, business, camping, carpentry, chemistry, civics, conservation, cooking, cycling, electricity, firemanship, first aid, first aid to animals, forestry, gardening, life saving. machinery, marksmanship, music, ornithology, pathfinding, personal health, pioneering. public health, signaling, swimming, safety first.
In recognition of his splendid record as a scout, young Wilt was informed that a position was open at local scout headquarters for him to consider and that assistance probably would be given that would materially aid him in going on through college, and the completion of his education. He will be a senior in the local high school this year and recently he returned from Camp Kearny, where he attended the R.O. T. C. in which he has been greatly interested.
Following the presentation. Rev. Wilbur Hollenbeck, former scoutmaster of Troop 15. now pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Selma, delivered an inspiring sermon on “An Eagle Scout.”
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