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Three Local Scouts Join the 5 Percent to Become Eagle Scouts
Nationwide just 5 percent of all Boy Scouts achieve top rank of Eagle Scout. In Thomas Grimshaw, Keaton Holappa and Andrew Gauthier, Hamilton can boast of three in one year.
Last Sunday, Thomas Grimshaw, Keaton Holappa and Andrew Gauthier joined the ranks of Gerald Ford, Neil Armstrong, Steven Spielberg and Michael Moore. The three Hamilton residents and members of Wenham-based Boy Scout Troop 28 became Eagle Scouts. Fellow troop members, family and friends were at the ceremony known as the Eagle Court of Honor held at First Church in Wenham. To become an Eagle Scout is not a small undertaking. Many, if not most boys can claim to have at one time or another been a Cub Scout, but it is a select few that make it to scouting’s top rank. Becoming an Eagle Scout takes many years of steady commitment. Most who rise to the challenge are in their last year or two of high school when they earn their final merit badges…
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Michelle Bailey
10:35 pm on Sunday, July 15, 2012
Kudos to these young men, their leaders, their parents and their community for encouraging and supporting them. Scouts is the only year round program for boys that teachers leadership, fraternity, and fun. Troop 28 is off in the woods this week-end, so Scoutmaster Gauthier and other leaders are helping more boys to earn their ranks. more ›