March 13, 2008

Calling all Eagle Scouts

The National Eagle Scouts Association has embarked on a project to locate and contact every living Eagle Scout.

"We want to find and contact every living Eagle Scout and register his achievements, past and present," said NESA Director Bill Steele on the NESA Web site at www.nesa.org/misc/essearch.html. "This effort will culminate in Roll Call: The National Eagle Scout Registry – a publication that will capture the tradition, history and honor of our nation's Eagle Scouts and will be available only to bona fide Eagles."

The publication will include only adult Eagle Scouts who have agreed to be listed.

Boy Scouts of America was organized in 1910, and with the organization's 100^th anniversary quickly approaching, a concentrated effort is underway to find all Eagle Scouts.

BSA is asking all Eagle Scouts to call 1-800-917-2270 to be included in the Roll Call.

On the local level, Ritzville Boy Scouts of America Troop 381 had 11 Eagle Scouts on Feb. 24, 1947, according to Wayne Nerger, one of those 11 scouts.

Nerger, a NESA member, said that Ritzville continues to hold the record for the most Eagle Scouts at one time.