By Alana Moehring Mallard
Lindy Green of Scouts BSA Troop 2019 received her Eagle Scout Award on Aug. 24 at a Eagle Scout Court of Honor held at The Church at Highland Park. Charity Rehder is Scoutmaster of Troop 2019.
On her way to achieving the Eagle Scout distinction, Lindy earned 41 merit badges and four Eagle palms. She filled various leadership roles, including chaplain’s aide, scribe, webmaster, and assistant patrol leader.
Lindy ’s Eagle project was a mural of the Lamar Middle School mascot painted on the gym wall. With help from friends, fellow scouts, and family, she prepped, projected, traced, and painted the image. She gathered supplies from local businesses and collected donations to fund the project.
Eagle is scouting’s highest advancement, with only two million scouts achieving the Eagle Scout rank since 1912 – about six percent of scouts. Troop 2019 was chartered with long-time Troop 410 by The Church at Highland Park in 2019 when Boy Scouts of America changed its name to Scouting BSA and became a coeducational organization for young people between the ages of 11 and 17.
Lindy – like all Eagle scouts – pledged her sacred honor during the Court of Honor to do her best each day, to make her training an example, for her rank and influence to count strongly for better Scouting and for better citizenship in her troop, community, and her contacts with other people.
