Eagle Scout Michael M. Strasburg

• 25 Merit Badges
• 66 Days of Short-Term Camping, including all 5 Projectorees
• 56 Days of Long Term Camping (4 Summer Camps, plus 3 High Adventure Treks, the 1994 C&O Canal Bike Hike, Susquehanna River 90 Mile Canoe Trek, and Philmont 1998)
• 3 50-Miler Awards
• JLT Award
• 50 Hour Community Service Award
• 1 Scoutmaster's Award for Most Active Scouts
• Totin Chip Award
• Twice the Patrol Leader for the First Place finishing Patrol at the North Arlington Projectorees.
• Patrol Leader
• Troop Guide
• Projectoree Staff

His Eagle Project was building a rock staircase on a steep section of trail at the Arlington Outdoor Lab. This section (about 50 yards of steep downhill) was notorious for injuries due to slips and falls by the many Arlington schoolchildren who visited the lab and walked the nature trail loop. It has since been injury-free - perhaps the finest compliment that can be paid to its quality. Not including travel time back and forth to the lab (which was quite extensive), the project took 310 man-hours of brutal, back-breaking work to complete. At least 20 tons of rock (don't just read over that - think about it!) were manhandled into place, and fitted together multiple times. The biggest rock weighed over 1,000 pounds! With minimal care, the staircase should easily last for several decades. A super Eagle Project.

Mike, a senior at Yorktown, has also been a top athlete in soccer, football and wrestling (twice a National District Champion Wrestler, and oft featured in the local papers.) He has been a long-term Altar Boy, and a member of the St. Agnes Catholic Youth Group (Young Life.) He has also worked at both Calico Corners and with the JJMA Computer Company, and intends to apply to James Madison and Virginia Tech Universities.

Thanks to the Board of Review members Tim Arthurs, Hank Dettmar, Dick Meyers, and Jim Smith. And once again, "Happy 18th Birthday, Mike!"

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25 November 1999