Milo Ross, Bill McBride, Leon Taylor, Freddy Cox Eagle Announcement

The newspaper clipping from 1956 includes the following:

Awarded Highest Honor in Scouting

These four Plain City Boy Scouts from Troop 42 of the Pine View District received their Eagles badges at a recent Court of Honor.  They have earned a total of 84 merit badges.  Left to right are Milo Paul Ross, son of Mr. & Ms. Milo Ross; Bill McBride, son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith McBride; Leon Taylor, son of Mr. & Mrs. Everett Taylor, and Freedy Cox, son of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Cox.  The Ross youth also attended the Boy Scout National Jamboree at Valley Forge, Pa., last summer.

I quote from the article above, but Dad pointed out that Freddy’s last name is Coy, not Cox.  But the newspaper has it incorrect.

Eagle Scout

I made this photo available earlier.  I assume from the same occasion.  I didn’t scan it so I don’t know if that is the original quality, even with the blemishes.

Milo in his scouting uniform about 1954

This is from their old home in Plain City with a few merit badges yet to go before receiving his Eagle rank.

Here is the clipping of my own announcement.

Newspaper clipping from the South Idaho Press.

I have written on my Eagle before, but I will include this picture too.

Dad shaking my hand afterward for a photo shoot. 

I certainly looked younger in 1993, I had just turned 14 years old.