Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
TROOP 323 assistant scoutmaster Bill Perkis, left, presents Patrick Madden with the National Eagle Scout Association's Outstanding Eagle Scout award Wednesday at the Bell Chalet in Hurley during the local troop's court of honor.
By RICHARD JENKINS
HURLEY - Patrick Madden has been a Boy Scout since 1958, earning the rank of Eagle Scout when John F. Kennedy was the president.
Wednesday he received the prestigious National Eagle Scout Association's Outstanding Eagle Scout award during Boy Scout Troop 323 Hurley-Ironwood's court of honor ceremony. While accepting the award, Madden told the scouts in attendance he was inspired by Kennedy's directive to, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
"That's why I became a judge, that's why I stayed in scouti...
