Another Eagles

John Dan kept very busy as a teenager.
He was interested in drama. Enjoyed helping do "Fiddler on the Roof" in the Middle School. Sewed his own hat when I couldn't make one look right.
When it was time for him to go into Scouting, we hunted a troop that was doing good work. We found Joe Paul Jones, who was a Scout Master! The Very Best!
They enlisted John as an assistant Scout Master, and they did some good work together.
Troop 400 camped once a month, rain or shine, snow or heat. While John Dan was in that troop, they celebrated their one hundredth monthly camp out.
I remember a fifty-mile bicycle ride John Dan made to Hillsboro as part of his scouting work. I think we went by to see Carolyn’s mother before we returned to Fort Worth with the bicycle in the back of the wagon.
When John Dan earned his Eagle badge, there were seven other boys who finished the same work. And they earned it. John Dan was 14 or 15 at the time.