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5 Quick Questions with: Gray Barnhill, an Eagle Scout and CMA Award-winning radio producer

March 25, 2025 0

This past November, 94.7 QDR took home the CMA in the “Large Market Radio Station of the Year” category. On that award-winning crew is Eagle Scout Gray Barnhill.

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5 Quick Questions with: Rich Pfaltzgraff, NESA’s new president

January 23, 2024 2

Rich Pfaltzgraff, a longtime volunteer with South Carolina’s Blue Ridge Council who has earned the BSA’s Silver Beaver Award and District Award of Merit, has been named the new president of the National Eagle Scout Association.

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Five things we learned from two Eagle Scouts who founded their own nuclear energy startup

June 26, 2023 0

When Kevin O’Sullivan and Mason Rand first met at the University of Chicago, they quickly learned they had something in common: a vision of a clean energy future driven by nuclear energy.

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5 Quick Questions with: Dan Wayne, taxidermist and Bigfoot documentarian

December 14, 2021 0

We caught up with Eagle Scout Dan Wayne to ask him five quick questions about his new film.

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5 Quick Questions with: Joe Davidson, Eagle Scout and Washington Post columnist

March 17, 2021 1

Joe Davidson, Eagle Scout and columnist for the Washington Post, shares his thoughts about why we still need Scouting today.

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5 Quick Questions with: Three Oregon siblings who will soon be Eagle Scouts

January 6, 2021 3

Like all Scouting volunteers, Amanda Becker has a dozen different roles. But her proudest doesn’t come with a badge of office, and it won’t earn her a square knot. The volunteer from the Cascade Pacific

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5 Quick Questions with: Joshua Hunt, Eagle Scout and Scouting artist

September 8, 2020 1

This Eagle Scout artist-in-residence shares his method to creating awesome Scouting works of art.

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5 Quick Questions with: Brian White, Eagle Scout and restaurant entrepreneur

January 16, 2020 0

Brian White, an Eagle Scout and entrepreneur, shares how Scouting helped him as a business owner.

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5 Quick Questions with: Matthew Schwab, Eagle Scout and Navy helicopter pilot

March 7, 2019 1

Lt. Matthew Schwab, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and former search and rescue pilot, says Scouting prepared him for academic and military life.

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5 Quick Questions with: Kurtis Bedford, actor and Cub Scout volunteer

December 3, 2018 0

Kurtis Bedford shares what got him into Scouting, how he manages his time and whether he’s ever used his Hollywood connections to help his Cub Scouts.

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Aaron Derr is the senior editor of Aaron on Scouting and Scout Life magazine, and also a former Cubmaster and Scouts BSA volunteer.


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Sheniece Chappell is an associate editor of Scout Life and Scouting magazines.


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