More than 117 recent Eagle Scouts gathered at Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Center on May 1 to celebrate their success at attaining the rank. Jeff Renner, from King 5 News and a former scoutmaster, emceed the program.
The program consisted of awarding Peter McLoughlin, president of the Seattle Seahawks & Seattle Sounders FC, the Distinguished Eagle Scout award.
Keynote speaker was Dr. Robert Gates, the only Secretary of Defense in U.S. history to be asked to remain in that office by a newly elected president. Gates also served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. During his tenure in public service, he served a total of eight presidents of both political parties.
Gates became the president of the National Boy Scouts of America this month.
Within the Cascade District (Bellevue, Mercer Island, Medina, Yarrow Point and some unincorporated King County), the following scouts earned their eagle rank this past year:
Aaron Schwam, Joseph Walsh (Troop 430); David Graham, Nicholas Grosinger, Myung Kang, Shawn Marshall-Spitzbart, L Nygaard, Joshua Rehder, Austin Ulfers (Troop 438); Mark Anderson, Nolan Conway, Matthew Hanson, Alex Kovar, Christopher Merritt, Ryan Newell, Nathaniel Tate, Adam Tucker, Ethan Vu, William Waller, James Wilson, Kodlee Yin (Troop 457); Jacob Greene, Wesley Kapioski, Parker Sevier, Benjamin Smith, Andrew Swift (Troop 600); Ian Elliott (Troop 606); Alexander Pitts (Troop 618); Kyle Mecham, Joseph Price, Jonathan Quatrone, Vincent Sarchet (Troop 619); Gavin Jenson, Matthew Jenson (Troop 621); Ervin Ham, Devin Nelson , Sean Quinn, Thomas Williamson (Troop 624); Ryan Cambron, Owen Dickson, Christopher Farmer, Richard Gartenberg, Lee Griffin, Evan McFarlane, Thomas Rall, Gabriel Reardon, Jacob Thackray (Troop 626); Ian Bamford, Erik Dekker, Preston Mar, Matthew Valuet (Troop 638); Max Hummer (Troop 641); Samuel Chanen, Daniel Gest, Richard Kepler (Troop 647); Bradley Bartos, William Beck, Timothy Hervey, Matthew Liang (Troop 673); James Stewart (Troop 685); Jonathan Malyon, Travis Rice, Damon Smith (Troop 687); Jason Cummings, Joshua Higa, David Kristensen (Troop 691); and Benjamin Beavers, Timothy Brooks, Blase Johnson, Sidney Teske (Troop 946).
