MICHAEL S. MALONE
MICHAEL S. MALONE
One hundred years ago on Aug. 1, Arthur Eldred, a 17-year-old Boy Scout from Long Island, became the first person to earn the Eagle Scout rank. Eldred, tall, quiet and with a shock of dark hair, had joined scouting largely at the behest of his widowed mother, who hoped it would give some structure to his life. Yet as Eagle Scouts would continue to do throughout the next century, Eldred caught the scouting world by surprise. He was the first of an extraordinary new cohort of young men who were to prove very different from the classic 13-year-old Boy Scout in short pants.
100年前的8月1号,来自长岛的17岁的童子军阿瑟·埃尔德雷德(Arthur Eldred)成为了晋升到鹰童军(Eagle Scout)级别的第一人。埃尔德雷德身材高大,性格文静,长着一头浓密的黑发。他加入童子军很大程度上是顺从守寡的母亲的命令,母亲希望这可以帮助他学会打理生活。然而,正如鹰童军在随后的一个世纪里不断证明的一样,埃尔德雷德让童子军界刮目相看,他是一个独特的新群体的首位成员,这些人会证明他们与传统上身着短裤的13岁的童子军有很大差异。
Eldred's initial accomplishment was to complete the requirements for the rank of Eagle Scout only six months after that supreme award in American scouting was announced in April 1912. The leaders of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), assuming it would take several years for any boy to earn the required 21 merit badges, hadn't yet devised a final review system for Eagle candidates; they hadn't even settled on a design for the medal.
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