Troop 2 News ClippingsTroop 2 News ClippingsLast Updated: February 13, 2000
Boy Scout Troop 2 has been continuously chartered to the First United Methodist Church in Corvallis, Oregon since 1920. Troop 2 is in the Benton District of the Oregon Trail Council.
Eagle Scout Project
Luke Zedwick planned, organized and supervised a trail improvement
project at the entrance to the Marys Peak Recreation Area for the
Siuslaw National Forest. The historic site was a base for the
Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930's.
Scouting History
Troop 2...................................1991 - 1995
Total nights out in Scouting.......................81
Total community service hours.....................300+
Activities
District Camporee.........................1991 - 1994
50 miler, Jefferson Wilderness...................1991
Buckskin Training at Camp Baker..................1992
Philmont Scout Ranch.............................1992
Camp Pioneer Summer Camp.........................1993
Camp Baldwin Summer Camp.........................1994
50 miler, Three Sisters Wilderness...............1995
Camp Meriwether Summer Camp......................1995
Troop Offices
Troop Guide.............................06/92 - 04/93
Patrol Leader...........................12/92 - 04/93
Scribe..................................03/93 - 07/94
Assistant Senior Patrol Leader..........06/93 - 01/94
Senior Patrol Leader....................05/94 - 06/95
Quartermaster...........................06/95 - 07/95
Patrol Leader...........................06/95 - 10/95
Scribe..................................07/95 - 10/95
Served as Senior Patrol Leader for Troop 2
Camp Baldwin.....................................1994
Troop Court of Honor........................Fall 1994
Annual Planning Meeting for.................1994/1995
Ice Cap Winter Competition.......................1995
Merit Badges
First Aid, Envionmental Science, Canoeing, Camping, Swimming,
Wilderness Survival, Life Saving, Citizenship in the Nation,
Photography, Forestry, Orienteering, Emergency Preparedness
Safety, Pottery, Family Life, Communications, Personal Management,
Citizenship in the World, Citizenship in the Community, Art.
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Eagle Scout Project
Zach Veley planned, organized and supervised the renovation of an
Adirondack shelter at Rock Creek Park for the City of Corvallis. Rock
Creek Park is a favorite wet weather camp site for many youth groups.
Scouting History
Pack 234, Tiger Cub to Webelos..............1984 - 1989
Arrow of Light.....................................1989
Troop 2.....................................1989 - 1995
Total nights out in Scouting.........................99
Total community service hours.......................130+
Activities
Cub Camp....................................1984 - 1989
District Camporee...........................1988 - 1995
Camp Malakwa Summer Camp...........................1989
Camp Baldwin Summer Camp...........................1990
Camp Meriwether Summer Camp........................1991
Buckskin Training at Camp Baker....................1992
Philmont Scout Ranch...............................1992
Camp Pioneer Summer Camp...........................1993
50 miler, Three Sisters Wilderness.................1995
Camp Meriwether Summer Camp........................1995
Troop Offices
Patrol Leader.............................12/89 - 02/91
Chaplains Aide............................02/91 - 02/92
Scribe....................................04/91 - 03/92
Patrol Leader.............................02/92 - 04/93
Historian.................................03/93 - 06/95
Instructor................................10/93 - 12/95
Assistant Senior Patrol Leader............12/94 - 06/95
Senior Patrol Leader......................06/95 - 10/95
Served as Senior Patrol Leader for Troop 2
District Camporee..................................1995
Camp Meriwether....................................1995
Troop Court of Honor..........................Fall 1995
Annual Planning Meeting for ..................1995/1996
75th Anniversary Celebration Dinner................1995
Merit Badges
Swimming, Finger Printing, Basketry, First Aid, Music, Canoeing,
Pioneering, Soil & Water Conservation, Environmental Science,
Mammal Study, Camping, Citizenship in the Community, Oceanography,
Leatherwork, Orienteering, Archery, Woodcarving, Citizenship in the
Nation, Skiing, Citizenship in the World, Rowing, Wilderness Survival,
Emergency Preparedness, Personal Management, Life Saving,
Communications, Family Life, Safety, plus World Conservation Award.
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Eagle Scout Project
Jonathan Quinn planned, organized and supervised the installation of
drainage piping and gravel around two Adirondack cabins at Rock Creek
Park. He also repaired a brick fireplace and improved many of the local
trails. The Creek Park is a favorite wet weather camp site for many youth
groups.
Scouting History
Pack 16 Cub Scout to Webelos...............................1987 - 1990
Troop 20...................................................1991 - 1994
Troop 2....................................................1995 - 1996
Total nights out in Scouting.......................................185+
Total community service hours......................................200+
Activities
District Camporee..........................................1991 - 1995
Camp Cornhusker Summer Camp.......................................1989
Order of the Arrow-Ordeal member..................................1992
Membership Committee Chairman of Order of the Arrow........1993 - 1994
Leadership Training...............................................1993
National Boy Scout Jamboree.......................................1993
Elangamat..................................................1993 - 1994
Camp Cornhusker Staff.............................................1993
Order of the Arrow-Brotherhood member.............................1994
Philmont Scout Ranch..............................................1995
Troop Offices
Quartermaster..............................................4/91 - 8/91
Patrol Leader..............................................9/91 - 2/92
Assistant Senior Patrol Leader.............................3/92 - 5/92
Senior Patrol Leader.......................................5/92 - 6/94
Troop Guide...............................................6/94 - 10/94
Instructor.................................................1/95 - 6/95
Patrol Leader..............................................3/95 - 6/95
Historian.................................................6/95 - 10/95
Senior Patrol Leader......................................10/95 - 2/96
Merit Badges
Basketry, Camping, Canoeing, Coin Collecting, Communications,
Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the Nation, Citizenship in the
World, Emergency Preparedness. Environmental Science, Family Life,
First Aid, Fishing, Genealogy, Indian Lore, Mammal Study, Personal
Management, Reptile Study, Safety, Soil-Water Conservation, Swimming,
Wilderness Survival, plus the World Conservation Award.
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Eagle Scout Project
Ted Crocker planned, organized and supervised the construction of a play structure designed for children eighteen months to three years old in the play yard of Stronghold Cottage, a non-profit drug treatment program serving women from Linn, Benton and other nearby counties. Five women and their children live at Stronghold for several months while the mothers work on their recovery. Crocker received generous donations of materials from Burcham's Metals, Supply One, and Tum-a-Lum Lumber of Albany and Copland Lumber, and True Value Hardware of Corvallis. He organized volunteers to dig postholes, set the posts in concrete and build the structure; for many of the volunteers this was their first experience mixing concrete and using a square and level to keep things straight. The project was completed September 3, 1995.
Scouting History
Cub Scout in Menlo Park, California................................1986
Webelos in Lebanon, Oregon.........................................1987
Arrow of Light.....................................................1988
Troop 2............................................................1990
First Class Scout..................................................1991
Star Scout.........................................................1993
Life Scout.........................................................1993
Activities
Camp Baker Summer Camp.............................................1988
Camp Meriwether Summer Camp........................................1991
Philmont Scout Ranch...............................................1992
Buckskin Leadership Training at Camp Baker.........................1993
Camp Pioneer Summer Camp...........................................1993
Camp Baldwin Summer Camp...........................................1994
Ice Cap Winter Camps........................................1990 - 1995
Troop Offices
Patrol Leader...............................................7/91 - 2/92
Chaplain's Aide.............................................2/92 - 5/94
Quartermaster...............................................5/94 - 6/95
Troop Guide................................................6/95 - 12/95
Merit Badges
Camping, Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the Nation, Citizenship
in the World, Emergency Preparedness. Communications, Environmental
Science, First Aid, Swimming, Personal Management, Safety, Small Boat Sailing,
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Eagle Scout Project
Jonathan Wyse planned, organized and supervised the disposal of 30 year
old chemical toilets for Benton County Emergency Services. He recycled
materials and properly disposed of non-recyclables. He also cleaned the
storage unit where the old toilets had been kept.
Scouting History & Activities
Pack 137, Lincoln School, Tiger Cubs to Webelos............1985 - 1989
Webelos Arrow of Light............................................1989
Camp Malakwa Summer Camp..........................................1989
Camp Baldwin Summer Camp..........................................1990
Camp Meriwether Summer Camp.......................................1991
50 Miler in Jefferson Wilderness..................................1991
Buckskin Leadership Training......................................1992
Order of the Arrow................................................1992
Philmont Trek.....................................................1992
Camp Baker Summer Camp............................................1992
God & Country Award...............................................1993
Troop 2 Senior Patrol Leader, Camp Pioneer Summer Camp............1993
Camp Pioneer Summer Camp..........................................1993
Troop 2 Senior Patrol Leader, Troop Court of Honor................1993
Troop 2 Senior Patrol Leader, District Camporee...................1994
Troop 2....................................................1989 - 1996
Total nights out in Scouting.......................................111
Total community service hours......................................250+
Troop Offices
Patrol Leader..............................................2/91 - 7/91
Historian..................................................2/92 - 3/93
Quarter Master............................................3/93 - 10/93
Patrol Leader..............................................4/93 - 7/93
Senior Patrol Leader.......................................5/93 - 5/94
Merit Badges
First Aid, Swimming, Camping, Citizenship in the World, Physical Fitness,
Wilderness Survival, Skiing, Leather Work, Rowing, Basketry, Environmental
Science, Woodcarving, Astronomy, Small Boat Sailing, Pioneering, Forestry,
Cooking, Citizenship in the Community, Personal Management, Safety,
Family Living, Communications, Citizenship in the Nation, Lifesaving.
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RJ Lee, son of Dr. Marianne Clausing-Lee and Dr. Kevin Lee, received his Eagle Scout Award, scouting's highest honor, during a Court of Honor on Oct. 18. The 13-year-old is an eighth-grader at Cheldelin Middle School. Lee's Eagle Scout Service project consisted of planning, fund-raising, organizing, and carrying out the construction of a predator mammal rehabilitation structure at Chintimini Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Corvallis. He began scouting in 1993 with Cub Scout Pack 325. In 1996, he joined Troop 2, the second oldest troop in the state of Oregon. While in Troop 2, he served in leadership positions as scribe, patrol leader, senior patrol leader, and quartermaster. He has attended camps at Baldwin and Baker. He also completed Junior Leader Training and attended Buckskin, a leadership camp in Florence. He has earned 26 merit badges and the World Conservation Award.
Eric M. Berggren, a member of Troop 2 in Corvallis, has earned the highest award in the Boy Scouts of America, the rank of Eagle Scout. He was honored at a special Court of Honor ceremony at the First United Methodist Church in Corvallis.
Berggren, 17, the son of Dale and Kaye Berggren, is a senior at Crescent Valley High School. He served his troop as patrol leader, librarian, assistant senior patrol leader and senior patrol leader.
His Eagle Scout project consisted of trail restoration of the Woodpecker Loop Trail in the Finley National Wildlive Refuge south of Corvallis. Berggren planned and supervised the placement of 10 water bars along the trail to prevent erosion from winter rain.
Berggren plans to attend Linn-Benton Community after graduation.
Jeremy B. Filip, 18, son of Gregory and Patricia Filip, has earned the rank of Eagle Scout. He was honored at a ceremony held on May 2 in Corvallis.
A Senior at Crescent Valley High School, Filip has served his troop in various ways including as patrol leader, bugler, librarian, assistant senior patrol leader and senior patrol leader.
Filip's Eagle Scout project consisted of trail restoration of the Mill Hill Loop Trail in the William H. Finley National Wildlife Refuge south of Corvallis. He planned, supervised and placed water bars along the trail to prevent erosion.
By BENNETT HALL
Gazette-Times reporter
It will be weeks before we know for sure, but a Corvallis boy may well be the first Eagle Scout of 2000.
Just after midnight Saturday, Matthew Rosenberg held up three fingers of his right hand and recited the Scout Oath. Before the year was a minute old, the papers were signed and it was official.
Scouts become Eagles at the local level. After they pass their board of review, documents confirming their new rank are passed on to the national council. That takes awhile, so it's impossible to know right away whether a Scout in some earlier time zone passed his board and took his oath before Matthew did.
But Matthew's father, Ken Rosenberg, has checked with scouting's U.S. headquarters and made some inquiries through a friend in England. So far, he hasn't turned up any other Eagle candidates who planned to take their boards on New Year's Eve.
"I really doubt anybody (else) has had the foresight to plan their Eagle board to end at 12:01," said Michele Bojanowski, a Benton District Boy Scout commissioner who sat on Matthew's review board.
"My guess would be yes, he will be the first Eagle Scout in the United States." And perhaps the first in the world.
"We realized several months ago that he was getting close, and we thought, gee, what a nice thing to have him be the first Eagle Scout of the new millennium," said Matthew's mother, Lauren Rosenberg.
But as remarkable a distinction as that is, what's even more remarkable is how quickly Matthew has risen to scouting's highest rank. Matthew made Eagle just two years and nine months after becoming a Boy Scout - and he's still six months shy of his 14th birthday.
"I've been in scouting 18 years," Bojanowski said, "and I can only think of two people that I know who got their Eagle at age 14." Very few Scouts, she said, achieve the rank before age 16, and only a small percentage ever get that far at all.
"He's very focused on Boy Scouts," said his scoutmaster, Chip Cover of Corvallis Troop 2. "He works at it hard, and he works at it consistently."
Matthew Rosenberg has always been a quick study.
He strapped on his first pair of skis when he was just a toddler, and by the time he was 6 he was following his dad down the slopes at Whistler. He became a third-degree brown belt in tae kwon do this September, just three months after he turned 13. And almost from the moment he got into scouting, he knew he wanted to rise to the top rank.
"I'd been in some ceremonies, and I said that's what I wanted to be - an Eagle Scout," said Matthew.
But it hasn't always been easy.
"When he was a new Scout, just into it, he went on a campout and he loved it," his father recalled.
Unfortunately, the other members of the troop didn't take to camping as eagerly as Matthew did. So he made a tough decision. He left his friends behind and joined a patrol of older Scouts.
"He went on a hundred nights' worth of camping in about two years," Ken Rosenberg said. "He went on everything that they had."
When he wasn't out hiking and camping with his new Scout troop and sometimes even when he was, Matthew was earning merit badges. Today he has 26 - five more than the requirement for Eagle rank.
"The ones I learned the most on were the citizenship merit badges," Matthew said. For his community citizenship badge, he researched and wrote a report on the history of Corvallis, interviewed Mayor Helen Berg and attended a City Council meeting.
"That was really interesting, to see how the riverfront project was handled," he said.
Matthew said he wholeheartedly recommends scouting to his friends. "I think it's a great program."
Still, there's one thing about the organization he'd change if he could - its policy of refusing membership to anyone who is gay or doesn't believe in God. Matthew said he thinks everyone should have the same opportunity to learn from scouting that he's had. "I don't like to exclude anybody," he said.
Matthew said he's not sure yet what he wants to do with his life - after all, he's still only 13 - but he knows he wants to stay active in the Boy Scouts.
"I've learned a lot from scouting," he said. "I want to give back what they gave to me."
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