The following interview was conducted and summarized by Matthew Morano.
9/28/20
Today I met with Chris May, he is 17 year old senior at Regis High School in Manhattan. Chris joined Troop 20 when he was in 5th grade.
The thing that he enjoyed most about being a scout is all the experiences he was able to have, such as campouts, hiking and Camp Sequassen. Some important things that Chris learned from being a scout were his leadership skills and first aid skills. He was able to learn these things through different Merit Badges.
If there was one thing he could change about scouts it would be that they should sell cookies instead of popcorn. I agree! Other than that he enjoyed everything about Boy Scouts.
His most memorable event was hike on the Appalachian Trail, he said it was raining very hard and he wasn’t having a good time, that night the scouts took all their wet clothes and put them in a log and hung it from the tent, it had a sock hanging out of its side so it looked like an elephant so they named it Trunkie and turned it towards to face his friend who woke up in the middle of the night and thought he saw an elephant ghost hanging in the in the dark watching him.
Chris’ Eagle project was to clean gravestones and record the information from about 100 of them at the Hillside cemetery. He researched the information on the gravestones that went all the way back to the 1700’s. He was able to determine that there were Revolutionary War, War of 1812 and Civil War veterans buried there. Once he completed his research he updated the records of the Wilton Congregational Church’s database who run the cemetery. Chris completed the project in the Summer of 2018.
I asked Chris if he could offer any advice to the younger scouts in the troop, what would it be? He said that to “stick with it and keep going to the end”.
-Matthew Morano
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