[Merle]

I earned the Eagle rank in 1984. Had FIRST existed then I'm sure I would have wanted to be involved, as I used to hang out after school in the computer lab (something new at the time - it had about a dozen Apple IIe's). I went on to study Microelectronic Engineering in college.

I wrote my Eagle report on my Commodore 64, and impressed the review board by programming the computer to print little eagle icons around the boarder of the pages (it was an interesting dot matrix printer that only had one pin and a saw tooth drum behind the paper - the timing of the drum spinning created the vertical dots - quite slow and very loud).

My project was managing the cleaning of a large inground pool at a church camp. We drained and scrubbed the pool, painted the bath house and ladders/divingboard structures, and cleaned up some new tent camping sites.

I am involved with my son's Troop, which is quite large - we are expecting about 10 Eagles this year, one of which is on our FRC team.

Merle Yoder
The GRUNTS, Team #3146