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East Quogue teen earns Eagle Scout honor

Publication: The Southampton Press
By Vera Chinese   Aug 8, 2008 9:48 AM
Michael Aydinian was sworn in as an Eagle Scout last Thursday.    VERA CHINESE
Michael Aydinian was sworn in as an Eagle Scout last Thursday. VERA CHINESE
Seventeen-year-old Michael Aydinian of East Quogue has done something that fewer than two million American teenage boys have achieved in the past 90 years: he attained the rank of Eagle Scout.

Highly decorated with merit badges, Michael was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout, a title he will hold for the rest of his life, in front of a crowd of nearly 150 people during his Court of Honor ceremony last Thursday at the American Legion Hall Hand-Aldrich Post 924 in Hampton Bays.

Only 2 percent of all young men who serve in the Boy Scouts of America will go on to attain the rank of Eagle Scout, and it took Michael, who belongs to Hampton Bays Troop 483, nearly three years to get there. Michael, who will be a senior at... more

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