PAV I N G T H E WAY LHHS grad among the first females to receive the Eagle Scout rank EMMA DUNCAN says she knew the minute she heard girls could become Eagle Scouts that Scouting was the right place for her. But if you count her old journal entry, she knew long before that. “I actually found just a few weeks ago, an old journal entry of mine from when I was really young about how I wanted to be an Eagle Scout,” says Duncan. “And so that was kind of cool, because
I’d completely forgotten that.” Duncan started her Eagle Scout journey when girls were allowed to join in 2019, a year after Boy Scouts of America allowed girls to become Cub Scouts. She had previously been part of Girl Scouts of the USA at a younger age but felt the group wasn’t quite right for her. “My Girl Scout troop didn’t do a lot of camping,
Story by LIESBETH POWERS | Photo by AMY ORCHARD
12 lakehighlands.advocatemag.com JULY 2021
