Greensboro Man, Longest Tenured Eagle Scout, Dies At 103

88.5 WFDD - Public Radio For The Piedmont | By Paul Garber

Published December 28, 2015 at 12:41 PM EST

A Greensboro man recognized as the longest tenured Eagle Scout has died. WFDD's Paul Garber reports on the passing of 103-year-old Robert Dick Douglas.

Douglas wasn't the oldest Eagle Scout, but he was known having held the title the longest. He earned it in December, 1925.

The News & Record of Greensboro reports Douglas also earned 95 merit badges and wrote four books on scouting.

In September, he received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, which recognizes those who have made a profound impact at least 25 years after earning the title.

Both of Douglas' parents were involved in scouting and Douglas not only joined at an early age but would go on to be a scoutmaster.

He was also known for having a lengthy tenure as an attorney in Greensboro.

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Paul Garber

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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