From the October 12, 1972 edition of The Wayne Herald
Awards of merit to Four Scouting Boosters
Four leaders in the Lewis and Clark District received the Award of Merit Sunday night for exceptional service to Scouting.
Recipients were Mrs. Lawrence Fuchs, Belden; Dr. Paul Byers, Wakefield; Mrs. Paul Rockwell and Robert Carhart, both of Wayne.
They received the honor, the highest a district can bestow, at the annual Lewis and Clark recognition dinner at the Wayne State Student Center.
All four Award of Merit recipients have been active in various forms of Scout leadership for many years.
Mrs. Fuchs was a den mother of pack 263 for seven years and has been the Webelos leader the past three.
Dr. Byers served as Cubmaster of Pack 172 from 1967 to 1970 and has been Troop 172 Scoutmaster since then. He also has been chairman of the district Scout-o-rama, held annually at Wakefield the last three years.
Mrs. Rockwell was a den mother of Pack 175 years and she also has been active in the parents' auxiliary of Troop 175. She took charge of several money-raising projects to finance the troop's trip to the East Coast last summer.
Carhart has been Scoutmaster of Troop 221 for three years and was Scoutmaster of Troop 175 for two years a decade ago. He also worked as a troop and pack committeeman between Scoutmaster stints. As a Boy Scout, he reached the rank of Eagle.
District Chairman David Ley reported that Lewis and Clark membership of Scouts is gaining- now over 1,500 boys in five counties- and has met the 1972 goal.
