Eagle Court of Honor for 3 Held at Lawrence

By Paul Garrod
Staff Writer
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LAWRENCE – Marking the 100th anniversary year of Lawrence Boy Scout Troop 197, an Eagle Scout Court of Honor was held for three of its members at the Lawrence United Methodist Church on Sunday, March 22.
The three include Nickolas Barr, Eric Blocker, and Nathan Hagger.
Barr’s project was building food carts for the food pantry of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Bangor. He completed the project June 8, 2022, however, due to COVID-19, Barr was never honored during an Eagle Scout Court of Honor.
Blocker’s Eagle Scout project was building a ceremonial flag retirement pit for the Hartford American Legion. He completed the project on Sept. 18, 2025.
Hagger’s project was building two wooden benches and two handicap accessible wooden picnic tables for the North Branch Paw Paw River Park, Lawrence.
The trio joins a long list of Lawrence Eagle Scouts, beginning in 1941. Barry Carpp, Scoutmaster from 2009 to 2013, Lawrence Boy Scout Troop 197, compiled the following Lawrence Boy Scout Troop 197 Eagle Scout members. They include the following:
1941 – William McNabb; 1943 – Walter Breisch; 1944 – Lynn Brown; 1946 – Dale Brown; 1948 – Phil Knapp; 1948 – Earl Carpp; 1962 – Terry Tansey; 1979 – Bruce Heuser; 1980 – Rick Kroeg; 1984 – Richard Henderson; 1985 – Charles Gendron, Jr.; 1985 – Robin Krieglstein; 1985 – Timothy Tansey; 1985 – Steve Garrod; 1985 – Matthew Kurzmann; 1986 – Scott Staunton; 1986 – Richard Van Galder; 1988 – Jeremy Manning; 1989 – Daniel Kurzmann; 1996 – Bradley Marshall; 1998 – Jake Gale; 1998 – Jacob Serdel; 1998 – Kyle Mead; 1999 – Andrew Daniel; 2000 – Shawn Crawford; 2001 – Nicholas Murphy-Dubay; 2003 – Matthew Murphy-Dubay; 2004 – Kevin Mead; 2007- Khristopher Harrington; 2009 – Joshua Harrington; 2010 – Nicholas Beam; 2010 – Christopher Carpp; 2011 – Caesar Aguirre; 2013 – Jacob Wisser; 2014 – Steven Lockwood; 2015 – Zachary Smith; 2016 – Robert Dick, Jr.; 2017 – Emilio Zapata; 2019 – Kaleb Smith; 2020 – Joe Barr; 2021 – Troy Mehlhausen; and 2022 – Erich Grote.
Scoutmasters over the decades include the following:
1925-1932 Virgil Altenburg; 1935-1936 S. Heath; 1936-1937 Kenneth Judd; 1937-1940 Patrick Webster; 1940-1942 Charles Smith; 1943-1947 Frank Gornick; 1948-1950 Glen Moerdyke; 1951-1952 Jack Porter; 1952-1953 Frank Johnson; 1953-1954 Wray Ertle; 1955-1959 Forrest Knapp; 1960-1961 William Thomas; 1961-1962 Henry Frazier; 1963-1965 William Thomas; 1966-1970 Fred Selen; 1972-1973 Lester Hagberg; 1974-1993 Robert Heuser; 1994-1996 Ken Barnett; 1997-xxxx Phil Marshall; xxxx-xxxx Lisa Daniel; xxxx -2002 Rick Mead; 2003-2008 Jim McCain; 2009-2013 Barry Carpp; 2014-2015 Kyle Mead; 2016-2021 Jim Sipka; 2022- 2023 Kip Kerby; 2024 – Present Khristopher Harrington.
There are no records for 1927, 1933, 1934 or 1971.
Carpp encourages past Lawrence scouts to contact him with missing information to complete the scoutmaster list.
Lawrence Troop 197 sponsors, beginning in 1925 through 2026, include the following:
Lawrence Public Schools, Interested Citizens, Lawrence Public Schools and Lawrence American Legion, Hess-Eastman Post 174, Lawrence Congregational Church, Lawrence Methodist Church Men’s Group, Lawrence Lions Club, Lawrence Methodist Church Men’s Group, Interested Citizens Group, Lawrence Baptist Church, Lawrence American Legion Hess Eastman Post 174, Lawrence United Methodist Church, and present sponsor, Lawrence American Legion Hess-Eastman Post 174.