Members of the Greater St. Louis Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America completed their requirements to be Eagle Scouts and received recognition at an event Saturday on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau.
Nationally, only 2 percent of all Boy Scouts meet the requirements to become Eagle Scouts.
Members of the council's Eagle Scout Class of 2000 are as follows:
Ozark Trailblazers: Thomas Wessel, Bradley Shuh, Shane Okenfuss, Bryan Donze, Kyle Giesler, Jared White, Aaron Blue, Derek Grein, Edwin Naeger, Michael Minghi, Eric McNeill, Matthew Vandergriff.
Shawnee District: Alex Heddle, Paul Stuart, Sean Kinney, Brent Humphries, Jackson Bahn, Jonathan Bernhardt, Matthew Taylor, Bradley Main, Luke Riehl, John Ray, Grant Hengst, John Brookover, Jeremy Koeller, David Koeller, Jacob Koeller, Jeffrey Koeller, Aharon Reed, Matthew Long, Mark Lester Jr., Jonathan Van Cleve, Anthony Kiel, Quentin Kelley, David Willingham, Jesse Unverferth, Garrett Gjerstad, Ashley Wischmann, Nicholas Martin, Eric Starzinger, Bradley Holten, Corey Schreckenberg, John Keller.
Cherokee District: Donnie Tubbs, Brian Moxey, Shawn Comer, Adam Glenn.
Sioux District: Nicholas Hagler, Bradley Morgan, Benjamin Hunsaker, Ryan Clodfelter, Christopher Agee, Michael Killpack.
Kaskaskia District: T. William Basanta, John Staddeck, Dennis York Jr., Mitchell Falat, Ryan Snyder, Larry Yates Jr., Matthew Pluta, Bradley Blaise.
Egyptian District: Samuel Hirschi, Preston Trill, Justin Brush, Patrick Smail, Nicholas Brothers, Matthew Wiese, Andrew McKeown, Troy Vantrease, Kyle Seav-ers, Garrett Collier, Collin Evans.
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