McGuire Chapel Cemetery, Center Township PA

Eagle Project and "grave database"

	The rank of Eagle Scout is the highest and most challenging award in 
Scouting. Only 10% of all the millions of Boy Scouts will achieve this prestigious award, distinguishing
the Eagles from everyone else. In fact, being an Eagle Scout is so prestigious that most of the time, employers would
hire Eagles immediately, Armed Force superiors promote Eagles two ranks for just being an Eagle, and
NASA mostly hires Eagles! What is so prestigious about the rank of Eagle Scout?

	The rank of Eagle Scout is not prestigious in the award itself, but in the characteristics, values, and life
lessons learned by reaching Eagle Rank. Boy Scouts is a unique organization that, from the beginning, has
taught kids and young adults to be well rounded in character, fitness, and citizenship through leadership,
morals, and responsibility. From the time a young boy enters the Boy Scout program, he learns and promises to follow
the Scout Oath/Promise, Law, Motto, Slogan, and Outdoor Code. The Scout, by learning the Scout Oath, promises


"On my honor, I will do my best
to do my duty to God and my country,
and to obey the Scout Law:

To help other people all times;
to keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight."


	What a great promise for a young scout to keep in order to grow into a mature adult! The boy, in learning the
Scout Law, also discovers that "A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent", teaching him and promoting him to be "morally straight" as an
arrow. The Scout also learns leadership and responsibility, as he proceeds through the ranks and his jobs in the
troop. There are specialized leadership training available from the Boy Scouts (something which is not learned
from school). Lastly, Scouts learn outdoor skills, many topics from Merit Badges, and comradeship from their
patrol members working together. Scouts learn life-long skills through the merit badges, leadership, and the
responsibilities beheld. 

	As Scouts proceed closer to the rank of Eagle, requirements change to get the last three ranks, Star, Life, and
Eagle. For all three of them, the scout must have and adequately carry out his leadership responsibilities in the
troop, earn so many Eagle and non-Eagle required merit badges, and show Scout spirit (a Scout is 
cheerful). The only exception to those requirements is for the Eagle rank, where exceptional leadership
qualities, morals, and strong character must be proven by a permanent service project, called anEagle Project.
I, Anthony Kinest, being a Scout myself for many years, decided to take my Dad's advice on what to do for my Eagle
project; to repair and to restore the abandoned McGuire Chapel Cemetery. I also planned to clean up the brush there,
make a permanent sign identifying the cemetery, and make this website for genealogists of this historic
cemetery.

Below is more information about my Eagle Project, the work days, and a compiled database of all the graves in the cemetery