Our Distinguished Eagle Scouts

The Distinguished Eagle Scout Award is granted to Eagle Scouts who received the Eagle Scout rank twenty-five years or more ago, have gained status of fame or eminence in their life work, and have shared their talents with their communities on a voluntary basis.

William Henry Keeler was born March 4, 1931 in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Thomas L. Keeler and Margaret T. (Conway) Keeler. He was raised in Lebanon Pennsylvania, where he attended St. Mary School and Lebanon Catholic High School. He was a scout in troop 11 and earned his Eagle on XXX XX,XXXX. He received a B.A. from St. Charles Seminary, Overbrook, Philadelphia, in 1952, a Licentiate in Sacred Theology in 1956 and a Doctorate in Cannon Law in 1961 from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. His Eminence William Cardinal Keeler served in the Harrisburg, PA diocese from 1956 to 1989 becoming Bishop of Harrisburg in 1983. Appointed Archbishop of Baltimore on April 11, 1989 was elected to the College of Cardinals by Pope John Paul II on November 26,1994. He became a Distinguished Eagle Scout XXX XX,1990.
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FRANK H. SMOKER, JR.

Major General Frank H. Smoker, Jr. , USAF (Retired) was born xxxx, xxxx in Columbia, Pennsylvania. He was a scout in Troop 36 and earned his Eagle on September 9, 1940. Enlisting in the U. S. Army Air Corps in 1943, he served as a B-17 navigator in the Eight Air Force during World War II, was rated as an Air Force pilot in 1952, served in the Vietnam War, and the last 7 years of his 42 year military career Commanded the Pennsylvania Air National Guard from 1978-1985. General Smoker earned his B.S. in Chemistry from F&M College, a M.S. in Public Administration from Auburn University and graduated from the senior Air Force school, the Air War College. A member of Columbia Lodge No. 286, F&AM, and the Harrisburg Consistory, he was awarded the Thirty-third Degree(1998), the highest honor of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, for significant contributions to humanity. He became a Distinguished Eagle Scout April 23,1990 and on May 14,1990 a Life Member of the Board of Regents, Boy Scouts of America.

ALBERT A. ALLEY, MD

Albert A. Alley is an Eagle Scout, Class of 1953, from Troop 10, Berwick, PA, Columbia-Montour Council. Remarkably, he is one of five Eagle Scout brothers in the Alley family and one of his brother’s is also the recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. Dr. Alley is a graduate of Dickinson College and the Temple University Medical School. He is a board-certified ophthalmologist whose professional practice is based in Lebanon and Hershey. He became a Distinguished Eagle Scout April 21,1999.