Former Scoutmaster Carl Miller, 89, was featured in a Butler Eagle profile in 1998; a copy is included among his detailed records of the history of Lancaster Township Boy Scout Troop 360.

On a wall in his Lancaster Township home, 89-year-old Carl Miller hangs a 4-foot-tall plaque engraved with the names of every boy who has achieved the rank of Eagle Scout through Lancaster Township's Troop 360.

Miller is the last living charter member of Troop 360. He spent 40 years as scoutmaster and more than 50 years as a council member of the Lancaster Township Friends of Scouting, and for his efforts received a Scoutmasters Award of Merit and a Silver Beaver Award, one of scouting's highest honors.

He keeps a scrapbook of thank-you notes from families, scouts and partner organizations.

“You give up a lot of your life doing something like this,” Miller said. “And they got something out of it, though it's different for each boy.”

But by the end of this month, the group that Miller spent half his life tending will be no more. Troop 360 will sell off all of its equipment at an auction at the Lancaster Community Center on July 22.

“When we have this sale,” Miller said, closing the scrapbook with a heavy thump, “that'll be the end of Troop 360.”

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