Friends Academy Student Earns Eagle Scout Award

Session will be recognized in a National Eagle Scout Court of Honor on Saturday, August 17, 2013, at 12 p.m. at the Jackson House at Friends Academy in Locust Valley. The event will be hosted by fellow Eagle Scout and Head of School Bill Morris and wife Sue Morris.   

A member of St. Alban The Martyr Episcopal Church, Troop 267, Session is the troops fifth Eagle Scout and one of an estimated 4 percent of all Boy Scouts who attain the Eagle rank, according to Scoutmaster Alphonzo Parks III.  

Each candidate must earn 21 merit badges and successfully complete a community, school, church, or synagogue-related service project to earn his Eagle. Session chose to create a memorial garden for the late Brian James Hom, a student who touched the lives of all at Friends Academy.  

Eagle Scout Session has served as Senior Patrol Leader and organized a Thanksgiving Food Drive for the troop’s church community while working his way through the ranks in scouting.  Session joins other outstanding American citizens who have become Eagle Scouts, including but not limited to several United States Presidents, a former astronaut and former head of the F.B.I.

A member of Friend's varsity football team, Session also performed in the school’s winter plays. He served as co-president of the Admissions Club, and was a member and treasurer for the Diversity Club, a volunteer and member of the planning committee for Relay for Life. He also served managed the girls’ softball team, sang in the choir and volunteered in El Salvador with classmates and teachers on the community service trip.  In his junior year, Session was the first recipient of the Brian James Hom Scholarship Award.  The scholarship honors a student who embodies Horn's qualities and lives according to his motto, “I am the me I choose to be.”

Session will attend Wesleyan University in Connecticut this Fall.  He is the son of Nicolle Session of Hollis, Queens.