GREENSBORO, N.C. – Robert “Dick” Douglas Jr., 103, a retired Greensboro attorney and a celebrated Eagle Scout died Wednesday, according to the Greensboro News & Record.

During the early 1900s, when Dick Douglas was a small child, his dad was chairman of the Court of Honor for the Boy Scouts, and his mother was a merit badge examiner.

“I was accustomed to having Boy Scouts come to our home all the time, so from as young as I can remember, I wanted to be a Boy Scout,” Douglas told the paper earlier this year. “During that time period, you had to be 12 to join because there was no Cub Scouts.”

So, on his 12th birthday, he joined the Boy Scouts of America, starting a long and prosperous career in scouting that led to his becoming an Eagle Scout, writing four books about scouting and serving as a scoutmaster and member of the Board of Directors of the General Greene Council of Boy Scouts.

Ninety-one years later, Douglas was still receiving national recognition for his devotion to Boy Scouts. In September, he received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award at a special ceremony at Wellspring Retirement Community, where he and his wife, Ruth, live.