Porter’s first Eagle Scout

Beatrice Kibler ’26 is the first student in MPS history and one of the first girls in America to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest rank in Scouts BSA. A founding member of Troop 223G in Pacific Palisades, California, Kibler held scouting leadership roles such as patrol leader and high adventure crew leader. She also earned 43 merit badges in areas such as citizenship in the nation, lifesaving and oceanography. Last summer, Kibler completed a 60-mile backpacking trek in the mountains of northern New Mexico. She also completed a one-mile open-ocean swim off the coast of Catalina Island. For her Eagle Scout project, she led a team of scouts over three days in building benches for housing facilities for formerly unhoused youth in California.