More Boy Scouts Earn Graphic Arts, Paper Merit Badges at Museum

“For the past eight years, I have been a merit badge counselor for both the Graphic Arts and Pulp and Paper merit badges,” said Burdge, “During that time, only one boy called to get his Graphic Arts merit badge and he never showed up for his appointment.” Burdge, who was the Chairman of the Southern California Printing Industry Trade Association in 2009, experienced the decline of the printing industry during his tenure and witnessed the lack of funding in the education system for printing programs.