On Oct. 15, 1940, President Roosevelt honored Boy Scout Donn Fendler, of Rye, N.Y., with a gold medal for valor. , 90, a Boy Scout who lost his way during a mountain trek in Maine in 1939, embarking on a nine-day survival story that transfixed the nation and inspired generations with its themes of self-reliance and intrepidity, died Monday at a hospital in Bangor, Maine.