From <@tcuavm.is.tcu.edu:owner-scouts-l@TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU> Sat Mar 28 18:34:06 1998 Return-Path: <@tcuavm.is.tcu.edu:owner-scouts-l@TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU> Received: from tcuavm.is.tcu.edu (TCUAVM.IS.TCU.EDU [138.237.128.148]) by cap1.CapAccess.org (8.6.12/8.6.10) with SMTP id SAA14999 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 18:34:06 -0500 Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU by tcuavm.is.tcu.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3846; Sat, 28 Mar 98 17:25:53 CDT Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@TCUBVM) by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5588; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:26:03 -0500 Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LISTSERV release 1.8b) with NJE id 5527 for SCOUTS-L@TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:24:53 -0500 Received: from TCUBVM (NJE origin SMTP@TCUBVM) by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5526; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:22:12 -0500 Received: from ALPHA.IS.TCU.EDU by tcubvm.is.tcu.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Sat, 28 Mar 98 17:22:01 CDT Received: from mx1.dynasty.net (mx1.dynasty.net) by ALPHA.IS.TCU.EDU (PMDF V5.0-5 #20456) id <01IV7HJPAG0W00EM9V@ALPHA.IS.TCU.EDU> for scouts-l@ALPHA.IS.TCU.EDU; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:20:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from jessica ([208.205.50.127]) by mx1.Dynasty.Net (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAF156; Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:20:27 -0600 X-Sender: blkeagle@mail.dynasty.net MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19980328232056.00978998@mail.dynasty.net> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:20:56 -0600 Reply-To: "settummanque, or blackeagle (Mike Walton)" Sender: Scouts-L Youth Group List From: "settummanque, or blackeagle (Mike Walton)" Subject: Re: Eagle Palm ceremony X-To: Ron Raab-Long , scouts-l@tcu.edu To: Multiple recipients of list SCOUTS-L Status: RO X-Status: Ron Raab-Long asked us all: >Our Troop is awarding our first ever Eagle Palm next Monday night. The >young man in question is the first to not wait until he was 17 & 11/12 >years old to do the job. He will be receiving palms at every quarterly >COH for the next two years. > >My question concerns a suitable ceremony. Woods Wisdom doesn't >include one, the USSSP CD-ROM doesn't seem to have one either. What >say the list? Does anyone have any ideas? Of course I do, Rob: The following comes from my "mounds of paper" without a Council source (if you find this ceremony was orignially done in your Council, please let me know so that I can annotate it on the paper here aa well as to give your Council the credit it deserves) Note this ceremony expects much from the Senior Patrol Leader (or the Assistant, if the Eagle Scout is also the SPL). If you have a Scout that would be better in this role, I don't see a reason why you can't substitute him for the SPL. EAGLE PALM CEREMONY Participants: Eagle Scout (ES) Eagle Scout parent (Mom or Dad) (FOLKS) Scoutmaster (SM) Senior Patrol Leader (SPL) Props and other items: Eagle Scout Palm (Bronze, Gold, Silver) attached to Eagle Scout Palm card three tall candles - yellow, red, green one candle representing Palm color : bronze, gold, silver (if Scout is to receive second or subsequent palm, need to have silver candle(s) ) matches or lighter Setting: Lights are dimmed or turned off, SM and SPL are behind table in which props and candles are to be lighted SM: (lighting green candle) During this part of tonight's Court of Honor, we recognize the continued advancement and participation of one of our Eagle Scouts. Will Eagle Scout (name of Scout) come forward and face the audience. (ES comes forward and faces the audience) (if this is the first Palm awarded, use the following paragraph. If not, skip to the next paragraph) SM: It has been three months since you've become our (number)ed Eagle Scout. During this time, you have decided to continue your Scouting experience and to share your knowledge, skills and abilities with all of us. Tonight, we are honoring your additional achievement with the awarding of the (color) Palm to you. It has been at least three months since you've earned the (color) Palm to the Eagle Scout badge. You have continued to serve Scouting and this Troop exceptionally well, and in the process, picked up additional skills. Tonight, we are honoring your additional achievement with the awarding of the (color) Palm to you. SPL: Eagle Scouts do not have to earn the Eagle Palm. It is awarded by the Troop and the Boy Scouts of America to those Eagle Scouts whom continue to lead others, who earn additional merit badges and therefore are bettering themselves, and those that have given additional service to their Troop and community. There are three Eagle Scout Palms. A Bronze Palm for earning five merit badges over the ones used for Eagle; A Gold Palm for earning ten merit badges over Eagle; and a Silver Palm for earning fifteen merit badges over Eagle Scout rank. Each Palm also requires the Eagle Scout to serve activily in our Troop. SM: Like all advancements in our Troop, he must appear before a Board of Review and participate with me in a Scoutmasters' Conference. Eagle Scout (name), please turn and face the lit candle. (Eagle Scout does) SM: In the witness of those fellow members of your Troop and representatives of your community and family, please raise your right hand in the sign of the Scout, and please answer these questions: (Eagle Scout raises his right hand and performs the Scout sign) SM: Have you done your best to continue to be an example to others in your new role as Eagle Scout? ES: I have (yes is fine here too) SM: Have your done your duty to your faith, this community, and your fellow Scouts and have you kept the Scout Law in your daily life? ES: I have (yes is fine here too as well) (SPL lights yellow candle) SM: Will you continue to be of service to others, to keep your body and mind strong and clean, and to uphold the honor which was given to you as an Eagle Scout? ES: Yes (I have will work but sounds stupid) (SPL lights red candle) SM: Will the parent of Eagle Scout (name) come forward. (Folks come forward and join Eagle Scout on either side) SPL: No Scout, to include Eagle Scouts, can do this all by themselves. They need continued reminders from others around them of their obligation to all of us, his fellow Scouts, and to the community in which he lives. Will you, as his parent, asisst him by reminding him of his obligation of service, to help him to do his best and to help him up when he falls or forgets? FOLKS: We will (yes will work here too) SM: At this time, I will ask Eagle Scout (name) to please take the green lit candle, his parents take the yellow candle, and the Senior Patrol Leader to take the red candle and together light the candle(s) emblematic of the honor and achievement of Bronze (Gold, Silver) Palm. (All three take their candles and together light the candle and then places the candles back on the table) (The Eagle Scout and his parent now faces the audience. The lights are now turned back on or dimmed upwards) SM: The symbolism of the three colors is significant. The three colors - red, green and yellow -- are the three primary colors used in the programs of Scouting: Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting and Exploring. Those three colors also signify the influnce of the Troop, the individual and the family on the future performance of the Eagle Scout. Those three candles also represent the three parts of the Scout Oath (Promise) that all Scouts, and especially Eagle Scouts like (name) are expected to uphold as best as they can. It takes all three to motivate and move an Eagle Scout onward toward completion of additional honors such as the Eagle Palm we are awarding tonight. May those candles and the brightness it brought to this room likewise keep your path of progrees lit bright. At this time, Eagle Scout (name) is hereby recognized as an Eagle Scout with Bronze (Gold, Silver) Palm, by authority of the (name) Council, Boy Scouts of America. I will now ask the Senior Patrol Leader to present the card to Eagle Scout (name) and to allow his parent to place the Palm onto the Eagle Scout medal's ribbon. (The Senior Patrol Leader gives the card with Palm pin attached to the Eagle Scout and they exchange handshakes. The Eagle Scout turns to his parent and gives the pin to the parent for attaching to the Eagle Scout medal's red, white and blue ribbon) (The Scoutmaster comes around and congraduates both Eagle Scout and his parent. The ceremony is over at this point.) Hope this ceremony will be of help to your Troop and others....again, if someone knows the source for this ceremony, please let me know -- I got a lot of things like this over the many years, and most cases it doesn't come with a source. I can't even link it with a specific local Council! (and yes, please continue to send me stuff like this...while I complain that I don't have anyplace to put it, I don't throw this stuff away and look forward to the day that SOMEONE out there will post and ask "HEY!! Does anyone have a ceremony for Eagle Scout Palms??" *grinning* Settummanque! (c) 1997 Mike Walton ("no such thing as strong coffee,...") 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