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Hello fellow Eagle Scouts!
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Not sure if cooking was? I wonder if there is website floating around that has a list of all merit badges ever offered and ones that were once Eagle required.
Yes cooking was (and I could actually cook, lol). Basically if you could eat it (and keep it down), you passed, lol. OK - it really wasn't that simple.
Ben
I can verify that. When I was a scout in the '60s, Cooking was a required merit badge for Eagle. There were 11 required badges out of the 21 total required. Here are the requirements that were in effect from 1965 to 1970 when I got my Eagle (1968).
Earn 21 merit badges, including:
Camping
Cooking
Citizenship in the Community
Citizenship in the Nation
Nature
Soil and Water Conservation
Personal Fitness
First Aid
Swimming
Lifesaving
Safety
While a Life Scout, serve actively for 6 months as a troop warrant officer [patrol leader, senior patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, junior assistant scoutmaster, instructor, scribe, quartermaster, librarian, den chief]
While a Life Scout, plan, develop, and carry out a service project helpful to your church or synagogue, school, or community
Take part in a Scoutmaster Conference (includes living up to Scout Promise, Law, Motto, and Slogan)
I found this at the following site. It has the different requirements from 1911 until the 2009 requirements. Quite interesting to see how the requirements have changed through the years.
I got my merit badge sash out to take a look at it and realized that I had the accompanying card for each merit badge that shows the date that I received the badge. Very nostalgic.
Mike
Earn 21 merit badges, including:
Camping
Cooking
Citizenship in the Community
Citizenship in the Nation
Nature
Soil and Water Conservation
Personal Fitness
First Aid
Swimming
Lifesaving
Safety
While a Life Scout, serve actively for 6 months as a troop warrant officer [patrol leader, senior patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, junior assistant scoutmaster, instructor, scribe, quartermaster, librarian, den chief]
While a Life Scout, plan, develop, and carry out a service project helpful to your church or synagogue, school, or community
Take part in a Scoutmaster Conference (includes living up to Scout Promise, Law, Motto, and Slogan)
I found this at the following site. It has the different requirements from 1911 until the 2009 requirements. Quite interesting to see how the requirements have changed through the years.
I got my merit badge sash out to take a look at it and realized that I had the accompanying card for each merit badge that shows the date that I received the badge. Very nostalgic.
Mike
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Thank you Mike. That is a very interesting website. Ben I'm ony only 17 but I sometimes have troubles trying to remember which merit badge is which. So then I have to get out my binder with all my blue cards and match them up. The Eagle requireds are the only ones I can remember every time. Those and railroading.
You're welcome. This thread has turned me a little nostalgic and I got my Boy Scout Handbook out from the '60s just to travel down memory lane a little. It's a handbook that I got late in my scouting career. I don't know what happened to my original one. This one is the Seventh edition, third printing and is in really good condition.
Mike
Mike
You're welcome. This thread has turned me a little nostalgic and I got my Boy Scout Handbook out from the '60s just to travel down memory lane a little. It's a handbook that I got late in my scouting career. I don't know what happened to my original one. This one is the Seventh edition, third printing and is in really good condition.
Mike
I have already made a promise to myself that I will always keep my Scout Handbook. My first and only book is the Eleventh Edition. The only problem with it is the back cover is starting to fall off. My dad bought for the family a reproduction of the First Edition 1911 scout handbook, that I only just remembered that we have, that was released this year. He got it from Amazon. The one thing I've been searching for is the Boy Scout Requirements Book from 1993(the year I was born.) Of course I haven't looked in quite some time. We do have the '98 version for my brother though.
I got back from the National Jamboree at 12:02 am last night. We were delayed trying to get into Denver because of storms and that made all planes flying into and out of Denver delayed. So then our plane that was supposed to leave for Sacramento at 10 pm didn't take off until 10:45 pm. It was hectic.
But I'll tell you what, this has been the best Boy Scout outing/trip I have ever been on. We had a rain showers through out the week. Yesterday when we were supposed to get up at 4 am we got up at 3 am with our leaders practicly yelling at us to "Get up, pack up, and take down the dining flys, there is thunder storms with lightning advisory headed straight for us. We have 20 minutes. GO!!!" So we scrambled got all our gear under tarps, took down the dining flys and took them to the 18 wheeler trailer waiting for the last of the gear. Since my friend and I were the first scouts to the trailer, the leaders had us climb in and load. At that point the sky just opened up. Three more scouts joined us soon afterwards. And with the lightning advisory in effect, we couldn't leave the trailer until it was clear, noone was allowed on, and anyone who loaded gear onto the trailer couldn't touch the trailer or us and we loading couldn't grab the gear as long as they were holding on to it.
So we stayed on that trailer for 4 hours until the storm finally passed. Two of those hours we spent just talking because we were all done(but as the storm was still going, we couldn't leave.) Finally the bus came (an hour late, it was supposed to be there at six but didn't get there until seven) and then we drove to Montecello. From there we went to lunch and then we went to the second part of the Air and Space museum at Dulles. Then we flew home.
The Jamboree itself was awesome. My friends and I who are Eagles signed up for the National Eagle Scout Asscociation; we are all Lifetime Members now. And I did some patch trading. Of all the patches I got, my favorite is a train theme set from Mid-America council and they must of had a UP license of some sort becuase it was all UP theme. I didn't get the jacket, staff, and OA patches of the set. If I find any of them on Ebay then I'll buy them. I'll get a picture of what I have and put it up later.
Another cool part of the tour was at the Arlington National Cemetery, where a fellow Eagle Scout, two other friends and I participated in a Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. I was very honored to be chosen for this experience.
All in all it was awesome. I have already told my parents I will go to the next Jamboree as staff with the OA Service Corps. My dad said he'll go with me; he's always wanted to go to a National Jamboree but never been able to attend. It will be in 2013 at the Bechtel Summit in West Virginia. This new permenant site is so large, that it will be a High Adventure Base, summer camp, and all future Jamborees will be held here.
But I'll tell you what, this has been the best Boy Scout outing/trip I have ever been on. We had a rain showers through out the week. Yesterday when we were supposed to get up at 4 am we got up at 3 am with our leaders practicly yelling at us to "Get up, pack up, and take down the dining flys, there is thunder storms with lightning advisory headed straight for us. We have 20 minutes. GO!!!" So we scrambled got all our gear under tarps, took down the dining flys and took them to the 18 wheeler trailer waiting for the last of the gear. Since my friend and I were the first scouts to the trailer, the leaders had us climb in and load. At that point the sky just opened up. Three more scouts joined us soon afterwards. And with the lightning advisory in effect, we couldn't leave the trailer until it was clear, noone was allowed on, and anyone who loaded gear onto the trailer couldn't touch the trailer or us and we loading couldn't grab the gear as long as they were holding on to it.
So we stayed on that trailer for 4 hours until the storm finally passed. Two of those hours we spent just talking because we were all done(but as the storm was still going, we couldn't leave.) Finally the bus came (an hour late, it was supposed to be there at six but didn't get there until seven) and then we drove to Montecello. From there we went to lunch and then we went to the second part of the Air and Space museum at Dulles. Then we flew home.
The Jamboree itself was awesome. My friends and I who are Eagles signed up for the National Eagle Scout Asscociation; we are all Lifetime Members now. And I did some patch trading. Of all the patches I got, my favorite is a train theme set from Mid-America council and they must of had a UP license of some sort becuase it was all UP theme. I didn't get the jacket, staff, and OA patches of the set. If I find any of them on Ebay then I'll buy them. I'll get a picture of what I have and put it up later.
Another cool part of the tour was at the Arlington National Cemetery, where a fellow Eagle Scout, two other friends and I participated in a Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. I was very honored to be chosen for this experience.
All in all it was awesome. I have already told my parents I will go to the next Jamboree as staff with the OA Service Corps. My dad said he'll go with me; he's always wanted to go to a National Jamboree but never been able to attend. It will be in 2013 at the Bechtel Summit in West Virginia. This new permenant site is so large, that it will be a High Adventure Base, summer camp, and all future Jamborees will be held here.
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