Preparing for the Court of Honor -- preparation and planning information.
Invitations and commendations -- publicity, invitations, announcement letters, and letters of commendation.
Gifts for the new Eagle Scout -- should parents give the Scout a gift? Should guests? (This is the most frequently asked question we receive at Eaglescout.org.)
Templates for Court of Honor ceremonies -- use these for start point, then add what you want to fill them out. Feel free to even combine parts from several templates into a custom one for yourself. You can see complete ceremony scripts (a template with charges, poems, prayers, etc. already added into a complete ceremony) under the "scripts" heading below.
Eagle charges, challenges, pledges, oaths, etc. -- add these to your template to round out the responsibility, duty, and importance of the Eagle Rank.
Optional ceremony elements -- Famous Scouts, significance of the Eagle Rank, Scouting heritage, and inspirational messages. If you want to spruce up your ceremony, check these out.
Use of BSA logos, etc. -- You're trustworthy, right? You don't want to use copyrighted material inappropriately. Here are some suggestions.
Ideas for making an Eagle Court of Honor more interesting from Scouting Magazine
Religious materials -- prayers, benedictions, and other faith related materials.
Eagle poems -- a nice, growing collection.
Complete Court of Honor scripts -- You will find here a collection of complete scripts that have been used in various Troops over the years. Many of the charges, poems, inspirational writings, and other bits and pieces from the areas listed above ordered together into a proper script.
Please direct all inquiries & submissions to the webmaster at Eaglescout.org
The majority of the Court of Honor material here was taken from the EagleBook, described below. The acknowledgments from that document are also included below. We have (at this website) added lots of extra information to that we took from the superb EagleBook collection.
The Eagle Court of Honor Handbook
Welcome to the Eagle Court of Honor Handbook. This is a compilation of resources gathered from many places. You will find herein most of the Eagle Scout Ceremonies Handbook by Dan Demers, and also the Eagle Scout Court Of Honor Scripts FAQ from Fred Rogers. There was a great deal of overlap between these two documents, so it made sense to combine it all, along with other sources, into a new handbook. It Sir Issac Newton that said "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." Well, my sincere thanks to Dan, Fred and the many other people who have contributed to this handbook.
Acknowledgments
The EAGLE COURT OF HONOR HANDBOOK, by Gary Hendra, the MacScouter, is a compilation of material from many sources, including the following:
Don Demers' EAGLE SCOUT CEREMONIES HANDBOOK could not have been possible without the contributions from a lot of dedicated Scouters and Council folks.
Fred Rogers' EAGLE SCOUT COURT OF HONOR SCRIPTS FAQ was compiled from many sources. Most of the scripts were distributed originally by the National Eagle Scout Association or were taken from Woods Wisdom. Other scripts and information came from the Scouts-L Youth Groups Discussion List on the Internet and the rec.scouting newsgroup on Usenet.
In addition, contributions to this EAGLE COURT OF HONOR HANDBOOK have been gratefully received from Steve Aberle, saberle@olympic.brigadoon.com, Ben Parker, bparker@interaccess.com, Jack L. Eidson, Mike Walton -- Settumanque! the Blackeagle, Greg Gough, Joe Ulrich, joe_ulrich@yahoo.com, Scott Drown, Paul Sweeney, sweeney@mdc.net, Ed Schmitt, C. W. Miller, David Smith, and many others.
Please direct all inquiries & submissions to the webmaster at Eaglescout.org
Last update: 3/13/2006