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Originally Posted by EroticySteve
I was never a Boy Scout, seemed like a waste of time and money. It isn't one of those things that you carry with you for the rest of your life. On a resume, volunteering can look noble. A merit badge in underwater basket weaving, well, probably not worth the paper it's written on.
Heat exhaustion? SHEESH. They call them self Scouts?
The Girl Scouts at least sell good cookies and you don't hear them complaining about the heat.
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actually there are a lot of very successfull people who are Eagle Scouts
http://usscouts.org/usscouts/eagle/bsfamous.html
Henry Aaron - Baseball player, home run king - the Mobile Press Register quoted Henry as saying that the greatest positive influence in his life was his involvement in scouting
Gary L. Ackerman - U.S. Representative from NY
Bill Alexander - U.S. Representative from Arkansas
Lamar Alexander - Lawyer, Governor of Tennessee, Secretary of Education, presidential candidate
Neil Armstrong - astronaut, first man on moon, from Wapakoneta, OH
Willie Banks - Olympic & world record holding track star
Albert Belle - baseball player
Charles E. Bennett - U.S. Representative from Florida
William Bennett - Secretary of Education
Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. - Treasury Secretary & U.S. Representative from Texas
Michael Bloomberg - Mayor of New York City, founder of Bloomberg News
Bill Bradley - Pro basketball star and U.S. Senator from NJ
James Brady - Former Press Secretary to President Reagan
Milton A. Caniff - Comic strip artist "Steve Canyon"
Barber B. Conable - President, World Bank
John W. Creighton, Jr. - President & CEO of Weyerhaeuser Company
William E. Dannemeyer - U.S. Representative from Cal.
William Devries - M.D., transplanted first artificial heart
Michael Dukakis - Governor of Massachusetts, presidential candidate
Arthur Eldred - First Eagle Scout
David Farabee - Texas State Representative
Thomas Foley - Speaker of the House and U.S. Representative from Washington
Gerald Ford - U.S. President (1st Eagle to be President
Steven Fossett - Tried several times to fly solo around the world in a hot air balloon and finally did it in 2002, won the Chicago to Mackinaw boat races, competed in the Iditarod dog race, and competed in several iron man triathlons, and among other things lives the Scouting mottos both Cub and Boy Scout by doing his best and being prepared
Murphy J. (Mike) Foster - Governor of Louisiana
Robert M. Gates - Director of Central Intelligence (CIA)
Richard A. Gephardt - U.S. Representative from Missouri, Minority Leader
Michael Kahn - stage director, Oscar winning film editor
Dr. Alfred Kinsey - insect biologist, human behavior researcher
John Koncak - basketball player
Sheldon Leonard - actor, director, producer, 3 time Emmy award winner
Steven W. Lindsey - Astronaut - He was the pilot for STS-95 when John Glenn returned to space as a Senator. He made Eagle in Troop 161 in Temple City, California.
Gary Locke, Governor of the State of Washington, the first Chinese-American Governor in the contiguous United States, and selected as a Distinguished Eagle Scout by NESA
James Lovell - Navy pilot and astronaut, President of National Eagle Scout Association. Flew on Gemini 7, 12 & Apollo 8, 13 At one time had seen more sunrises than any other human being
Richard Lugar - Senator from Indiana (presidential candidate 1996)
J. Willard Marriott, Jr. - President, Marriott Corp.
CDR William McCool, USN - Astronaut, Pilot of U.S. Space Shuttle Columbia. BSA Press Release | NASA Bio
W. Walter Menninger - Physician, civil servant
Michael Moore - Author and filmmaker, nominated for an Oscar for "Bowling for Columbine"
Jim Mora - NFL football coach
Oswald "Ozzie" Nelson - actor
Sam Nunn - U.S. Senator from Georgia
Ellison Onizuka - Astronaut aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle Challenger
Steve Oswald - Astronaut, Navy Rear Admiral
Mitchell Paige - walked 200 miles to enlist in MArines on his 18th birthday in 1936, retired as a Colonel, Medal of honor. Presented his eagle award in 2003 after it was verified that he'd not received it in 1936 because he'd joined the Marines.
Francis J. Parater - nominated for Sainthood by Diocese of Richmond, VA. died at age 22 in 1920 in Rome, while at seminary.
H. Ross Perot - Self-made billionaire and presidential candidate
Rick Perry - Governor, State of Texas
J. J. Pickle - U.S. Representative from Texas, proudly displays his Eagle plaque inside his office
Samuel R. Pierce - Former Sec. Housing & Urban Development
Frederick Reines - Nobel Prize winner in Physics
Gary Rogers - Chairman and CEO of Dreyer's Ice Cream
Jim Rogers - CEO of Kampgrounds of America (KOA)
Donald Rumsfeld - Secretary of Defense
Harrison Salisbury - Pulitzer Prize winning author
James Sanderson - Vice Admiral, US Navy (Ret), Deputy Chief US Atlantic Fleet
Jeff Sessions - Junior Senator from Alabama is an Eagle Scout from the troop in Camden, AL.
William Sessions - Former FBI director
Sam Skinner - Secretary of Energy during the Bush administration and now CEO of Commonwealth Edison
Steven Spielberg - Movie producer, from Scottsdale, AZ, made a movie of his troop while getting Photography MB. Helped to design requirements for the cinematography MB.
Wallace Stegner - Writer and college professor, won Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for "Angle of Repose"
Percy Sutton - Attorney, Chairman of the Board of City Broadcasting Corp.
John Tesh - TV celebrity and pianist
Meldrim Thomson, Jr. - 3 term governor of New Hampshire (deceased)
Sam Walton - Founder, Wal-Mart
Togo West - Secretary of the Army and Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Edward O. Wilson - Pellegrino University Professor and curator of entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. - Admiral, Chief of Naval Operations
Eagle Facts
Only 1.2 million boys have reached Eagle in over 80 years (15,000 a year, roughly). Only 2 in 100 that joins Scouts make Eagle--that's 0.512% of the male population.
FAMOUS SCOUTS, but not Eagles
Richard Dean Anderson - taught Reptile Study, actor
Charles F. Barber - CEO of American Smelting & refining
Jimmy Buffett - musician and singer
George W. Bush - Cub Scout, President of the United States
Bill Clinton - Cub Scout, President of the United States
Walter Cronkite - newsman
Harrison Ford - Life, taught Reptile Study, actor "Indiana Jones" & "Han Solo"
Bill Gates - Life, founder of Microsoft Corp.
Richard Gere - Actor
David Hartman - TV personality
Dan Jansen - Olympic Gold Medal - Speed Skating
Bruce Jenner - Olympic Gold Medal - Decathlon
John F Kennedy - First US President who was a Scout - See his note to his father about an allowance increase for Scouting
Branford Marsalis - Life Scout, Jazz musician
Norman Y. Mineta - Mayor of San Jose, CA, Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Commerce. Japanese-American, spent WWII in an internment camp in Wyoming, where he met Alan Simpson. (see below)
Paul McCartney - Rock N Roll, Beatles (UK)
Jim Morrison - Rock N Roll
Merlin Olson - Pro football player and sportscaster
Eddie Rabbitt - Country & Western singer
John Ritter - actor, son of singer Tex Ritter (deceased)
Richard Roundtree - actor
Nolan Ryan - pro baseball pitcher
Alberto Salazar - Life, 3 time winner NY marathon
John Schneider - Actor, Dukes of Hazard
Alan Simpson - US Senator from Wyoming. - Boy Scout in Cody Wyoming, where he visited fellow Scouts in a Japanese-American internment camp, and met Norman Mineta (see above), who became his life-long friend. Helped pass the Japanese-American Compensation Act.
Mark Spitz - winner of 7 Olympic Gold Medals in swimming
James Stewart - actor, USAF Brig. General, B-17 pilot in WWII
George Takei - actor, Mr. Sulu of Star Trek
Joe Theisman - Life, former QB, Washington Redskins
Peter Uberroth - Cub Scout, Commissioner of Baseball