Re: Elimination of Safety Merit Badge as an Eagle Requirement
Bruce E. Cobern (bec@PIPELINE.COM)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:45:47 -0500
> From: Donato, Bruce <Bdonato@LIFETECH.COM>
> Date: Monday, December 21, 1998 7:51 AM
>
> My question to you guru's is about the effect of dropping the Safety
Mb from
> the Eagle required list. If a scout earns Star or Life using Safety
as one
> of his required eagle merit badges, does he need to do personal
fitness? If
> so does this mean that he now has 12 Eagle required badges? Assume
that he
> will not have started his Eagle project prior to 4/1/99.
The date of starting his project is irrelevant. The question is
whether he will complete ALL of the requirements (except the BOR)
before 4/1/99. Since you posit that he will not, then in order to make
Eagle he will need Personal Fitness merit badge (in lieu of Safety) and
Swimming/Cycling/Hiking (in lieu of Swimming/Sports/Personal Fitness).
In other words, he will have to meet the NEW merit badge requirements.
Safety will not longer be a required MB so he will still only have 11
required MB's. However, he should still list Safety (and Sports) as an
optional MB if he used it to qualify for Star/Life so that the
application supports his having adequate required MB's at the time he
advanced to those ranks.
> Here is the scenario, Life scout has all 21 badges for his Eagle
completed
> prior to 4/1/99 but does not complete his project and/or
> BOR until after 4/1/99. He did not use Safety Mb to achieve Star of
Life.
> Does he have to follow the new list or can he follow the old list?
This Scout has two choices. EITHER he completes his project,
leadership, tenure, and SM conference by 4/1/99 (and thus qualifies
under the OLD requirements), OR he will have to meet the new
requirements, including Personal Fitness and not including Safety.
--
Bruce E. Cobern
mailto:bec@pipeline.com
