Re: knots (Hornaday et al)
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Sun, 26 May 1996 18:31:17 -0500
Hi George!
> I was getting ready to ask Mike Walton this very same question, but I'm sure
>I'm not the only one thinking this:
>To sum up - Paul Brown posted a trivia question about what knots a Cub may
>transfer to his Scout (and hopefully Scouter) uniform. The answer he was
>looking for was The Religious Award and the knots for any of the heroism
>awards. ( I know, I asked Paul about his grammar ;) ).
>
>Mike Walton (Hi Mike, glad to see you back!), and several other people then
>followed mentioning the Hornaday award as a knot that a Cub could carry over
>to Scouts and beyond.
The following is from the BSA's Application for the William T. Hornaday Award,
BSA # 21-107, which is available either through your Council office, the BSA's
Camping/Outdoor Division (S226, National Office address) and I have a copy
that I can fax outward given a couple of days.
"The Hornaday Award may be given in one of five forms:
1. Unit Certificate to a den, pack, patrol, troop, post, or a group of five
or more
Scouts or Explorers for unique conservation or environmental quality project
2. (my emphasis) BADGE TO A SCOUT OR EXPLORER FOR EXCEPTIONAL
SERVICE TO CONSERVATION OR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY WITHIN
A COUNCIL.
3. Bronze Medal to a Scout or Explorer for exceptional service to conservation
or environmental quality, within a Council
4. Silver Medal to a Scout or Explorer for unusual and distinguished service to
conservation or environmenal quality on a state or regional basis. Not more
than six (now four) Silver Medals will be awarded each year. Applications are
reviewed once a year for this award.
5. Gold Medalion to an adult Scouter or Explorer leader for unusual and
distinguished service to conservation or enviornmental quality on a State,
BSA Region, or national basis. Emphasis will be, whenever possible, based
on national impact.
The *Unit Certificate* and *BADGE* are awarded by the local Council.
Application is made through the local Council. "
The application form for Unit Certificate and Badge must be submitted to the
local Council, whch will decide whether such application is worthy of
consideration for the award. Qualified applicants will be interviewed by a
council committee (or an ad-hoc committee if the applicant lives a significant
distance from the Council center). The committee determines whether the
applicant qualifies for the Badge (or in case of group effort, for the
certificate). Each local Council has authority to award an unlimited number
of Badges and Certificates.
Boy Scouts and Explorers work on the medals, which are always submitted
through the local Council to the National Hornaday Awards Committee for
review and approval of the Bronze Medal.
In 1991, the BSA's Uniform and Insignia Committee approved the Hornaday
Award square knot for holders of the Badge, or either version of the Hornaday
Medal (the previous awardees were all presented, as I was, with Gold medals).
The square knot is green, white and blue in a similar arrangement as the Eagle
Scout square knot, and a illustration of the square knot can be seen on the
square knot pages.
>BTW, if a Cub had a thousand dollars that he could put to a James West knot,
>I would advise him to either put in a bank for college, help the less
>fortunate, or have his unit apply it to their amount in FOS/SME (or IIC here
>in NCAC).
I most heartely agree with you there, George!!! Thanks for making me pull my
Hornaday application and materials from my binder to followup...I should have
done this from the start!!
BTW, since the introduction of the Hornaday Medal in 1914, only 287 Cub Scouts
and Packs have qualified for the Badge.
Settummanque!
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