Famous Boys Scouts:
• Charles Lindbergh (awarded the Silver Buffalo Award for distinguished service to youth)
• Walt Disney (awarded the Silver Buffalo Award)
• Normal Rockwell (awarded the Silver Buffalo Award)
• Baseball legends Hank Aaron (Life Scout*, awarded the Silver Buffalo Award) and Nolan Ryan
• Olympic athletes Dan Jansen, Bruce Jenner, Mark Spitz
• Bob Hope (awarded the Silver Buffalo Award)
• Vince Lombardi (awarded the Silver Buffalo Award)
• Charles M. Schultz (awarded the Silver Buffalo Award)
• Astronauts Neil Armstrong (Eagle Scout, awarded the Silver Buffalo Award) and John Glenn
• Walter Cronkite, journalist (Eagle Scout)
• Mike Rowe, star of “Dirty Jobs” (Eagle Scout)
• Actors Jimmy Stewart, John Heder (Eagle Scout), Ashton Kutcher, Richard Dean Anderson, Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Henry Fonda, Jerry Mathers, John Ritter, John Schneider
• Filmmakers Steven Spielberg (Eagle Scout) and Michael Moore (Eagle Scout)
• Recording Artists Jimmy Buffett, Branford Marsalis, Jim Morrison
• Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft
• Samuel Walton, founder of Wal-Mart (Eagle Scout)
• Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald Ford (Eagle Scout), Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama
Fun Facts:
• Only 5% of Boy Scouts earn the rank of Eagle Scout every year.
• Of the 294 US astronauts, more than 180 had been Boy Scouts in their youth; 40 were Eagle Scouts.
• 11 of the 12 astronauts who walked on the moon were Scouts.
• In 2004, there were 3,145,331 boys in the program and 1,173,064 leaders.
• One third of West Point and Air Force Academy cadets were in Boy Scouts. 14% were Eagle Scouts.
• The badges most often earned are: First Aid, Swimming, Camping, Cooking, and Citizenship in the Community.
• 40% of the members of the 111th Congress were in Scouts.
• In 2009, more than 2.8 million Boy Scouts participated in community service projects. The 36.7 milion service hours the Scouts provided, were valued at $764 million!
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What happens to a Scout? For every 100 boys who join Scouting, records indicate that:
- RARELY will one be brought before the juvenile court system
- 2 will become Eagle Scouts
- 17 will become future Scout volunteers
- 12 will have their first contact with a church
- 1 will enter the clergy
- 5 will earn their church award
- 18 will develop a hobby that will last through their adult life
- 8 will enter a vocation that was learned through the merit badge system
- 1 will use his Scouting skills to save his own life
- 1 will use his Scouting skills to save the life of another person
Scouting's alumni record is equally impressive. A recent nation- wide survey of high schools revealed the following information:
- 85% of student council presidents were Scouts
- 89% of senior class presidents were Scouts
- 80% of junior class presidents were Scouts
- 75% of school publication editors were Scouts
- 71% of football captains were Scouts
Scouts also account for:
- 64% of Air Force Academy graduates
- 68% of West Point graduates
- 70% of Annapolis graduates
- 72% of Rhodes Scholars
- 85% of F.B.I. agents
- 26 of the first 29 astronauts
That's a pretty good return for your investment, and speaks well of our scouting program.
Note: Since this was written the percentage of Eagle Scouts has climbed to nearly 4%. The Eagle Scout Service in 1997 announced that the figure was 3.89%.
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