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Why Join Scouting? Here are few good reasons!
As you review the impressive "where-are-they-now" list of former scouts, envision what scouting can do for your son.
Boy Scout Alumni Percentages
For every 100 young men who join...
Columbia Shuttle Tribute
Famous Eagle Scouts
Famous Scouts, but not Eagles
Boy Scout Alumni are: back to top of page
- 71% of football captains
- 65% of basketball captains
- 85% of student council presidents
- 88% of school newspaper editors
- 77% of editors of school annuals
- 75% of business managers of school publications
- 80% of junior class presidents
- 89% of senior class presidents
- 65% of college graduates
- 72% of Rhodes Scholars
- 75% of Military Academy graduates
- 65% of U.S. Congress
- 85% of airline pilots
- 85% of FBI agents
- 26 of the first 29 astronauts were Boy Scouts
- 11 of the 12 astronauts who walked on the moon were Boy Scouts
- Over half of the 108 Scout astronauts attained Star, Life, or Eagle ranks
For every 100 young men who join the Boy Scouts: back to top of page
- 12 will have their first contact with a church
- 5 will earn their religious emblem
- 2 will enter the clergy
- 1 will use Scout skills to save a life
- 1 will use Scout skills to save his own life
- 2 will become Eagle Scouts
- 18 will enter professions first learned through the Merit Badge system
- 17 will become Scouting volunteers and pass their skills, inspiration, and leadership along to countless youths
- 28 will develop hobbies started in Scouting that will give them lifelong interests
- And . . . Only rarely will one appear in a criminal or juvenile court!
- And yet, amazingly Scouting reaches only 25 percent of the youth in the country!
We mourn the loss of the brave crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia and ask that you keep their families in your prayers. All four of the American men of the Space Shuttle Columbia were involved in Scouting in their youth, with pilot William McCool achieving the rank of Eagle Scout. Richard Husband earned the rank of 2nd Class. Michael Anderson was a Webelos Scout. David Brown was a Life Scout as a youth. Laurel Salton Clark was a Girl Scout.
FAMOUS EAGLE SCOUTS back to top of page
- Bill Alexander - U.S. Representative from Arkansas
- Gary L. Ackerman - U.S. Representative from NY
- Neil Armstrong - astronaut, first man on moon, from Wapakoneta, OH
- 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
- Charles E. Bennett - U.S. Representative from Florida
- William Bennett - Former Secretary of Education
- 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 - Former governor of Massachusetts
- Arthur Eldred - First Eagle Scout
- David Farabee - Texas State Representative
- 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 triathelons, and among other things lives the Scouting mottos both Cub and Boy Scout by doing his best and being prepared
- Steven W. Lindsey - Astronaut - He was the pilot for STS-95 when John Glen 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 lunar 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.
- Sam Nunn - U.S. Senator from Georgia
- Ellison Onizuka - Astronaut aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle Challenger
- 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
- Donald Rumsfeld - Secretary of Defense
- Harrison Salisbury - Pulitzer Prize winning author
- 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
- Sam Walton - Founder, Wal-Mart
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 back to top of page
- Richard Dean Anderson - taught Reptile Study, actor
- Charles F. Barber - CEO of American Smelting & refining
- George W. Bush - Cub Scout, President of the United States
- Bill Clinton - Cub Scout, President of the United States
- Harrison Ford - Life, taught Reptile Study, actor "Indiana Jones"
- Bill Gates - Life, founder of Microsoft Corp.
- Richard Gere - Actor
- David Hartman - TV personality
- John F Kennedy - First US President who was a Scout
- Branford Marsalis - Life Scout, Jazz musician
- 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
- Richard Roundtree - actor
- Nolan Ryan - pro baseball pitcher
- Alberto Salazar - Life, 3 time winner NY marathon
- John Schneider - Actor, Dukes of Hazard
- James Stewart - actor, USAF B. General, B-17 pilot in WWII
- Joe Theisman - Life, former QB, Washington Redskins
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