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Originally Posted by arvid1978
I want to address more of your comment, but this sticks out as patently false. We were never founded just for Eagle Scouts; that is a rumor that has been going around for quite some time. Randy/Michael, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
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Agreed, this is False. Frank Reed Horton was never an Eagle Scout. While looking through the old Torch and Trefoils, I have found several reminders from the National Fraternity to the chapters that chapters are not allowed to add additional requirements in terms of rank achieved in determining admission. This goes back almost to the beginning in that the group of scouts at Auburn that were looking to form their own college scouting related fraternity (and were pointed by BSA HQ in NY to Frank Reed Horton's group at Lafayette, Pitt and Cornell) were entirely Eagle Scouts.
The only change to the scouting membership requirements came in the 1950s (I believe, I'll have to go look) in that membership in other National scouting organizations in WOSM was allowed.
Remember, Brother Bill Clinton was never a boy scout at all, he was able to join Mu Alpha chapter because he had been a cub scout. Also, by the 1960s, some (possibly many) chapters were simply registering those interested in "College Scouter Reserve" with their local council, which defacto allowed any man to join.
Randy
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