Hello, Eagle Scouts,

Recently we sent out an invitation to reconnected alumni for the Eagle Scout alumni event Friday, July 30, 2010, during the national Scout jamboree. Anyone who registers as an alumni at BSAalumni between now and the last week of May will receive an invitation by email during the first week of June. Once you do that, be sure to download the free cell phone ring tone of the bugle call “Reveille.”

Are you aware that all members of the National Eagle Scout Association receive four quarterly full-color magazines? Also, NESA members have available to them many online services in the members section of NESA.org. To join, simply go to the NESA website, click on “Join,” print an application, and mail or fax it in.

While visiting NESA.org, watch the new NASA video to see what the astronaut office at the Johnson Space Center gave us recently. That display will be at the NESA tent at the national Scout jamboree this summer.

You will also find on the Web site testimonial videos of young and old Eagle Scouts talking about what being an Eagle has meant in their lives. Enjoy.

Be a part of history!

On Sunday, July 25, 2010, Scouts and Scouting supporters from across the nation will converge on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., for the BSA Grand Centennial Parade. It will be the first time Scouting has had such a presence in the nation’s capital since 1937, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt invited the BSA to hold its first national Scout jamboree on the National Mall.

On the scale of the Rose Parade or Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the BSA Grand Centennial Parade will feature five floats, each depicting one of the core principles of Scouting (leadership, achievement, service, character, and the outdoors), as well as historical Scouting elements, parade balloons, marching bands, flags, antique cars, thousands of Scouts and Scouting supporters and a special Eagle Scout division.

Eagle Scouts of all ages and from any U.S. state or territory are encouraged to register for the special division, which will serve as the exclamation point of the parade and showcase the epitome of the Boy Scouts of America. To make this historic event even more memorable, every participant—youth and adult—will receive a centennial celebration gift bag, including a Centennial Parade patch, to mark their participation in the parade. For more information, please visit the parade website.

The National Eagle Scout Association, Boy Scouts of America

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