Greetings to all,
Just a little background. Our Scouting program has been re-energized for the past three years, some of us are still learning our responsibilities and some have oodles experience. We just had our first ECOH this past October in who knows how many years. We are looking forward to at least 2 or more this year. With our program finally getting its legs under it I was wondering, besides the obvious pomp and circumstance, is there really any thing different between what is caled a normal COH and an Eagle COH? The reason I am asking is that (as Murphey would have it) I received an email the day after we held a cout of honor that our Varsity Team as well one of its members took first place in a Winter Biathalon back in February. These are the kind of awards that should be handed out at a COH for two reasons, First to acknowledge the boys in a public setting for their achievement, and second, to encourage the older boys to come to COHs. Since we had just had a COH the previous night and knew we had an ECOH two weeks later I thought why not present them with the awards at the ECOH at the beginning of the ECOH, especially since we did not have another normal COH scheduled in the near future. Of course the first person I checked with was boy who was receiving his Eagle, if he didn't want it included in his ECOH -- case closed. But I am stil curious, can/should awards to others within the troop be given at ECOHs?
Thanks.
