National Eagle Scout Association

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National Eagle Scout Association

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Owner	Boy Scouts of America
Country	United States
Founded	1972
National Director	Bill Steele
National President	vacant
Website	http://www.nesa.org/
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The National Eagle Scout Association (NESA, pronounced nee sah) is an organization of men who have earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. NESA's stated purpose is "to serve Eagle Scouts and, through them, the entire movement of Scouting."

1 Origins
2 Programs
3 References
4 See also

[edit] Origins

The Knights of Dunamis was an honor society of Eagle Scouts founded in San Francisco, California on April 19, 1925 by Scout Executive Raymond O. Hanson. The Knights of Dunamis, named after the Greek power or spirit. served as a service organization for local Scout councils and also hosted occasional social events. The Knights awarded a special honor of their own, the Knights Eagle Award. For about forty years after its founding, the national leadership of the Boy Scouts of America had an ambivalent attitude toward the Knights. In 1972 the Knights of Dunamis was merged into the BSA and became the National Eagle Scout Association.

[edit] Programs

Membership is available on a yearly or lifetime basis to all Eagle Scouts. NESA cross-checks applications to ensure all applicants are Eagle Scouts. The Eagletter is a quarterly magazine published by NESA that helps keep its members informed of NESA activities and functions.

NESA administers several scholarships for Eagle Scouts. As of January 2006, these scholarships ranged from $1000–$48000. Specific requirements vary for each scholarship, but all require the recipient to be an Eagle Scout. Membership in NESA is not required to be a scholarship recipient.

NESA also administers nominations for the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award as well as the NESA Scoutmaster Award of Merit, which is an award introduced in 1973 for those Scoutmasters who have provided exceptional promotion of, and leadership to, the Scouting advancement program in general and exemplary development of Eagles in particular.

Steve Fossett, the renowned aviator, is currently listed as President of NESA. Fossett has been missing since early September 2007 when he was travelling by plane from William Barron Hilton's Flying M Ranch, approximately 60 miles southeast of Carson City, Nev., toward Bishop (Inyo County).[1], but was declared legally dead by a Cook County, Illinois judge on February 15, 2008.