Miscellaneous Ceremony

CANDLELIGHT CHARTER PRESENTATION

EQUIPMENT: Seven flashlights, the lens of one covered with blue tissue paper and the other covered with yellow tissue paper or plastic wrap).

PERSONNEL: Unit commissioner, Scouting Coordinator, Cubmaster, Pack Committee Chairman, seven Cub Scouts.

The Cubmaster calls the meeting to order.

CUB #1: (Lights the blue light.)

CHAIRMAN: This blue light represents the spirit of Cub Scouting. May it ever burn brightly.

CUB #2: (Lights yellow light) I promise to do my best to do my duty to God and my country...

CUB #3: (Lights yellow light) To help other people....

CUB #4: (Lights yellow light) And obey the Law of the Pack.

(Remaining three Cub Scouts come forward. No. 5 holds the charter.)

COMMISSIONER: (To chairman) In presenting this charter to (Name of chartered organization), I ask if the pack committee agrees to work with and recruit the best adult leadership available, to conduct regular monthly pack leader's meetings, and to assist the Cubmaster?

CHAIRMAN: We will.

COMMISSIONER: (To Scouting Coordinator) Do you, as the representative of the chartered organization, promise to serve boys by providing the best leadership available; to keep informed of this pack's condition and performance, and relay this to your organization regularly; to see that the best possible Cub Scouting gets to these boys through adherence to the rules and regulations set forth by the Boy Scouts of America and the (name) Council; and place this charter in a prominent place for all to see that this organization operates pack number (#)?

COORDINATOR: I do promise.

(The fifth Cub Scout then gives the charter to the Scouting Coordinator and salutes him.)

CUB #5: (Lights yellow light) The Cub Scout follows Akela.

CUB #6: (Lights yellow light) The Cub Scout Helps the pack go.

CUB #7: (Lights yellow light) The pack helps the Cub Scout grow. The Cub Scout gives goodwill.

(The Cubmaster and Cub Scouts leave with lights still burning.)