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QUALIFICATIONS

(A) The Nominee must be at least TWENTY-TWO YEARS of age ON OR BEFORE MARCH 1, 1937.

(B) Award in recognition of, or, a promising career of outstanding adult leadership in some field of worth-while endeavor that serves God, Country or Humanity.

(C) CITATION DOES NOT CONSIDER PAST DE MOLAY ACTIVITY OR LABOR, although desirable.

(D) The distinction will not be conferred upon any nominee whose character, reputation, or integrity is in doubt.

(E) Recommendation for this honor must be made by the Advisory Council of a Chapter on this form to the Member or Deputy of the Grand Council for your jurisdiction WHO MAY nominate, if he desires, to the Grand Council such nominees as he deems worthy of the decoration.

(F) A NOMINEE OR THE MEMBERSHIP OF A CHAPTER MUST HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL. FAILURE TO OBSERVE SECRECY IN MAKING THIS NOMINATION DUBJECTS THE NOMINEE TO THE PENALTY OF NOT BEING CNSIDERED.

(G) A nomination will not be considered from a Chapter delinquent in its current Annual Report or Grand Council fees.

(H) One nominee may be submitted by a Member of Deputy of the Grand Council for every two hundred members in his jurisdiction during the preceding DeMolay Year as reported to the Secretary General in Chapter’s Annual Reports and such credits are cumulative.

Note: Question 14 in the attached Nomination Form also asked about the nominee “Has he received any of the following…
Representative DeMolay? …Degree of Chevalier? ….Achievement Award ?… Blue Honor Key?


As interesting as the above is, of far greater importance, philosophically, for all Advisors, is an additional sheet entitled “The Legion”, which was also included.

This provides, perhaps, the best possible guidance for each Advisor when considering whether to place a name in consideration, or to vote to submit a nomination. The original format is kept below.

“THE LEGION”

“The Legion of Honor is not a boy organization; it is composed solely of men, a part of whose boyhood was spent in DeMolay. It was never intended in the strictest sense as a decoration for work in DeMolay. The Legion of Honor was created for the purpose of banding together a selected few out of the many thousands who have knelt at the altar of DeMolay and who bore the stamp of possible leadership not only in their community but in national life as well, whether it be in a civic, industrial, professional, business or spiritual field of endeavor. A group of men who can be implicitly relied upon as the years pass to aid boyhood, to carry the ideals of DeMolay into every walk of life and to unswervingly uphold national ideals. The Mission of the Legion is to consecrate the heart and thought of its recipients to an unfaltering belief in God, a defense of the Public School System and a defense of the rights of all children. The Legion of Honor is to perpetuate the DeMolay of the future.

Out of the thousands of young men who are passing through DeMolay will come some of the world’s leaders. You may have in your community belonging to your Chapter a future Edison, a future Steinmetz, a future Lincoln or a future Luther. The leaders we are searching for may never have been active in your Chapter’s affairs, yet some training that you have given them will prove helpful in their leadership of the future. We do know that some of the young men who have passed through DeMolay are unmistakable developing into world leaders in their particular fields of endeavor. That we may find as many as possible within our number, and then nurture and aid them, is the aim of the Legion. You and your associates have many times probable predicted the future of some young man who has come under your observation. The Grand Council asks you in the spirit of intuition and prophesy to make only such nominations for the Legion of Honor, from those who have belonged to your Chapter, as you reasonable feel are gifted in some avenue of endeavor. With this though in mind it is only natural that more men who have never been active in DeMolay will receive this honor than those who have been Chapter leaders. In considering your nominations do not make your selections based on DeMolay activity. DeMolay Chapters develop not less than six thousand Master Councilors every year, and very few of those will ever reach high achievement. Do not consider a man because he has been a good working in your Chapter or because he happens to be the son or protégé of a very influential member of the Sponsoring Body or of your Board itself. The Grand Council is acting upon your recommendation at the Active Member or Deputy for your jurisdiction, takes your conclusion because you have a pride in selecting only young men whom you feel will develop into possible leaders. A young man may be ever so popular and yet his aim in life may be no higher than that of a clerkship or some obscure responsibility in which he will never be classed as a leader either in your community of in world affairs. We have literally thousands of these young men, most capable, honest, industrious, and very much worthwhile, but they do not measure up to the requirements of the Legion.
Young men in the profession deserve consideration and even young men who are agriculturists or those becoming junior partners or owners of business afford possible prophecy of leadership. Those in the fields of education, music, art, and letters prove very promising material. The young man who becomes a clergyman is afforded a splendid field for leadership. In fact any young man who is in training for some worthwhile endeavor, although his efforts may be in a obscure field of service, should command the attention and interest of every Advisory Council when considering nominations for the Legion.***We have enough honors at hand to enthuse and satisfy every young man who is active in the Order of DeMolay but the Legion of Honor must ever remain a goal of leadership, a pinnacle where the gifted mind becomes immortal in fruition. No young man who is being suggested for this honor should be acquainted with the information that he is even being considered. We realize that everyone who is nominated and elected will not come up to our full expectations, but of the number, if only a few attain the goal, all of the work and effort will be more than worthwhile in giving the world a contribution of devoted, consecrated leadership.”

FRANK S. LAND.

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Originally posted by P. W. Brusoe:
The Cross of Honor is for both Genders, and is for serving as an advisor.

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Originally posted by P. W. Brusoe:
"Dad" Pratt, you can express your view, I am just done talking about the substantive issue, as the active DeMolay has spoken.