Greetings!
>Pardon my ignorance, but dosn't the court harold or somone check the court
agenda against the event sign in sheets to see if intended award recipients
are present?
Not normally. For one thing, just because someone's there in the afternoon
is no guarantee they'll be there for an evening court. The other problem is
in the sign-in sheets themselves. I've seen a number where they don't even
request your SCA name--just your legal name and signature.
I'm certainly with Dafydd on this one. I'd rather not see a scroll given out
other than to the recipient in person. For one thing, I've seen too many
scrolls go missing, or people forget to tell the awardee that they got the
award at all.
What Berus and Marion, who were the final Prince and Princess of Ealdormere,
did was to hold scrolls for people who were not at an event where they were
to get an award. At the beginning of each subsequent event, as well as in
the newsletter, a list of gentles who were "commanded to present themselves
before Their Highnesses at their earliest convenience" was
announced/published. At the end of the reign, there were still a few awards
where the person had never been able to make it in person, and only then
were they entrusted to a proxy.
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