Award of Merit

District Award of Merit Recipients

The District Award of Merit is a council award presented by districts in the same manner that the Silver Beaver is a national award presented by councils. The award is available to Scouters who render service of an outstanding nature at the district level. The award is made available annually on the basis of 1 for each 25 traditional units or fraction thereof. To nominate someone for the District Award of Merit, click the button and complete the form.

The following list represents all of the Scouters who have received the District Award of Merit throughout the district's long history. 

2022

  • Leonard Hallmark
  • Marjorie Manzo
  • Jim Still
  • Scott Wilkinson

2021

  • Jeremy Fuksa
  • Scott Kasper
  • Daniel Long
  • Tim McCarthy
  • Mike Provence

2020

  • Joe Davis
  • Rebecca Hittner
  • Vicki Johnson
  • Terrell Schimpf

2019

  • Bo Anderson
  • Larry Cooper
  • David Deaton
  • Karen Jones
  • Sean McCombs

2018

  • Charlie Brown
  • Jeff Watt
  • Bill Whitman
  • Pat McCalmon
  • Dan West

2017

  • Shelley Dotson
  • Joe Griggs
  • Kenneth Thomson
  • Donald Zeller
  • Dan Walstrom
  • Kenneth Thomson
  • Ryan Hughes

2016

  • Brigitte Grushka
  • James McCloud
  • Jennifer Myer
  • Orville Newberry, Jr.
  • John Wessling
  • Ted Wilson

2015

  • Michael Adamek
  • Maggie Jackson
  • Ryan Meador, PhD
  • Mike Riley
  • Chad Shiner

2014

  • David Lehman
  • Barry Loughridge
  • Bill McCully
  • Patrick O'Dell
  • John Peter
  • Brian Streich

2013

  • Jeff Adams
  • Joe Applebury
  • John Collier
  • Larry Gallamore
  • Jeannie Salmon
  • Steven Tyler

2012

  • Ronald L. Adams, Jr.
  • Denver Harris, Jr.
  • Gail Lavenburg
  • Melinda McCombs
  • Duane Soper

2011

  • Dak Burnett
  • Michael Cash
  • John R. Linder
  • R. Witt Robinson
  • Larry Strickland
  • Alex E. Toyne

2010

  • Ray Graskemper, Jr.
  • Lloyd (Lurch) Lapore
  • Joe Pepper
  • Charlot Mar Sims
  • Phil Symmonds
  • Bruce Williams

2009

  • Jim Bunnell
  • Dave Engle
  • Jeffrey R. Goertz
  • Jim Higgins
  • Mike Pilch
  • Raul Salmon

2008

  • Joyce Grady
  • Mike Helt
  • Robert Nedved
  • Mike O'Neil
  • H. David Williams
  • Ken Williams

2007

  • Pat Gould
  • Tim Helton
  • Willie Mead
  • Robert Rich
  • Tom Stephens

2006

  • Gary Bloomer
  • Kelly Dunkel
  • Randy Hayes
  • Steve Mathews
  • Wayne McNabb
  • Robert R. Morrison, M.D.

2005

  • John Cookinham, IV
  • Dan Murphey
  • Scott Saving
  • Jeff Tyler
  • Steve Vaughn
  • Chris West

2004

  • Jill Cook
  • Larry Duncan
  • Tom Lanio
  • Bill Moberly
  • James (Monty) Raine

2003

  • Brian Blake
  • Dan Brink
  • Colleen Chapman
  • John Dickerson
  • Monique Downing
  • Lee Ross
  • Norman Smith, Jr.

2002

  • Paul Crooks
  • Dan Duddy
  • Gary Ford
  • Neal Lang
  • Kenny Long
  • Jim Olshefski
  • Kevin Roth

2001

  • Richard Harris
  • Joan Long
  • Byran Meyer
  • Debbie Neff
  • Greg Plumb
  • Dave Stanway
  • Homer Williams

2000

  • Jeff Cook
  • Bob Davis
  • Mark Hatcher
  • Charles Laughridge
  • Charles Martin
  • Howard Scott
  • Bruce Talley

1999

  • John Burwell
  • Henry Guggenmos
  • Karen Hatcher
  • Rick Hill
  • Keith Kaiser
  • Hale Lentz
  • Richard Martin

1998

  • John Cookinham, Sr.
  • Jim Cowley
  • Don Gilkerson
  • John McBurney
  • Lee Perry
  • Ron Sanders
  • Jackie Wade

1997

  • Terry Chapman
  • E.F. Rusty Corwin
  • Steve Crain
  • Russel Downing, Jr.
  • Verlee Gilkerson
  • Sue Otis

1996

  • David Tracewell
  • Tom Barzee
  • Byron Braamse
  • Rowena Cerra
  • Bill Coyne
  • Rick Hollingsworth
  • Susan Thomas

1995

  • Timothy Burke
  • Walter Jones
  • Craig Liljegren
  • Randy Meador
  • Linda Murnan
  • Dorothy Young

1994

  • Joni Glenn
  • John Holton
  • Tom Lenz
  • Charles Robertson
  • Donald Thurman
  • Larry Werth

1993

  • Mary Dillon
  • Arthur Gentry
  • Bill Glenn
  • Roger Nielsen
  • Felix Pileggi
  • Harold Tuck

1992

  • Carolyn Alexander
  • Marvin Dixon
  • Roger Elliott
  • Larry Quigley
  • Lance Staves
  • Lowell Tate

1991

  • Charles Barnett
  • Margaret Canada
  • James Hoke
  • Henry Marrant
  • Vicki Saviano
  • Art Schumacher

1990

  • Alan Adams
  • Wayne Becker
  • Joe Chenault
  • Dwayne Glass
  • Russell Staves
  • Bob Whitaker

1989

  • Thomas Clark
  • Olin Miller
  • Jack Phillips, Jr.
  • Earl Sawyer
  • Robert Settles
  • Robert Wagner

1988

  • Rita Chenault
  • Ben Gardner
  • John Hutcherson
  • Pat James
  • Ed Long
  • Carol Robey

1987

  • Calvin Jack
  • Ronald Johnson
  • Pat Saviano
  • Bert Torry
  • Linda Wattenbarger
  • Leland Welty

1986

  • Gertrude Doyle
  • Jim Hurt
  • Jo Anne Lile
  • H. McAllister
  • Marvin Mendenhall
  • Brock Peterson
  • Mary Weishaar

1985

  • Dave Dalton
  • John Means
  • Cecil O'Dell
  • Glen O'Dell
  • R. Spiegelhalter
  • Weldon Sportsman
  • Leron Sutlief

1984

  • Gerry Allen
  • Robert Boenher
  • Donald Flinn
  • Paul Groseclose
  • Jane Napier
  • Richard Youngstrom

1983

  • Agnes Comstock
  • George Kopecky
  • Clive Mould
  • Rev. Gene Neas
  • Dan Owen
  • R. Robertson
  • Don Wingate

1982

  • Jim Burke
  • Robert Busch
  • Melvin Garrett
  • Fr. S. J. Hoppe
  • Ruby Pointer
  • Donald Sailor
  • Dee Settles

1981

  • Betty Carney
  • Robert Crooks
  • R. Fleener
  • Thomas James
  • Kenneth Petett
  • Judy Settles

1980

  • Jay Dillingham
  • Syl Finck
  • John Hess
  • Diana Kipecky
  • Robert Nelson
  • Jack Phillips
  • Wayne Weimer

1979

  • Tommy Barnes
  • Gene Carney
  • Wilma Fleshman
  • Martin MacDonald
  • Sybil Raymer
  • Nancy Reppert
  • Irwin Sears

1978

  • Virgil Bower
  • M. Crooks
  • Julian Evans
  • Dick Larson
  • G. McKinney
  • Charles Pionter
  • Jack Schrimsher

1977

  • Wally Cobb
  • Gene Felkner
  • Quentin Hayworth
  • John Hoagland
  • Leonard McClanahan
  • Leland O'Dell
  • Jack Roberts

1976

  • Charles Comstock
  • Jim Finley
  • Charles Lewis
  • J. Schleininger
  • Jim Swan
  • Pete Weiland
  • William Wyant Jr

1975

  • Neilson Bertholf
  • Rudy Fleshman
  • L. Kadera
  • Bill Keeney
  • Earl Mathews
  • Bill McQueen
  • Bob Salisbury

1974

  • Joseph Bowman
  • Robert Buchman
  • R. Henneberg
  • Fern Lamberd
  • William Moorefield
  • Richard Wheeler
  • Ed Wright

1973

  • Vincel Admire
  • Bill Blowers
  • Louis Harris
  • Thelma Kurtz
  • W. Livingston
  • Dwight Sampson
  • Mildred Schrimsher

1972

  • Margaret Ashcraft
  • Robert Coomes
  • Warren Edmonds
  • Carl Goodin
  • Polly Jones
  • Paul Raulie
  • Jack Rhea
  • Tom Swetman

1971

  • William Baird
  • Frank Dibben
  • Ken Dowell
  • Ted Dyer
  • Lewis Grace
  • George Lohnes
  • Harold McElwain
  • Leonard Merl
  • James Sandridge

1970

  • James Ashcraft
  • Don Cockran
  • Leslie Fain
  • James Flaherty
  • Bill Hawkins
  • Robert Hedges
  • G. L. Jewett
  • John Lyle
  • James Rich

1969

  • Gilbert Baresel
  • B. Dave Deaton
  • James Duyck
  • Lewis Erickson
  • Hugh Inman
  • Val Kramer
  • J. W. Lindsay
  • Cortland Raby
  • James Raymer
  • Jim Sheffield
  • S. Williams

1968

  • Jim Bond
  • Ray Brightwell
  • Keith Eaton
  • Joseph Higgins
  • Bob Johnson
  • Reed Kenagy
  • Robert Rogers
  • J. Schoolfield
  • Roy Stoll
  • Stuart Whitney

1967

  • Robert Campbell
  • Niles Dixon
  • Robert Harvey
  • Russell Jones
  • Donald Roth

1966

  • Joseph Bowser
  • Donald Carter
  • Hiram Gensler
  • Carl Hummel
  • Dickson Lang
  • Walter Lofland
  • Leonard Moore
  • Adolph Schadel
  • Ray Thompson
  • Ray Wilson

1965

  • John Carver
  • Don Hibbs
  • Wilbur Hill
  • Paul Lamberd
  • Carl Lanio
  • Warren Plumb
  • Don Reavis
  • Charles Ricker
  • Merle Walker

1964

  • Harry Barnes
  • Lora Bean
  • Gene Funk
  • R. Hoskinson
  • Ted Morris
  • Richard Stanley
  • Clarence Taraba
  • Lee Truhlar

1963

  • Rexford Conroy
  • Harry Conwell
  • Gerald Franklin
  • EJ McFarland
  • Alfred Schroeder
  • Bob Tretneway
  • George Wardrum
  • Bob Watkins

1962

  • C. Armintrout
  • Keith Cohee
  • John Henry
  • Harley Hoar
  • Red Knight
  • Al Schrimsher
  • Henry Weaver
  • Glen Williams

1961

  • Arthur Rex Cook
  • Homer Day
  • Virgil Doyle
  • Arvid Edwards
  • Paul Riehl

1960

  • Stanley Grantham
  • Bill Hankins
  • Lawrence Harris
  • Kenneth McCall
  • Tom Sawyer
  • George Trailkill

1959

  • Frank Hutcherson
  • Hugh MacDonald
  • Leon Morton
  • Bill Musser
  • Roy Pell
  • Joseph Perkins

District Award of Merit Nomination

The District Award of Merit is a council award presented by districts in the same manner that the Silver Beaver is a national award presented by councils.

The award is available to Scouters who render service of an outstanding nature at the district level.

Please complete the information below to nominate someone for the District Award of Merit only. Nominees will only be considered for the awards for which they have been nominated.


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