Silver Beaver
Distinguished Service Award

silver beaver award

 

silver beaver knotEstablished in 1931, the Silver BeaverAward is presented for distinguished service to young people within a BSA local council. More than 50,000 recognitions have been conferred to date nationwide. A recipient must be a registered adult member of the BSA. Within the Blue Ridge Mountains Council, the awards are bestowed at the Council Recognition Banquet. Silver Beaver Awards are presented to Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Venturing or Explorer volunteers.

Local recipients of the Silver Beaver are nominated by other BSA leaders from within the Blue Ridge Mountain Council. If you would like to nominate someone for the award, please fill out the Award nomination form and send it to:
Recognition Committee
Blue Ridge Mountain Council, BSA
P. O. Box 7606
Roanoke, VA 24019-0606

 

Past Silver Beaver Award Recipients

2007

John E. Alderson, Jr.

Rodney Allen

W. Hugh Craft Jr.

 

Russ McDaniel

Mark Vitello

Greg Alty

 

2006

Kent Brown

Paul Brown, M.D.

Garry Finney

Charles Hart Merriam

Melissa Obenhaus

Julian Harman Saunders

Donald Spiller, Jr.

Charles Tucker

2005

Gary Armbrister

Rocky Fizzano

Dan Grubb

Tom Littrell

Jennifer Porterfield

Ramond Totten

2004

Frank Chesson

Roy Creasy

Lois Davis

Laraia Flores

Cliff Hall, M.D.

Susan Martin

C. Richard Moore

Shelby "Lee" Spradlin

Paul Thomson

2003

Ed Dietrich

Ted Bruning

Jim Kelly

Susan McKimmy

Harry Montoro

Marybeth Chaconas

George Ayers

Don Cherry

Andre (Andy) Arrington

Rob Russell

2002

David L. Bowen

Dean Downs 

Sonny Walker Morris

Brian Cook

John Dickens Eure

Shirley Elaine Neiderhiser

2001
Pam Quesenberry Turner

Gene Sterne

Ronald Mabe

William "Bill" Lester

Dr. Stephen Lenhart

Noel Horton

J. Paxton Durham

Brian Bunn

2000

Rick Wimmer

E. C. Warren II

David Rutherford

Ron Ramsey

Robert Kornegay

Forest Henley

Eric Fox

Emily Davis

1999

Paul A. Powell, Jr.

Ron Meadows

Greg Leslie

Don Allison

Linda Bagwell

Cauthorn Walker

George Lux

John Jones

Vernon Allie, Jr.

1998

Richard Robinson

Richard Dill

Raymond G. Eades

Raymond T. Snyder

Emmett Grogan

Robert King

Nelson Richardson

Charles Anderson

1997

Nathan Galbreath

Jude T. Craddock

Larry Leach

Len Miller

Mary Sue McCormick

Rodney Cundiff

Charles Stultz

John Luther Sites

William Irvin III

1996

Barbara Lynn Barnett

William Whitaker, Sr.

Stephen Rossi

James Richard Hancock

Randy Richartz

Elizabeth Mason

Winfred Bousman

James Brim

Paul E. Poff

Garry Boyette

1995

Patrick Dey Rhodes

David Lawrence Perrin

Joseph I. Gilkinson

J. Michael Reynolds

Grant A. Bagley

James H. Wilson

Charles Robert Bopp

James D. Bratton

J. A. (Tim) Timmons, Jr.

Kenneth G. Cook, Jr.

1994

Thomas A. Lewis

Harold F. Trent, Jr.

Danny L. Petty

Wally Hare

John V. Garner

Carl J. Stump

Cornelia Hall

Judith Thierry

Stephen Ray Isom

Morgan Griffith

1993

Harold Wingate

Lewis P. Whitescarver

Alan Richards

Quenton Ratliff

Chad Henderson

Alfred Chandler

Ed Caviness

Dan Brown

1992

Danny L. Witt

Elbert C. Turner

Noel C. Taylor

D. Christopher Miller

Kerry L. Mann

Ronald Horwege

Larry L. Crawford, Sr.

Joe H. Bunn

Kevin Bezy

1991
Paul L. Weary

Edward H. Shanaberger

Lawrence M. Potter

Philip Plaster

Alan McCrosky

Linton Leary

1990
Bobby E. Hash, Sr.

Thelma Stephens

Robert G. Newman

Alex L. Martin III

Buford Lindamood

William R. Hopkins

Barry Hensley

Norris Goode

Eugene Cecil Eastridge

Robert Bashore

1989
Don L. Wirt

Melin H. "Buddy" Turner

Marylin H. Sites

Lewis Shontell

Millard F. Owens III

Lana F. Obenchain

Phillip Hart III

Lucian Y. Grove

Charles G. Ellis

David C. East

Bill Danco

Floyd Andrus

1988
James A. Robertson

Rachel M. Newton

Louise J. Hall

Richard M. Green

Nancy Ellen Field

Edwin R. Feinour

Edward Dudley

Travis Glenn Collins

Daniel Wayne Brown

George B Adams, Jr.

1987
George C. Waldrep

Bittle W. Porterfield III

Edmund G. Henneke

Linda D. Henley

Harry T. Haskins, Jr.

A. Earle Garrett III

Joseph C. Curcio

Harold A. "Hal" Cantril

1986
Patrick Tweedy

Harold E. Thompson

Martha K. Roane

Clifton W. Potter

Alex M. Nelson

Thomas C. Matthews

Barney B. Holder

Edward C. Hamilton

George R. Carter, Jr.

Doris S. Caldwell

1985
Layel Zelazny

C.R. Shrader

Jon Parish

Beverly Morgan

James Kincaid

Shirley Jones

Les Huemoeller

Wayne Hall

Samuel Dunwoody

Archie Boothe

1984
Lucian Zelazny

Byron Yost

Robert S. Simpson

Betty Nelson

George Morgan

John Hunter Hannabass

Orville Gates

Robert Crawford

Michael W. Cannaday

1983
Robert J. Von Alt, Jr.

Arlene E. Skurupey

Francis D. Scott

Johnnie Neal

Lewis W. Morgan

Curtis F. Keith

Donald E. Harris

G. H. Coleman, Jr.

William T. Carter

1982
Hubert Stultz

Larry Stanek

Heenan Newman

Tom Littrell

John Joyce

Hank Crelia

Tom Coates

Roger Clark

Jack Beard

1981
Arther S. Owens

Eugene Orr

Mike Moore

Max E. Lassiter

James H. Hancock, Jr.

W. Craig Hamilton, Sr.

William J. Gregory

James H. Ford

Roger Clifton

1980
Tom Rakes

George Morgan

Dan Montague

Joy Lee

Art Lambrecht

Frank King

Tom Inman

Paul Houston

Carole Harris

Bob Dixon

Harry Angstadt

1979
Logan Young

McCarthy Woods

John Wilson

Winton Shelor

B.A. Rhudy, Jr.

Carl Polan

Dan Jackson

Ken Fleenor

Harold Booth

Larry Adkins

1978
Virgil J. Stephenson

William C. Staples

Martha C. Simmerman

James W. Porter

Aaron K. Lyle III

Joel T. Janis

Charles L. Haymore

Raymond L. Hatcher

Chapman D. Cox

Alton B. Caldwell, Jr.

1977
Furman B. Whitescarver

James Taylor

Graham Stephens

Brewster Scott

Nelson B. Saunders

James Holloway

George Heaton, Sr.

Lawrence Gooss

Gerald Clark

Lester Burke

1976
James M. Young

C.P. Waskey, Jr.

Stephen Stillwell

Gilbert M. Ross

Laurence D. Moore

Jan Lee

Charles J. Hansrote, Jr.

Leonard Foley

M.C. Brally

1975
Gerald Wrenn

Raine Snydor

Leonard Staton

Ralph Parsons

Gale Marshall

Tom Crockett

John Craig

John Crable

Margaret Carroll

1974
Henry Williams

Ann Wehrenberg

Paul Smeal

Graham Simmerman

Charles Oliver

Leighton Haley

Edith Garretson

Bunyan Fortune

Walter F. Flythe

Sherman Dutton

Posey L. Dunnings, Jr.

Leon Duncan

Guy Cromer

Walter Clark

1973
James Wilson

Ray Willia

Pattie Stewart

R.L. Stevenson

Ben Rinehart

Mildred Quesenberry

Cutler Meadows

James Deaton

Alvin Croy

Herbert Blankenship

Stanley Blaney

William Agee

1972
Willis "Pete" White, Jr.

William Simmerman

Helen Schmehl

P.H. Pettie

Edward C. Lester

Charity Griffith

Conway Goodman

George Eades

George Cole

James Brackett

1971
John E. Schlueter
1970
1969
C.L. Whitehurst, Jr.

George N. Savage

Kemper McCloud

Duncan C. Kenedy, Jr.

C. Andre Kearns

Maynard G. Hale

Robert C. DeWindt

Robert H. Davis

1968
William H. Smith

V.P. Slemp

Julius C. Murrell

Mark Manderville

Thomas M. Combiths

1967
Roy L. Webber

Arthur J. Walrath

Eugene Moorefield, Jr.

Horace Hood

Robert L. Gaines

Richard L. Curran

Raymond K. Brown

Harley O. Baker

1966
R.W. Scott

James H. Lynch

Claud H. Gallimore

Lee H. Firebaugh

Francis D. Craddock

E. Ryland Childress

1965
Paul R. Thomson

William W. Taborn, Sr.

Edwin T. Robertson

Nelson F. Murphy

Arthur Lockrow

Thomas W. Harvey

Rudolph T. Anderson

1964
Frank C. Williams

Samuel S. Trott

Ammon Sears

Emmerson B. Petersen

Willie F. Mason

William D. Macgill, Jr.

Homer Hawkins

1963
Harry W. Swink

William J. Powers

Lewis W. Peery

E. Ralph May

Frank B. Kitchel

Steve I. Brody

William J. Boone

1962
Frank B. Wolfe

J.E. Stockman

Nathan Potolsky

W. Earl Overstreet

Norwood C. Middleton

William S. Kelly

Frank D. Fulton

1961
James O. Nichols

Henry S. Mosby

A.F. Jones

D.B. Hanel

Alfred W. Ferguson

Moffett H. Bowman

1960
L. Ray Welch

James H. Moore

Lewis Jones

G.M. Goad

George S. Bowles

Ralph Bishop

William H. Armstrong

1959
R.H. Smith

J.F. Patterson

Thomas T. Moore

S. Floyd Landreth

Carl W. Hester

Ted Dalton

Carl A. Cox

W. Chester Brown, Jr.

John F. Banks

William B. Adams

1958
Don L. Jordan

John D. Hooker

Charles M. Hayter

Ernest B. Hamrick

Leonard C. Estus

J. Stanley Cobb, Jr.

1957
Reginald M. Wood

Joesph D. Lawrence

Pierce B. Latimer, Jr.

Paul G. Lancaster

Irl D. Cole

Samuel X. Cohen

1956
Preston J. Monohan

George W. Mitchell

A.D. Hurt

William F. Griggs, Sr.

James E. Fitzgerald

1955
B. Gary Richardson

H.P. Malone

Harry I. Johnson

Joesph W. Howell

Roy C. Herrenkohl

1954
A.J. Shumate

B.R. McClure

S.S. Flythe

Hensel Eckman

T.E. Burke

1953
J. Luvelle Taylor

Ruben S. Reynolds

H. Grady Moore

N.W. Kelley

William S. Gay

Herman W. Boaz

1952
Frank E. Callahan

Walter C. Brown

H.M Barnett
1951
Walter L. Young

Garland B. Gerberich

W.N. Angle
1950
Alton B. Parker

Carl S. Moore

J.E. Bassett
1949
E.E. West, Jr.

Sam Moore

John T. Meadows
1948
J.B. Jones

Henrey E. Horn

H.H. Baber
1947
Charles B. Saul

Page Loftis

Harry R. Jones
1946
H. Grady Moore

Clem D. Johnston

B.K. Haley
1945
A.S. Pflueger R.V. Morris
1944
H.L. Mason William S. Gilmore
1943
Carl W. Poff H.C. Graybeal
1942
A.C. Medows J.E. John
1941
Julian H. Rutherfoord, Sr. Irving M. Groves
1940
C.G. Wade M. Buford Blair
1939
D.E. McQuilkin
1938
S.P. Seifert
1937
George V. Downing
1936
O.A. Kerns
1935
M.A. Smythe
1934
A.B. Camper, Jr.
1933
E.C. DeLauney
1932
William A. Welcker
1931
H.F. Greenwood
Dates Unknown
Frank L. West

W.A. Towler

Lewis P. Thomas

S.D. Peck

W.L. Oakes

L. Gordon Norburn

Jack W. Lucas

Dr. H.Y. Jennings

Fitzhugh Hiltzheimer

Roy O. Henrickson

E.W. Harris

Lee A. Harley

Dr. R.W. Gardner

J.B. Gardner

E.G. Fizzell

R.M. Felton

J.T. Catlin

George D. Carr

Thomas Bigger

A.L. Barton

H.H. Andrews

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