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Silver Beaver Award

The Heart of Virginia Council’s highest volunteer recognition, the Silver Beaver Award, will be awarded to four highly deserving Scouters. These Scouters have made a huge impact in the lives of youth through their hard work, self-sacrifice, and years of dedicated service.

Introduced in 1931, the Silver Beaver award is a Scouting America Council-level distinguished service award. We are proud to present this special award to the following volunteers.  We hope you join us in celebrating our Silver Beaver Award and other special award recipients at our Council Recognition Event.

Congratulations to our 2025 Class of Silver Beavers!

John Fugman
James River District

Steven “Smitty” Smith
Arrohattoc District

Selena Giannasi
James River District

Ben Ward
Dogwood District

Please save the date and plan to celebrate these incredible Scouters at our annual Volunteer Recognition Gala on May 28th at the Rockville Center.  More details will be shared soon.

Silver Beaver Award Recipients

2025
John Fugman
Selena Giannasi
Steven “Smitty” Smith
Ben Ward

2024
Alan Meekins
Damian Klute
Jimmy LaBrecque
John Edwards

2023
Sharlee S. LaBrecque
Robert E. Johnson
Thomas N. Innes
Thomas C. Wood

2022
Mike Henley
Frank Howard
Candy Johnson
Chip Phillips
Tim Towslee
Tom Yoke

2021
Scott Carrigan
E. Michael Kondracki
Frank McNeilly
Michael Milone
Scott Sager

2020
Mark Cross
Bruce Lasswell
Jonathan Murdoch-Kitt
Mike Petty
Carl Whitaker

2019
Michael Ballato
Ann Bevan
Michael Lynch
Jason Reedy
Harold Stills, Jr.
Allen Suggs

2018
Mark Fetty
Tony Fletcher
Gordon Fruetel
Kenny Jones
Kevin Kessler
Bill Mulvihill
Charlotte Pemberton
Cheryl Thurston

2017
Blake P. Auchmoody, Jr.
James Edward Coleman, Sr.
Joseph Augusta Murray, Jr.
Alice Sherman Nelson
Frances K. Scott
William E. Simms
James D. Snowa, Sr.
Lisa B. Wright

2016
Frederick Walter Klotz
Susan Patricia Loden
Donald William Piacentini
Timothy G. Pleasants
Charles Lewis Shade
Thomas A. Shearer
Franklin M. Thurston, Sr.
Jay Philip Rupert Victor

2015
Ray Alexander
Mary M. Clegg
Herman C. Davis
Tony R. Easter
Thomas James Hackenberg
Henry P. Long, Jr.
David Stanley Miller
Wanda Staggs

2014
J. Edward Beach, Jr.
Shawn Elaine Coffey
William Givler III
Christopher J. Habenicht
Susan Bow McCue
Robert Morris Parker
Christopher Ward Sherman

2013
Constance E. Alston
Daniel E. Hubbard
Edward P. Kosewicz
Mark A. Lloyd
Robert L. Mclemore
Roy Edward Murrary
Alice H. Robinson
John Miller Smither
Granville G. Valentine III
Karen C. Wood

2012
Ron A. Alexander
Gary L. Gibbs
David L. Jones, Jr.
Ralph A. Orr
Ellen J. Schmidt
Bruce W. Tibbetts
Gary E. Thompson
James L. Watkins
David L. Williams, Jr.

2011
David F. Anderson
Sandra R. Daul
John Levi Dorman
James M. Hanifer
John O. Hunnicutt III
Heather B. Mulvihill
Joseph Luis Ramirez
Martin Roy Shirilla
Norman Don Ward

2010
Robert Insley Efird
William B. Eggleston
William Timothy Gaylord
Bennie W. Good
Stephen E. Hutchinson
Dorinda F. “Wendy” Starke
Gwen Ellen Taylor
Donald R. Vaught
Forrest A. White Jr.

2009
Alvin M. Best III
Richard Craig Britt
Lula M. Brown-White
Bucky Collins
Marian M. Fletcher
Catherine E. Harding
John C. Magruder
Brandon C. Martin
James E. Richards
Paul E. Smith

2008
William A. Barton
Alford Henry Becker Jr.
Keith N. Hurley
John W. King
John K. McCulla
William Knute Meeks Sr.
Michael Wayne Pace
Gladys Lewis Robinson
Dr. Charles W. Smith III
George Washington Thompson Jr.

2007
J. Robin Chandler
Rowland Frederic Creamer
Timothy C. Goodman
Carolyn Maxey Judon
Bruce A. Kay
Paul W. Kreckman
Robert E. Preston
Jesse C. Richardson
Cecil M. Smith
Mark Harvey Waggoner

2006
Michael Insley Andrews Sr.
Sheila Baker
Michael L. Bonelli
Marion Jackson Colgate Jr.
Darryl S. Doggett Sr.
Lloyd C. Dunnavant
Harold L. Harris Sr.
John J. McAteer
Walter Scott Street IV
Timothy R. Swingle

2005
Thomas Richard Benson Jr.
William Gary Bryant
Patrick S. Dillon
Edward L. Hudson
Archie J. Kendrick Jr.
Mark A. Larson
Patricia A. Meadows
Joseph G. “Tray” Murphy III
Craig L. Rascoe
Katherine C. Rock
Karren D. Streagle

2004
David Clark Ansell
Jonah J. Bowles III
Fred W. Danz
Patricia L. Hilton
Steven Allen Humphries
James R. Johnson Sr.
Kathryn M. McKee
Kitty Norris
Jonathan Stewart Shouse
John W. Stahl
Joseph J. Vinsh Jr.

2003
Frank W. Baze
Richard P. “Rick” Bragga
Richard W. “Dickey” Coffey
Chris W. Corcoran
Robert B. Delano
Sevens N. Gentil
Dr. Richard A. Jackson
Thomas C. Reade
Carl F. Ridout
Janice E. Rusbasan
Alpheus G. Wells

2002
James W. Featherstone III
Douglas M. Hill
Thomas Johnson
Marcia J. Lewis
Richard P. Mellott
Anthony F. Sadowski
Cerenia L. Tadlock
Paul W. Teasley
Tim Timberlake
John S. Turner
Jeffrey D. Wilson

2001
Willie J. Bradley Jr.
Lawrence P. Cary
Thomas M. Clayton
Frances Moore Ellis
Nancy G. Evans
Warren Lee Johnson
Christine C. Jones
Howard Bruce Pettie
Glen Slonneger
Billy F. Warf
Randall G. Welch
Horace P. Whitworth

2000
Phillip Edward Battle
Erik Olaf Bodin III
Richard C. Brett
J. Harry Davis
Deborah A. Ferrando
John W. Knapp Jr.
Christopher M. Malone
James A. Schillinger
Walter W. Scott
John E. Slaughter Jr.
Michael Arthur Traylor

1999
Kemp Davis
David D. Estes
Jerry R. Marion
Samuel F. Marshall Jr.
Richard C. McCullough Jr.
Bettye M. Merrick
Jacqueline Paul
Oliver J. Robinson Sr.
Anita L. Roy
Bishop Walter F. Sullivan
William H. Talley IV

1998
Susan Bradford
William E. Davis
Joseph J. Feher IV
Dale A. Gipe
Richard A. Guilmart
Bruce Y. Leaman
Maria Thompson MacLaughlin
Louis H. Manarin
James Edward Tadlock
Thomas C. Walker Jr.

1997
Brian J. Collins
Bruce R. Copal Sr.
Florence June Manson Ford
Al Huggins
Thomas McKee
Michael R. Menefee Sr.
Marshall N. Morton
Robert D. Ramsey
Charles W. Starke
Terence G. Thompson Sr.
Everett O. Winn

1996
Dorothy M. Drake
Lowell K. Flickinger
Clinton W. Hues
Dr. Barry E. Roper
Joyce Salmon
R. Phillip Scarborough Jr.
Mary Ann Taylor
William L. Wellons
Richard T. Wilson III

1995
Thomas H. Carr Sr.
Frances Costin DeJan
Martha Hampton
Randolph J. Harris Jr.
Ronald H. Jennings
Matthew MacLaughlin
George V. Moncure Jr.
Carl Lee Willett

1994
William C. Barga
T. Richard Benson Sr.
Charles A. Brown
Charlotte T. Cooper
Frances Broaddus Crutchfield
Ed Ewbank
Nancy Fonseca
Richard A. Harman
Dr. Stephen Lickey
Harold Singleton

1993
Ralph O. Albright
Jim E. Beamguard
Benjamin E. Gregory Jr.
Donald W. Hill
Janice M. Mack
Gerald B. MacKay
G. Andrew Nea Jr.
Anthony Patrick Smith
Alfred Wilson

1992
Alan Barnes
Elizabeth A. Conner-Flippen
Alecia G. Jones
Gary Keesecker
Robert J. Moss
Roy W. Page
Joe C. Peace Jr.
Robert W. Soderholm II

1991
Joan G. Berryman
Richard C. Cordle
James M. Crumpler
Frank J. Deckert
Robert E. Eck
John D. Farmer
G. Michael Oxford
John R. Vincent

1990
Leon E. App
Mary Anne Billcheck
John H. Bradshaw
Gloria W. Flowers
John Jones
Ryman C. Jones Sr.
William R. Overstreet
Robert Siegfried
Sands Smith

1989
Stephen M. Billcheck Jr.
Paul E. Cheesman Jr.
Allen Mead Ferguson
Alvin A. Flowers Jr.
Benjamin Myrick III
G. Winston Overstreet
A. P. Sykes Jr.
Bennie R. Ward
McDonald Wellford

1988
David R. Bartlow
Alton C. Childers
Donald E. Garrett
Philip E. Hagerich
Minnie C. Jackson
Andrew Mihalcoe
R. Robert Rasmussen II
Thomas E. Stimpson Jr.
Charles W. Sullivan

1987
David Kirk Bigger
Paul R. Bigley
Betty Cochran
John L. Conron
Edith Mitchell
Ronald O. Russell
Shannon Francis Tate
John R. Williams Sr.

1986
J. Curtis Branyon
Raymond J. Browder
Earl C. Cochran Jr.
Ian M. Coddington
George T. Crutchfield
John H. Graves
Tristram T. Hyde IV
David S. Lowman
Robert H. Smith Sr.
Robert E. Tucker
S. Joseph Ward

1985
John A Davenport
Stuart H. Dunn
George H. Ginn
Bonnie Griffith
Frederick J. Kiiffner III
James Christopher Lansing
William H. Messerly
Randall A. Strawbridge
David W. Talley
Don G. Virgin

1984
Burness F. Ansell Jr.
Dora Belcher
Rex David Born
Theodore E. Evans
Elizabeth T. Pinion
William Levi Smith
John K. Taylor
Peter C. Toms
William A. Young Jr.

1983
Travis Belcher
Philip N. Clark
David T. DeJan
Wallace O. Faison
Donald J. Foster
H. Allen Frise
Eugene F. Hertling
Hugh Edward Joyce
Irving M. Moss Sr.
Dr. Dallas O. Pinion

1982
William R. Babcock
Gerald J. Berry
Wilber G. Cahoon
James L. Dillon
Ruth A. Huber
Jack E. Matheny
Edward L. William
Lewis E. Williams Jr.
T. P. Williams Jr.

1981
Clarence F. Danforth
Edwin Veolo Hutt
Patrick Kenney
Upton S. Martin III
Robert B. Miller
George C. Mitchell
Mack T. Ruffin III
Major R. Thompson

1980
H. Spencer Adams
Malcolm Kalman
Franklin A. Linkous
Theodore E. Majewski
Baxter B. Taylor Jr.
Dr. James W. Turner
Monte L. West

1979
Nicholas Constantino
Thelma Giancaterino
Daniel B. Henderson III
Gertrud N. Mott
George W. Rickman Jr.
Arthur S. Thompson
Harry A. Wellons

1978
Claude W. Anderson Jr.
G. M. Homewood Jr.
William M. Hudson
H. Colston Lee
James F. Lyles
Peteti T. Walker
William R. Williams III

1977
Robert R. Bauder
S. Henry Bennett Jr.
James E. Chase
William G. McKim
Leonard Moss
Hans J. Pechner
Charles R. Tassell

1976
Dr. Esther R. Brown
Lawrence W. Gooss Jr.
Jerome H. Hansen
Rev. Adrian Harmening
Dallas H. Olsin
Jesse E. Swann
Mary W. Thompson
Julian O. Winn

1975
William Blalock
Robert L. Brent
John Clinton Brown Sr.
Evan W. Gerlach
Mike Kilborne
Dr. David H. Reames Jr.
Oscar M. “Tommy” Thompson
Robert L. Welch

1974
Robert A. Barker
Richard W. Farrington
General J. Johnson
Richard R. May Sr.
Thomas J. Starke III
Evans D. Tanner
Earl Taylor
Dr. Helmut R. Wakeham

1973
J. Sterling Acra
Joan L. Gross
Loren W. Merrywell
George E. O’Mara
Bobby J. Parish
Rufus A. Rankin Jr.
John A. Ransone
Charles F. Spark
Betty Stewart Sprouse
James C. Williamson Jr.

1972
William H. Ailor Jr.
Mozelle Archer
Ellen S. Broughton
Hermanze E. Fauntleroy Sr.
Helen Garrett
Jackson Eldridge Gaylord Sr.
Major Allen G. Gross
Thomas Leggett
Lt.Gen. J. D. McLaughlin
Byron F. Price
James R. Ray
Albert P. Rogers
William L. Willis Jr.

1971
F. R. Albright
George W. Brunson Sr.
Edward G. Canada Sr.
Margaret P. Chappell
Merle Coleman
A. T. Johnson
H. E. Olson
Ruth E. Parks
Dr. S. L. Reynold
Russess T. Rivers

1970
Robert C. Atkinson Jr.
John Louis Ayres
Jesse G. Blowe
Peter J. Cecchini Jr.
Regina F. Dischinger
William K. Mooney
Margaret R. Nichols
William L. Petway Jr.
Dr. William P. Spencer
E. S. Thomas

1969
James A. Doutt
Edwin Gadberry Jr.
Edward C. Gibson
William D. Kindle
C. C. Morris
George L. Munn
Thomas C. Yeaman

1968
Gerald A. Berry
A. Jackson Boice
George T. Georges
William E. Harris
Norris P. Moses
Hobson Pryor

1967
B. R. Chappell
O. J. Davis
James S. Day
B. I. Elmore
Robert T. Muse
Linwood D. Ross

1965
J. W. Bowles
W. Hamilton Dunn
Phillip H. Hope
Ranny R. Marable
Kermit V. Rooke
Percell M. Taylor
Roy A. Thomas

1964
E. Starke Farley
Benjamin L. Newlon
Gene A. Pierce
E. Allen Ramsey III
Paul H. Riley
D. Gardiner Tyler
John F. Zimmerly

1963
J. Ruffin Apperson
Dougald L. Blue
Julian B. Broughton
Meyer H. Friedman
William H. Jeffress
William H. Scott

1962
Robert B. Alvis
John E. Cogle Sr.
Windred Mundle
Andrew W. Murdock Sr.
Richard M. Nolting

1961
Hurley H. Casey
C. W. Owen
Theodore R. Slater
John Sloan
Walter P. Smith Jr.
E. R. Storrs

1960
Thomas J. Ackerman
Harold Bell
E. C. Brown
Roland Geddes
Lloyd C. Pulley
George P. Stone

1985
John A. Davenport
Connecticut River Council
David W. Talley,
Baltimore Area Council1986
Robert H. Smith, Sr.
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R.F. Brierly
R.B. Crawford
O.J. Falhruckner
Anthony J. Gage
Allen C. Gooden Jr.
Thomas P. Inge
George B. Kelsey
W.H. King
F.H. Meade
Thomas L. Payne
James C. Rea
W.L. Shipp, Jr.
Samuel H. Zealy
Council Recognition