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 BSA Council-level distinguished service award. We are proud to present this special award to the following volunteers.
Congratulations to our 2023 Class of Silver Beavers!
Congratulations to our Silver Beavers!
Sharlee S. LaBrecque – Arrohattoc
Robert E. Johnson – Crater
Thomas N. Innes – James River
Thomas C. Wood – James River
We hope you’ll join us in celebration at our annual Council Recognition Event on May 5th!
Congratulatory and marketing ads can be placed in the event program that is distributed to all attendees. Please register below to purchase a full page, half page, or quarter page of the program.
Additional Resources
Past Silver Beaver Recipients
Nominate a Leader for the 2024 Silver Beaver Award
Typically, a Scout leader is nominated by his or her peers for several years of service, often including leading projects on the district or council level. The Boy Scouts of America, acting through the National Court of Honor, may award the Silver Beaver Award for distinguished service to youth.
More details will be shared soon!
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
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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 Council
1986
Robert H. Smith, Sr.
Greater Pittsburgh Council
Transfer from Piedmont Area Council
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