Silver Beaver Award
Silver Beaver Award | |||
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Owner | Boy Scouts of America | ||
Country | United States | ||
Created | 1931 | ||
Awarded for | Distinguished service to young people within a BSA local council | ||
Recipients | 50,000+[1] | ||
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The Silver Beaver Award is the
Award
The medal consists of a silver beaver pendant suspended from a blue and white ribbon worn around the neck. Recipients may wear the corresponding square knot, with a white strand over a blue strand, on the BSA uniform. There is also a lapel pin authorized and available for civilian wear.[2]
Using the United States Military as the model, silver awards are the highest awards in the BSA.[3][4]
History
The Silver Beaver was introduced in 1931 as a pin-on medal, but due to the heavy weight of the medallion it was switched over to a neck ribbon in mid-1932.[5] A blue-white-blue ribbon bar was introduced in 1934 for informal uniform wear. In 1946, ribbon bars were replaced by the current knot insignia.[6]
The Silver Beaver was initially awarded only to men. The Silver Fawn Award, an equivalent for women, was awarded starting in 1971. It used the same knot insignia, but on a blue background, as women were mostly involved in Cub Scouting during this period. The Silver Fawn was discontinued and the Silver Beaver began to be awarded to women in 1974. A total of 2,455 Silver Fawns were awarded to outstanding women for support of Cub Scouting before the award was discontinued in 1974.[7]
As this is a council BSA award, it is conceivably possible for a person to receive this award multiple times from different councils. It is believed that 12-16 people are double-recipients of the Silver Beaver in this manner. There is no record of a triple-recipient.
Notable recipients
- Elliot Quincy Adams
- Dean Alford
- Thomas D. Allen
- Marvin J. Ashton
- Brent F. Ashworth
- Charles August
- Ellsworth Hunt Augustus
- Mark Evans Austad
- Béla H. Bánáthy
- Curtis H. Barnette
- Harold Roe Bartle
- Charles J. Bates
- Charles E. Bayless
- Kevin Beary
- Julius W. Becton Jr.
- Ezra Taft Benson
- Richard J. Berry
- Howard P. Boyd
- Pat Boyd
- John F. Brady
- Rodney H. Brady
- Holly Broadbent Sr.
- Carl W. Buehner
- Hal Bunderson
- Allen M. Burdett Jr.
- Harris Burgoyne
- M. Anthony Burns
- Ross Erin Butler Sr.
- Chris Buttars
- Matt Cartwright
- Bernard A. Clarey
- Richard A. Compton
- Hazen A. Dean
- Albert W. Dent
- John Randolph Donnell
- Gordon R. England
- Bob Etheridge
- David C. Evans
- Michael D. Fascitelli
- Abraham J. Feldman
- George Fischbeck
- Craig Fitzhugh
- Mike Fitzpatrick
- Karen Fraser
- Ken Garff
- Sandy Garrett
- Lloyd D. George
- John Gottschalk
- Francis A. Gregory
- Terry L. Grove
- Robert E. Guglielmone
- Wayne B. Hales
- Lee Heider
- Francisco Joglar Herrero
- Lewis Blaine Hershey
- George R. Hill III
- James G. Howes
- Peter W. Hummel
- Brad Hutto
- Paul Ilyinsky
- Peter Johnsen
- John C. Keegan
- William H. Keeler
- Walter Kidde
- Edgar J. Lauer
- Walter Livingston
- David M. Lockton
- Charles L. Mader
- Thomas P. Mahammitt
- François E. Matthes
- Morton D. May
- James M. McCoy
- Joseph Melrose
- Robert Mitchell
- Keith Monroe
- Thomas S. Monson
- Ellie Morrison
- Roger Mosby
- Horace A. Moses
- Wendell Nedderman
- Leonard Niederlehner
- Dan Ownby
- Ephraim Laurence Palmer
- Edward A. Pease
- Hector Perez
- Wayne M. Perry
- Hollie Pihl
- Skip Priest
- Ben Reifel
- Mark Ricks
- Brooks Robinson
- Edward L. Rowan
- Dan Rusanowsky
- Marvin Scott
- Robert H. Shaffer
- Mark Shurtleff
- Max I. Silber
- Delford M. Smith
- George Albert Smith
- Vaughn Soffe
- Carl E. Stewart
- Thomas L. Tatham
- John R. Taylor III
- Dick Vermeil
- Frank H. Wadsworth
- Walter Washington
- Laurence Hawley Watres
- Lance B. Wickman
- Lester B. Wikoff
- Cardis Cardell Willis
- Jack Zink
- Peter Zug
References
- ^ a b "Distinguished Service Awards". Fact Sheets. Boy Scouts of America. Archived from the original on 2008-03-19. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
- ^ "Silver Beaver Award". Boy Scouts of America.
- ^ "Silver Outranks Gold". SageVenture. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
- ^ Wendell, Bryan (2011-04-14). "Ask the Expert: Why does silver outrank gold in Scouting awards?". Bryan on Scouting. Retrieved 2011-11-11.
- ^ Reis, Mitch. "Silver Beaver Medals". Boy Scout Memorabilia, Patches And Collectibles Home Page. Retrieved 2007-04-10.
- ^ "Illustrated History of BSA Square Knot Evolution and Private Issues" (PDF). SageVenture. Retrieved 2007-08-02.
- ^ "The Silver Fawn Medal". The Virtual Cub Leader's Handbook. Archived from the original on 2009-10-26. Retrieved 2008-04-12.