Scouter of The Month

In September of 2000, the staff of Boy Scout Roundtable came up with an idea. Each month we would recognize an individual Scouter for his or her contributions to the overall Scouting program in the form of a new award, 'Scouter of The Month'. August 2nd, 2007 we will honor our 76th recipient so I thought it might be a good time to look back on some of these men and woman and see what they have done since. We never intended the award to be a foretelling of future work, nor did we want it to be a kick in the butt to do more, it was a simple recognition for what had already been done. But its amazing to see how much more some of these people gave.

In pure statistics;
9 woman and 66 men have been honored
32 have also received the District Award of Merit
9 the Silver Beaver
6 the H. Virgil Bower Award (a 10 year old award)
2 have passed away

There is no requirement for type of service so we don't know how many served as Scoutmasters vs. Assistant Scoutmasters or Committee Members etc. I do know that;
53 were wearing red epaulets when they received the award
at least 36 did or now wear gray epaulets
1 became your District Commissioner after being awarded Scouter of The Month
1 became your District Director after being awarded Scouter of The Month

We did not keep track of unit numbers either, so we can't count which unit has the most representatives, however I can say; 100% are still registered Scouters seven years after the first award was given to Bruce Miller.

Sometimes we miss an obvious candidate it becomes easy to forget the on-going contributions some people make, you begin to expect it and because its always there you pay no attention to where it came from. When we stumble on one of these very deserving people it's important that we recognize them immediately, this is no different in your units. Look around you, who helps make your unit work but never gets in the way, who is there every time you need them, we want to hear about these people so contact one of the Roundtable staff and let us know.

To see all the recipients go to; http://bsaroundtable.com/index.php?page=som and be sure to attend Roundtable on Thursday to see who our 76th honoree will be.