Annual Recognition Dinner:
Date: Thursday, January 15, 2026
Time: 7pm
Location: The Grand, 4101 E Willow St. Long Beach CA, 90815
2025 Silver Beaver Recipients
Silver Beaver Award
The Silver Beaver Award was introduced in 1931 and is a council‐level distinguished service award of the Boy Scouts of America. Recipients of this award are registered Scouters who have made an impact on the lives of youth through extraordinary service to the council.
Overview
To recognize registered Scouters of exceptional character who have provided distinguished service within a council.
How To Get the Award
Anyone may nominate any deserving registered Scouter to the council, which selects recipients for the following year.
Silver Beaver Award Recipients
2025 John McGlynn | Katie Zinn
2024 Christopher “Tomahawk” Espinoza | Chris Shararian
2023 Russell LoBue | Dr. William “Bill” Ridgeway
2022 John McIntosh | Tim Smith
2021 Marvin Belcher | Erik Zandvliet
2020 Stephen Haas | Sandy Van Wyk
2019 Jerry Mackey | Aimee McCarty | John Watts
2018 Johnny Bradford | Glenn Draper | Dave Simon
2017 Al Butler | Richard Dempsey | Gabriela Leon-Martinez | Mat Talag
2016 Charlie Anderson | John Giese | Janelyn Martin | Jerry Smith
2015 Abelino Flores | Dennis Goble | Greg White | Blake Whitney
2014 Kenny Cruz | Howard Ito | David Mitchell | Roland Spongberg
2013 Tom Ahlstrom | Keith Devereaux | Richard Feinberg | Steve Richard | Teri Sandburg
2012 Lauren Ansorge | Michael Devine | Tova Gottesmann | Beverly Hadley | Rosa Talag
2011 Brian Armstrong | Michael Dermody | Gary Hauser | Steve Wheat
2010 Kristen Armstrong | Gerald C. Dahlin | Glenn E. Johnson | Dave L. Kahn | Lonny McClure | Donald E. McMackin
2009 Nathan Chambers | Philip Rainier | Brian Russell | Victor Thompson | Matthew Warner
2008 Valerie Adams | Albert Guerra | Bob Huss | Denise Rainier | Elsie Tuala
2007 Dana Carkey | Tom Dixon | Steve Greving | Craig Haines | Ron Nunnally | Nancy Schwartz
2006 Gordon A. Fiero | Carl Felix | Stanley V. Hadley | Joseph E. Porter III
2005 Dr. Richard Bell | Mara Childers | Dave Damp | John Douglas
2004 Cora Chambers | Bob Colley | Paul Muehlebach | Roger Olson
2003 William G. Fox | Sandor (Sandy) X. Mayuga | Gerald A. Mineghino | Wayne Persing
2002 Michael Emling | Jim Hankla | Robert Prager | Daniel Vance
2001 Bill Baca | Shane Foster | Travis Montgomery | Randy Stiegler
2000 Allen L. Thomas | Jeff Tylicki | Dorothy Webber | Craig Wulfsberg
1999 Richard Butler | Smith Crain | Robert Goble | Sven Krijgsman
1998 Keith Bensen | Bonny Elston | Jon Gotz | Whit Latimer | William Wells
1997 Wesley Hess | Robert Kistner Peggy Stivers
1996 Donna E. Bradford | Edward N. Chapman | Richard Panos | Loyd V. Wilcox
1995 Eileen J. Gallagher | William J. Munzer | Jerry Stewart | Bruce Williams
1994 Richard Dixon | Robert P. Graham | Michael Maricle | Herby Tuala
1993 Bill Cheney | Robin Christopherson | B. Lynn McCune | Robert Murray
1992 Scott Robertson | Ginnie Wilcox | Judge William H. Winston | Candace Wood
1991 Andy Hale | Lee Hebner | Scott Thompson | Douglas Westfall
1990 Gerald Fruhwirth | Carol Nan Hess | Robert Minnich | Joseph E. Travers, Jr. | Robert Ward
1989 George Benson | Marie C. Treadwell | William C. Wallace
1988 Duke Ducoing | Dennis L. Kaho | Marion E. Swank | Walter Van Saun
1987 Keath Bills | Lee Bradford | Robert B. Greeley | William Thomas
1986 Kurt Barthel | Ann Gates L. | Lee Humphries | Sutter E. Kunkel
1985 Jack Cooley | Donald Dennessen | Edward Karle | Ray Robinson
1984 James H. Balkman | Bernard Feinberg | Edward G. Fremgen | Richard Switzer | Gary Thompson
1983 Gabe Abril | Delmer Clark | Jacqueline Hamann | Robert T. Rowe | John C. Wallace
1982 Sebastian S. Attardo | James N. Jeffery | Harold N. LeCain | V. Jay Spongberg | Samuel H. Tanaka
1981 Robert M. Ashcraft | Alicia Rose Attardo | David W. Darrah | Campbell M. Lucas | David M. Sigler
1980 Dennis C. Gallagher | Thomas C. Hume | S. W. Lewandowski | Richard O. Prior | Betty D. Walls
1979 Donald R. Bean | Ronald A. Hood | A. Douglas Skare | Martha S. Thuente | John S. Todd
1978 Edward H. Beals | Don W. Bivens |Stephen T. Conley | Betty Louise Gaylord | Malcolm L. Treadwell
1977 John Halbert, Jr. | John Hancock III | Lester W. Miller | Claude Wright | Joanne Smith
1976 Ralph L. Bustrum | Jack W. Dameron | Howard G. Hamann | Donald G. Robertson | Clyde A. Robinett | Roy Ursenbach
1975 Norma Dennis | Bob L. Gray | Don Jacobs | Sam Rue | Al Wheeler | Gerald Zoppa
1974 Vera Hellsund | Leo F. Jackson | Ernest F. Latham | Neal L. Miller | Douglas B. Simpson | Donald E. Turner | Juanita W. Zoppa
1973 Arthur Barrett | Mae Booth (Silver Fawn) | G. Lewis Burt | Lawrence L. Creasey | Fred W. Dangers | Don Schmalzried
1972 Robert F. Alton | Muriel Baker (Silver Fawn) | Herbert V. Booth | Alter R. Hadley | E. H. Miller, Jr. | Andrew Queen | Leo L. Shultz | Rachel Vineyard (Silver Fawn)
1971 Lester Berry | Norbert W. Dean | Fred D. Harveston | Betty Moore (Silver Fawn) | Warner L. Rottman | Myron Stewart | Wyllian Tremain (Silver Fawn)
1970 Cletis R. Boan | Earle W. Donar | Lewis N. Hindley, Jr. | Donald E. Nicholson | Donald L. Sprague
1969 Howard E. Elliott | Robert C. Hagen | Akitoshi Higashi | William A. Hoff Raymond H. Linford
1968 Walter T. Andrews | Charles W. Ekhoff | Richard A. Johansen | Charles W. Latshaw | Francis G. Moore
1967 William E. Baker | Raymond A. Chislett | Malcolm Epley | M. Earle Radebaugh | Alfred P. Williams
1966 Harry Graves | C.M. Harl | Jack Motsinger | W. Frank Phares | James L. Weander
1965 James G. Craig, Jr. | William J. Mooney | C. T. Newton | Edgar E. Wallace | Alfred A. Webb, Jr.
1964 Jack T. Clark | John W. Hancock | John C. Landis | Lee A. Stokes | Donald C. Wallace, Jr.
1963 S. Kelly Campbell | N. L. McLaughlin | Charles A. Pechar | Carl Rule | Willard Van Dyke
1962 Harold Blunk | Roger Evans | Jerry S. Jacobs | William E. Kummer | Harold Mangold
1961 Fred Bastion | Henry H. Clock | Fred G. Hilton | Donald O’Neil | Charles Pearson
1960 Leo Forman | Paul Grandle | Roy W. Herbold | Virgil Spongberg | Elliott Stiles
1959 C. M. Brakensiek, M.D. | Orin Dyer | James A. Greene | Robert Shinn | George M. Vermillion | Albern G. Watts
1958 Carl Barr | Roy Burnett | Ralph Parker | Lyman B. Sutter | J. D. Wilson
1957 Ned Frost | O.M. Murphy | George B. Palmer | Leonard Stone | Loren B. Willey
1956 L.W. Chaffee | Albert G. Davis | Roger T. Huffman | C. E. Scott | Donald L. Wilkins
1955 Carl Brenner | Richard Brokaw | Percy John | Will H. Winston
1954 Fenton L. Feeney | Edward T. Martin | John L. Wood
1953 Jess S. Holton, Sr. | Don C. Markham | Henry Unmack
1952 John V. Cooper | Paul Harvey | H. Byrum Zinn
1951 Max J. Baer | Judge Percy Hight | Alvin Reed
1950 Theron Freese | Kenneth Goodban | Richard J. Tobey | Joseph K. Waddington
1949 Pete Krause Maxwell J. Steadman | John W. Wilson
1948 Willis W. Bradley | Fred Dunn | J. F. Miller
1947 Robert V. Benson | Harry Buffum
1946 Dr. Walter H. Boyd | Dr. J. Scott Brown | Frank F. Merriam
1945 Robert J. Broxholme | Harold P. Miller | Floyd Moore
1944 James G. Craig | A. E. White
1943 Jake Groenewegen | Albert H. Molter
1942 Soloman Carr | E. E. McDonald
1941 Frank Packard Dr. R. H. Shippey
1940 Jay K. Bangs | A. F. Edwards
1939 E. T. Harnett | W.E. Jakeman
1938 Will J. Reid | Peter Yocky
1937 Robert Crippen | James Rookus
1936 Dewey Akers
1935 Jack White
1934 H. E. Willey
1933 Walter Barber
1932 Gilbert Merritt
1931 Philip N. McCaughan | John W. Sarber
Silver Antelope Awards
2010 Joseph E. Porter III
2004 Jim Hankla
2000 Stephen T. Conley
1966 Dr. Don C. Markham
1945 Philip N. McCaughan