HOW TO RECOMMEND A SCOUTER FOR THE SILVER BEAVER AWARD

1. Any Scouter may nominate another Scouter for the Silver Beaver Award. Other year’s nominees, who were not selected, can be re-nominated. Use the attached form or get additional forms at the Scout Service Center.
   
2. Complete the form by getting the information regarding your nominee without his or her knowledge. One complete nomination form is all that is required. Names of other Scouters who would support the nomination may be added to PART “D” of the form.
   
3. Since there are many worthy Scouters being nominated each year, the committee will give additional weight to a nominee’s tenure as a registered Scouter and his involvement in other community youth activities.
   
4. The Silver Beaver Award is not the type of recognition that Scouters seek nor apply for themselves.
   
5. The Council Executive Committee will approve the appointment of a Silver Beaver Selection Committee by June 1st of each year. At least one fourth of the members of the Selection Committee will not have served the previous year.
   
6. The Selection Committee will be representative of each geographical area of the Council and a committee member will be asked during the selection process to secure further information from a district if it becomes necessary.
   
7. The first meeting of the Selection Committee will be held in December and the DEADLINE for submittal is JANUARY 2, 2009.
   
8. Nominations will be considered for former Council Staff within five years of their leaving the employ of the Council and nominations cannot be made for posthumous awards.

SILVER BEAVER AWARD INFORMATION

What is the award and what rules and regulations govern its presentation? The following is taken verbatim from Article X, Section 6, of the “Rules and Regulations of the Boy Scouts of America.”

“Silver Beaver Award……..

Clause 3. The Boy Scouts of America, acting through the National Court of Honor, may award the Silver Beaver Award for distinguished service to youth upon the following basis and procedure:

1. This award may be made each year upon the nomination of chartered local councils. These nominations shall be submitted not less than 30 days in advance of the date upon which it is desired to present the awards.
   
2. The award is made for noteworthy service of exceptional character to youth by registered Scouters, Cub Scouters and Explorer Leaders within the territory under the jurisdiction of a local council.
   
3. As evidenced of the award, there shall be presented: a suitable certificate, duly authenticated by the Boy Scouts of America, pursuant to the action of the National Court of Honor, and a miniature Silver Beaver suspended by a blue, white and blue ribbon to be worn around the neck.
   
4. It shall be a general policy that no public announcements shall be made by the local council in advance of action by the National Court of Honor with reference to names presented for consideration.
   
5. These awards shall be made to the recipients by the local council concerned in connection with its annual meeting or other public function.”

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