SILVER BEAVER AWARDS
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| S9-91-14 Silver Beaver Award recipients Debbi Lytle (center) and Joel Moore (right) with fellow Wood Badger Cliff Christian (left) |
Recipients of this year’s Silver Beaver Award included Muskogee District's Debbi Lytle, who served as assistant scoutmaster for programs; and Saugahatchee District's Joel Moore, a course participant and member of the Beaver Patrol.
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| Debbi Lytle with husband and fellow banquet honoree Tom |
Debbi's Scouting volunteer experience spans 30 years and three councils. Wherever her husband, Tom’s, military duties took him, Debbi found opportunities to serve, which included in a variety of pack, troop, district capacities. Since beginning her service to Chattahoochee Council in 1991, Debbi has been a stalwart force in district- and council-level training programs. An Eagle Patrol member of Greater Alabama Council’s (Birmingham) Wood Badge Course SR-CS4, the pinnacle of her council training service has been staffing four Wood Badge courses. Her Scouting accolades include the Commissioner’s Arrowhead, District Award of Merit, Ft. Benning District’s Follow Me Award, Ft. Benning District’s Scouter’s Award, Chattahoochee Council’s Gilwell Award, and both the bachelor’s and master’s of Cub Scouting through the University of Scouting. [read more in Debbi's course staff bio]
An Eagle Scout with Scouting roots dating back 45 years, Joel Moore grew up as a Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Explorer, and Order of the Arrow Arrowman in the Birmingham Area Council (now Greater Alabama Council). In 1993, he began his service to Chattahoochee Council by helping to establish Pack 371 and Troop 371 — both chartered by Auburn’s Lakeview Baptist Church, where he and his family worship and serve. Beyond his unit-level service, which today includes his continued service as the troop’s committee chair and ad-hoc assistant scoutmaster, Joel was elected in 2013 as the council’s vice president for programs after two consecutive terms of service as the district chair for Saugahatchee District. In 2013, he helped lead the Chattahoochee Council’s Troop A223 Jamboree contingent as an assistant scoutmaster. His Scouting service has resulted in honors such as the Good Shepherd Baptist Adult Religious Emblem, awarded by the Association of Baptists for Scouting (2010); the District Award of Merit, awarded by the Saugahatchee District (2014); and several other awards for unit-level service and training. He carries on the tradition of Scouting service as a second-generation Silver Beaver Award recipient; his father, Bob Moore, received the Silver Beaver in 1982 from the Birmingham Area Council.
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| Silver Beaver Award medal |
The Silver Beaver Award is the council-level distinguished service award presented by the National Court of Honor on behalf of councils. Recipients of this award, first bestowed in 1931, are registered adult leaders who have made an impact on the lives of youth through service given to the council through their efforts to deliver the Scouting program and perform community service through hard work, self-sacrifice, dedication, and many years of service. It is given to those who do not actively seek it. Honorees are presented with a medal consisting 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. Using the United States Military as the model, silver awards are the highest awards bestowed by the Boy Scouts.
NESA OUTSTANDING EAGLE SCOUT AWARD
Receiving the council’s National Eagle Scout Association’s (NESA) Outstanding Eagle Scout Award was S9-91-14 course director and Muskogee District Scouter Tom Lytle.
Tom Lytle
From his days as a Cub Scout to now, Tom Lytle has spent more than a half century benefiting from and serving the Boy Scouts of America. Starting his Scouting journey in 1959 as a Cub Scout in Missouri’s Heart of America Council, Tom earned the rank of Eagle in 1965. He began his adult volunteer service there before a military career found him traveling the globe — and finding ways to serve Scouting in every place his assignments took him, which included four different councils, including the Transatlantic Council based in Heilbronn, Germany. After retiring from the U.S. Army as a master sergeant, Tom continued his Scouting service in the Chattahoochee Council. The council has benefited from his diligent Scouting service as a district commissioner for 10 years, as a long-time member of district and council training teams, and as the council’s advancement chair. A proud Bobwhite Patrol member of Wood Badge Course SE-273-11 (Occoneechee Council, 1988), he staffed four Chattahoochee Council Wood Badge courses before being selected to lead the council’s most recent S9-91-14 course in 2014 as course director. Tom’s Scouting accolades include bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees through the College of Commissioner Science, the District Award of Merit, Commissioner’s Arrowhead, the Silver Beaver, BSA Heroism Award, Scouter’s International Award, and the council’s Gilwell Award. [read more in Tom's course staff bio]
About the Outstanding Eagle Scout Award
The National Eagle Scout Association’s (NESA) Outstanding Eagle Scout Award is a prestigious recognition granted by a local council’s NESA committee to Eagle Scouts who have demonstrated outstanding achievement at the local, state, or regional level. Each recipient’s actions and accomplishments should elevate the stature of Eagle Scouts in the public eye, and each recipient is held to the standards set forth in the Scout Oath, Scout Law, and national BSA standards for membership. Often, these men have devoted a lifetime to their profession, avocation, community, and beliefs, at great sacrifice to themselves and their families. Each recipient should receive recognition worthy of a lifetime’s accomplishments. Recipients receive a medal consisting of the NOESA emblem suspended from a blue ribbon worn around the neck, and can wear both a pin-on uniform version of the medal on their Eagle Scout square knot or a civilian-wear lapel pin.
Receiving the council’s National Eagle Scout Association’s (NESA) Outstanding Eagle Scout Award was S9-91-14 course director and Muskogee District Scouter Tom Lytle.
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| Tom receives the NOESA from Council President Luke Mansour (left) and Scout Executive Anthony Berger (right) |
From his days as a Cub Scout to now, Tom Lytle has spent more than a half century benefiting from and serving the Boy Scouts of America. Starting his Scouting journey in 1959 as a Cub Scout in Missouri’s Heart of America Council, Tom earned the rank of Eagle in 1965. He began his adult volunteer service there before a military career found him traveling the globe — and finding ways to serve Scouting in every place his assignments took him, which included four different councils, including the Transatlantic Council based in Heilbronn, Germany. After retiring from the U.S. Army as a master sergeant, Tom continued his Scouting service in the Chattahoochee Council. The council has benefited from his diligent Scouting service as a district commissioner for 10 years, as a long-time member of district and council training teams, and as the council’s advancement chair. A proud Bobwhite Patrol member of Wood Badge Course SE-273-11 (Occoneechee Council, 1988), he staffed four Chattahoochee Council Wood Badge courses before being selected to lead the council’s most recent S9-91-14 course in 2014 as course director. Tom’s Scouting accolades include bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees through the College of Commissioner Science, the District Award of Merit, Commissioner’s Arrowhead, the Silver Beaver, BSA Heroism Award, Scouter’s International Award, and the council’s Gilwell Award. [read more in Tom's course staff bio]
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| NESA Outstanding Eagle Scout Award medal |
The National Eagle Scout Association’s (NESA) Outstanding Eagle Scout Award is a prestigious recognition granted by a local council’s NESA committee to Eagle Scouts who have demonstrated outstanding achievement at the local, state, or regional level. Each recipient’s actions and accomplishments should elevate the stature of Eagle Scouts in the public eye, and each recipient is held to the standards set forth in the Scout Oath, Scout Law, and national BSA standards for membership. Often, these men have devoted a lifetime to their profession, avocation, community, and beliefs, at great sacrifice to themselves and their families. Each recipient should receive recognition worthy of a lifetime’s accomplishments. Recipients receive a medal consisting of the NOESA emblem suspended from a blue ribbon worn around the neck, and can wear both a pin-on uniform version of the medal on their Eagle Scout square knot or a civilian-wear lapel pin.
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