Blue Elk District Award of Merit Recipient for 2020 – Scott D. Howell, 3rd

Each year all scouting districts in the Heart of America Council, Boy Scouts of America, select outstanding volunteers within their district boundaries who have given extraordinary service to the Scouting program over a period of years.  These individuals are also selected for extraordinary service given to their communities outside the Scouting program as well.  

Services rendered can range from a Committee Member in any kind of scouting unit to key leadership positions in any kind of scouting unit.  The only real requirement is that the service or services rendered must be voluntarily given and without prejudice and performed unselfishly.  

The highest award that a district can bestow on a volunteer in the scouting program is the District Award of Merit.  The number of recipients that a district can bestow on a volunteer is governed by the number of units within each district.  Each district can bestow one Award of Merit for every twenty-five (25) units.  In the year 2020 the Blue Elk District recognized four (4) individuals with this distinct honor.

One of the individuals recognized in 2020 for the Blue Elk District Award of Merit is Scott D. Howell, the 3rd.  

Scott has been in the scouting program since he was eight (8) years of age joining Cub Pack 282 and earned Cub Scouting’s highest award – the Arrow of Light.  He then transitioned into Boy Scout Troop 282 and earned Scouting’s highest award – Eagle Scout.  He also earned nine (9) Eagle Scout Palms.  

Scott served the H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation as a staff member for several years earning various paint levels and is now a Keeper of the Wampum in the Tribe of Mic-O-Say.  

He has served as a Committee Member and an Assistant Scoutmaster in Boy Scout Troop 282.  In Cub Scout Pack 185, he has served as a Committee Member, Assistant Cubmaster and now as its Cubmaster.

In 2021 at the Annual Blue Elk District Recognition Dinner Scott D. Howell, 3rd will be officially recognized as a recipient of the District Award of Merit – the highest award a scouting district can bestow on a volunteer in the scouting program.