  The District Award of Merit is a council award presented by districts to Scouters who render service to youth of an outstanding nature at the district level. The award is made available annually on the basis of 1 for each 25 units or fraction thereof. The district need not present all the awards to which it is entitled each year. District Award of Merit Nominations - Don't wait until the last minute to submit nomination application and supporting information. The District Award of Merit is presented at the Annual District Fellowship and Recognition Dinner held in June. For the National Pike District Award of Merit Guide Book CLICK HERE. For an example of a request for a recommendation letter to support a nomination CLICK HERE. For a spreadsheet tool to assist tracking requests for recommendation letters CLICK HERE. For the District Award of Merit Nomination form CLICK HERE Nominations should be submitted to Rick Fitzgerald, Chair of the District Award of Merit Selection Committee, no later than the April Roundtable. Nominations will not be accepted after that date. National Pike District Recipients Unknown | 1982 | 1996 | 2011 | Robert Bridner | Arnold Elmore | Kathy Hall | Harold Burgess | Frank Colburn | Charles A. Precht | James Hersh | Dwight Crone | Arthur Hill | Allan Sipes | John J. Wicker | Lynn Galloway | Ken Kittelberger | Robert A. Van Ostrand | | David Meiners | Federick W. Stencil Jr | | 1997 | Charlie Morgan | | 1983 | Donald Correll | | 1968 | C. Godfrey Garvey | William C. Prehn | 2012 | Elizabeth Weisner | Edward Gray | Kenneth J. Springer | Sori Meredith | | Lee Hersch | | Colin Talbot | 1971 | Frank Miles | 1998 | Jennifer Taylor | Holly Bennett, Jr | | Earl W. Baker | David Thornley | William L. Brown | 1984 | George A. Mader | Ed Wollack | Martha Hetchen | Kathleen Eldred | Paul Ressler | | Edith Holdcraft | Connie Fuhr | William J. Tropf | 2013 | Harry Morgan | Linda Santymire | | Cynthia Dzubak | Laurance Roapaugh | Frederick W. Stencil, Jr. | 1999 | Trevor Rosenberg | Dennis Thornton | | Verna M. Prehn | Michael Taylor | | 1985 | Patrick J. Roth | David Ward | 1972 | William L. Block | | | John Doyle | George Ramsburg | 2000 | 2014 | George Grossgebauer | Stephen J. Sawyer | Martin A. Berlin | Sean Griffin | Marjorie Ripple | Robert S. Scarburgh | Paul Goldenberg | Ed Marsh | John J. Simms Jr. | | Robert N. Keehner | Michael Meister | Leroy Stull | 1986 | Cheryl A. Murphy | Victor Torres | | Norman F. Brown | | | 1973 | Francis J, Colby | 2001 | 2015 | Holly Bennett, Jr. | Sheila B. DelFavero | Alice Corrigan | Paget Donnelly | Connie Bridner | John W. Eckstrom | Brian Lund | Rick Fitzgerald | David Gleason | | Wayne Murphy | Michael Katz | Charles E. Howard Jr. | 1987 | | Gary McNeil | Percy Knight Jr. | Kathryn Elizabeth Bensel | 2002 | | Harry Mrogan | Robert T. Santymire | William Allen | 2016 | | Kenneth M. Shipley | Patricia Brown | Ted Doederlein | 1974 | Taunton Welsh | Chip Galloway | Kevin Miller | William L. Brown | | Pat Hamilton | Carol Schuster | Charles Denton | 1988 | Randy Possehl | Howard Weiss | Barry Malpass | John M. Baumert | | | Helen Morgan | Douglas W. Martin | 2003 | 2017 | Gene Shaffer | Edwin O. Maxwell | Judi Ragland | Lisa Macek | | Theodore W. Morse | | Brian McGivern | 1975 | Judith O. Singley | 2004 | Ron Whitehead | Marilyn Deland | | Rodney W. Bidinger | Mike Will | Firman Hipp | 1989 | Jeff Burt | | William Mulligan | Laurie S. Davis | Robert Marietta | 2018 | Chester Russell | Phyllis T. Gray | Gayden Gauthier | Matthew Cook | | Virginia Mullins | Jeff Seymour | Joel Meredith | 1976 | Robert K. Nauman | | Jim Olson | John Casmark | George L. Sipes | 2005 | | Charles Haddaway | | Henry Heine | 2019 | John Holdcraft | 1990 | Tracey Herroitts | Anna Katz | James Schchardt | George Baker | Walter Hunt | Bruce Kieta | Meindert Sweep | Teresa Dash | Pamela Paulding | Gus Larsson | | Peter McCabe | Fred Sirotkin | Dan Lentz | 1977 | Augrey Marsh | | | John Harvey | Salem Roy | 2006 | 2020 | Joe Hendler | | Tommy DeWeese | Jerry Budai | Joe Mullins | 1991 | Phil Knox | John Barrett | Norman Weissert | Joseph G. Henderson, Sr | Jerry Kramer | Rich Johnson | Edward R. White III | Paul W. Madden | Elizabeth Mader | | | Alfred B. Marsh, III | Bill Marose | 2021 | 1978 | Walter G. Myers | | Duncan Brown | Barbara A. Conti | Neil Wilford, Sr | 2007 | Hillary Bierce | E. Gillance Grimm, Jr. | | John Esworthy | Ruban Payan | John S. Mitchell, Jr. | 1992 | Jim Gossard | | Charles B. Roebuck | Dennis G. Buckler | Cliff Lee | 2022 | Carl Sauter | Robert J. Garrity, Jr | Randy Miller | Charlene Garant | | Nellie Hill | | Joel Hampshire | 1979 | Phyllis T. Sipes | 2008 | Mike Miller | Robert V. DelFavero | Adelle M. Ward | James P. Davis | | E. Theodore Johnson | | Dana V. Edwards | | Lee Lanier | 1993 | Kathleen van Swol | | Durwood Taylor | Conrad L. Bouchat | | | Egora Taylor | Robert Brinkley | 2009 | | | George S. Krouse, Jr. | Roy Ferguson | | 1980 | Karen Martin | Matt Mader | | Garland Funk | Ted Metzger | Evelyn Mogren | | Rev. A. Joseph Maskell | | Renee Seymour | | Donald Matlack | 1994 | | | Lawrence J. Wenzel | Anne T. Madden | 2010 | | | Susan E. Miller | Bob Johnson | | 1981 | Peter E. Neperud | Bill McGuire | | Marie Curry | | Dale Walker | | Henry Merchant | 1995 | Don Wecker | | James O. Mott | Gail Hikel | | | Robert Statkiewicz | Donald Rascoe | | | | Lea Ressler | | | |