Award of Merit Recipients
The Award of Merit was created in 1970 and presented to registered Scouters who have rendered noteworthy service of an outstanding nature to youth either inside or outside of Scouting (or both). It recognizes outstanding contributions to youth in the community at the service area level. The overhand knot carries with it a symbology unique in Scouting—those familiar with how a square knot is made recognize that the overhand knot is only part of a complete square knot, just as a Service Area is but a part of its local Council.
1972 |
| Jack Canning |
| Nancy Lisk |
| Ray Lisk |
| Henry Lorch |
| Larry Portanova |
1973 |
| Theresa Barrow |
| John Cottrell |
| Benjamin Giminaro, MD |
| Eli Hecht |
| Nathan Wolin |
1974 |
| Marion Horn |
| Fred Ronis |
| C. Tyler South |
| Henry Szlepcsik |
| Harry Ward |
| Patrick Carroll |
1975 |
| Thomas C. Bartolotta |
| Louis Biolsi |
| Irving G. Buxton |
| John Grafing |
| William J. Hoffman |
| Peter Wynne |
| Philip Bevelacqua |
| Janet Trotter |
| William Trotter |
| Joseph Quaderer |
1976 |
| Robert Brown |
| William Carrier |
| Guz Katz |
| Robert Luce |
| Theresa Skidmore |
| Edward Valenson |
| Walter Bailey |
| Robert B. Podewils |
| Olaf Rasmussen |
| Stanley Woodcheke |
| Jackie Bottenhofer |
| Patrick Burger |
| Frank Franz |
| John Outlaw |
1977 |
| George Baum |
| Robert Breivogel |
| Luis Cifuentes |
| Robert P. Graff |
| Irwin Green |
| Jack Brussell |
| Edward Dolan |
| Robert Fentress |
| George Kreckel |
| William Maron |
| Henry Hochuli |
| Daniel Schmidt |
| Frank Sequino |
1978 |
| Jesse Bidanset |
| Iris D. Graff |
| Louis Korosy |
| George A. Kovanko |
| Henri Lebel |
| William Richardson |
| Sheldon R. Boyd |
| Robert Corsell |
| Boris Katz |
| Edward Mordini |
| Stu Radin |
| June Bartlett |
| Robert Bogart |
| Robert Cohen |
| Leslie Cox |
| Leo Glanz |
| Frederick Lloyd |
| Norman Meyer |
| Ambrose Walsh |
| Floyd Yeager |
1979 |
| S. Steven Freeman |
| Donald Gress |
| Albert King |
| Thom Wozniak |
| Al Franchuk |
| Al Friedman |
| Richard Mannheimer |
| Thomas McKay |
| Joseph Munisteri |
| Joseph L. Scalise |
| Larry Stanacher |
| Fred Troll |
1980 |
| Daniel Davis |
| Bud Smith |
| Harry Volz |
| Barbara Corsell |
| Walter Hirsch |
| Ted Rykowski |
| Joseph Carney |
| Robery O’Ferrall |
| Robert Schafrrath |
| Patrick Quinn |
1981 |
| Peter Borzuku |
| Harold Hillje |
| Karl Leo |
| Hon. John A. Moriarity |
| Henry Charles |
| George Dick |
| James Laun |
| Edward Barry |
| Edward Jacobeen |
| Robert Knapp |
| R. Punzman |
| Louis Scuteri |
1982 |
| H. George Haab |
| Lyman Ihrig |
| James McNulty |
| John Crawford |
| James Flynn |
| Ralph P. Greenspan, Esq. |
| Steven Hilovsky |
| Eli Springer |
| John Keleber |
| David Lobac |
| Peter Watson |
1983 |
| Sylvia Hallatschek |
| Mario Muzii |
| Joseph J. Pepenella |
| Edward Sholander |
| Lester Buckman |
| Frank Elliot |
| William Gropp |
| Martha Lambert |
| Edward Sesack |
| Gary Vanderbrink |
| Eugene Dittmeir |
| James Dunleavy |
| William Metzger |
| Cameron Reed |
| Laurence M. Altenburg |
| Victor DePellegrin |
| Sandy Kopel |
| Donald B. Robb |
| Harry E. Schneider |
1984 |
| Heywood Blaufeux |
| John E. Garvey, Sr. |
| Charles Mogul |
| Edward Ross |
| Bart DeLaney |
| Michael Kaufmann |
| Gerard Lynch |
| Joseph P. Slattery |
| Phylis Deleber |
| Thomas Perito |
| D. Zimmerman |
| William Avrutis |
| Elizabeth Christensen |
| Leo O’Hearon |
| Julius I. Reiter |
| Frank Wilmot |
1985 |
| Kay Barrett |
| Mildred Greubel |
| James L. Justus |
| John A. Wilken |
| John Henderson |
| Ludwig Riemenschneider, Jr. |
| Edward Shulroff |
| Jay Parker |
| Anthony Pavone |
| Philip Warnes |
| Earl Christensen |
| Charles G. Firmbach |
| William McGraw |
| Richard Tauber |
1986 |
| Kenneth Birmingham |
| Albert Carlson |
| Eileen Schnitzler |
| Steve Bearak |
| James Stefanich |
| Kathleen Stefanich |
| Michael Woodcheke |
| Scott Collins |
| Niel Miele |
| Marna Wolaver |
| Andre Dufour |
| Dorothy MacLennan |
| Hon. Dalton Miller, Sr. |
| Theodore Mueller |
| James Young |
1987 |
| Hugo Friedlaender |
| Bonnie Lazar |
| Joyce Tillotson |
| Robert Campbell |
| Jack Krut |
| Marie Sesack |
| William Weiss |
| Eugene Kane |
| Robert M. Dufour |
| Edmund Luyckx |
| Michael F. Reder |
| Catherine Salmon |
| Robert Stein |
1988 |
| Cynthia Pepenella |
| James Schroeher |
| Edward A’Zary |
| Robert Froh |
| Wynn Saint |
| Richard Koll |
| Stephen Sassi |
| Ralph Esposito |
| Ricardo J. Hassan |
| David M. Shields |
| Hagop Torosian |
1989 |
| George Facompre |
| William Ferris |
| Saul Friedman |
| Joseph Schnitzler |
| Daniel Katzenstein |
| Joseph Lotufo |
| Lawrence Plavin |
| James Shields |
| Anthony D. Sesack, Sr. |
| Richard Burgess |
| Auxs Cipilickas |
| Steven Grosskopf |
| Janet Carroll |
| Diane Cetin |
| William Dengel |
| Sharon Hassan |
| Dalton Miller, Jr. |
1990 |
| Alfred F. Gast |
| Roland Pariseau |
| Linda Reed |
| John Connors |
| Mary Higgins |
| David Sobolow |
| C. Andrew Johns |
| Frederick L. Brown |
| Robert Evans |
| Tom Judge, Sr. |
| Barbara A. Meyerson |
| Seymour Wexler |
1991 |
| Austin E. Cannon, Jr. |
| Kathryn Colangelo |
| Douglas A. MaKosky |
| William Froehlich |
| Thomas Liddy |
| Robert Nordman |
| Kathleen E. Brown |
| Henry E. Lewis |
| Robert Leyendecker |
| Larry Prendergast |
| Mildred Schmitterer |
1992 |
| Marilynn Cassano |
| Robert H. Frazer |
| Anna Mae Sesack |
| Janice M. Pomerico |
| Ann Marie Ellingham |
| Martha Sobolow |
| Thomas Watts |
| Judith Liddy |
| Alice Blair |
| Charles Cassella |
| Carolyn Dauphin |
| Everett Myron |
| Vincent Settepani |
1993 |
| Jane E. Biscardi |
| Harold Breuchert |
| Suzanne Gast |
| Louis A. Sofia, Sr. |
| Gregory Campbell |
| Richard W. Stetter |
| Kenneth Boglia |
| Bruce Heckman |
| Stanley Weinstein |
| Karen Anderson |
| Jayne E. Biscardi |
| Robert Crowley |
| Janice Marie Pomerico |
| George Stolz |
1994 |
| Jane P. Henn |
| John Scalia |
| James Silberger |
| Carol Martino |
| Lynn Iredell |
| Brad Ferguson |
| William Dobie |
| Fred Frohnhoefer |
| William Lorusso |
| David Barkstedt |
| Pattie Harman |
| William Thomas |
1995 |
| Robert Biscardi |
| John P. Bush |
| Carl R. Gullans, Sr. |
| Janice Sofia |
| W. “Butch” Ilchuk, Jr. |
| William Kling |
| Heather Stetter |
| Richard Charron |
| John “Robbie” Robertson |
| Patricia Strizak |
| Gerard Winkler |
| Virgil Zirpolo |
| Steven Alberts |
| Robert Biscardi |
| Jack Friedman |
| John M. Gherlone |
1996 |
| John R. Fera |
| Roseanne Gullans |
| Paul E. McNamara, Sr. |
| Edward O’Conor |
| Dominick Perrotta |
| Jack Keenan |
| James Krawiec |
| Debra Mulé |
| Frank D’Elia |
| Thomas Eagan |
| Richard Fittante |
| Julia Sinisi |
| Mark Anderson |
| Jerome Burke |
| Donna-Jean Serra |
1997 |
| LeRoy Donders |
| Michael D. Moriarity |
| Raymond F. Pomerico |
| James Kent |
| Michael Ferraris |
| Kenneth Rubino |
| Robert Batchelor |
| Dee Bauman |
| Wayne Bauman |
| Andrew McInnes |
| Salvatore Ferro |
| Ira S. Reiter |
| Joseph R. Resch, Jr. |
| Edward J. Schenk |
1998 |
| Brian P. O’Neill |
| Barry M. Stolzenberg |
| Frederick G. Sutton |
| Mary Messina |
| Beatrice Passaro |
| Mark A. Ruskin |
| Mark Buthorn |
| Ralph Gode |
| Robert Snyder |
| August Benkert |
| Robert Dawson |
| Edward Hansen |
| Charles Vardakis |
1999 |
| Louis M. Argyropoulos |
| Joseph M. Laratondo, Sr |
| William L. Milow |
| Vincent P. Kostolni |
| José A. Ramos |
| Scott Christensen |
| Kevin Etherson |
| Charles Karazia |
| Steve Clark |
| John Pate |
| Wayne Price |
| Elice Walsh |
2000 |
| Mary L. Beck |
| Steven M. Gershowitz |
| James T. Guastavino |
| Faun D. Guarino |
| Kenneth Guarino |
| Donald McMahon |
| Peter O’Connor |
| Stephen Sadowski |
| Garrie Carter |
| Arthur Juers |
| David McCredo |
2001 |
| Paul K. Clifford |
| Hon. Richard S. Lawrence |
| James T. Tewes |
| Vito Deliso |
| Kathy Guastavino |
| Mark Harvey |
| Peter O’Malley |
| Dr. Dwight “Doc” Rosenstein |
| Carlos Caban |
| Judy Carter |
| Paul Chenkin |
| Lianne Richardson |
2002 |
| Michael D. Chirillo, Sr. |
| Rose Chirillo |
| John Fowler |
| Kathleen Gattung |
| Michael Moskowitz |
| Gregory A. Benoit |
| Terry Deliso |
| Susan Eitel |
| Lorraine Sawicki, rosen |
| Jack Dillon |
| Lawrence Ellis |
| Donal McCarthy |
| Richard Haas |
| Joel Mines |
| Raymond Ventura |
| Thomas Walsh |
2003 |
| Frank C. Freyvogel |
| Joan V. Garvey |
| Robert W. Walker |
| William J. Fryer |
| Vincent J. Giacalone |
| Donald J. Smith |
| Ronald Bagan |
| Anthony Gulotta |
| Robert Hoey |
| Ed Munz |
| Stephen Salvatore |
| Sandy Bettes |
| Mort Levy |
| Michelle Moffit |
| Paul Wolf |
2004 |
| George Balduf |
| Glenn R. Kugler |
| John V. Neverka, Jr. |
| Donald Prendergast |
| Eric Rosen |
| David Schuster |
| L. Robert Adams |
| Patricia Casey |
| Ed Morales |
| Diane LauKaitis |
| Loretta Pittides |
| Marcel H. Richardson, Jr. |
| Rob Thompson |
2005 |
| Terry Freyvogel |
| Robert Lohne |
| John F. McDermott |
| William Kowalski |
| Russell Rensch |
| Patricia Burns |
| Miroslav Dosoudil |
| Tara Miner |
| Thorton Smith |
| Eric Anderson |
| Robert Bambrick |
| Philip Citrano |
| Lester Wilensky |
2006 |
| George H. Closs |
| Roger Csajko |
| Otis G. Shull |
| Ursula M. Valentine |
| Steve Daves |
| Margaret King |
| Bill Bottenhofer |
| Christopher Carrol |
| Larry Krieb |
| Hon. Robert G. Bogle |
| Terry C. Eaton |
| Gregory Hegmann |
| Philip Treglia, Sr. |
2007 |
| Mike Assande |
| Glenn Greubel |
| Connie Mangano |
| Mary Babcock |
| Robert King |
| Donald Belger |
| Robert Hanford |
| Harvey Krimko |
| Steven Rudolph |
| Robert Andrzejewski |
| Richard Buarotti |
| Lori Treglia |
| Anthony Turner |
2008 |
| Lawrence Bamberger |
| Donald Josling |
| Joseph Pezzino |
| Russell Rozea |
| Joseph Bacchi |
| Richard Monaco |
| Peter Shields |
| Lynn Nolan Weiler |
| Kenny Boglia |
| Tom Brenner |
| Dimitria Patrikis |
| Robert Becker |
| Debbie Chapman |
| Howard Ryder |
| Nick Sincinito |
2009 |
| Andy Zuch |
| Tracy Dioguardi |
| Art Woodard |
| Salvatore P. Ciampo |
| Dwayne Cox |
| Michael Zembruski |
| Bill Birkdale |
| Rick Gray |
| Robert Schmid |
| Anthony Fondacaro |
| Hon. Anthony J. Santino |
2010 |
| Bruce Brickmeier |
| Tom Cleary |
| Jim Guida |
| Tracey Ciampo |
| Frank Fox |
| John Koch |
| Phil McCabe |
| Bryan Thompson |
| Bill Weber |
| Matthew Andrzejewski |
| Thomas Lerch |
| Charles Tapia |
2011 |
| Francesca Imbrogno |
| Edward Markiewicz |
| William Burgess |
| Jeffrey Carpenter |
| Linda Wolf |
| Bob Brown |
| Michael Cassano |
| Sylvia Hubschman |
| John Fusco |
| Charles “Chazz” Lees, III |
| Gene Vandermosten |
2012 |
| Michael Raia |
| Michael Schablin |
| Jerry Manning |
| Neil Sheehan |
| Billy Bauman |
| George Carlin |
| Nancy Parente |
| Joseph Borgia |
| Nicole Kircher |
| Kimberly Lavery |
2013 |
| Kathy Boyle |
| Liz Ferreri |
| Lisa Donigian |
| Ed Gellender |
| Joe Malerba |
| Howard Leeds |
| Kenneth Riscica |
| Paul Savage |
| Francis Honerkamp, III |
| Anne Reiter |
| Jeffrey Richter |
2014 |
| Margaret Neverka |
| Paul Roach |
| Thomas Lazzaro |
| Dave Lumerman |
| Ken Olsen |
| Joseph Deriu |
| Keith Solar |
| Patrick Burke |
| Charles Orandello |
2015 |
| Noelle Bloom |
| Nancy Rosiello |
| Roderick J. Geoghegan, Jr. |
| Robert T. Loughran |
| John Schmidt |
| Doanld Panetta |
| James Farrell |
| John Blazich |
| Joseph Bereswill |
| William J. Riley, III |
| Andrew Talamo |
| Michael Williams |
2016 |
| Elizabeth Assande |
| Gustavo Ham |
| John Feeney |
| Peter Muzia |
| Kenneth Bacotti |
| Warren Hubschman |
| Stephanie Bartoldus |
| Barry H. Goldman |
| Jose M. Gregori |
2017 |
| Gloria George |
| Phil Nicola |
| Drew Fried |
| Ed Leger |
| Michael Flanagan |
| Gino Scartozzi |
| Harry Ruiz |
| Jennifer A. O’Brien |
| Lawrence L. Vodopivec |
2018 |
| Jim Hayden |
| Larry Horne |
| Eric Mascio |
| John Pasqueralli |
| Linda Savage-Requeiferos |
| Timothy Seeley |
| Alexander Chebuske |
| George Amitrano |
| Joseph Brocavich |
| Meredith Riordan |
2019 |
| Joseph Marsh |
| John Paeth |
| Gary Berkowitz |
| Kathy Olsen |
| Robyn Palzer-Lee |
| Richard Robson |
| Doreen Page |
| Denise Shields |
2020 |
| Barbara Arnold |
| Frankie Dioguardi |
| Judi Cobian |
| Daniel Robson |
| John Plackis |
| Cathy Vodopivec |
2021 |
| Alex Arnold |
| Brian Sarant |
| Steve Camardella |
| Amy Cincotta |
| Marina Pavlovic |
| Joseph Munafo |
| Robert Murawski |
| Diana Woram |
2022 |
| Craig Romain |
| Charles Mauro |
| Walter Cook |
| Brian Zaino |
| Cynthia Robson |
| Christopher Greyson |
| Steve DiTusa |
| Dorian Segure |
2023 |
| Richard Czarnecki |
| Charles Kulins |
| Robyn Santiago |
| Peter Kehoe |
| Gary Mulcahy |
| Glenn Peters |
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