Outstanding Scout Award
The annual Robert A. Josey Outstanding Scout Award was established by Mr. Josey himself to recognize a Scout active in a Huntsville Scouts BSA troop who has shown outstanding leadership in school, in church, in Scouting, and in his or her community. The award was first presented in 1934 and has been awarded almost every year since.
The recipient receives a certificate and $500 monetary award, a custom Josey Lodge jacket, his or her name engraved on a paver in the Josey Court of Honor in front of Josey Scout Lodge, and specially dedicated US and Texas flags which have flown over Josey Lodge for the past year.
In the early days of the award, the Huntsville Scouting community elected the recipient; all eligible scouts applied, and then all youth submitted their pick for the award recipient. Today's process includes an online application and written essay, certification of eligibility from the candidate's Scoutmaster, and a live interview with members of the Josey Board of Trustees.
The award is presented every year at the Robert A. Josey Banquet.
Robert A. Josey Award Recipients
1934 William Ray Lynch, Jr.
1936 Bob McAdams
1939 Perry Ball
1942 Billy Brentzel
1945 Gregg Davis
1948 Bill Turner
1951 Keith Rollo
1954 Joe E. Kirk, Jr.
1957 Harry L. Jones
1960 William K. Dabaghi
1963 Mark David Beto
1966 Doug Courtney
1974 Randall Lewis
1977 Vernon Bradford
1980 Charles Matchett
1983 Roland Ray Gilliam, III
1986 Gregory A. Hines
1989 Sam McGee
1992 Damon D. Burris
1995 Matthew A. Sproat
1998 Jordan C. Millier
2001 Kody McHenry
2004 Caleb Bishop White
2010 Stephen Rosenberger
2013 Austin P. Artho
2016 Noah Duke
2019 Benjamin Williams
2022 Benjamin A. Hendricks
1934 R. I. Bunting, Jr.
1937 Marion King
1940 Walter Hedrick, Jr.
1943 Charles Sarkis
1946 Joe Shafer
1949 Clyde Hall, Jr.
1952 Francis Hathorn
1955 John W. Morgan
1958 Charles Jones
1961 Thomas C. Cole, Jr.
1964 Thomas Rogers
1967 Randall S. Griffin
1975 Mike Brown
1978 Thomas Leeper
1981 Allen E. Branch
1984 Randy Hines
1987 Jerry C. McGee, Jr.
1990 Lee Brown Sterling, III
1993 Robert Turner O’Banion
1996 Bill Tatum
1999 Justin Turner
2002 Andrew J. Gonzales
2006 Norman (Matt) Smith
2011 Todd A. Christian
2014 James Patrick Oliver
2017 John Wesley Oberg
2020 Robert Rush
2023 Seth Brown
1935 C. A. Parkhill, Jr.
1938 Elwood Parkhill
1941 Bobby Rollo
1944 David Adickes
1947 Henry O. Crawford, Jr.
1950 Pete Thielen
1953 Cecil Crawford Murray
1956 Thomas Clark
1959 Ralph Grisham
1962 Cecil Jones
1965 Craig Wilson
1971 Fred E. Ricks, III
1976 Jon Boaz
1979 Sam Brown
1982 Steve Abbott
1985 Dustin D. Burris
1988 Gary R. Ratterree
1991 Jimmy Standefer
1994 Ryan S. Hoover
1997 Seth Boykin Bounds
2000 Nicolaus Zeisig
2003 Sam Murra
2008 Joel Daniel Rosenberger
2012 Paul Oliver
2015 Matthew Collier
2018 James Bounds
2021 William Joel Pitts