James E. West Fellowship

Buffalo Trail Council

The James E. West Fellowship is a national recognition for individuals who contribute, or have contributed in their name, $1,000 or more to the Council’s endowment trust fund.

The award is named after the first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America who exemplified Ralph Waldo Emerson’s observation that “an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.” Scouting today is the “lengthened shadow” of more than three decades of the farsighting and dedicated leadership of James E. West.

Those who are recognized by the James E. West Fellowship Award will cast their own “lengthened shadow” as they help insure the Scouting legacy for future generations of young people and create the financial stability of the program in the twenty-first century of this local council. Those awards presented in the Buffalo Trail Council are:

Baine Bean 2003
Barbara Biffle 2004
James C. Busby 2004
Jim Harrison 2002
Sam Mannering 2001
James W. Riggen 2004
Warren Wallace, III 2000

Information obtained from "Buffalo Tracks" and Order of the Arrow records.

Updated: January 25, 2005
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