Steiner Receives National Endowment Award

September 2007

R. James Steiner, who serves as a volunteer scout leader, and who previously served on the State Board of Education, received a National Endowment Award from the National Office of the Boy Scouts of America for his financial support of scouting.

Jim has been designated a James E. West Fellow of the Boy Scouts of America. The fellowship honors Dr. James E. West, who served as the first professional Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America. Coincidentally, West was both a lawyer and an advocate of children's rights. He served as Chief Scout Executive from 1911-1943.

Jim chairs the Wannalancit District of the Boy Scouts of America, which covers 35 towns from Bow in the south to Plymouth in the north, and the towns east and west of I-93 in between. Jim also sits on the Executive Board of the Daniel Webster Council, BSA, Inc., which provides coed scouting opportunities throughout virtually all of the State of New Hampshire.

Jim earned his Eagle rank in 1973. He has been active in scouting for over 40 years.

Jim is also a past recipient of the William D. Boyce Award for his efforts in starting a coed scouting group among students at Plymouth State University in 2006. Boyce is the philanthropist who was guided across a London street in 1910 by a Boy Scout who refused a tip. Boyce picked up a copy of “Scouting for Boys,” the official handbook of Boy Scouts in England, returned to the United States, and began a similar program in this country.