Founder's Award Recipients

Introduced at the 1981 National Order of the Arrow Conference, the Founder's Award was created to honor and recognize those Arrowmen who have given outstanding service to the lodge. The award is reserved for an Arrowmen who demonstrates to fellow Arrowmen that he or she memorializes in his or her everyday life the spirit of achievement as described by founder E. Urner Goodman and cofounder Carroll A. Edson.

The Award is a handsome bronze medallion bearing the likenesses of E. Urner Goodman and cofounder Carroll A. Edson, with wooden base and brass plate suitable for engraving. Also available is a special Founder's Award arrow ribbon, with a gold colored arrow suspended from a red ribbon.

Lodges may petition the national Order of the Arrow Committee to present up to four awards annually, based on lodge membership. If the lodge presents more than one award, one must be to a youth under the age of 21.

Name	Date Awarded
Steele Arbeeny	October 23, 1988
Frank E. Gordan	October 23, 1988
Vincent A. Lapadula	July 24, 1990
Frank T. Mullane	July 24, 1990
Martin D. Poller	August 20, 1992
Michael M. Parisi	October 23, 1993
Edward Regis	October 23, 1993
Francis J. Harty	July 25, 1994
Peter M. Petrone	July 27, 1995
Rudy Lazides	July 27, 1995
Keith Santero	July 20, 1996
Mitchell Slepian	July 20, 1996
Keith D. Christensen	October 12,1997
Michael Andersen	October 12,1997
Brian Dannecker	October 23,1998
Gladys Schweiger	October 13,1998
Michael A. Armato	April 7, 2002
David Edelman	April 7, 2002
John Altieri Jr.	November 8,2003
Robert Viggiano Jesse Metz Andrew Montero Ron Cullenen Joseph Perchiacca	November 8,2003 June 2005 June 2005 June 2006 June 2006
Betty Harty Tim McCormick	June 2007 June 2007
Emily Harkins-Cuevas  Steven Gazinski	June 2008 June 2008
John Perchiacca Peter Messina.	April 2009 April 2009
Lawrence Ferretti, Jr Andrew Selowentchich	April 2010 April 2010
Andrew Jones Louis (Bob) Gazinski	April 2011 April 2011
Allan Feldman Brenda Gazinski	March 2013 March 2013

 Updated: 3/15/2013