Community Advocate Wins Silver Beaver

The Atlanta Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America has awarded Julian Carter the highest award a Council can present to a volunteer, the Silver Beaver Award for 2011.

Carter, a life-long resident of Douglas County and a community advocate for many organizations definitely deserves much recognition. After 40 years of working in the banking industry Carter retired but couldn’t give up supporting the community. In 2009, Carter became the CEO of Douglas County College & Career Institute.

For many years, Carter has been involved with the Boy Scouts on many levels from the chairman of the Friend of Scouting campaign to a committee member of Troop 62 chartered by Lithia Springs United Methodist Church. For his endless work and support of the program, the Atlanta Area Council awarded him the highest award given by a local Council. The award ceremony was held on March 27 at The Coca-Cola Company headquarters in Atlanta. Carter is one of 17 recipients for the class of 2011 out of 11,000 BSA volunteers.

“It is a great honor to be recognized by the BSA. I want to first thank God for his many blessings, my family for their support and my employers over the years for their willingness to allow me to serve. I want to acknowledge Lithia Springs United Methodist Church for its support of Troop 62 and Troyce Hendrix, the late Doug Belcher and Bill Camp for their unwavering efforts to Scouting. Must give a special thanks to Larry Cohran for sponsoring and along with Karmen Thornton for presenting this prestigious award at the ceremony,” stated Carter when asked what this award meant him.

In attendance for the ceremony was his wife Jane, sons Jake, Jeff, Josh and daughter-in-law.

For further information about Scouting in the Douglas County area contact Senior District Director, Karmen Thornton at kthornton@atlantabsa.org.