BOY SCOUTS NATIONAL LEADER PRESENTS SCOUTING’S HIGHEST HONOR TO NASCAR DRIVER JEFF GORDON

Gordon Receives Silver Buffalo Award for Distinguished Service to Youth at Mecklenburg County Council’s Friends of Scouting Leadership Dinner


Photograph by Patrick Schneider - courtesy Boys' Life magazine www.boyslife.org

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (March 30, 2009) -- Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Chief Scout Executive Bob Mazzuca presented Scouting’s highest commendation — the Silver Buffalo Award for Distinguished Service to Youth — to NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon at the BSA Mecklenburg County Council’s Friends of Scouting Leadership Dinner.

Gordon joins a distinguished list of Silver Buffalo Award recipients including Charles Lindbergh, Walt Disney, Hank Aaron, Neil Armstrong and 13 U.S. Presidents.

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