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Show Donald J. Brown is a Recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award : Donald J. Brown will receive the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award on September Sep-tember 10, 2011 Donald J. Brown will receive the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award on September 10, 201 1 at an awards ceremony at the Alpine Tabernacle in American Fork. The Distinguished Eagle Scout Award is the National Eagle Scout Association's highest high-est recognition. The award was established to recognize Eagle Scouts who, after 25 years or longer of having received the Eagle Scout Award, have reached the highest national level of success in their field. In addition, these recipients have demonstrated a strong record of volunteer leadership service to their community. Donald Brown was born November 4, 1926 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was awarded the rank of Eagle on May 16, 1944 in Salt Lake City, Utah as a member of troop 79 in the Greater Salt Lake Council. He is a registered Eagle Scout and a Life Member of the National Eagle Scout Association. On December 7, 1968, Mr. Brown was the recipient of the Silver Beaver Award. He received re-ceived the 70th year Veteran Scout award September, 2009. Mr. Brown received his Explorer Explor-er Wood Badge beads in 1954 and his Scouting Wood Badge beads in 1986. He served as the Richland District Commissioner, Commission-er, Blue Mountain Council and on the staff of the World Scout Jamboree in 1 964. Donald has served as the Unit Commissioner for the Cedar Ce-dar Hills Stake in the Timpa-nogos Timpa-nogos District, Utah National Parks Council, as Secretary on the scout committee of Unit 1192 and is presently a member of the Timpariogos District Advancement Ad-vancement Committee. One of his assignments is adult recognition. recog-nition. He found it ironic that someone put his name in for this award. "I feel deeply honored," he admitted. Mr. Brown distinguished himself throughout his career as a scientiest. He retired in 1995 from Westinghouse Hanford Company as Chief Scientific Advisor for the Advanced Geo-techinical Geo-techinical Support Group. Mr Brown has a Bachelor's Bach-elor's and Master's Degree in Geography from the University Univer-sity of Utah, where he earned a varsity letter in Track as a Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior. He has completed U.S. Department of Energy specialized special-ized training courses in health physics, reactor physics, and nuclear criticality, the Sandia Naitonal Laboratory course on Nuclear Weapons Development and Technology, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Export Controlled Information Training and is authorized to make determinations for the release re-lease of USDOE Hanford Site documents to foreign nations. Mr. Brown has completed US-DOE US-DOE training and testing qualifying quali-fying him as an Authorized Derivative De-rivative Declassifier for United States Department of Energy documents up to and including Top Secret Classification. From November 1 949 to October 1952, Mr. Brown served a mission to Finland for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At the request of the United States Consular to Finland, Mr. John M. Cabot, Mr. Brown was asked to served as Olympic Attache At-tache for the Puerto Rico Olympic Olym-pic Committee from March 1952 to October 1952 during the Summer Olympic Games held in Helsinki, Finland. Per- mission was granted by President Presi-dent David O. McKay for his participation as the Attache for Puerto Rico. As an Olympic Attache Mr. Brown made all ar-' ar-' rangerhents for housing, training, train-ing, and scheduling of times and places for performances for the athletes and the Puerto Rican Olympic Officials. In recongintion of his outstanding out-standing voluntary service to the Finnish Olympic Organizing Organiz-ing Committee, Mr. Brown was awarded 'The Order of the Finnish White Rose and Lion' by the President of Finland on December 2, 1952. "Eagle" continued on Page 5 "Eagle" continued from Page 4 Mr. Brown organized a girls track team in South central cen-tral Washington, served as Mountaineering Director for the Wasatch Mountain Club in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1962 Mr. Brown was instrumental in organizing the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Benton and Franklin Counties, Washington. Wash-ington. He served as a PTA president, introducing children's chil-dren's theater to the school activities. Mr. Brown was elected a Fellow in the Geological Geo-logical Society of America and has been a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologist since 1985. As is a veteran of WWII. He earned his wings as a US Naval Bombardier. Donald lives in Cedar Hills with his wife JoeAnn. Together they have three children, Tai, Ero and Seth. |