[16278] in APO-L
DESA to APO Alumni
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Walton)
Sun Feb 23 16:59:24 1997
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:57:24 -0500
Reply-To: Mike Walton <blkeagle@DYNASTY.NET>
From: Mike Walton <blkeagle@DYNASTY.NET>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
It gives me SUPERIOR pleaure as a fellow APO brother, as a fellow
Eagle Scout, and as this person's boss in real life, to announce to
his fellow APO brothers the following:
On the 7th of Feburary, 1997, Daniel Coberly, APO's former National
Publications Advisor, was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout
Award (DESA) during the opening ceremonies of the World Wide Public
Affairs Conference in Alexandria, Virginia. He was awarded the
DESA by the Honorable Togo West, Jr., Secretary of the Army and
also a DESA awardee from 1994.
Coberly, who earned the Eagle Scout Badge in 1970 as a member of a
Troop in Wurzburg, Germany, currently serves the Army as Public
Affairs Sergeant Major, with the 21st Theater Army Area Command in
Kaiserslautern, Germany. Coberly becomes the first enlisted
soldier in the history of the BSA to have received this special
Eagle Scout honor.
The Distinguished Eagle Scout Award was created in 1969 to honor
Eagle Scouts whom have distinguished themselves in their chosen
professions or fields or whom have distinguished themselves in
public life. To date, only 1744 such awards have been made to
former or present BSA members who earned the Eagle Scout Badge at
least 25 years before nomination. The award, a gold plated Eagle
Scout medal suspended from a necklace ribbon of red, white and
blue, certificate and a gold-plated pin for the square knot, has
been previously awarded to presidents of industries, to
presidential candidate H. Ross Perot and former President Gerald
Ford and to producer Stephen Spielberg in addition to a roster of
generals, admirals and senior military and civilian governmental
officials.
Dan Coberly made journalistic history during the 1993 National
Scout Jamboree when he created the first newspaper created entirely
using electronic newsgathering means, now an industry standard. He
did so as the editor of the third largest daily newspaper in the
Commonwealth of Virginia for ten days, the Jamboree Journal. Both
military and civilian newspapers are using Coberly's techniques and
it is being studied as part of the curriculum in our nation's
schools of journalism and public communication.
(please share this information with our fellow APO brothers in your
Chapter!)
As a APO brother and as this man's boss here in Kaiserslautern, I
am very proud of his accomphishments. He went from Private to
Sergeant Major over a very short period of time, and has never
failed to carry with him the Cardinal Principles in everything he
has done and continue to do for his soldiers, his military unit and
the United States Army. Dan Coberly to me is one of my personal
heroes, a person that faced the BSA head-on, and used his personal
skills and knowledge and that of others in ignoring the standard
lines of "it can't be done", and with others, he's done it.
Personal notes of congratuations can be sent directly to him at the
following email addreeses:
CoberlyD%po2.hq@taacom.kaiserslautern.army.mil
CoberlyD.hq@taacom.army.mil
or can be sent to me with the subject line "For SGM Coberly"
at the following email addresses:
kyblkeagle@aol.com
waltonm2.hq@taacom.army.mil
(please don't send them to this account...I'm about 4000 messages
behind and I won't be able to forward them before I leave here for
the States! Thanks!)
Settummanque!
