DAV & Auxiliary National Convention Award Highlights Local Veterans Assistance Program Awards (by Division), continued Division III: Department of Arkansas , with 26,663 hours, award accepted by Past Department Commander Richard T. Egan (center). Division IV: Department of Idaho , with 28,157 hours, award accepted by Raymond Hinthorn on behalf of Past Department Commander Wilson Miller Jr. Division V: Department of South Dakota , with 20,724 hours, award accepted by Robert Hill (center) on behalf of Past Department Commander Joseph Rice. George H. Seal Memorial Awards Top DAV Volunteer Harlan F. Plummer , of Peebles, Ohio, receives the 2017 George H. Seal Memorial Trophy for being selected as DAV’s top volunteer. The 97-year-old veteran of the Army Air Corps and Air Force is a life member of DAV Chapter 71 in West Union, Ohio, and has volunteered through the VA Voluntary Service Program for 32 years and dedicated more than 10,500 hours to his fellow veterans at the Chillicothe VA Medical Center. Plummer has volunteered in various capacities, including serving as a volunteer driver, which ensures veterans are able to access the health care they have earned. Top DAV Auxiliary Volunteer Dorothy Propst , of Virginia Beach, Va., accepts the 2017 George H. Seal Memorial Trophy for being selected as DAV Auxiliary’s top volunteer. Propst has amassed more than 10,500 volunteer hours supporting veterans at the Hampton VA Medical Center in Virginia. She began volunteering with DAV in 2002, and routinely drove between 70 and 165 miles per day while volunteering as a driver with the DAV Transportation Network to ensure veterans were able to get to and from their needed medical appointments. 16 DAV MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER 2017