                                                      2021  Robert “Bob” White

Bill Robert “Bob” White has been a volunteer Hunter Education instructor for nineteen years becoming certified in April of 2002. Bob is committed to the Hunter Ed program and is the current team leader of Upshur County. Bob retired as an electrician/HVAC technician and left his birth state of Pennsylvania and moved to West Virginia. Bob has been a competitive pistol and trap shooter and still loves to shoot clay birds. He can be found assisting and teaching new shooters on the trap range each year at the Hunter Education Rendezvous. He is also found volunteering each fall at the National Hunting and Fishing Days Celebration at Stonewall Jackson State Park. He is as good instructor on the range as he is in the classroom. Bob is still a hunter, but has been known to feed deer in his back yard; as he enjoys watching them even more that hunting them. He takes a lot of pride in instructing and watching his children and grandchildren continuing his legacy in the shooting sports; as they are very good trap shooters, especially his granddaughter. Bob is always recruiting new volunteer instructors and runs a very organized class. Bob recently secured a new location for the county’s HE classes at the Buchanan Police/Fire Department, a state-of-the-art facility. Bob is an Army Veteran and a member of the local chapter of the VFW. He is known traveling the county with HE class posters. He even solicits local businesses for prizes for the students that attend his classes. Because of this Upshur County is one of the top counties in District III when it comes to certifying new students. Bob is an asset to the volunteer instructor program and was a two-time District Volunteer Instructor of the Year, (2012, 2018) and recognized as the State Volunteer Instructor of the Year in 2012.• Drafted US Army SP4 Vietnam Era, 7-1-68 to 6-21-70• Married 42 years w/ four children• Life member Buchanan VFW• Life member NRA• Life member Buck Masters• Member Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation• Certified NRA Range Safety Officer• Taught HE classes in four counties