The Distinguished Service Award (DSA) is presented to those Arrowmen who have rendered distinguished and outstanding service to the Order on a sectional, regional, or national basis. The following were presented the DSA - Joseph H. Brinton, Thomas J. Keane and Arthur A. Schuck. At the time the plan was to limit the award to only three recipients per National Meeting. Because of World War II, the 1942 and 1944 meetings were canceled. In 1946 there were six DSA awards and then in 1948 the rule limiting the award to three recipients per meeting was re-instated. The 1942 DSA recipients were the only DSA class not to primarily receive the award at a National Meeting or NOAC.