ASSOCIATE EDITOR AND LONGTIME SCOUTER HONORED

Long-time Waynedale area Scouter Ray McCune and Associate Editor of the Waynedale News was honored recently for his many years of service to the Anthony Wayne Area Boy Scout Council. McCune was one of 29 Scout volunteers recognized at the annual Miami District Recognition Dinner held Sunday, April 7, 2002 at the new AWAC Volunteer Resource Center. He was one of three Scouters to receive the Council Patch, which is presented to volunteers who have completed a great service to our youth in Scouting. Nominees are judged on a variety of criteria, including participation in district and council functions, program operations, and sincerity of motivation and objective. McCune’s contributions to Boy Scouts were noted during the presentation.

The presentation read as such:

“Our next recipient has given long service to scouting, first as a boy, then as a parent of boy scouts and most recently as a scoutmaster, a chartered organization representative and committee member…and all the while seeking no award or recognition for it. He is the founding Scoutmaster of Troop 38 in the early 90’s and funded the young troop himself through yard sales and other fundraisers. Most recently he stepped in to help a struggling Troop 44 as a committee member and assistant scoutmaster. This Scouter has also single handedly promoted scouting in the community through a regular column called SCOUTING SMOKE SIGNALS, and through other articles about local Scouts and Scouting events in The Waynedale News. He mentions and writes about the Boy Scouts in his monthly column in Midwest Outdoors magazine called KAMPFIRE KOOKIN’. Oh, and this person is also testament that one can be very well fed cooking over the campfire. In fact, last year this person won 1st Place in Scouting Magazine’s ‘Great Taste in Camp Cooking’ contest with his World Famous Bread Puddin’ dessert recipe. Scouting magazine is the main magazine for Boy Scout Leaders with a circulation of 1,000,000.”

 

WAYNEDALE AREA/MIAMI DISTRICT SCOUTERS HONORED

The following awards were handed out to Waynedale area Scouters at the Miami District Recognition Dinner held Sunday, April 7, 2002 at the new Anthony Wayne Area Council headquarters here in Fort Wayne.

 

COUNCIL PATCH – Ray McCune, Bill Chisholm, Bob Koehl

DISTRICT AWARD OF MERIT – Nancy Seplak, Earl Kumfer, Chester Machnowski

DEN LEADER OF THE YEAR – Tammy Amadon/Pack 3333

CUBMASTER OF THE YEAR – Ken Wells Pack/3300

SCOUTMASTER OF THE YEAR – Don Snyder/Troop 300

COMMISSIONER OF THE YEAR – Earl Kumfer

SPOUSE OF THE YEAR – Peggy Koehl

CUB SCOUT COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE YEAR – Tom Lilley/Pack 3333

BOY SCOUT COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE YEAR – Scott Armstrong/Troop 349

PRINCESS AWARD – Janet Katz/Troop349, Diane Jarmus/Pack 3333, Cheryl Mikulecky/Troop 333, Casey Van Horn/Pack 3038

CHIEF AWARD – Chris Seplak/Pack 3344, Jerry Lloyd/Troop 38,

Tony Vining/Crew 2122, Tom Herber/Troop302

UNIT SCOUTER OF THE YEAR – Mary Hardy/Pack 3302, Larry Warren/Pack 3354, Chester Machnowski/Pack 3344, Tammy Amadon/Pack 3333, Alex Crubaugh/Troop 333, Janice Heniser/Troop 302, Dr. Marc Thomas/Troop 349, Jerry Lloyd/Troop 38