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2022 Winter Meeting - Member Emeritus Judy & Ed Scott
  • Topic created by Orienteer7 on Sun Jan 23, 2022 at 8:11 am
    Mark Frank (Orienteer7)
    Orienteer7
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    First O: 1974

    2022 DVOA Member Emeritus

    Judy & Ed Scott

     

    The Scott family (Judy, Ed, Jeff and Matt) have been members of DVOA since 1983.  Ed, Jeff and Matt became competitive orienteers in the following years in their age groups and Judy supported the club by selling the sport to newcomers at registration and to people she met.  When you speak with Judy you know she genuinely cares about who and what she is talking about.

     Ed & Judy have organized and directed numerous DVOA local events through the years along with helping in all aspects of local events to lighten the burden on other local directors and course setters.

    Ed & Judy organized the first Mid-Atlantic Scout Orienteering event in 1989 at French Creek State Park. Ed and Judy handled all aspects of the Scout event including scout communications, map printing (Swedish course printer style) registration, awards, course setting, training, individual and team results. Ed would speak at scout leader roundtables to promote the event.  Ed was a master with the course printers. Ed & Judy established the format for the event with cross-country in the morning and a score event in the afternoon with awards for the morning after the score event to wrap-up the day.  The event grew each year and at one point the event attracted over 1,000 scouts.  Judy & Ed directed 27 of the current 32 events and have been involved in some way with all the MASOC events to date.  MASOC events were held on Saturday and then Judy & Ed would host a local event at French Creek on Sunday.  Thousands of scouts and leaders have been introduced to the real sport of orienteering and many scouts have later become leaders and brought their scouts to the event. Ed has made a patch for each event that has a standard format with a different color background.  These patches have become collectible and at least one scout troop has made a board showing all the patches from each year.   With MASOC31, the event was officially renamed the “Scott – Mid-Atlantic Scout Orienteering Championship” or S-MASOC.  Ed became S-MASOC Director Emeritus.

    Ed was the Boy Scout Liaison for OUSA (USOF) for many years and worked with the National Scout organization out of Texas to revise the Scout Orienteering Merit Badge handbook.   He directed his effort to move away from the compass game and more towards good maps and map reading or what we call true orienteering. Jeff Scott established the scoutorienteering.com website to help advertise U.S. Orienteering club scout events and provide information on participating in the sport. 

    From 1989 through early 1992 Ed worked using all his spare (per Judy) time to make the French Creek East map with support from Eric Weyman.  This map was used for the 2-Day U.S. National Championship hosted by DVOA.  This was Ed’s first real orienteering map and his work was exceptional!

     

    On a very hot July 4th 1993 Ed & Judy hosted the French Creek 100 which was a score event with 100 controls spread over DVOA’s French Creek maps.

    The Scott Family was awarded the DVOA Ringo Service award in 1995 for their contributions to the growth of the club.

    In 1996 Ed Scott was the Event Director for the 2-DAY DVOA Collier’s Challenge NRE.

    Ed was elected President of DVOA and served 2 terms from 2000 to 2003. The family was featured in Boy’s Life in March 2003.  Judy and Ed maintained a club inventory of maps and equipment for years and many of us made trips up to their shed to restock.  Ed organized the local club event schedule for many years.  Ed also maintained club map statistics and inventory and normally handled ordering map cases.

    Ed was the Event Director for the 2002 2 Day Frontier Festival NRE at Daniel Boone Homestead and French Creek West.

    In 2010 Ed did the field work and Mike Bertram did the cartography for Northwestern Lehigh’s main campus.  The school adopted orienteering and they taught orienteering in the school using this map and then once a year would take a field trip to Nockamixon State Park for a class competition.  In 2019 Dave Evans of Northwestern Lehigh recognized Ed for his efforts with a large plaque including the map he had created.

    Ed was the Course Setter for Day 2 at Hay Creek of the 2-Day 2013 DVOA Fall Festival NRE.

    Ed has also been a volunteer for missing hiker searches at French Creek and has participated in active searches through the years.  Ed has regularly taught orienteering programs for French Creek in the evenings for campers at the Brush Hill outdoor amphitheatre. Ed was at one point so well liked at French Creek that he was given a master key to access most of the park gates.

    Ed has taught hundreds of educational programs for schools, scout groups, parks and outdoor groups. Ed has led orienteering map reading hikes at local parks.

    In more recent years Ed has been making small maps such as Rock Hollow Woods near Birdsboro and then he works directly with the camps and introduces the sport to young day campers.  

    The Scott family has been a cornerstone for DVOA.  We are humbled by their contributions to our Club.  It is our honor to present them with this Member Emeritus award.

  • Reply by JanetT on Sun Jan 23, 2022 at 6:47 pm
    Janet Tryson (JanetT)
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    Ed and Judy are extremely worthy of this recognition. Congratulations, and thank you for all your service!!
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