TJ aka Teej
03-10-2005, 09:51
From the ATC website:
"Raymond F. Hunt of Kingsport, Tennessee, chair of the Appalachian Trail Conference from 1983 to 1989, died Tuesday after a series of struggles with cancer. He was 81. His wife of 58 years, Martha, died January 12. “Ray was not a large man, but he was a giant within the A.T. management community and will be dearly missed,” said Dave Startzell, ATC executive director. Mr. Hunt was the first editor, in 1977, of the annual Appalachian Trail Data Book, a role he continued to perform until his election as chair. A highly active Trail volunteer with the Tennessee Eastman Hiking Club, he had served on the ATC Board of Managers since 1979 and was especially involved in the publications and land-acquisition programs. His term as chair was a significant one for building support within congressional appropriations subcommittees for funding to secure a buffer of land around the footpath against development. It also formalized the partnership with the National Park Service, including the 1984 delegation by that agency to ATC of day-to-day responsibility for managing the lands known as the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. In other words, most of the same conservation responsibilities a national-park staff would have were transferred to ATC. Mr. Hunt completed a section-hike of the whole Trail in 1988."
Nice photo at:
http://www.appalachiantrail.org/trailnews/index.html
"Raymond F. Hunt of Kingsport, Tennessee, chair of the Appalachian Trail Conference from 1983 to 1989, died Tuesday after a series of struggles with cancer. He was 81. His wife of 58 years, Martha, died January 12. “Ray was not a large man, but he was a giant within the A.T. management community and will be dearly missed,” said Dave Startzell, ATC executive director. Mr. Hunt was the first editor, in 1977, of the annual Appalachian Trail Data Book, a role he continued to perform until his election as chair. A highly active Trail volunteer with the Tennessee Eastman Hiking Club, he had served on the ATC Board of Managers since 1979 and was especially involved in the publications and land-acquisition programs. His term as chair was a significant one for building support within congressional appropriations subcommittees for funding to secure a buffer of land around the footpath against development. It also formalized the partnership with the National Park Service, including the 1984 delegation by that agency to ATC of day-to-day responsibility for managing the lands known as the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. In other words, most of the same conservation responsibilities a national-park staff would have were transferred to ATC. Mr. Hunt completed a section-hike of the whole Trail in 1988."
Nice photo at:
http://www.appalachiantrail.org/trailnews/index.html