RC 10 is sad to announce the passing of Daniel Boone on April 2. Dan was an active member of RC 10 and served as a delegate to the NYSUT Representative Assembly for many years. He was also a representative to the State-Wide NYSUT Retiree Advisory Council, our representative to SALT (a collaborative group established by the North Country Teachers Association), and a member of the RC 10 Travel-Social Committee for many years. Known affectionately as "Santa Claus" by committee members because of his white beard and jovial attitude, Dan led trips to the Canadian Maritime; Washington, D.C.; the Shelburne Museum; yearly trips to the Culinary Institute of Arts; and many others. Dan's love of history was fully evident whenever he acted as tour guide, and grew from over 30 years of work as a history teacher in West Rutland and Argyle school districts. He was our Washington County honoree at the Scholarship luncheon three years ago.
Active in his community, he was a board member of the Supervisory Committee for the TCT Credit Union, the sole assessor for the Town of Granville, an active member of the Washington County Historical Society, Rails to Trails organization, and Modern Woodman of America among others. At the time of his death, family members discovered he had 23 meetings scheduled in his planner.
Dan was married to his wife Cynthia for 48 years, and he shared his love of traveling with her, going on a different adventure every week. He leaves behind his wife, daughter Tanya Boone, sons Daniel, Jeffrey and Seth, and four grandchildren. In his obituary, it stated that Dan's "time on earth was truly an expression of the commitment that life is defined most by what you give, not what you receive." The years of service that Dan contributed certainly left RC 10 and all those he advocated for, better for his hard work.