Valley scoutmaster’s photo gets national notice

BOARDMAN — As much as he enjoys being a troop committee member of a local Boy Scout troop, Dr. Gregory Roush has found time to develop another illuminating hobby: photography.

The combination of Roush’s work as a scoutmaster with Boy Scout Troop 60 and his interest in photographing people landed one of his photos in a national magazine — and a third-place finish in a national photo contest.

“I got into Scouting when my son was in first grade. He bugged me about going camping; that’s how we got started,” the Boardman pathologist recalled.

Eventually, his hobby started snapping into place, and a picture Roush took of a Boardman Boy Scout was published in the March-April edition of Scouting magazine after the publication recently announced the winners of its “Wonderful World of Scouting” contest. Nearly 900 entries from adult Scout leaders nationwide were submitted under the theme “What images do you think best reflect the essence of Scouting?”

His third-place photograph was of 12-year-old Christopher Leymarie of Boardman and was taken July 17, 2007, at Seven Ranges Scout Reservation in Hanoverton. Christopher, who’s with Troop 60, was studying to earn his Astronomy Merit Badge.

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