The
Sacred Cap of Many Feathers is a distinguished educational organization
founded in 1988 at Olympic High School in Concord, California.
Each year its members meet to select a candidate from the school at large who exemplifies the Olympic ideal by serving our students with compassion, competence, and integrity.
The Sacred Cap itself is bestowed on the deserving individual, if one can be found that year, and is entrusted to his or her care for the period of twelve months. Each recipient, in turn, makes a personalized addition to the cap before returning it the following year.
While membership in this society is shrouded in secrecy and mystical obscurity, we will nevertheless henceforth announce our annual selection so that the wider world may take note of the high caliber of our distinguished members.
It is with great satisfaction that we announce our 2007 inductee, the outstanding educator, Col. Russ Hendon.
Below are the names of former award recipients in no specific order. As you will notice, the awards committee takes its job very seriously and has even stripped the award from one of the recipients * for failure to honor its value.
Dick France
Jack Campbell
Cathy Avington
Jim Neel
Annie Nolen
Ron Redding
Bob Toppin
Ted Ault
Chuck Hurd
Bonnie Neumann
Joan McClellan
Skip Weinstock
Hildie Spritzer
Alice Bonner
Sacred Cap Society Gathering, September 28, 2007
Left to
Right: Bob Toppin, Ted Ault, Bonnie Neumann, Jesse Forsland Ron Redding, Jim Neel,
Bruce Bignami, Alice Bonner, Skip Weinstock, Hildie Spritzer.
Seated:
2007 Award Recipient Col. Russ Hendon
Ron Redding describing the history of
the Feather in the Cap award
Ron Redding announcing this year's
winner, Col. Russ Hendon
Russ receiving the 'The Sacred
Cap of Many Feathers' from Ron Redding
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Click here for the 2006 Gathering of the Sacred Cap of Many Feathers' Society
Click here for the 2005 Gathering of the Sacred Cap of Many Feathers' Society
Society email accepted at rockaway@astound.net