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Robert Bruce Warren Scott
Robert Bruce Warren Scott
1956 - 2010

Robert Bruce Warren Scott

It was with very heavy heart that City of Chattanooga Pipe Band said goodbye to another valuable member of the band. Bob Scott died shortly before midnight on Sunday, July 25, 2010, and was laid to rest on Friday, July 30, 2010.

Robert Bruce Warren Scott was a graduate of Chattanooga High School in 1974, attended the University of Tennessee, and graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute. He was a founding member of the band and served as president from 1999 through 2008.

He also served as ACS Deputy Coordinator of Hamilton County Emergency Services, State of Tennessee ARES Assistant Section Emergency Coordinator, FBI Infragard, and Tennessee State Assistant Director for Military Auxiliary Radio Service.

His interests were photography, HAM radio (W4-ROX), emergency communications, hunting, fishing, music, cooking, friends and family.

Russell Denis Spaulding

Our beloved Pipe Major, fellow musician and dearest friend passed away on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009.

Russ was born September 13th, 1934 in Covington, Kentucky. He served in the United States Army, First & Eighth Infantry Divisions. He attained his B.A. in Secondary Education from Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, studied Elementary Education at Wilmington College in Wilmington Ohio, and received his M.Ed. Degree from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

A career educator, his first love was teaching. Russ served as a teacher, principal and school administrator, including serving 14 years as Superintendent of the Mason City School District in Mason Ohio, from 1973 until 1987.

He was a member of the Rotary Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Jaycees, the Shriners and the Masons. He was Director of the Scottish Heritage Program at Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas, and served as the Executive Director of the Ozark Scottish Festival, held each April at the College, from 1989 through 1992.

A life-long musician, Spaulding was best known as a bagpiper, piping instructor, Pipe Major, composer, and as publisher of (2) books: "The Spaulding Collection" and "A Piper's Primer" for the Great Highland Bagpipe. He studied piping under the renowned Scottish piper, Duncan Johnstone.

He was a past Pipe Major of the Pipes & Drums of Arkansas College, the Caledonian Pipes & Drums of Cincinnati, and the Syrian Temple Scots of Cincinnati, where he served as Pipe Major for the Scots band that won the Imperial Piping Championship in 1989. He served briefly as Pipe Major for the Alhambra Shrine Pipes & Drums locally. He was a founding member and the original Pipe Major for the City of Chattanooga Pipe Band from 1999 through 2008.