Raymond G. Scott

(1916-2001) lived in Papillion. Military officer, administrator, athlete, known as co-pioneer of the movement to include the sport of badminton in the Olympics for the United States, which participated in the sport for the first time in the 1992 Olympics, he aided the expansion of senior play to more age categories, and won some 90 awards during five decades as a champion badminton player; inducted into the USA Badminton Senior Hall of Fame in 2001. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, April 12, 1987, p. 13 and Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, September 18, 1988, pp. B-1, B-4 and Papillion /NE/ Times, January 25, 1996, p. C-8 and obituary in Badminton USA, Spring 2002, pp. 28-30.

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