'Very Boy Scoutish'
Former Fort Detrick spokesman enjoys Scout duties in
retirement
By Courtney Mabeus News-Post Staff
An orange devil’s food cake sat on Norm Covert’s dining
table waiting to be auctioned off.
Covert had spent part of a recent afternoon baking the cake
to benefit his 10-year-old grandson Nicholas’ Cub Scout Pack 1055, of which he
is associate Scoutmaster.
The cake — intended to look like a pumpkin — looked more
like a curling stone or maybe a bomb, Covert joked. He used marshmallows to
help shore up a hole in the top around a banana that he’d used as the cake’s
stem.
“That’s very Boy Scoutish,” Covert said of his handiwork.
Covert, 70, directed public affairs and worked as a
historian on Fort Detrick for 23 years before he retired in 1999. While no
longer on post daily, he spends his days about a mile away from the base,
working in his home office on his volunteer duties.
“I’m probably working as long hours now as I was when I was
working,” Covert said.
A stroke in January set him back, but Covert is beginning to
get back to writing. He runs a blog, the Covert Letter, and is a contributor to
The Tentacle, a Frederick commentary site.
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