BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 17, 2025
A Patten physician has been awarded the 2025 Wallace H. “Bud” Jeffrey Award for distinguished service to youth through his work with the Maine High Adventure Program, part of the Katahdin Area Council of Scouting America. Ron Blum, who first came to Patten in 1975 as a rural health program physician, has been connected to the Maine High Adventure Program at Baxter State Park since the 1970s. He first came on as a local doctor who occasionally treated scout injuries from the program base. The Maine High Adventure base in Matagamon, created by Bud Jeffrey.