Jack “Coach” Quinn touched many lives during his nearly-40 years as heath and physical education teacher at Elderton High School and while he was chairman of the Elderton/Plumcreek Area Recreation and Park Commission. The Sports Complex was dedicated to him in 1994.
This Geocache is being placed in honor of a wonderful man whom meant so much to us and the community we loved. Jack “Coach” Quinn touched many lives in his 83 years. We knew him during his nearly-40 years as heath and physical education teacher at Elderton High School, where he also served as the athletic director for a 25 year period. We also love the community and worked at the Elderton High School until its closure in 2012. We still love coming to this well maintained park to play ball, run on the playground with our kids, and hike. We were fortunate enough to know this wonderful man, and it seemed only fitting that we would honor him with our 1st geocache.
This geocache is placed with permission of the Elderton/Plumbcreek Area Park & his loving wife. There is parking near the cache. But, Please take a moment to enjoy the park, as he would have wished for all. I marked the trailhead in case you have time for a stroll.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please hide well, as caches in the area have muggle issues. Please be stealthy & re-hide well. We locked the cache to its spot. Please use the padlock code "JACK" to remove from the spot for your enjoyment, but relock when you are finished. Thanks for playing with us! 
PLEASE READ MORE ON THIS GREAT MAN: Jack loved living in the Elderton area and was extremely involved in the community. He served on the Elderton Borough Council for 26 years and was the Chairman of the Elderton/Plumcreek Area Recreation and Park Commission since its inception in 1971. He received many honors, awards and citations thanking him for his exemplary service to the community, which included the Pennsylvania Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Community Service in 1988, the Armstrong County Chamber of Commerce's Distinguished Service Award in 1988, and a number of others from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Senate. He honorably served in the US Air Force and was a Korean War Veteran. He was also an active member of Elderton Presbyterian Church.
Jack also received numerous local honors for his work in the community and the school. He received the Greater Kittanning Jaycees award for Outstanding Physical Fitness as part of their Man of the Year Award in 1972 and was inducted to the Western PA Sports Hall of Fame for volleyball in 1975.Coach was of the founding fathers of the Golden Triangle Chapter and the true founder of Boys/Mens High School volleyball in western PA. In 1980, he received an award for volleyball presented by Meadville High School and the Golden Triangle Officials chapter's Al Arke Memorial Award. Jack was elected to the Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association State Hall of Fame in 1994, and that same year received recognition for his vision and contribution to the sports complex at the Elderton/Plumcreek Park, which was named the "Jack Quinn Sports Complex." To celebrate Jack's outstanding contribution to the local volleyball program, he was inducted into the Armstrong County Sports Hall of Fame, Class of 1996.
Jack passed away on April 30th, 2013 and is missed and remembered by many.