In keeping with scouting tradition, a small stone was placed atop a bigger stone to indicate that Maneck Framroze Sattha had ‘gone home.’ His passing away in Toronto on February 20, 2022 at the age of 84 had resulted in the 100th Toronto First Zoroastrian Scout Group dedicating its monthly report to the memory of Sattha. Proclaiming that "scouting is in my blood and veins,” the scouter taught many skills like woggle making (woggle is a loop or ring of leather or cord through which the ends of a Scout’s neckerchief are threaded), axemanship (use and care of an axe necessary for an outdoorsman), pioneering (the art of using ropes and wooden spars joined by lashings and knots to create a structure), etc to junior scouts in Canada and elsewhere, noted a report by Freddy Mirza shared with Parsiana by Dr Ardeshir Damania.
Sattha was founder member and the Group’s troop leader for the first eight years from the time it was established in 1990. During his tenure as troop leader, he was instrumental in getting the Group’s photo on board the space shuttle mission No STS-76 Atlantis for 10 days from March 22, 1996. He continued on the Group committee as an archivist, kept track of the Group’s activities through photo albums that he tastefully embellished and kept a record of the Group’s equipment until his demise.
Having joined the scouting movement at a young age, he became a scout leader in the 11th Central Bombay District Association at the Dadar Parsi Colony for nearly two decades. Damania recalled a prank Sattha had played at an overnight camp as he pretended to lie motionless with a dagger piercing a concealed tree branch placed on his chest. On migrating to Canada in 1972, he joined the 130th Thorncliffe Park Scout Group and the 30th Richmond Hill Scout Group.
He regularly attended the four-yearly Canadian jamborees until 1997 and also looked forward to participating in the world jamborees as one of the jambassadors in Canada, Holland, Japan, Sweden and Thailand. He delighted in collecting scouting paraphernalia like woggles, scarves, crests, mugs and other mementoes from the jamborees that he proudly displayed to the youth. He was happy he had an opportunity to attend the scouting movement’s centenary in 2007 in Switzerland. The scouter is survived by his son Rayomond and daughter Firuza Robert Ayoup and sister Gulu Tamboli.