where nature HIGH & minds meet MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE FALL 2013

What does HMI Mean to You? page 3 Alumni Profile: Honest Food From HMI to La Saison page 12 Our Own Adventures page 14

1 Part of the gift that HMI has given each of us is the permission to take lightly the things we also need to do well.

3 What Does HMI Mean to You? 16 Phases of the Moon inside this 5 Alumni Summit Challenge 18 Shaping a Sacred Space 6 Visiting Teacher Exchange 20 HMI 15-Year Anniversary 8 Family Fun Nights at HMI 22 Alumni News issue 10 Coffee in the Backcountry 12 Honest Food: From HMI to La Saison ON THE COVER: Semester XXXI, 14 Our Own Adventures 2nd Expedition, Sawatch Range Above: Sawyer Frisbie, Semester XXXI, 2nd Expedition, Sawatch Range

2 | HMI Fall 2013 What Does HMI Mean to You? By Danny O'Brien, Acting Head of School

am glad to be home at the High Mountain Institute. Current students often ask me about my favorite memories from my first stint on County Road 5A. I have lots of them, of course. I don’t think I’ve yet mentioned, for example, the large bull Ithat visited our tarp on BLM land in RMS XIV. I haven’t told students about the Upper School Director who asked me what had happened to his student who had recently returned from a Semester in Leadville. This principal couldn’t believe that the quiet and timid adolescent who he had sent to HMI was now making powerful announcements in all-school assemblies and receiving praise from classroom teachers for his participation.

As I tell our current students about At the reunion, I was honored to speak Mountain Institute. It’s an attempt to HMI’s past, I find myself eagerly about what being a lifelong part of lay out what we all share in common. awaiting the opportunity to boast the HMI community meant to me. The But I’d like to hear what you think about Semester XXXI’s exploits most gratifying part of the experience too—please email me (dobrien@ sometime in the future. The stories was the reception the talk received: hminet.org) with your understanding that HMI students eagerly devour help many of the 360 alumni and friends of what it means to be part of the link the chain of HMI’s history. Even who attended the reunion told me HMI community. I’d love to hear from if students from different Semesters later that they feel similarly about their you. We’ll publish your responses in never meet, these tales bond those experiences at HMI. our next newsletter. Now, here are my who occupy the same cabins and words, taken from my contribution to I’ve included excerpts of the speech classrooms. HMI’s June Anniversary: so you can read what I think it Our spectacular Anniversary in June means to be a graduate of the High …continued on page 4 did my anecdotes one better— I connected with students and faculty that made up Semesters before my arrival in 2004 and during my time The stories that HMI students eagerly devour help link away. I learned over the weekend how the chain of HMI’s history. Even if students from different sad I am I did not get to know these people at HMI (I am working on that Semesters never meet, these tales bond those who occupy now—please come to one of our alumni reunions this year!). However, I the same cabins and classrooms. also felt part of a kinship that extends beyond one Semester or point in time.

3 …continued from page 3 When I was promoting HMI to I could go on forever, of course. I’d stop prospective students around the whatever I was doing to watch Dave Leading expeditions while working for country, I used to promise applicants Lembke summit something new in RMS HMI is some of the most stressful that they would learn more than they XVII. I’d make students drop again and work I have ever done. Even for a thought possible while at HMI—but again into the same slot canyon so confirmed extrovert like me, two weeks that they would also laugh so hard that Michael Gregory could get his perfect of analyst/architecting, spontaneously they would forget they were learning. movie sequence in RMS XXII. I’d admire motivating, relationship mastering, and Sam Critchlow and Karl Remsen for driving was exhausting. On top of this, I The best part of that line was how true making math fun with potato guns and had to remember to stay warm and dry, it was. When I think about our trip to solar cookers, and I’d be amazed once bomb proof, navigate by squiggly lines, Jacob’s Chair in RMS XIV, I remember again by how convincingly Matt Turnbull be on time, not burn bagels, and to playing hours of Animal Kingdom (and could turn himself into a Pilgrim to give feedback in the SBI format. finally, finally—on the last night of the teach about the American colonies.

On expeditions, we taught the concept of “expedition behavior,” known as “EB” for short. You exhibit When you step back a minute ideal EB when your actions promote the strength and success of the community. You can imagine this is an entire Semester looked an a pretty transferable skill. In fact, I remember explaining to students that awful lot like an expedition. they had to know this about EB: “EB isn’t just about the way to act on an expedition. EB is life.”

On expeditions, I often shared a reading with students. Part of it goes like this:

If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. And it wasn’t just expeditions. When trip—getting to be the lion for a few you step back a minute an entire glorious minutes) more than I think Part of the gift that HMI has given each Semester looked an awful lot like an about the stress of three days of of us is the permission to take lightly expedition. Life could be consumed by drenching rain. the things we also need to do well. AMX, cook crews, activities, community Remember, we have to keep up our EB, And while I haven’t forgotten my frozen meetings, and drives to Dr. Lisa’s so no shortcuts. But we also can brush feet on the winter expeditions in RMS office. Add the fact that I had to teach our teeth and eat our beans while XIV and XVI, I also remember the moat three history classes—there wasn’t being as silly as we want to be. I feel I built around my quinzee to stay warm much time in the days for anything else this is a lesson most out there never and how I forgot to warn kids about it. but HMI. learn, and it makes us HMI’ers better Who knew that each of my students friends, partners, spouses, parents, But it was also so much fun—and I would accidently tumble into the moat and contributors to the communities would do it all again in a heartbeat. We on their way to that night’s circle? And we choose. got to laugh, to celebrate, and to honor who was I not to laugh at it? each other for stretching ourselves and for jobs well done.

4 | HMI Fall 2013 Alumni Summit Challenge

“Your Semester, Every Semester” The 2013 Alumni Summit Challenge is officially underway! Your participation in this year’s challenge is a great way to honor your Semester or Summer Term, your classmates, and your time at HMI. It is also your chance to support HMI, and every Semester or Summer Term to come. We hope you will join us again as we celebrate the magic of HMI’s first 15 years, and help ensure the future of the next 15!

To participate in the Challenge, please visit hminet.org/giving/webforms/donate!

5 Visiting Teacher Exchange By Ben Dougherty, Assistant Head of School

MI piloted our visiting teacher desperate for someone to listen and exchange last spring when nod and understand a bit about the HJessica Watkin, Master place they love so much. Mathematics educator from Miss In my role at HMI, I have the Porter’s School in Connecticut, opportunity to travel to different parts spent three days at HMI working of the country and visit our sending closely with our math department. schools as I join the admissions team She and our two math teachers in our effort to tell more students reviewed curriculum design, engaged and families about HMI. I get to visit in discussions of pedagogy and lots of schools and meet dedicated best practices in math education, and talented faculty and staff. Each and she observed classes and school has its own culture and its provided feedback while also own pulse. As I enter my fourth year engaging fully in the HMI student here, I have been thinking increasingly experience during her stay. After her about how we can partner with our experience, Ms. Watkin reflected: sending schools to better support In the three days I spent at HMI, I was our students and to enhance and awed by the beauty of the environment, broaden a professional learning moved by the simplicity of the daily community that transcends the walls routine and the students' loyalty to the of any one school. Building even more program, and impressed with what I collaborative partnerships with schools saw in the math classrooms. What a and educators from around the country

Building even more collaborative partnerships with schools and educators from around the country from our varied sending schools will benefit our students, our faculty and our schools.

treat] as an educator to spend three from our varied sending schools ] days watching other educators practice benefits our students, our faculty our craft, to engage in conversations and our schools. about the teaching and learning of I hope to coordinate more mathematics, and to eat plenty of good opportunities for HMI faculty to visit food! I flew home to Connecticut with our sending schools, to observe many things to think about and many classes and school culture, to ideas to enrich my own teaching. I also meet with departments to discuss found myself in an unexpected role curriculum and educational theory, and to my girls who have returned from to engage in the school communities HMI forever changed and who are

6 | HMI Fall 2013 intimately. Similarly, I would like to invite more master teachers from our sending schools, particularly in the subject areas of math, science, English, history, ethics and Spanish, to visit HMI and to work alongside our teachers on curriculum development, classroom observation, discussions of pedagogy and best practices, and to observe HMI and the student experience. In addition to the practical professional development opportunity afforded to both our faculty and those of our sending schools by developing such a partnership, the first-hand experience and awareness of what students experience both at HMI and in their sending schools is invaluable in creating advocates to support our students and alumni with transitions to and from HMI.

The High Mountain Institute attracts talented and ambitious educators who invest themselves in developing innovative and rigorous curriculum and pedagogy while also fully embracing all three legs of the HMI stool— academics, wilderness, and a small, intentional community. These gifted educators are often early career teachers and due to the small size of our school, most work independently within their discipline and therefore have no department to co-develop Excellent educators are always hungry for constructive, honest their curriculum and their craft feedback that will inform their teaching… but it is such a beside. The opportunity to develop a challenge in busy schools to carve out from the daily routine network of peer educators, to share the right amount of time and the right kind of structure to their passions and experiences and make that happen. That leaves beginning teachers starved for to learn from and beside master educators inspires and challenges feedback and mid-career teachers left without the opportunity all participants. to hone their skills of observation and critique. By establishing this program in March, HMI has found a way to enrich the learning opportunities for their faculty as well as their students, If you would like to discuss this to deepen their partnerships with sending schools, and to opportunity further please contact share the unique culture and community of HMI with other me at [email protected]. educators from around the country.

—Jessica Watkin, Mathmatics Faculty, Miss Porter's School

7 Fun Family > Nights at HMI By Carrie Mallozzi, Apprentice Program Coordinator

n the past few years there have been several new faces in the HMI Icommunity. I am not referring to the new students that arrive every August and January each Semester or the 20 plus Summer Term students or even the new faculty and apprentice faces. I am instead speaking of the babies and now young children that have become part of the fabric of HMI. Many alumni will remember Jack and Porter Barnes gracing the halls and woods of HMI and delivering treats to students on project day. For most of HMI’s history they were the only faculty and staff children until the arrival of Annie McFee in 2008 (daughter of former staff and now HMI Trustee, Kate Bartlett). Since then, eight more young ones have been added to the ranks ranging from 13 months to five years with another arrival expected by the time this newsletter comes out.

HMI students have always loved having dogs on campus (Zuby, Elphie, Siena) and now they have the chance to interact with children as well. Some students have much younger siblings, babysit, or live on campuses where faculty children abound. You can tell immediately how much our students adore young children by the swarm surrounding our young visitors before they can get through the front door of the Barnes Building.

Several families have decided to capitalize on this love and attention by attending meals on campus and weekend events. Walk into the climbing hall on a Tuesday night at 5:30 and you can usually find 4-6 kids romping on the climbing mats with a dozen students before dinner. During dinner you’ll see high chairs, and teenagers helping toddlers to eat all of their dinner.

8 | HMI Fall 2013 HMI students have always loved having dogs on campus (Zuby, Elphie, Siena) and now they have the chance to interact with children as well.

These family dinners bring a sense way home from day care every day and In addition to the nine current faculty of community that goes beyond the points out the bumpy tracks, the red and staff children, there are and will classroom and field and allows students train, and says, “Momma, I rode train continue to be alumni children added to learn more about the lives of faculty with big kids.” to the HMI community. We may be and staff, and the adults and families more than 10 years away from having As HMI grows older so too will the that influence their lives while at HMI. It the first faculty/staff or legacy child children of the faculty and staff. It is also provides a valuable experience for attend HMI (or 5 years if Porter Barnes unlikely that many of us will still be our children to interact with teenagers decides to attend) and there may be living and working at HMI when our and see where their moms or dads many changes to the school in that children are old enough to attend, spend their days. time (more cabins, new technology, but I sincerely hope that Hattie and different faces), but I have no doubt Recently I took my daughter Hattie on her soon-to-be little brother have that the mission and values of HMI the train with the “big kids” and not the opportunity to understand this will continue to create meaningful only did she adore all the attention, the place that has been so special to experiences for kids of every age. students were equally excited to interact both their mother and father (Cooper with a two and a half year old. She now Mallozzi, former faculty RMS XI-XX). insists that we drive by the train on the

9 Coffee in the Backcountry By Justin Talbot, Director of Wilderness Programs & Risk Management

ot drinks are a staple of Here are a few of the favorite methods Coffee Sock HMI backcountry living and for making this simple yet rewarding Christopher Barnes’s preferred coffee Hfor many instructors (and backcountry treat. brewing method in the backcountry. some students) making and drinking He has literally made hundreds of French Press coffee is the pinnacle of the hot gallons of coffee for himself and his The one liter French press is an drink experience. On expeditions co-instructors using a coffee sock. instructor favorite. The field version of coffee is almost always sipped from Many instructors have received a the French press is typically plastic and the ubiquitous HMI 16 ounce “baby piping hot Nalgene of coffee from weighs about half a pound. It can fill up Nalgene” which fits easily into a jacket Christopher before getting out of their two hearty coffee drinkers and is easy pocket to warm the drinker’s hands as sleeping bag. The coffee sock is a to clean (unless you let the grounds it cools to a drinkable temperature. simple porous fabric bag that you sit and freeze). Some people like to Many instructors get very attached to put about a quarter cup of coffee in use an insulated mug/French press the ritual of making coffee and have and pour hot water through. Google system, with the most popular made perfected their coffee making systems “coffee sock” for more information by Big Sky Bistro. Insulated French over the course of weeks spent in the and places to buy one. backcountry. presses are a great option for winter trips where you can simply add the Starbucks Via Just remember, coffee is light so don’t heavy press to your sled. Simple, but expensive. Via is a blend skimp when calculating the amount you of dried coffee concentrate and super are going to bring on your trip. Chances Cowboy Coffee fine coffee grounds which results in a are that your friends who say they When choosing how to grind your powder mixture that easily dissolves won’t want any coffee will change their coffee, choose the finest setting in hot water. One serving is good for mind when they see how happy you on the grinding machine. Add a few eight ounces, so if you want the typical are. They’ll want “just half a cup,” tablespoons to a mug or small water 16 ounces serving bring two packets so figure out how much coffee you want bottle, pour in some hot water and let per day. Via is one of the best Leave to bring and then double it. Next thing sit for ten minutes so that the grounds No Trace options for coffee drinkers as you know your friends will want coffee can settle in the bottom of your vessel. you don’t need to pack out grounds or every morning---but that’s perfect, This method takes some patience, find an appropriate place to disperse you’ve got extra! as drinking too early will lead to a them. Via is also the most popular mouthful of coffee grounds. Cowboy winter option for HMI instructors. coffee is one of the best lightweight and inexpensive options, since you don’t need to carry anything more than coffee! Coldbrew Concentrate HMI Faculty & Staff share their delivery For shorter trips coldbrew coffee system of choice and why drinking coffee in concentrate is a good option. To make the backcountry is so great the concentrate let a pound of coffee Ben Was Press, now Cowboy (getting tougher) sit in about two liters of cold water for It’s all about camping in style! 24 hours. The resulting liquid is then passed through a dense filter leaving Libbey Cowboy Drinking coffee is a great time to be social and solve a coffee concentrate. A third of a cup the worlds problems. of the liquid concentrate mixed with a Peter Cowboy / Insulated Press in the winter mug of boiling water makes a perfect Life is good, why not make it better? cup of coffee. The concentrate can be Tom Via stored in an extra water bottle for use A great way to jumpstart the day. during your camping trip or frozen into Cam Instant Coffee cubes for easy use in the winter. I’m not picky.

Life in the backcountry is structured Whitney Cowboy by numerous yet deliberate systems How could you not love coffee? which bring us order and efficiency Eliza O Via while we’re away from home. No It makes me a better wilderness instructor. matter which method you choose, Laura French Press making coffee in the backcountry Warm, delicious, a good morning ritual. is one of these systems that Justin Cowboy merges front-country life with Good views and good coffee, perfect! backcountry life and brings comfort Rob Coffee Sock and style to our time in the field. Wakes me up for another day of work in the mountains.

11 HonestFrom HMI toFood La Saison By Natalie Felice Niksa, RMS IV

12 | HMI Fall 2013 remember a distinct moment while and the ability to express and in Leadville, Colorado where time share a simple natural pleasure I stopped. The snow was falling, needed by all—honest food! and I was in Who’s Hall printing my HMI's challenges helped me realize my final paper for History. The moment passion for cooking. The curriculum, was still, beautiful, and full. Something terrain, and weather all required strong happened in this moment—I felt will, daily effort, and an attitude that accomplished. While printing my final could not accept defeat. At HMI, I paper, I reflected on my moments of learned the value of working with a endured challenges, tiredness, and the team. Whether it was making brownies emotions of fulfillment, all experienced without butter, eggs, or an oven, or within the last four months. At times, sharing that last morsel of a yogurt I felt nothing existed except the covered pretzel, I discovered that food present moment. feeds our spirits, uplifts our attitudes, HMI’s program is balanced. No matter and communicates without words what style of learning one requires, during the most triumphant and fragile HMI’s curriculum offers a hands-on of times. No matter how difficult the approach which encourages students day—whether it was cold hands, tired to grow and be engaged—whether it is feet, or sunburnt lips—the nourishment in the classroom, the backcountry, or received from food and the communion life on campus. I found my niche in the of sharing meals together united us as kitchen at HMI, both crafting meals on a team, ultimately pushing us to reach campus for the whole community and the next base camp. with my tarp group during expeditions. My husband and I started our company, Although the ‘menus’ we created in the La Saison, a specialty foods and backcountry never tasted quite as good custom events group based in Napa on campus, the excitement, shared Valley, California in 2007. Feeding enjoyment, and overall happiness people is our life. Although it is received through cooking and sharing difficult to slow down in an industry food sparked a passion that I followed. that constantly demands the new In 2001, one year after my HMI trend, it is necessary so that I don't experience, I attended The Culinary forget where I have been, what I Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde have accomplished and who I have

Park, New York. My journey at the CIA helped along the way. I thank HMI included 36 months of immersing for introducing me to a new platform my hands, heart, and senses into for success, and helping me find my a craft established by culture, land, place in this vast world of possibility. {

At HMI, I learned the value of working with a team. Whether it was making brownies without butter, eggs, or an oven, or sharing that last morsel of a yogurt covered pretzel, I discovered that food feeds our spirits, uplifts our attitudes, and communicates without words during the most triumphant and fragile of times.

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AdventuresBy Matt Turnbull, History Faculty

errands with the non-existent air barren from a recent fire. The burned conditioning in Ryan's weathered out trees belied traditional notions Subaru. The 95-degree heat of a hard of scenic beauty, but provided fine western summer foreshadowed a homes for wildlife; within an hour we potentially arduous road trip beneath spotted a moose and her calf on the determined suns. To make matters shore. Later from camp we watched worse, the passenger-side window two bald eagles patrol the skies above only descended via the driver-side their massive nest, which was perched control, which resulted in frequent like a turret on the highest gnarled requests to "Lower! Lower!" when tree in the neighborhood. gaseous emissions of the human An assortment of terns, gulls, eagles, variety mandated a little extra airflow. I hawks, and loons kept us company reminded myself that we do not do the in the marked dearth of human best things because they are easy and companions. Disembarking at a small a little suffering is good for the spirit. island for lunch, we got up close We could have chosen a variety of and personal with a loon when she closer waters and spent less time in exploded from the water next to our the car, but the isolation of the chain canoe. We had inadvertently sidled up of lakes that would carry us to the to a nest and the bird was none too lthough I like to claim I work immensity of Slave Lake tugged us far happy. Her chick, plumy and brown throughout the year (reading north. The road trip, it turned out, was with youth, skittered across the rock history books, writing college excellent. Slate gray skies moderated to seek shelter, while the mother Aletters, etc.), one of the perks of temperatures across the beautifully chortled maniacally, beat her wings teaching is that there really is a lot of sweeping landscape. We traversed the at full breadth, and thrust her snowy time for adventuring to be done in June Rocky Mountains in Alberta and flew chest out of the water. Her agitation and July. This past summer I embarked past hours of golden canola fields. was profound and provoked our hasty on a canoe trip with Ryan Johnson, an Farther on, the blooming plants ceded retreat. We clambered back into the old college friend and 2011 Summer to the scrubby aspens, birch, and canoe and shoved off, less intimidated Term Science Faculty. We ventured evergreens of the taiga forest in the than impressed by the vigor of the north to Canada for an eight-day Northwest Territories. loon's defense. After a last glance paddling trip that culminated in Great Two and a half days of determined into her blood red eyes, we paddled Slave Lake, the fifth largest and driving brought us to Yellowknife, the on. number one deepest freshwater lake capital of the Northwest Territories More numerous and less haunting in North America. After sporadically on the north arm of Slave Lake. We than the loons, the gulls and terns planning the trip since January, we caught a ride up the Ingraham Trail, exhibited a no less persistent reveled in the perpetual dusk of July literally the end of the summer road, paranoia of intruders, dive-bombing nights at the 62nd parallel. and dipped our paddles in Tibbit Lake. the canoe when we neared their rocky We left Spokane, Washington We meandered through pristine waters roosts. Though they inevitably pulled following two days of sweating through in a flattened, stubby landscape, eerily up before colliding with our heads, my

14 | HMI Fall 2013 If you are going to the beach, the woods, the swamps, or the wilderness, really get into it, roll in it, and get rid of all the protection that will separate you from fully appreciating where you are. Become alive, not removed and insulated, and teach your children to do the same.

— Tom Brown, Field Guide to Nature and Survival for Children

great fear was that, as I craned my neck high sinkholes as brown, chunky liquid interactions with nature, senses open to admire the magnificence of natural spilled over the tops of the boots and to the touches, smells, and sounds flight, a winged trooper would lighten submerged our feet. The muck was dark, of a place, rather than objects moving its load and land a well-directed fecal thick, and meaty—the tangible embrace across space, gazing through a screen at attack. of the earth on our bodies. Mosquitos detached panoramic images. buzzed, feet squelched, sweat rolled, The threats of thrashing loons and After a certain number of HMI trips, and muscles ached. It felt wonderful. screeching gulls paled in comparison it can be easy to lose that sense of to the specter of desanguination by the The calm blue waters and soaring eagles immersion. The wilderness can instead squadrons of mosquitos that hounded were magnificent and I took note of their become a workplace and the landscape us on swampy portage trails. Clad in rain beauty, but it was being run off by loons a setting for class. Great Slave Lake jackets and head nets, we trudged gear and gulls and in the muckiest, sweatiest, took me out of that routine and allowed and boat through dense forests a few most bug-infested moments, with gravity me to experience the process of knowing times each day. The arched cave of the pressing the canoe into my shoulders a place in ways I do not often relish canoe on our shoulders became a sauna and the mud sinking beneath my feet in as an instructor. Immersing myself that left us drenched beneath our bug that made me feel most integrated into into a new landscape, disconnected armor. We became necessarily efficient the environment. from the checks, plusses, and deltas at reaching shore, strapping buckets that command my attention during HMI This, I think, is one of the ways to and dry bags into the boat, and paddling expeditions, reminded me of the joy of truly feel a connection to a place. It is vigorously into windy open water to shed the adventure. In turn, it refreshed my liberating to abandon civilian anxieties interloping mosquitos from our backs. focus on helping students shed the about comfort and cleanliness and insulation of daily life in order to more Cheap rubber boots proved to be our immerse oneself in a landscape. In fully appreciate the places through which most valuable gear. They kept us steady being driven off by pure animal instincts we travel: the personal and professional on slippery rocks and defended us and embracing the muck and the mire satisfactorily integrated. against the muck of the swampy portage of the land we allow ourselves to move trails. Inevitably, though, the muck won toward more meaningful experiences. Maybe I can consider my northern out and we became mired in knee- We commit to becoming subjects of our adventure a bit of "work" after all. Phases Moon of Bythe Peter Kernan, Mathematics Faculty

16 | HMI Fall 2013 emester XXXI started with a full moon. with the question on hand is hard to shake. For most, this was an auspicious One of the things I appreciate most about and warm welcome to Colorado. The our students and their relationship to the SSemester has since experienced a second moon is summarized simply: They are full moon on a brisk Thursday night— observant and they are curious! a radiant glowing orb in a clear night sky. Two more full moons will rise before this "Why haven't we seen the moon all group of students departs HMI. Each moon expedition?" cycle is a reminder of passing time and one Sleeping under the stars, our students begin of the many tools that help us reground and to notice natural cycles. Why is the night focus during our busy Semester. time on this expedition so much darker Recently, the students played a full moon- than the first? Students ask questions and inspired game of capture the flag around are struck by the complexity of the natural 8:15 pm, two days after the full moon, still world. Experiences like this are a trigger for with enough lingering light to illuminate larger questions, and a deeper consideration the darkness. Students were hooting and for many aspects of our world that we take hollering after a long week of academics for granted. and were mostly occupied with expending "How do you know when the moon is going their reservoirs of physical energy. Their to rise?" energy and enthusiasm demonstrated a true "I thought the moon was only visible at testament to the wildness and connection night! Why can I see the moon during the to nature one feels when experiencing a full day?" moon, especially at 10,000 feet. After the game around 8:45 several students paused Sometimes it might take an the initial hook before re-entering the artificially brightened to capture a student's interest, such as spaces that become our existence post- pointing out an observation that tests their sundown. We watched in awe as an orange- understanding, but soon they are perplexed, red, mostly illuminated moon bridged the gap attempting to resolve dozens of questions between horizon and sky. about the moon's phases and how it can impact the lives we lead. Although the "I think moonrises are my favorite!" said places we most often inhabit occlude Jennie Yoors. our senses from the cycle of this natural "Wow, that just made my week!" agreed phenomena, the moon does have an impact Caroline Grip. on our lives. At HMI we are fortunate to

Each moon cycle is a reminder of passing time and one of the many tools that help us reground and focus during our busy Semester.

A lesson I learned from a math education spend so much time under the night sky, guru, Dan Meyer, this past summer is that whether out in the wilderness or simply while teaching he strives to achieve three walking to the cabins at night. I hope that things surrounding perplexity. He wants when our students return home, as they himself and others to capture perplexity, do now, they will continue to settle into share perplexity, and eventually resolve bed and inquire about the perplexity of the that perplexity. Engagement arises from natural world, aiming to unravel mysteries perplexity and once students have captured and ask questions of that which is right in interest in an idea or concept, engagement front of them.

17 Shaping a sacred space By Rob Backlund, Science Faculty

What makes a building more than just a manufactured space? What experiences need to occur to turn a physical space into something more with meaning and memories? How does a building transform from being just a building and into a sacred space?

ince coming to HMI I have “He lives in a yurk,” I hear my mother “Oh, a yurt,” she replies. “Yurk, yurt, Spondered these questions. Where, state to a friend over the phone. I what’s the difference?” among the nine buildings that instantly assume that whomever she is I internally grumble that there is a huge dot the Lodgepole Pine forest, would talking to, has never heard of a “yurk”. difference, but say nothing. I find a sacred space that would “Yes, a yurk in Kelly, Wyoming. It is a become something more than just My yurt in Kelly is a space where I have glorified round-house,” she explains infrastructure? The answer came much great memories. The anecdote provided to her friend who asks for a “yurk” more quickly than I anticipated, at the by my mother, however, is an example description and location. start of my first semester (Semester of the difficulty that occurs when one XXVII). The reason for this, I now The phone conversation ends. I feel tries to describe their sacred space to realize, stems back to experiences obliged to tell my mother that my home others, especially when it is essentially that have shaped my sense and is not a “yurk” but a yurt. defined by a shape; a circle. understanding of a sacred space. Prior to becoming a faculty member at HMI, I lived in a canvas yurt, 20 feet in diameter, in Kelly, Wyoming. This yurt sits on the edge of the Gros I have come to realize that a space is sacred Ventre River, near the base of the Teton not only by shape, but more importantly by the Mountain Range. Yes, it is a round building, but more importantly it is one summation of experiences within it. of the most special spaces in my life.

A yurt, rondavel, and ger are a short list of the different names for round structures inhabited by humans dotting the globe. These round, semi- permanent structures originate in Central Asia and their history dates back more than 3,000 years. Round structures eliminate the terms house and corner, and in my opinion instantly become home. The walls of a yurt are at most an inch thick. They are usually supported by a latticework of wood that responds to any and all blowing wind. The roof can sound like a roll on a snare drum when rain falls. One can

18 | HMI Fall 2013 In Semester XXV the yurt was replaced by the beautiful octagonal Stuen Hall, and it is this space on campus that I now consider sacred.

look through the glass dome at the octagonal Stuen Hall, and it is this What makes the old HMI yurt, Stuen apex of the roof, and track the path of space on campus that I now consider Hall, and my own yurt so special, is the sun, the moon, and the night sky. sacred. Even though it is structurally that the simple structure allows for The temperatures of the seasons are different in size, shape, and materials simple reflection. In an HMI community not masked by this humble structure from a yurt, I have come to realize that meeting, everyone can see each allowing one to live with the phenology a space is sacred not only by shape, other as we all sit in a large circle of the seasons. but more importantly by the summation together. Similarly, in my own yurt back of experiences within it. in Kelly, Wyoming, my life and space Prior to Semester XXV, the answer is contained within one simple circle, to my earlier questions about the Semesters now begin and end in and I can comfortably enjoy the whole buildings of HMI may have been Stuen Hall, as they once did in the space at once. Ultimately, it is the sum more immediately evident, as HMI yurt, and in common between the total of experiences in a place which a more authentic yurt stood on two buildings is the shape of the first defines its importance and gives it campus. Many remember the old experience that any and all new to HMI meaning. This is how I came to know HMI yurt, where apprentices once will have in it; circle. Circle is a time the circle as sacred, and how I have lived, and many a circle was held for students and faculty members alike learned to recognize and cultivate the with the school community. to express their thoughts, emotions, sacred as I move through my life. and stories. It is a time for reflection, However, as the HMI community grew, contemplation, and listening. The the students, faculty and staff could bonds created through listening and not all fit into the yurt comfortably for speaking at circle help to create each a meeting or circle. In Semester XXVII strong, unique HMI community. the yurt was replaced by the beautiful

19 HMI 15-Year Anniversary Thank You for Joining Us!

n June 7-9, 2013, the From start to finish, the High Mountain Institute campus was alive with Ocelebrated its 15-Year Anniversary and bid farewell to our nostalgia for the past and founders, Christopher and Molly excitement for the future. Barnes. Over the weekend, we welcomed back more than 225 alumni, 40 former faculty and apprentices, Whether alumni were returning to as well as dozens of other family Leadville for the first time in 10 years or members and friends of the school. had stayed since the end of Semester XXX, everyone came back to find the From start to finish, the campus was spirit of the HMI community stronger alive with nostalgia for the past and than ever. Only now, this community excitement for the future. The weekend has grown. As Terrence Word (RMS XVI) began in HMI tradition with a bonfire remarked at the bonfire, “Now we are all on Friday night, Saturday was filled with alumni from the same Semester.” activities including summit attempts, fly-fishing, a fun run, and walks down Thank you to all of our guests and Harrison Avenue in Leadville. Everyone well-wishers for such an inspirational reconnected in the late afternoon for a weekend. We look forward to sharing square dance, barbeque, and music. the next 15 years with you!

20 21 alumni news FALL 2013

who became “the proud owner of a tiny pet penguins, riding his fat-bike and working RMS I human”, Hazel, later in the summer. Congrats, on the Joint New Zealand/American Search Hello again, RMS 1! Back in June, a handful Angie; congrats, Charlotte; congrats, Molly & and Rescue Team (JSART). He now plans to of us had a grand ol’ time representing the Old Christopher; and a heartfelt ‘cheers’ from us to spend 6-8 weeks riding said fat-bike around Geezer Crew at the HMI 15-Year Anniversary. you, HMI at 15! New Zealand. Meghan McDonald It was entertaining to be lumped in with the — Alexa “Bo” Holleran Michael lives in Dallas with her husband most recent RMS alumni (some of whom are ([email protected]) and is finishing up her last year of anesthesia precisely half our age) and to wander around residency. Catherine Smith is still in CO, campus, gaping at the changes since we were working in the outdoor industry and serving as students (electricity in the cabins, student RMS III a Trustee on the HMI Board. She loved seeing bathrooms, a climbing wall). Overall takeaway It was so great to see Phoebe Maggie, Yasmine, and Lilli at the 15-Year was how lucky we were to be part of such a Chadwick-Rivinus and Stephen Anniversary! Other big news: she became a grand adventure! The crew there was Leah Fantone at the 15-Year Anniversary and parent to a hilarious little red headed daughter, Chubb-Silverman, who still lives in going-away party for Molly and Christopher. Tobin, in December of last year. Tarquin Portland and somehow has the exact same Emily Garai is living in Atlanta and is Alexander Thornton-Close is in looks and dry sense of humor that she had at now licensed as a psychologist in Georgia, San Francisco and just got promoted to Fitness 16, and had photos to show off her adorable and she started her own private practice in Manager at 24 Hour Fitness, and thus is the son, Teddy; Matt Walker, who lives with June. She also got engaged to her partner, head of the training department at one of the his wife in New York and makes documentaries, Erin Rakestraw, in early September and they bigger gyms in the city. Aside from that, he’s and who also has acquired both glasses and are planning a wedding in Massachusetts been training for some natural bodybuilding an I’m-a-grown-man look of wisdom about him for September 2014. Lindsay O'Steen competitions for the past six months (hilarious at some point in the last decade; Eli (Liz) got her doctorate in 2011 and is working full experience). Ashley Albright Green Robinson, who is, if anything, even more time as a physical therapist in Maryland. She left Vancouver Island a couple of months ago, herself – tiny and quirky and hilariously upfront spends her free time volunteering for the fire following her hubby to the “Energetic City” (aka – than ever, and who brought her partner department in Clarksville and finished her Fort St. John). It’s a boom town (Oil, Hydro, (Callie) from their home in Texas; Jessica training as an EMT, fire fighter and public safety Wind – you name it) with typical boom town- Parker, who landed a pretty fabulous gig diver this past year. She will be celebrating ness. She’s been exploring the surrounding making custom ceramic growlers (in addition her second wedding anniversary to her wife wilderness, but is a bit nervous about the -40 to raising her two kiddos); Christina Brooke Robbins in October. Finally, Dave temps in the winter. Jeremy Loeb lives Davis, who gets the prize for coming the Barahona and his wife (Denaye) are in Sacramento and does some design and furthest for the Anniversary, having basically expecting a little boy in December! Super marketing work at a local engineering firm ended her stint guiding adventures in Africa for sleuthing on Facebook also revealed that while working (slowly) towards an Engineering the event, and flew back to life in the states Zoie Watson Saunders recently degree. He is also getting hitched in Maine a mere 72 hours before rolling into Leadville; welcomed a new baby boy into her family as next month (and juggling all the fun logistics and yours truly, Alexa “Bo” Holleran, well. RMS III please email me with updates any of planning a long-distance wedding), getting who spent the summer farming and potting time! I hope all of you are well. into road biking and triathlons, gardening, before launching onto the midwifery track with — Samantha E. Wilson teleskiing in Tahoe and playing with his dog, an expedited Nurse Practitioner program at the ([email protected]) Tucker. Rosalie Osborn is teaching 8th University of Vermont. My wife, Brenda, also grade Special Education at a Quaker school came along, and whole-heartedly approved of in Brooklyn. Last summer she rented a cabin the crew; the eight of us all rented a Leadville RMS V in Vermont and studied the environmental log cabin together, complete with hot tub under Clara McDowell Gordon is history of Appalachia in Asheville, NC. She the stars. If you weren’t there, we missed you, finishing up her first year of the Physician returned home this summer to an extremely and I promise we spoke about YOU specifically Assistant Program at Tuft’s Medical School surprising marriage proposal from her boyfriend as we reminisced…and especially about and reports that she is surrounded by intense, of almost 7 years, so rocking a sweet diamond Angie Herring, who was getting married mind-bogglingly awesome people. Dan ring is basically all she does now. Yasmine that week, and Charlotte Blau, who Schieffelin just finished up a year in Kohli Fordham just finished her degree was in her last few weeks of pregnancy, and Antarctica seeing the southern lights, watching in Sustainable Development. She has been

22 | HMI Fall 2013 organizing a lot of events for work, including a Colorado mountains for the big tall buildings month and will be defending her dissertation major conference for Tides and the Nonprofit of NYC. She will be pursuing an M.Ed. in November 11th (after which she is planning Centers Network at the Colorado Convention Counseling. Erik celebrated his birthday in a celebration trip to El Salvador!). Marion Center in Denver. She also came out for HMI’s Las Vegas in August where he bonded with 5 had seven “unschooled” teenagers living with 15-Year. Katie Reynolds is hiking the Europeans over great conversation about, life, her this summer as interns for her partner’s Pacific Crest Trail. By the time this goes to the universe, and futball until 8AM. In other program at The High Desert Center for press she hopes to have finished her epic big news, Erik and his wife just purchased Sustainable Studies. Marion is also training journey in British Columbia and be taking a their first home and Erik has taken a job with for a marathon, teaching at an alternative West Coast Victory Tour before heading back a law firm in Minnesota where he represents school, and milking goats in her free time. As east to continue grad school. Samuel a growing number of small businesses by for me, Sam Timberg, I am off to travel Huntington lives in Brooklyn and helping them grow and anticipate challenges. in SE Asia with my girlfriend, Whitney, for the manages an electronics recycling warehouse Sam James has been working as the month of October before starting a new job in where the public can bring their unwanted and sales manager for Simms Fishing Products, a November. I will, along with one other guy, be broken electronics to be refurbished, reused, Bozeman MT based fishing apparel company. starting a new wine importer, Meridian Prime, or at least recycled in an environmentally The job is the perfect blend of professional from the ground up. The wines will be from sensitive manner. Basically, he’s WALL-E. I, challenge and personal pleasure (aka he gets South Africa, France, and Argentina to start and Amy Mahnken, still live in New Orleans fish all the time). Amanda Dooley I will be building our sales team, the portfolio, where I will be getting married in less than has lived in Switzerland for two years now and travelling to see our partners all over the three weeks. If anyone would like to come visit working as a freelance editor/writer and as world! There was a big push during the 15-year the New Orleans area (and you really should) a nanny. She is working towards a Masters Anniversary to set up a reunion in 2014. I’ll let me know and I’ll teach you the best way to in professional writing and had a great time keep you posted! eat a beignet (it’s not difficult but, as with all catching up with Carrie Sessions, — Sam Timberg ([email protected]) things, practice makes perfect). who was in Geneva for an internship with the — Amy Mahnken ([email protected]). UN Environmental Program. Carrie is in grad school at University of Washington where she is RMS IX getting a dual degree in public administration I (Charlie Eichacker) find myself RMS VII and environmental policy. Whitney writing for a weekly paper in Burlington, RMS VII had a fantastic turnout at the 15- Leonard had an absolute blast at the 15- Vermont, after studying journalism for one Year Anniversary! Carissa Look, Erik Year Anniversary. From Leadville, she headed to quick and dirty year in NYC. This past summer Levy, Aimee Wessel, Marion Montana for the summer, where she interned I interned for a weekly paper in Ellsworth, Pierce, Rebecca Flint D’Elia, for the Indian Law Resource Center. Whitney Maine, where I had the great pleasure of Whitney Leonard, Jaime van is back on the East Coast for her second working alongside Izzy Weaver’s mother. Pelt, Shelley Goerdt (Brunjak), year of Law School at Yale and somehow still Carolyn Loeb is getting lots of free and myself (Sam Timberg) turned up at finds time to enjoy some bluegrass music, go meat and veggies as a farm apprentice in 10,200’ to celebrate HMI’s past by sending running in the woods, and to go biking with Rupert, VT. She lives in a cabin in the woods, Molly, Christopher, Porter, and Jack off in style Emily Kaufman – who just moved to New throws pots, and plays in the White Mountains while toasting a future that promises another Haven! Jamie and her husband Mike bought whenever possible. Further north, Molly 15 years and beyond of incredible experiences a house in DC and Jamie has transitioned Nowack has worked in a range of outdoor and lifelong friendships! As always, RMS 7 her job from HR to IT and loves the new role. education roles. Now she lives in Burlington, has big things going on! Meeya Sakura They are headed to Mexico in November for working as a server and figuring out how to is expecting her fourth son (her second)! some Scuba diving and long runs around Isla work on farms. She finds it “pretty bizarre Meeya says, “We will now be a happy family Mujeres. Jenn Raines just returned to to be in a city.” Liza Cohen is now in of 6 not to forget the only other girl, Jade our Boulder (where luckily her house is only slightly Boston, getting used to office life and reflecting doggie.” Shelley got married, changed damp from the recent flood) from three weeks on a great summer that whisked her out to her last name to Goerdt, started school in Greece with her boyfriend’s family, which Colorado, where she saw a mountain unicyclist. again (go to Youtube and watch the amazing was gorgeous and relaxing. On top of being the She also attended the wedding of Sophie “Lakewood High School Lip Dub 2013 - Roar” Marketing Coordinator for a luxury Asian tour Newbury Berglund. Also in Colorado, that Shelley’s students worked on!), and operator, Asia Transpacific Journeys, Jenn just Bern Kenneally is just plugging away she is working on a masters for curriculum graduated from 2 years of study at Bauman at her mechanical engineering PhD, “being development! Jacque Hastings is College as a holistic Nutritional Consultant a geek and writing lots of computer code.” making a move to the Big Apple from Grand and is going to start freelance writing Emily Chase still lives in the Pittsburg Cayman! She also travelled in Copenhagen soon. Carissa recently graduated from area, working in the finance department for a recently and says “it’s beautiful, super forward Georgetown with a Master’s in International logistics company and spending lots of time thinking about eco and social responsibility Affairs and spends time running around the taking care of her two-year-old dog. Across the and has great pedestrian areas, history, and National Zoo. Aimee is likely moving to Paris pond, Phil Quinn is getting his MBA at food.” Speaking of moving to NYC, Rebecca for a job at the Pasteur Institute. She gave a the HULT International Business School. The and her husband Paul have traded the talk at a science conference in Switzerland last program will be taking him to Sao Paulo at the

23 same time as the World Cup and to NYC next Crisis. He sees Jo Yecies a couple of times love to hang out with any XVers who come to summer. Sam Garfield is as adrift as a month, and just caught up with Nathan the city! Patti Echeverria is in LA ever, working on a military transport ship based Brand, who is starting Med school at Mt. making digital things, training to become a pro out of South Korea after getting his unlimited Sinai in NYC. Ben Wilkofsky interned surfer, and meditating a lot. Rich Freund chief mates license this past summer. He also with a consulting firm in India this summer, is lives in Santiago, Chile and will be there for used the warmer months to make a nice slow set to graduate from Columbia in December, another year. He teaches Business English sail down to Bermuda. and already has a few job options on the and tramps all over the Andes. Paul-Bob — Charlie Eichacker ([email protected]) table. Jo is working and going to school Stapell lives in Denver and loves it. He at American University in DC. She is now a currently works for Fedex Express but will soon supervisor in her billing office and will graduate be transitioning into full-time "geotechnical RMS XI with a Master of Science in Finance in May. project management.” Charlotte We would love to include news This summer was spent on the road, visiting Friedman is a grad student at USC in from RMS XI. Please email Cameron, Colorado, Jackson Hole and Yellowstone – with LA, getting a Masters in Social Work. She [email protected], with any news Chicago and Oxford on the horizon. Erica interns at a locked-in mental institute in or if you are interested in helping us as is in NYC and recently transferred jobs to Compton, working with schizophrenic patients. your class coordinator! advertising at Women’s Wear Daily. She had Lindsay Guerin and Hannah a great time at the 15-Year Anniversary in Orcutt both live in Jackson, WY and June (“the campus is really swanky now”), spend as much time outdoors as possible. RMS XIII and is looking forward to getting together with Currently, Lindsay is spending a month in Christina Clark had a great folks in NYC soon! Sam Finkelstein is Thailand. Hannah teaches at a nonprofit child time representing RMS XIII at the 15- still performing in the circus and is currently care/special education/Head Start center in Year Anniversary in June with Taylor working on a new “straps” act. After recovering town. Mark Hammes is a tree-climbing Verderame, Erica Coren, from elbow surgery in Germany, he spent time arborist in D.C. He’s been building a cabin Elizabeth Sinclaire and Phil with his girlfriend in Brussels, and is now on (mostly on his own!) on his farm in Floyd, VA, Thurner. Otherwise, she still lives in Boston tour in the US with a company called Cirque and it’s almost ready to take on the winter! with her girlfriend and works as a social worker Mechanics. KassiE Garfield works Lacey Huber works at her family’s for a community service agency, handling at an awesome manual orthopedic physical winery in Leesburg, VA (Stone Tower Winery). adults with severe and persistent mental therapy clinic in Portland, ME. This summer she They’ve just finished harvesting for their 2013 illness (which is stressful, but never boring!). sailed to Bermuda with her brother in 20 ft. vintage, which promises to be a stellar year. The summer was filled with car camping, a swells and 45 knot winds. Last weekend she Peter Kernan has the best job of them wedding in Tahoe, and just being outside. Eva randomly saw the one and only Frances all. He works as Math Faculty at HMI and is Luderowski’s life is back to normal Chase! Elizabeth Sinclaire is the proud owner of a house in Leadville. Ali after being displaced by Hurricane Sandy. doing a Post-Bacc at Columbia and thinking LePage recently moved to Florida and really She works as a lab manager in a Behavior about becoming a Nurse Practitioner or an enjoys her job as a paralegal. She is getting Neuroscience lab at Rockefeller University, Occupational Therapist. She also had a great married next June! James McKenna but looks forward to greener pastures (Med time at the 15-Year Anniversary and looks never forgot how fun our HMI cook crews school?). This March, she visited a friend in forward to seeing everyone that couldn’t make were. He prepares delicious meals as a line Alaska, where she played with 2-week old it soon. Reunion in NYC in January? cook in a San Francisco restaurant. Neil sled dog puppies, snowshoed in Denali and — Elizabeth Sinclaire ([email protected]) Ritterpush also lives in San Francisco saw the northern lights. Taylor got a new and spends a good deal of his time climbing. job at West Elm’s corporate office in Brooklyn, Keller Morrison is the ultimate ski and is learning a lot about retail and interior RMS XV bum: he lives in Dillon, CO and works as a ski design. She hangs out with Elizabeth and Erica Sam Barber works for Ben Edmund at instructor at Keystone. However, he’s a smart as often as possible, and is training to qualify Portland’s finest microbrewery: Breakside. ski bum, and will soon start tutoring Biology for next year’s marathon. Phil is doing a They put their heads together to create the at CMC. Clara Rubin-Crump is in a zillion different things in the video production most delicious beer ever brewed for the Marine Affairs Ph.D. program at the University industry, but nothing specifically exciting. He is 15-Year Anniversary: the Jack & Porter. Liz of Rhode Island. In her free time she works happy to report that he survived the Boulder Ceperly is in her 2nd year of a Geology as a volunteer firefighter and EMT. O’Mara floods – none of his stuff was destroyed, Masters program in Buffalo, NY. She studied Taylor still lives in Philadelphia, working although his basement got 2 feet of water. the Brooks Range in Alaska and camped out for an environmental consulting firm. She Next time he will be prepared with a floatation there on a frozen lake taking sediment cores has also been enjoying volunteering with an device. Eric Bernstein quit his job in of the lakebed. Lucia Cowles lives in HIV/Hep C testing organization. Julia Van Boulder and moved to DC for an internship Chapel Hill, NC and works in a bookstore/bar. Den Bergh lives in Morristown, NJ as a at a security think-tank. After a humbling 4 She just ran a marathon and can no longer pharmaceutical analyst. She climbs all the months, he had a stroke of good fortune and walk up stairs. Kristin DeLuca works for time (this is a theme in our semester) and just joined a much more engaging Middle East a high-end Italian menswear company in NYC finished her first triathlon. And as for me, Ray think-tank, which is now focused on the Syrian and just moved to Brooklyn. She and I would McGaughey, I still love my job: New York

24 | HMI Fall 2013 City tour guide via walking/bike/bus/food. A Biomedical Sciences at Columbia University. the HMI major highlight of the past year was making Lydia English graduated in June and it out to HMI for the 15-Year Anniversary and jumped right into a yearlong internship with seeing so many familiar faces. Stay in touch! the Chicago Botanic Gardens. She spent — Ray McGaughey the summer in rural Minnesota, looking for ([email protected]) the elusive narrow leaf purple cone flower fund (Echinacea angustifolia) as part of research on habitat fragmentation in tall grass prairie. RMS XVII Sam McBride is studying at the Corning Peter Wilson recently relocated to Museum of Glass to become a lampworker/ On average, 40% of HMI Boston for a teacher residency program. In only hot glass artist. She graduated from Eckered students receive financial aid a year, Peter will be a teacher. Before relocating College and will probably be moving to the which makes their participation to Boston, he had been living in Denver. He northeast quite soon. spent the summer leading a backpacking trip — Emily Faxon ([email protected]) in an HMI Semester, Summer in Alberta. Molly Dougherty, like Term, or High Peaks Adventure Peter, is also teaching. In August, she started possible. Each and every year, as a film teacher in Silver Spring, Maryland. RMS XXI Molly loves teaching, and is very happy to Will Potter is studying at Middlebury the HMI Fund provides dollars to be back in the DC area. Auri East and and worked for Twitter this summer. TJ help make an HMI experience Jack Fields were both apprentices at Callahan is at school in Troy, NY and will available to every student HMI last year (Auri for Semester XXIX, Jack for graduate in the spring with a Bachelor's in Semester XXX). Auri worked as a raft guide in Computer Science and a Minor in music. Over excited about and deserving of Durango this summer, and is currently biking the summer he worked on an open source a unique and transformational home to Florida. Jack is wandering the West, android app to help people with diabetes get educational experience. Every making occasional stops to climb. Claire used to tracking their carbs and blood sugar, Maggiotto lives in Boston, working as and he had a great time at the Anniversary contribution, small or large, a research assistant studying sudden infant in June! Mackenzie Gurrola is makes a difference in providing death syndrome. She was recently accepted at Colorado State University, living with two financial aid and in supporting to medical school and will be heading there HMI alumni (Caitlin Kuczko, RMS XXIII and next August. Claire also reported that John Jacob Bryant, RMS XXV). A recent trip include the talented faculty that make Harwood just graduated from Bates; a family outing to Cancun and an amazing our programs run. Thank you all Gordon Matthewson is living in a return to Leadville for the 15-Year Anniversary! for your generosity and your faith treehouse; and Reid Pierce is finishing up Ben Breckenridge is a senior at his senior year at Colorado College. St. Lawrence with Merrill Clerkin, in the mission and vision of HMI. — Allison Guzy ([email protected]) and Becca Doll and Claire Munson. Claire Maggiotto ([email protected]) Ben is graduating in December and headed to Rome to work for an apartment rental business. Merrill worked for American Councils RMS XIX for International Education in Washington, Carrie Cecil is working as an DC this summer and plans to use her Asian archaeologist in Bismarck, North Dakota. Studies and Education degrees in order to Her plan is to continue working for the next return back to China to mold young minds in year before heading to grad school to get the classroom. Brendan Buckland is her Master’s degree in Archaeology and a senior at GW and is writing a senior thesis Cultural Resource Management. Addie on the historical memory of resource conflict Davis graduated from the University of and its effects on the national imagination in Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in History the case of Bolivia and Chile. On top of that, and African Studies. After spending the he’s interning at the Amazon Conservation summer coaching sailing in New York, Addie Association in Dupont Circle. Mo Yang moved to Washington, D.C. to participate in graduated from college and spent her summer the White House Internship Program. Emily in China. She hopes to go to Detroit and Faxon graduated from CC with a degree in make a difference in the real estate market Anthropology. She now works for Lululemon there. Carter McFarland worked Athletica as an educator/pant folding guru on a twenty person Type 2 Initial Attack hand in Denver and takes classes for occupational crew for the wildland fire season. He will therapy prerequisites and graduate school. graduate in the spring from the University of Chelsea Deick just moved to NYC to Montana with a BA in Sociology and an option start a PhD program in Cellular, Molecular, and in Criminology. Andrew McCue just

25 returned to the University of Vermont after spending a year in Paris. He is very happy Leah's to be playing squash and ultimate Frisbee, all while writing his senior thesis on French intellectuals under the Occupation. William Recipe Thacker is pursuing a life of music and law at the University of Tennessee. He hopes to be a lawyer for musicians, or a lawyer for environmental policies. He just went on his first run in over two years after a terrible injury to his left leg resulting in paralysis of his left foot. Olivia Fantini is a Women’s and Gender Studies major at Carleton College, about to start a senior thesis researching means of teaching sexual violence prevention to high school boys. She also works at the Gender and Sexuality Center on campus, captains one of the women's Frisbee teams, writes slam poetry, and picked up the ukulele this year! Tom Conover is at The University of the South: Sewanee with Emily Blau. He spent the summer as a restoration ecologist for a land-trust devoted to preserving the native landscape, and was personally responsible for the maintenance and restoration of two preserves totaling over 300 acres. Geoff Long is majoring in Software Engineering and minoring in Technological Entrepreneurship at McGill University in Montreal. A couple of weeks ago he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, Black Bean Soup and soaked up the guide company’s “five star (adapted from the Moosewood Cookbook) camping” option (especially in light of the taxing effects of altitude change). Sylvia 2 Tbsp olive oil 1 tsp basil Parol is finishing up her double major in Professional Writing and Management with 2 yellow onions, chopped dash of cinnamon Creative Design at Worcester Polytechnic 4 garlic cloves, minced dash of cayenne Institute. She recently discovered that she would like to make a career out of her music 1 stalk celery, diced 1 bay leaf hobby! Rebecca Smith became an aunt 2 sweet potatoes, diced 4 cups water to the most adorable niece, studied abroad 1 tsp salt 1 can black beans in Thailand and worked at HMI during the summer. She is focused on enjoying senior 1/3 cup tomato sauce 2 cups kale, year and finding a job after graduating from CC. torn or cut into bite size strips 2 tsp paprika — Ian Tullis ([email protected]) 1 tsp turmeric RMS XXIII Graham Landy spent last summer In a medium stockpot, sauté onions, garlic, and celery in olive oil over training for and competing in the Red Bull medium heat until onions are translucent. Add sweet potatoes and salt, Youth America's Cup in which he represented and continue to cook for 4-5 minutes. the United States. He's glad to be back at school studying history. Seldy Gray Stir in remaining ingredients. Bring to a boil, and then reduce heat to finished a wonderful summer working simmer for 25 minutes, or until sweet potatoes are tender. at Good Morning America and is now in London studying Television Production and Remove bay leaf, and serve warm. interning with the BBC. She hopes to spend next semester in Madrid studying Spanish.

26 | HMI Fall 2013 Rachel Whaley spent the summer about electric vehicles in the city. She is now is majoring in Computer Science at Carleton working at an elementary school in Chicago in Copenhagen studying Sustainability at the College. He spent the summer in SW Colorado, and is excited to spend her fall quarter in Danish Institute. Alanna Krowiak is at and he hopes to win a Frisbee national Paris, learning French and exploring the city! Connecticut College, where she is designing championship at the end of the year. He is Tyler Gump is interning at a children's a major in Narrative Psychology and doubling currently trying to woo a National Geographic autism center and taking graduate Psych with Philosophy. She LOVED the Anniversary! photographer and find an internship in extreme courses in Westborough, Massachusetts. If he Nick Gannon is taking a break from sport photography. survives the internship, he'll hopefully return double majors in Neuroscience and Arabic — Alex Trautman ([email protected]) to Hamilton College in the spring and win a to study English at Trinity College Dublin this NESCAC lacrosse championship. Merrin fall. He enjoyed his time in Leadville this Meltzer is back at the University of summer, particularly hiking in the Sangre de RMS XXV Delaware for her junior year after spending Cristos and helping Molly move with Alanna Alex Potter worked for a moving last year traveling in India and working at and Ari. Caroline Leahy is living in company in the Boston area this summer and a domestic violence shelter in Guatemala. Cambridge, MA and studying History and spent weekends hiking in the Adirondacks. He Caitlin Kuczko is attending Colorado Science at Harvard. She spent the summer is looking forward to his second semester at State University where she is assisting in a taking Organic Chemistry and is extremely Middlebury. Kat Geppert interned this pilot study of laboratory animal enrichment at happy to be done. Sachi Twine is summer in Georgetown at FairWinds Partners, CSU, and living with HMIers Mackenzie (XXI) studying at Yale, where she's an Environmental a domain strategy-consulting firm. Kat is and Jacob (XXV). This summer she interned in Studies major concentrating in Resource Use rooming with Elizabeth Benedict at Philadelphia at Penn Vet Working Dog Center and Sustainability. Sachi interns with Urban Colorado College and just declared herself an where she trained detection dogs. Cassie Resources Initiative, a nonprofit that plants Education major. She spends her free time Ali is living in Tasmania, Australia. She has street trees and promotes urban forestry. practicing yoga, working at Taylor Elementary, been traveling around the mainland, playing She is also prepping to study architecture and lifeguarding at the CC pool. Elizabeth with wallabies and going to classes at the at the Danish Institute in Copenhagen this spent the summer working at Camp Aloha in University of Tasmania. She will return in spring. Sally Caruso is at Middlebury Fairlee, Vermont. Back at CC, she is taking a December to finish her junior year in Denver. College studying Studio Art and Geography. class abroad about the origins of Greek theater Nicolette Kril is at the University of This summer she had a residency at the San and will be living in Athens, Greece for a Pittsburgh double majoring in Anthropology Francisco Art Institute and had her first gallery month. Mary Anne Bodnar spent her and Finance. She spent the summer in show. Ben Capelin is at Colorado College, summer assistant teaching at a public school Manhattan interning at Barclays Wealth and still deciding whether to major in Environmental in NYC and participated in the Bates Dance Investment Management for their Financial Science, Philosophy, English, or Sociology. He Festival. Mary Anne is now back at Bates Crimes team. Arianna Vierczhalek is currently studying Existentialism in Paris where she is a Math and Dance double major is in Denver studying mechanical engineering. and thinking about the importance of old and an Arts and Leisure editor for the school She spent the summer in a lab looking at people in a young person's life, whether or not paper. Hallie Skripak- Gordon MRI's and backpacking and such. Eliza to talk more, and how to buy a motorcycle. worked at a dude ranch in Laramie, Wyoming Green is studying Chemistry and playing Nick Flynn is studying Development this summer, riding horses and socializing with lacrosse at Carleton. She spent her summer Economics and Spanish in Buenos Aires, guests. She is thrilled to be back at Hamilton (first one without a major hiking trip) doing Argentina. He enjoys the empanadas, dulce College so that she can resume her periodic research at Carleton. Chris Chang lives de leche and an occasional copa de Malbec. dinner dates with fellow XXV friend, Louise in Quito, Ecuador studying ecology and biology Abby Barnstone is at Pitzer, majoring Owens. Jamie Safran finished her in various ecosystems around the country. This in Psychology. She is also working in the first year at CC, where she helped develop the winter he will return to the University of Denver admissions office, teaching slam poetry to 18- new rock climbing program and pioneered the to continue working on his Environmental year old incarcerated men, and is the president first school sponsored ice climbing trip. She Science degree. Benjamin Schwartz of Pitzer Promotions (aka the Pitzer swag club). also got a job with a local climbing company is studying at The School of Business and Lara White is enjoying NC State in Raleigh as an ice and rock climbing guide, making her Economics at Lehigh University working where she is majoring in Political Science the only female ice guide with the company. towards a major in Supply Chain Management and minoring in Environmental Science. She She lived in Boston this summer, working at a and minor in Business Information Systems. is also interning with the Court of Appeals local rock gym and doing hot yoga. Louise He is in the Kappa Sigma fraternity with in downtown Raleigh. Lane Peterson Owens took an EMT training course in New Robbie Hugin and Sam Horstmann (RMS is currently in Munich, Germany, where she York City this summer and watched Netflix XXIII). Alycia Martens is studying is studying German language for the year. with Mary Anne Bodnar. She is very excited to at Berkeley's Haas School of Business and Jules Heckbert is studying Mechanical return to Hamilton College, where she will be recently joined the school's marketing case Engineering at the Rochester Institute of part of the Hamilton College EMS, a co-leader competition team. She's excited to study Technology. He recently joined the SAE Baja of the organization Challah for Hunger, and abroad in Berlin this spring. Megan racing team and has been tutoring engineering a regular stalker of Hallie Skripak-Gordon. Morrow spent the summer working for courses with the New York Higher Education Zoe Stoenner is at American University the Baltimore Electric Vehicle Initiative learning Opportunity Program. Alex Trautman studying Public Communications and working

27 is very involved in the business fraternity at her at St. Lawrence University. Bryan was a camp school, Delta Sigma Pi. She had an internship counselor this summer, and Katie joined the at a pension administration firm over the outing club and plans to hike 4 peaks for the summer and missed XXV and HMI every day. 31st Annual Peak Weekend. They can’t wait for Sarah-Strain Hunter spent her Isabella Caliandro to join them next summer at Denison developing the university's year! Isabella and Arielle Gordon- Sustainability Fellows program, where fellows Rowe are taking a gap year spending this educate residents on sustainability in all of semester in France and Italy. They are doing its facets. She is majoring in Political Science, the Tour du Mont Blanc and then living in minoring in Arabic, and hopefully spending Chamonix. In the spring, Isabella plans to hike next semester in Amman, Jordan! Hanna the AT and Arielle will be skiing in Jackson Hole. Dethlefs attended the 15-Year Anniversary Ben Buckles and Kelsey Hoekstra in Leadville last summer. She also worked are having a great time at Middlebury. Ben has on a remote ranch and vineyard located in picked up Portuguese, plans to study abroad Emy Takinami and Talia Zisman (RMS XXV) ran the Mount Greylock Half Marathon together this the Canyonlands of SE Utah. She is now at in Brazil Junior year, and joined the mountain summer UPenn, rowing on the crew team and working club! Kelsey is going to do crew and lifeguard at EMS. Laura Hansen is at UC Boulder, at Middlebury. Celeste Murtha is as the deputy national communications double majoring in Psychology and Sociology playing lacrosse for Colby College and loves it. coordinator for RHA. This past summer and is applying for research positions. Laura This summer she worked as a camp counselor she interned at a leading fashion PR and volunteers at the Boulder homeless shelter and at a bakery. India Bushnell worked production firm and traveled a lot. Nathan and hikes as much as possible in her free as a surf instructor for little kids this summer Schmidt is at Amherst, balancing his time time. Toni Hall was just accepted into the and is at Bennington College in Vermont. between Science and Education courses. Rubenstein School of the Environment and Aaron Cass Boyes is at the University Nathan has unofficially adopted a nine-year- Natural Resources at UVM and continues to of Denver studying Mechanical Engineering. old little brother who he has the privilege of hike in her free time. Hallie (Woody) He is also considering joining the Cycling club, babysitting twice a week. His name is Ari and Woodberry spent her gap year studying which does competitive road and mountain he's far smarter than Nathan. This summer History of Art and English at the Uppingham biking. Justin Gump is attending Union. Pete James worked on a cattle ranch School in England. Woody is beginning her He hasn’t gone on a single hike since HMI. outside of Bozeman, Montana and volunteered freshman year at Dartmouth and plans to Alessandra Laurent started school with a conservation trust, while fishing in major in Environmental Studies and then in Paris. Cody Smith attends St. John’s his free time. At Middlebury, he is planning attend veterinary school. Lee Junkin spent College in Santa Fe, and is learning Ancient to major in English and is a member of the his summer removing invasive plants from Greek. He’s gone on a couple of night hikes in Middlebury Snow Bowl Ski Patrol. Ryan a pond in Wayland, MA and fishing on Cape the hills of Santa Fe. Gavin Arnold is Campbell went on tour with his acapella Cod. Lee also did a nine day backpacking and currently in Voss, Norway at Folk High School, group (The Spizzwinks) to Asia this summer fly fishing trip in Wyoming before returning to where he is doing a program that focuses on (China, Hong Kong, Thailand and Myanmar). CC. Laura Messenger lived in Buenos sports and outdoor life. Next year he will be He also worked in SoCal as a Social Media Aires this summer doing an internship with going to Skidmore. Natasha Hampton and Communications intern at a Christian an anti-human trafficking organization. Laura worked at an advertising company in Boston ministry for college students called Cru. Jack interviewed the families of girls who had gone this summer and has officially moved back to Duchin worked all summer leading canoe missing recently and helped them find legal England! She feels so lucky to have friends trips at a YMCA camp in Minnesota, including help or support groups. She also traveled week-long trips to the Boundary Waters. to Patagonia to do some hiking and cross Jack is now going to school in Montana and country skiing. Glenys Hunt waitressed currently using his ski setup so he can hit rails in Baltimore and then spent the last week of all year round. Emy Takinami ran the Mt. summer road tripping through the Carolinas, Greylock half marathon with fellow RMS XXV Tennessee and Kentucky. She is taking classes alumni Talia Zisman this summer. Emy is for her Anthropology major, DJing for Grinnell's at UVM for her second year, and is a Women radio station and riding at a local barn. and Gender Studies and Psychology double — Kat Geppert major, the director of the pottery program, ([email protected]) and a research assistant in the Neuroscience department. Robby Kuster worked at Kingswood Camp through the summer RMS XXVII and took classes at a local college. Now at Anna Weiss is at Oberlin and is taking Davidson, he is on the Ultimate Frisbee team a fencing class. Kinori Rosnow and Mary Loomis, Sam Fox, and Scott Berkley and plays drums in the Jazz Band. Ally Gil Young are also attending Oberlin. (not pictured; RMS XXVI) got together in Roach is studying Finance at UCONN and Bryan Bohaty and Katie Eaton are Vermont in September

28 | HMI Fall 2013 from all over the world. She is attending head of the Community Service Club, a Senior University of East Anglia and studying English Editor for the Yearbook, and is leading trips for Literature. Arianna Carley and Jake the Outdoor Program. Chelsea Cohn Bazillian are attending University of worked at J Crew this summer, and spent the Would you Michigan. Arianna spent the summer in Spain, rest of her days competing in horse shows. and Jake hopes to visit fellow Semester She also hosted a three day Semester XXIX prefer an XXVIIers at Colorado College this winter. reunion at her house, and is currently involved Lukey Walden, Kuba Chandler, in her school’s Young Democrats Club, World electronic Andrew Allison-Godfrey and Issues Charity Club, and Admissions Club. Dylan Kingsbury are all doing a NOLS Michaela Caplan worked at a non- newsletter? Semester in the Himalayas this fall. Lukey and profit organic farm during the summer, and Andrew will attend Colorado College as Winter completed a WFR course in New Hampshire. We know that some individuals appreciate Starts, Dylan will start at Middlebury as a She is now running cross country at school. a hard-copy newsletter to read in today’s Feb, and Kuba will continue his gap year and Duncan Wheeler taught robotics and start at Colorado College in 2014. Leslie engineering design to middle schoolers over world of growing electronic communication, Dinkin, Colleen Orr, Andrew the summer, got his rescue diver certification, and we also know that some families Obernesser and Andrew Meyer all and hiked in the White Mountains. Elliott receive a lot of mail and are wary of paper attend Colorado College! They have met many Wieler worked a genetic research lab this HMI alums here. Colleen plays lacrosse for summer. He is now applying to the US Air Force production and consumption. We respect CC and she and Andrew O. joined the Outdoor Academy. Léne Epp recently returned from either preference. Let us know if you would Recreation Club and are in the same class this a six-week long backpacking trip through the rather read our newsletter electronically block. Leslie hangs out in the ceramics studio Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Now she is and Andrew M. is enjoying his class, ‘Searching taking a gap year in Switzerland working as an and when the newsletter is published we for Islamic Order’. They can’t wait for Andrew Au Pair and spending her free time exploring will send you an email notification, with a A-G, Lukey and Kuba to get here! nearby countries. This summer, Sam Blair link to where you can read it online. Email — Colleen Orr ([email protected]) was one of five high school students in the US who was able to travel to Greenland with the us at [email protected], and make sure to National Science Foundation to do research include the email address where you would RMS XXIX on climate change. Anna Balderston like to receive notification of our electronic Sara Wolf worked at Camp Tawonga in worked on a CSA farm this summer, is Yosemite this summer, and is now tap dancing running cross country and is Co-Student newsletter. Thank you for helping us cut and hiking in the Adirondacks. Christian Body President back at Hotchkiss. Henry back on our mailings as well. Lehner went to HMI’s 15-Year Anniversary, Fulghum spent a month in India, living and then traveled in Nicaragua for 5 weeks. in a Himalayan village farming and working He spent the rest of the summer washing on infrastructure issues. During this stay he dishes, and has recently begun taking MMA learned Hindi, Ladakhi, and accomplished classes. Michael Harmon went on a more than 140 hours of service. He is two week road trip to Colorado with a couple running cross country at his school, and is a The High Mountain Institute (HMI) is an of his buddies! He also is working on a Senior Leader working to make the freshman academic and wilderness semester school Kickstarter with his brother, raising money to transition into high school easier, as well as the for high school juniors, accredited by the make a film about ‘the outdoor experience’. Co-Head of the Student Awareness Committee. Mary Crockett is attending the Alaska Stay in touch, Semester XXIX! Association of Colorado Independent Pacific University Early Honors program, and — Henry Fulghum ([email protected]) Schools. We offer a 4-month long HMI is majoring in outdoor studies! HMI gave her Semester each fall and spring, a 6-week confidence to start college at 17 and help her understand what she wanted out of life. Faculty Summer Term, and an Apprentice Program Karina Wohlhieter taught math Stephen and Doe Hatfield’s in traditional and outdoor education for at an inner-city middle school this summer, family had a blast at the HMI Anniversary in recent college graduates. We also offer and is playing field hockey and running the June. Beyond that, they had a great summer Outdoor Club at Taft. Lela Gannon went of exploration in the Pacific NW with their a 2-week summer program for 7th & on a three-week long NOLS rock climbing daughters Hanna (6) and Thea (4) - including 8th graders, the High Peaks Adventure. course in the Winds this summer, and is now their first bona fide backpacking trip. They Finally, HMI offers wilderness medicine a member of her school’s varsity cheer team. have enjoyed the sudden transition to fall, She is also the submissions editor of her going for hikes and picking chanterelle courses, avalanche awareness training, school’s literary magazine. After HMI, Becca mushrooms. Stephen and Doe will celebrate and provides custom programs for select Surprenant spent three weeks exploring their 10th anniversary in October and are schools and programs. India. Back at Miss Porter’s, she is now the gearing up for the Bellingham Trail Marathon

29 and lots of coffee. Steve Alexander (X) and his wife, Marianne, welcomed Arlo Owen Alexander into the world on April 21st. He is a bundle of joy and a great addition to the Alexander clan! Steve, Marianne, and Arlo are now in Jamaica for 3 months while Steve researches the human dimensions of marine conservation and management for his PhD, which is based in the University of Waterloo in Canada. Charles Brown (XII) returned to Indian Mountain School as the Director of Faculty, where he teaches, coaches, and works in a dorm. He will start his work on his Masters in Private School Leadership at The University of Pennsylvania in an executive program starting in July. He and his wife Lisa are expecting their first child in March! Elliot Schottland (XVII) is in medical school at Stony Brook University on Long Island. He hasn’t had much time for camping but still uses his headlamp from HMI to read before going to sleep every night. Eve Gasarch Members of Semester XXX met up in NYC for brunch with former Dean of Students, Rebecca D’Elia (XVII) is still plodding through the PhD process in Boulder, teaching Ecology and measuring in November. After teaching at HMI last year, is excited to teach a traveling Marine Biology alpine plants. She looks at plant community Billy Corbett moved to Hanover, NH, and Conservation course in May, but in the response to altered snow and nutrient got engaged, and started working as an meantime loves the Front Range and its ample (nitrogen and phosphorus) conditions both admissions officer at Dartmouth. Julia opportunities for trail running, biking, and along a "natural" elevational gradient and as Stifler thru-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail climbing all year long! Johanna Mickle part of a long-term experimental manipulation. with Katie Reynolds. They started on is permanently back in the Kootenays near John Winston Cochran (XVIII) lives the Mexican border and almost five months Nelson, British Columbia with her husband in Boise, Idaho. He finished his accelerated later reached Canada. They ate more ramen Jon, son Wiley and their dog George. They BSN program in the spring and got his first bombs than they can count, using their plastic are homesteading their off-grid property and nursing job in downtown Boise on a Rehab orange spoons from the HMI gear room, of living in a yurt. Audrey Kruse is in her unit. He has 3 days on, 4 days off, and lots course. Kirk Phelps and his wife, Sharon, second year of graduate school in Flagstaff, to do in his free time! Lindsey Yost are farming in NH with their sons Forest (2) AZ, studying invasive tamarisk trees. She has (XVIII) works for NOLS both in the field and and Joelle (1). Sharon leads the missions led some great backpacking adventures in the as the Program Manager for NOLS Northeast ministry at their church, and Kirk continues Grand Canyon and river trips on the San Juan (operating summers in the Adirondacks). This to teach sailing and springboard diving at a in the last few months. program was started up under the guidance of nearby summer camp. Hans Estrin and Ann Schorling, another HMI apprentice. Kate Zoe Parker are adventuring and teaching Braemer (XX) had a successful and safe in Kazakhstan. The Tien Shan mountains are Apprentices first summer of directing a summer camp. She huge and they can see them clearly from their Kate (Botham) Hilton (IV) lives lives outside of Philly near her family with her 6th floor apartment in Almaty! They spend in Lyme, New Hampshire, with her husband husband and dog in a home with an open weekends exploring them, honing their picnic Andy, 18-month old son Hans, and black Lab, guest room! Oren Gersten (XXI) is in skills (people are really serious about picnics Jethro. In July they enjoyed an visit from Doe his third year of med school in Seattle. He has there), and practicing their Russian. Karen Hatfield (IV) and her daughters, Hanna and been exploring the Cascades in his free time Prazar and her partner Cecilia were Thea. Kate works as a Director of ReThink and trying not to drink too much delicious married during a fabulous weekend at Camp Health and coaches teams and organizations Seattle Coffee. Harrison Buck (XXI) Huckins in Freedom, NH. In attendance were to develop leadership to transform the health got married on September 21st. He and his Katie Reynolds and Julia Stifler, who took a of regional communities. Kate and Andy are wife, Mallory, recently moved to Providence, RI, break from the PCT to come join them. Karen excited to welcome a second son in March where Mallory is getting her masters at RISD. and Cecilia relocated to Dover, NH after a 2014. Lander Purvis Cooney (VIII) Harrison still runs his business, BuckNaked ten day drive across the country in a Subaru writes that her daughter Juniper Helen Cooney Visual Works, doing video and photo work for filled to the brim. Sara Russell works was born March 15th, 2013. She was sad to a wide array of clients. He had great summer at the Watershed School teaching Anatomy/ miss the Anniversary, but was busy figuring out filming and traveling with The Infamous Physiology, Physics, and Outdoor Skills. She her new life, fueled by toothless smiles, spit up, Stringdusters, and is now preparing for 5 weeks

30 | HMI Spring 2013 in NYC working on the set of an independent year of teaching at Stratton Mountain School, After the rivers dried up, she and her older film. Ashton (Fink) Snyder (XXII) lives a winter sports academy for elite skiers and brother headed out on a two-month bicycle with her husband in NW Montana between snowboarders. With plenty of skiing in the tour from Colorado to Florida. She’ll spend the Glacier NP and Banff in British Columbia. She winter and hiking and biking the rest of the winter there brushing up on her Arabic and works as a residential specialist for Chrysalis, year, the Green Mountains of Vermont are a getting ready to teach somewhere in the Arab a Therapeutic Boarding School. Her husband fine place to be, exploring the many trails with World next fall. Josh Cherner (XXIX) is teaches math at the school and they look her new puppy, Penny. Kay Sherwood teaching at the East Bay School for Boys in forward to a full winter of skiing at Whitefish (XXVII) lives in McCall, Idaho and works as Berkeley, CA. He's teaching 6th grade Math and Mountain and Fernie! Ashley Allen (XXII) the Director of Admissions at the Alzar School. Science...and PE. He misses life in Tahoe, but got married this summer and in attendance Amie Fleming (XXVIII) works for Greenbelt thoroughly enjoys being back in the Bay Area. was MaryClaire McGovern (XXII Alliance in San Francisco as their Development Caroline Lowe (XXX) is at home in the apprentice and current math faculty), Amy Coordinator. In her free time she began working Northeast subbing at local schools, studying Tabakin (XXII apprentice), and Cooper for a nonprofit called the Outdoors Empowered for the GREs and thinking about grad school. and Carrie Mallozzi. She then moved to Vail Network, which helps groups in cities across At the end of this summer she road-tripped to to teach 4th grade at Vail Mountain School. the country offer outdoor leadership skill Memphis, biked through TN, AR, and MS, and Lucy Guarnera (XXIII) enjoys spending courses and gear libraries so kids can get then drove back to CT from Mississippi. All told time with her baby, Sammy (Samuel Thomas, outside. She has a great time exploring SF she’s been in 21 states plus Washington DC born 6/15/13), and just got a baby backpack and backpacking in mountains nearby. Elle in the past 5 months. Catherine Klem so she can take him on the trail! Aunge Emery (XXIX) lives in Denver and is working (XXX) teaches math at The Island School, Thomas (XXIII) was recently promoted to towards her Masters in Educational Psychology though she is having a difficult time giving the Dean of Students for The Traveling School. and completing her Colorado Teaching up the attire of the wintry mountains. She She is still based in Bozeman, MT. Eliza Licensure. She teaches middle school science continues to wear scarves and cardigans in the O’Neil (XXV) is the Residential Life faculty as an intern in the Stanley British Primary heat of The Bahamas and, luckily, her co-worker at HMI. She enjoys hanging out with students Teacher Preparation Program. Auriona gifted her a neck fan to keep her cool. and contemplates getting a puppy on a daily East (XXIX) had an awesome spring and basis. Clare Smith (XXV) is in her second summer raft guiding in Arizona and Colorado.

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