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President's Letter On August 8, the Randolph Mountain Club held its 99th Annual Meeting. It was an opportunity to thank the membership, the caretakers and crew, the volunteers and the board for all the work they do to make this club a success.
New to the board are Pete Antos-Ketcham, Keith Dempster and Randy Meiklejohn. These names are all familiar to us in the Randolph Mountain Club, Pete for his past history of volunteering with toilet projects and various camps and trails work days, Keith and Randy as fond and frequent summer participants in Club activities. Pete is the Director of Stewardship and the Facilities Manager for the Green Mountain Club. He has 16 years of experience in visitor education and trail and overnight site management along the AT/Long Trail in VT and NH. Pete is the principal author of the ATC’s manual on backcountry sanitation. He served as winter caretaker at Gray Knob off and on since 1997 with 2 full winter seasons in 1998 and 2000. He lives in Starksboro, VT. As Camps co-chair, Pete will work with the Perch restoration committee as they tackle that project for 2010.
Randy is a lifelong summer resident and RMC member. Many of you see Randy and his wife Diane when they come up to visit Randy’s parents, Jim and Meg Meiklejohn. Randy provides valuable perspective at a transition point as year-round residents take a more active role in Club operations and leadership. Randy is a practicing architect in Boston and is chairman of the Conservation Commission at his home in Brookline, MA. We hope to see him take an active role in communications for the Club. We are excited to welcome such talent to our board. Thanks for volunteering! 2010 brings the Randolph Mountain
Club to the verge of a new century. We will celebrate the past
100 years all summer long in 2010. Our active and imaginative
Centennial Committee has planned all kind of events and activities
for next summer. You will find details elsewhere in this newsletter.
I hope very much that you can be here and participate in many
events. If you would like to help with the planning or assist
in any of the activities, please contact Al or Judy Hudson, Randy
Meiklejohn, or Doug Mayer as listed in the accompanying article
about the Centennial. As you know, the RMC is an all volunteer
organization and we really count on each and every one of you
to make our Club a success!
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We
bid farewell to 3 members of our board who have served with willingness
and great skill. Jamie Maddock, our president for 2 years, guided
us through building Stearns Lodge – the fundraising, bidding,
construction, dedication and finally the occupancy phases of
the entire project. Al Sochard was in charge of camps, coordinating
personnel and later chairing the committee. Bill Parlett was
a director for 3 years, and served as treasurer. We will miss
all your special skills and we know we will continue to see you
all in volunteer roles in the future.
Keith
spent his childhood summers growing up in Randolph alongside
his brothers and Meiklejohn cousins. After some summers away
on Cape Cod, he returned to Randolph in the summers beginning
in the 1980’s. Today he and Jim Olson spend increasing portions
of each year in Randolph. At his winter home in Key West, FL,
Keith serves on the board of the local performing arts center
and chairs the board of a chamber music organization. His past
professional career has been in industrial sales and marketing
communications. Keith now chairs the RMC weekly hikes committee.