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At the Annual General Meeting held on June 10, 2012, the following were elected to the Board of Directors:
Thanks to all members who attended the meeting or voted by proxy. The new Board members will serve for two years.
Special thanks to departing Board members Barb Bryant, Bill Pullman, and Ian Smith.
Members also voted to amend the club's Bylaws to remove the requirement that an 18-month membership be offered to new members joining between July 1 and December 31.
For the picnic, NEOC will provide plates, flatware, cups, punch, and cookies. Bring a main dish for yourself and your family, plus a potluck item to share with everyone. For the potluck part, bring either a salad/sidedish, or a dessert to share. If your last name begins with A – M, bring a dessert; last name N – Z, a side dish.
A lawn chair or two would be a good idea. Bug repellant would be an excellent idea! For the supermarket-challenged we will either order some pizzas, or have some extra hamburgers and hotdogs (if the grill permit comes through). There will be games and prizes for the kids, and the club library will be available for loans and returns.
Picnic Coordinator: Joanne Sankus. Can you help out flipping hamburgers or serving pizza? Please contact Joanne.
Nadya Popova, a former professional orienteering coach in Russia, will be conducting an orienteering training camp for juniors, age 9+ at the beginner - intermediate (White, Yellow and Orange courses) skill levels.
The camp will take place Friday, June 29 - Tuesday, July 3, 2012, at the Blue Mountain Reservation's Trailside Lodge in Peekskill, NY.
For more information, please contact Nadya.
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by Peter Amram
Although Norman Maclean is best known for his 1976 collection of fiction, A River Runs Through It, his posthumously published Young Men and Fire (Chicago, 1992) also attracted considerable attention, including a National Book Critics Circle Award. Young Men and Fire is an examination of a disastrous 1949 forest fire in Montana in which thirteen smoke jumpers were killed, and it is, inevitably, a somewhat melancholy essay.
MacLean’s adult life was spent as a professsor of English at the University of Chicago, but as a youth he had worked in the western forests, and he retained strong affection for nature, an affection which he expressed with terse perspective. In River, for example, Maclean recounted having once belonged to a USFS crew which “did what we had to do and loved the woods without thinking we owned them.” And in Young Men, Maclean declared, “Your best friend when you feel curious about what you are walking on is usually a good map, if you can find one.” He continued with this affirmation, and warning: