National Outdoor Leadership School - Index

National Outdoor Leadership School - brochure - Index

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Contact the Alumni Office via telephone (800-332-
4280) or email (alumni@nols.edu) to find contact
information for your coursemates.
Grads from the 60s
Nancy (Westland) Pallister, MG 06/10/69
Nancy is currently living in Fair Oaks California
while continuing her outdoor pursuits. She recently
spent six weeks in the Winds hiking and climbing
with her partner, Dave. She also paid a visit to
NOLS HQ to reconnect with other early NOLS
instructors and friends.
Grads from the 70s
Mary Jo (Hudson) Newbury, NOLS East 1970
Mary Jo Newbury is hanging up her “NOLS hat”
after 37 years of service to the school. Mary Jo has
filled many roles at NOLS. She has been a true
NOLS pioneer working at NOLS East when the
school operated briefly in Tennessee, instructing
and branch directing at NOLS Kenya in the 70s,
and being a key manager at NOLS Pacific Northwest
as it grew from a seasonal operation to a yearround
program with an incredible facility. Mary Jo
is leaving the school to work for the Port of Skagit
County as the environmental coordinator.
Juan Laden, WRMG 06/12/73
Juan had a showing of his photography work in
Denmark on October 15, 2007. The title of the
show was “Passing Memories, Descansos: Roadside
Memorials of the West.” This is a project that he
has been working on for the last decade and features
41 fine art black and white silver gelatin prints.
Grads from the 80s
Joel Rogers, NCM 08/20/80
Joel photographed umpteen courses from the
Winds to the Cascades to Alaska for NOLS from
1980–1988. He has a new book out about the Seattle
area, titled Seattle.
Mark Stampiglia, WMT 07/06/84
Mark graduated in 1984 under Tony Jewell and subsequently
began climbing on his own throughout
the northeast and amazingly received some personal
mentoring from Jeff and Alex Lowe during this period.
Mark successfully led an expedition in 1996
that climbed the technical South West Ridge on
Ama Dablam (Khumbu Himalaya). His team consisted
of a friend from New York and a local Sherpa.
They were the smallest team on the mountain.
Grads from the 90s
Andy Zahn, SSR-7 02/09/90
Andy has been married for 14 years and has four
kids with one on the way. He became a combat
medic in the Army and was deployed twice since
2003. Andy wanted to say thanks to NOLS for the
opportunities to step out of his comfort zones
and lead. He also wanted to reach out and say hi to
his fellow grads. If anyone needs a medic who has
served under fire, he’s here!
Alicia Long Larson, WRW 07/12/93
NOLSgradandformersummerRMstaff,Alicia,and
her husband, Erik, live in Tucson, Arizona with their
daughter, Sadie. While pursuing a BA in anthropology
from the University of Wyoming, Alicia served as
the first director of UW’s Outdoor Adventure Program
and was member of the recreation advisory
council that established the indoor climbing facility
on campus. She is now fiercely dedicated to indoctrinating
her daughter to the ways of the outdoors.
Sean Sundermann, AKM 07/19/96
Sean is currently volunteering with a group called
Project Great Outdoors in San Francisco
Bay/Reno and a new chapter in Colorado. They
offer high-quality outdoor activities, such as
whitewater rafting, at very low cost to disadvantaged
youth. Their mission is to guide youth toward
self-discovery and broader perspectives
through adventures in the great outdoors.
Alec Denes, ROC-2 08/06/98
Alec finished off a year of fellowship in Mammoth,
California with back-to-back summits of
Mt. Whitney (mountaineer’s route) and Mt. Morrison.
Now he’s headed to Portland, Oregon to
start an orthopedic surgery practice. Any alumni
in the Portland area who want to show him some
of the local mountain biking, hiking and climbing,
or maybe teach him to kayak, send him an email
at adenesjr@gmail.com.
John Pieper, WST 12/27/98
After eight years in Utah, John will be departing
Petzl this fall to assume the sales director role at Osprey
Packs in Cortez, Colorado. He and his wife
will be moving to their ranch in southwest Colorado
to raise their two kids in the mountains and
join an amazing work family at Osprey.
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Grads from the 00s
Winter Ramos, AKIC 05/12/05
Winter was on the maiden voyage of the NOLS Bus
and has taught NOLS courses as an instructor, but
now he has a new job with Rope Partner that combines
both his climbing background and his interest
in alternative energies. Winter now works as a rope
access worker for wind turbines throughout North
America. He does maintenance repairs and assessments
to the blades and takes thermographic photos
of the them on the 300-ft towers.
Jennifer Lail, SAKR 06/07/02
Jennifer is working on graduate degrees in urban
planning and public administration at the University
of Washington in Seattle. She received a graduate
fellowship to study urban planning in
Linkoping, Sweden this fall and is happily settled
in to this beautiful country until January. Jennifer
is heading north to Abisko National Park this fall
for some hiking.
Molly Steffes, FSW 09/05/03
Molly is happy to say she has successfully moved
to Sierra Vista, Arizona, really close to NOLS
Southwest in Tucson. She is so excited to be surrounded
again by the landscape that shaped so
many of her memories on her NOLS Semester in
the Southwest.
Marriages
Annie Dallas, OEK 06/06/03
and Arron Simon, JSPA 01/30/02
Former NOLS employees Arron and Annie married
June 7 in Florida and currently reside in
Granby, Colorado.
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