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Alumni GreenMAP Leaders

 

Year: 2007

Major: Adventure Recreation

Favorite Hobbies/Activities: shredding the gnar in any type of outdoor activity, climbing ice and rocks, YoGa, tea drinking, barbequing and going to the Adirondacks.

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip:  Bruce

Favorite Quote: "where there is love there is no question"

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall: I  get insanely giddy when there is a cupcake bar!

Jane Anderson

 

 

Year: 2008

Major: Adventure Recreation

Favorite Hobbies/Activities:  Snowboarding, Paddling, Ice Climbing, Instructing

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip: Laughter

Favorite Quote:

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall: Sandwich Melter

Tom Barry

 

 

 

Year: 2007

Major: Art/Recreation

Favorite Hobbies/Activities: canoeing, hiking /backpacking, shooting, climbing, sculpture, jewelry making, drawing, and group dynamic stuff

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip: my rain gear...and the spice kit!!

Favorite Quote: "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall: strawberry shortcake

Lauren Borst

 

 

Year: 2006

Major: Adventure Recreation

Favorite Hobbies/Activities: Dancing, sleeping under the stars, tennis, boating, backpacking

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip:  My Fleece Pants

Favorite Quote: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover." ~Mark Twain

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall: Calzones

Aila Brennan

 

 

Year: 2008

Major: Adventure Recreation

Favorite Hobbies/Activities: Kayaking and Aikido

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip:  Funny Jokes/Stories

Favorite Quote: "[River] Holes are like your ex, Sometimes its good to go back to them, sometimes it's not, avoid the unfortunate interludes" -Whitewater Paddling

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall: Belgian waffles

Bob Brody

 

 

Year: 2006

Major: Adventure Recreation 

Favorite Hobbies/Activities: Skiing, Backpacking, Climbing, Rugby, Knitting

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip: my pee-rag and garlic salt

Favorite Quote: I never let my schooling get in the way of my education" -Mark Twain

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall
French Fries and Cereal... but not together

Margrit "Maggie" Burke

 

 

Year: 2006

Major: Liberal Studies/Women's Studies

Favorite Hobbies/Activities: Backpacking, Reading, Rugby, Biking, Movies, scrapbooking, Hammock laying!

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip:  Red Rose Tea, and VEGEMITE!! 

Favorite Quote: "We are here on earth to fart around; don't let anyone tell you any different" -Vonnegut

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall: cucumber and blue cheese bagel sandwiches

Kate Glenn

 

 

Year: 2008 From University Of Wisconsin

Major:Business Administration/University of Wisconsin-Stout

Favorite Hobbies/Activities: Backpacking, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Paddling, Ultimate

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip: My Leatherman and Foon

Favorite Quote: "Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another"

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall: Pasta
Alicia Lano  

 

Year: 2006

Major: Adventure Recreation

Favorite Hobbies/Activities: Rock & Ice Climbing, Paddling, Backpacking ...

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip:  Bruce Saxman

Favorite Quote: "Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'" -Bob Dylan

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall: Chicken Patties

Jami Mantia

 

 

Year: 2007

Major: Recreation

Favorite Hobbies/Activities: Rock Climbing, Ice Climbing, Snowboarding, Birthday Cake Decorating, Photography, Brushing My Beautiful Hair!

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip: Peanut Butter/ My Titanium Spork

Favorite Quote: "I think I'm probably a masochist... Wait, what's a masochist?" (AMR)

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall: Either spinach and mushroom buckets or peanut butter covered ice cream. 

Andrew Megas-Russell

 

 

Year: 2006

Major: Biology

Favorite Hobbies/Activities: Rock & Ice Climbing, Ultimate Frisbee, Backpacking, Volleyball

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip: Cheese

Favorite Quote: "Learning only stops when your imagination stops thinking of ways to continue to learn'"

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall : Marlene's Omelets

Therese Mergen

 

 

Year: 2008

Major: Adventure Recreation

Favorite Hobbies/Activities: Hiking, reading, backpacking, laughing

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip: My fleece

Favorite Quote: "As long as their are young people with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wilderness in their souls, rapids will be run." -Sigurd Olson

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall: Vegan no-bakes

Erika Cowley

 

 

Year: 2009

Major: Natural Resources Management/Pre Law

Favorite Hobbies/Activities:  Backpacking, Goldfish, Frisbee, Running, Climbing, Canoeing, and. . . dogs.

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip: My Crazy Creek chair, and Bruce Saxman

Favorite Quote: "Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!" -Dr. Seuss

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall: Buffalo Chicken Salads

 

Jenna Calvi

 

 

Year:  2004 Radford University/ 2006 Aurora University

Major: B.S. Recreation, Parks, Tourism / M.S. Recreation Administration 

Favorite Hobbies/Activities: Gardening, Rock Climbing

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip: Camp Pillow! The Life of Luxury!

Favorite Quote: "The great thing about climbing is that you can tell your parents that since you started climbing, you hardly do drugs anymore." - Alex Lowe

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall: Corn Dogs!

Elizabeth (Liz) Sanders

 

 

Year: 2008

Major: Adventure Recreation

Favorite Hobbies/Activities: Going on crazy whitewater backpacking and snowboarding adventures

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip: Chocolate and peanut butter

Favorite Quote: "The mountains are calling and I must go."

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall: Waffles

Alexandra (Alex)Scholtz

 

 

Year: 2006

Major: Environmental Management

Favorite Hobbies/Activities: Backpacking, Rugby, Frisbee, Running Sans Apparel, Biking, Bouldering, Farming, Beating up people who say "shred the gnar"

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip: My inanimate Carbon Rod

Favorite Quote: "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason." Jack Handy

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall: Anything from Marlene

Darren Usinowicz

 

 

Year: 2009

Major: Adventure Recreation

Favorite Hobbies/Activities: Rock and Ice Climbing, Backpacking, Paddling

Certifications/ Trainings: Leave No Trace Master Educator, Wilderness First Responder, CPR, Wilderness Education Association NSP, American Canoe Association Kayaking Instructor, ARC Small Craft Safety: Canoe/Moving Water,

Favorite Place: High Peaks, NY

What do you want to be when you grow up?A retired novelist and adventurer.

Casey Graham

 

 

Alex Ziko

Year: 2008

Major: Adventure Rec/Business Minor

Favorite Hobbies/Activities: Ultimate, Snowboarding, Backpacking, Rock Climbing  and Cooking

Item you can’t live without on a GreenMAP Trip: My 5-pound endurance brick

Favorite Quote: “All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast” – John Guthner

Favorite Food/Dish in the dining hall: A toasted blueberry bagel with peanut butter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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