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Fall 2021 www.sanbornwesterncamps.com
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s many of you know by now, we had a fun, successful, COVID-free summer in 2021. We did have to make some changes to our program, create cohorts, wear masks in a few indoor places and do a lot of testing. But it was all worth it! Campers and staff were all smiles while climbing mountains, riding horses, hiking, backpacking, and tubing on the river. They renewed old friendships, made new friends, sang around the campfire, and embraced life in the natural world. They needed it—we all needed it. We are now in the middle of our fall school-weeks season. The High Trails Outdoor Education Center program had to be put on hold for all of 2020 and the spring of 2021, so we were especially excited to welcome students, teachers, and high school-aged counselors back in September. As I write this, our outstanding school weeks staff members are out in the woods teaching earth science through the Prospectors Discovery Group, local history through Homesteaders, and forest ecology through Woodsmen. We are extremely grateful to Academy School District 20 for their continued enthusiasm for the program. None of this would be possible without the remarkable support you, our alums, have provided over the past two years. Your kind words and thoughtful notes buoyed us up during the darkest days and your generous donations had a significant impact on our survival through a year without revenue. As usual, more than a third of our current campers are the children or grandchildren of alums. Some of you even made the trip to camp to help us in our wildfire mitigation efforts by spending the day hauling dead branches. You made it possible for us to survive and return to thriving and we can’t thank-you enough.
Thank-you to Rob Taylor for again contributing to the Alum News—we love the contributions from our readers and are considering increasing the pay from 0 to 3 chits for each article submitted. You can find Rob’s thoughtful essay on Sunday Rocks in this edition. As usual in the fall edition of the Alum News, we don’t have a lot of news. You need to do better on this! Please send us your updates before our big newsy spring edition—or we will be forced to make stuff up. We’re also a little depressed by the scarcity of new babies reported in Vital Statistics—it is not looking good for camp in 2031! Come on, people, get with it! We wish you all a very healthy and joyful holiday season!
Best Regards, Jane Sanborn aka: The Editor jane@sanbornwesterncamps.com
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The Quick Homestead Dear Alums,
the south-facing wall. The insides of the walls and ceiling were insulated with layers of newspaper. Arlo’s father decided that his mother would like living there better if he could replace the massive black, smoky fireplace with a large window . . . but it didn’t work. Later a room of much lower quality construction was added on the east side of the cabin.
In 1969 Sandy and Laura purchased a 500-acre homestead southeast of High Trails from the family of John Quick. Even though we call it the Quick Homestead, it was actually homesteaded back in the 1890s by Daniel Bell. Records from the US Government included witness signatures by Hannah, William, and Silas Allen and the Dodge Family who had earlier acquired the land that is now Big Spring and High Trails. (Do you remember Sandy’s Sy Allen stories?)
The tool shed was an important part of a small self-sufficient farm. We found a variety of tools spanning many years and used for many tasks – a stone sharpening wheel powered by bicycle-style pedals, woodworking tools, a potato sorter, field and garden tools, a saw for cutting ice on a lake, small engines – quite an assortment.
The little farm contains a well-built log cabin, a tool shed, potato cellar, barn, sod-roofed chicken house, and an outhouse in a beautiful valley that flows into the High Trails Lake.
The cellar was another essential part of the homestead. Dug into the hillside and well covered with dirt, the cellar was important for keeping perishable food cool during the summer – and kept it from freezing in the winter. There were shelves along the wall for storing home-canned vegetables, fruit, sauerkraut, venison, etc. There were bins for storing potatoes they grew, traded, and sold ($1 for a hundredpound sack,) root crops from the garden, apples they brought from Canon City, and a place to hang a deer carcass when they were lucky enough to get one. In recent years the roof was caving in, and Jim Larsen and his crew restored the cellar 4-5 years ago.
A visit with Arlo George in the late 80s gave us much of the knowledge we have about the buildings and the family’s way of life. Arlo lived there with his parents in the late 40s for a few years. When his parents moved back to the Eastern Plains, Arlo was 19 years old and lived in the cabin with his wife and first child for a short time. The three-room log cabin included a small bedroom, a kitchen with a wood-burning stove with an oven and warming shelf and a living room with a huge fireplace on 3
There are two places they kept chickens (a very important source of fresh meat and eggs) – a shed with nesting boxes, feeders, waterers, and roosting bars and a crude log building with a sod roof that was so dilapidated that Sandy removed it. Arlo’s dad usually bought 100 chickens each spring – 50 roosters and 50 hens – the hens laid eggs all summer and the family ate the roosters. Behind this shed were rabbit hutches, another source of rapidly reproducing fresh meat. The hutches were in pretty bad shape and are no longer there.
cause they had brought it when they moved here. There is a windmill at Tie Cabin, and we are working on transplanting it to the Quick Homestead to restore part of its history. Through the years we have worked to maintain and restore various features of the site – the chinking between the logs of the cabin, roofs on the cabin and tool shed, fences that were burned, and deteriorating foundations. One winter heavy snows caused part of the roof of the barn to collapse. It would have been a massive job to rebuild that much of the barn, but the maintenance crew stabilized the walls and used rough cut wood from the sawmill to restore the front half of the building.
The largest building is a huge barn which may have been built by Arlo and his father. It has stanchions for milking 6-8 cows, very wide stalls for work horses, and places to raise a couple of pigs to butcher each year and to shelter calves when they were first born. Over half the space was to store hay harvested every fall. The barn was built into the hillside so that hay wagons could pull up on the back side, and hay could be thrown on the stack inside without lifting it from below.
Summer campers love to visit, play vintage games, and learn about pioneer life. HTOEC students become Homesteaders in the role-playing experiences of the outdoor education program. Adults at TNP and SWC reunions enjoy discovering some relic their grandmother had and contemplating a life of very hard work, but of a simpler time. The Quick Homestead is a truly unique asset to the mission and educational program of SWC/COEC.
The family had two sources of water. There was a spring on the south side of the cabin, and they built an 8 x 8-foot building over the spring to keep food cool and to keep the water clean. Near the spring was a windmill. Arlo’s father, a water witcher, walked the area with his forked stick, stopped at this site, and said they would find two streams coming together less than 10 feet underground – and they did! When they sold the place, they took the windmill with them – be-
Previous Page: Photo of Quick Homestead, circa 1969, after Sandy & Laura purchased property Below, from left: Inside of homestead and wood-burning stove; Campers enjoying their time at the Homestead; Interior of the barn on the hill to the east
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definition according to an 8 year old: a time when your grandparents were young; coincides with the age of dinosaurs
prehistoric : pre-1974
DIANE BROWNLEE (HT 7073) Ginther sent this cute photo of granddaughter “Charlie” wearing the classic Sanborn baby shirt. Diane and husband, Paul, retired to Swannanoa, NC.
KEITH WILLIAMS (BS 64-67, 69; Staff 70-77) found time for more Baseball With Friends when he and GARY MISSNER (BS 70-75; Staff 76-78) attended a Cubs game last June with daughter, LINDSEY WILLIAMS (HT 92-95) and her now-fiance AJ. During their May trip to Colorado, Lindsay had planned to show AJ where she went to camp during her summers. (Keith never minds finding reasons to come to camp either.) Keith suggested a hike to Top of The World. Two of their close friends and Keith set out and, when they reached the top, AJ dropped on one knee and proposed to her. She said yes!
DEBBIE DE PEYSTER (HT 64-68; Staff 69, 74) reported that during the COVID pandemic she and husband, James Morris, stayed sane by climbing all forty-eight 4,000 foot peaks in New Hampshire. BART BERGER (BS 60-65; Staff 66) and his girlfriend/ partner have been holding a five day “camp” for their four granddaughters at his family place near Bailey. No parents are allowed! “This year we did archery, art projects, hiking, butterfly chasing, S’mores cooking, swimming, dog petting, running, laughing, giggling, more giggling, gun safety, ghost stories and a duck race down the Platte River- among a few dozen other things. We call it ‘Camp Run-A-Mok.’ The ages were 12/9/8 and 6. It was fantastic, and we expect it to be a permanent feature of their summers from now on.”
PHIL PRINGLE (BS 64-69; Staff 70) sold his store, Pringle’s Fine Wine and Spirits, in Fort Collins, CO. After 39 years at Pringle’s and eight previous years in Colorado retail and Northern California wholesale, he and wife, Barbara, decided “the time has come to start enjoying our wine cellar, spending more time in our gardens, travel, and do some serious fly fishing.”
Summer 2022
Sanborn Western Camps Month Long Sessions First Term: Sunday June 12-Tuesday July 12 Second Term: Saturday July 16-Monday Aug 15 5
Sanborn Junior First Term: Sunday June 12-Sunday June 26 Second Term: Tuesday June 28-Tuesday July 12 Third Term: Saturday July 16-Saturday July 30 Fourth Term: Monday Aug 1-Monday Aug 15
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definition according to an 8 year old: a time before you were born, but your parents seem to recall quite clearly-the Florissant Fossil Beds were formed about this time.
dark ages : 1974-1991
MITCH SMOLLER (BS Staff 79-81) navigated northeast hills, Midwest farmlands, Kansas heat, and the Rockies in a successful solo, self -contained bike ride, coast to coast. He departed Ogunquit Beach on the Maine Coast at the end of June and arrived in Washington state in mid-September. Along the way, he met up with JERRY McLAIN in Florissant!
Rob, have 4 sons—Charlie, Jack, Andy, and Pete, all of whom have been Big Spring campers. MEGAN MUELLER (HT 76-79; Staff 82-83, 85-86) Barry and HEATHER MUELLER (HT 79-83; Staff 85-86) Klonsinski stopped by camp last summer for a visit with Jane and it was wonderful to catch up. Megan lives in Nashville, TN, with husband, Bruce Barry; Heather lives in Belgrade, MT, with husband, KURT KLONSINSKI (BS Staff 85) SHERI BONE (HT Staff 80-82; TNP Staff 07) Fedorchak and husband, Rich are both retired! Rich retired in June 2020 and had a whole year to practice being retired before I retired this summer, at the end of July. “I loved my job, all 31 years of it with the NPS. Eight national parks, many cool experiences and a feeling of satisfaction for things accomplished on interdisciplinary teams. Upon retirement, I headed outdoors to do a task that doesn't require much thinking but gives me a feeling of accomplishment. I have taken to pulling weeds and bagging them, then dropping them off at a "salvage yard," where they get burned.” The Fedorchaks plan to continue to live in Estes Park for the time being, but enjoyed trips to New England, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming over the past few months.
JEN HATGI (HT Staff 87-89) Majer visited in September. Jen has been living in Germany for many years and was back in Colorado visiting family, and we are so glad she made the trip to camp. Jen has two children—Kimberly, 21, and Cameron, 18. NANCY RODKIN (HT 73-78) Rotering has announced her candidacy for the Illinois Supreme Court - 2nd District for the June 28, 2022 Primary. She has been an attorney for over 30 years and is serving her third term as the Mayor of Highland Park, a Chicago suburb. Nancy and husband,
Happy Birthday, Duncan! Using clever, crafty skills cultivated during years of epic pranks and moonlight bareback rides to woo High Trails staff members, a group of well-organized (thanks TOM WEBER) former Big Spring staff and family members gathered together in Eagle, CO this August to surprise Duncan Clarke and celebrate his 70th birthday. The birthday celebration included good food, great stories, golfing, horseback riding, and apparently a little whiskey. Attendees included (see photo, right): MATT SUTTON, SAM CARKHUFF, TOM WEBER, STEVAN SIMICH, FRANK WILLIAMS, Andre Weber, DREW WEBER, MIKE AZBELL, SCOT ANDERSON, STEVE HALL & DUNCAN CLARKE (not pictured but in attendance: LACHLAN CLARKE)
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definition according to an 8 year old: The time preceding right now-pioneers still churned butter and made candles during this period.
olden days: 1992-present NOAH WILLIAMS (BS Staff 18-19) won the Leadville Trail Marathon on June 19, 2021, with a time of 3 hours and 35 minutes for the 26.2 mile course. MIKE (BS Staff 14-17; BS Co-Director 18-21) and SARAH KRUMHOLZ (HTOEC Staff 13-16; HTOEC Director 1721) ADLER left COEC last July to pursue graduate work in Education. They are living in the Boston area where Mike is a student at Harvard and Sarah is studying at Boston University. We are grateful for their many contributions over the past six years and know they will be back to visit—they assure us that they already have their plane tickets! ANNE STEBBINS (HT 89-93; Staff 95, 97)Abueva and sister KATY STEBBINS (HT 86-89; Staff 91, 93-97) Yahr stopped by High Trails last spring for a family tour (trying to get another couple of sisters excited about camp) and a walk down memory lane with High Trails director, ARIELLA RANDLE (HT 86-90; Staff 91-96, 01-current) Rogge.
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EVY ROYTHER (HT 03-09; Staff 13-14) Sledge and new husband, Tate, are living in Chicago where Evy is a veterinarian and Tate is a management consultant. EDITOR’S NOTE: Look, Olden Day-ers, we get it. The amount of bytes, bits and gigas you navigate every day is shocking. And we also know that you think email is antiquated, superfluous and fairly annoying. But we are a little like your mom (or grandma) and need a few words every now and again. A sentence or two. A joyous image with a clever caption. So just let us know what you are up to or at least send us a photo when you are feeling proud, but not ironically proud. We would love to hear about your stuff from you...otherwise we are going to end up stalking you on the Instametaface. #terrifying
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BEAU PIERCE (BS 60, 62) July 11, 1947—May 18, 2021 CHARLIE PARR (BS 93, 95, 97-01; Staff 03) April 21, 1985— September 2, 2021 LACHLAN CLARKE (BS Staff 90-91) October 14, 1956—October 25, 2021 ent type of draft team than horses.” 9 Iditarods? You were a man of endless pursuit, passion for life and adventure.
We lost a great one unexpectedly this week. Rest in Peace Lachlan Clarke! You were an inspiration, a phenomenal horseman, kind soul, incredible teacher and a great friend. You are missed! Sending much love to your wife, Linda Clarke, and brother, Duncan Clarke, and sister-in-law, Patti Clarke and all who were lucky enough to be in your presence. I remember my first ride with you, Duncan and a few others at Sanborn Western Camps in 1992 and it was a day that I think of often. We covered ground and it was the first time I really experienced what riding and working on a horse with a purpose felt like. Thanks for taking some of us bull riding in Pueblo, CO and for so many other incredible experiences.
I have few regrets in life. But one was passing on the opportunity to work with you and Linda at Fountain Valley School and the amazing horse program you led there. Love you and miss you Lach... Our world lost a man of impeccable character, work ethic and incredible knowledge and wisdom... -Stevan P. Simich-
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vital statistics
marriages, births & adoptions, life celebrations births: KELLY MUEDEKING (HT 03-06; Staff 09-14) and BEA RAEMDONCK (HT 01-05; Staff 08-12) MUEDEDONCK a son, Teller Bailey, June 9, 2021, in Denver, CO Grandparents: Dirk and LESLIE RISS (HT 63-68; Staff 69) Raemdonck Breckenridge, CO Nicole Poole and RICK FRIESEN (BS 96-99; Staff 02-05) a son, Arlo Stanley Friesen, June 19, 2021, in Denver, CO Grandparents: ROB (BS 62; Staff 65-68) and CONNIE McWILLIAMS (HT Staff 66-68) FRIESEN Denver, CO
ALLEY WELSCH (HT 94-99 ; Staff 02 ) and Adam Olshansky a daughter, Willa , September 7, 2021, in Cambridge, MA
marriages:
ERIN DVORAK (HT Staff 15, 17; HTOEC Staff 17-18) to Patrick Clark in Villisca, IA, June 12, 2021 ADRIENNE DEVORE (HT Staff ) to Sam Wakser in Denver, CO, June 18, 2021 EVY ROYTHER (HT 03-09; Staff 13-14) to Tate Sledge in Park City, UT, June 26, 2021 NOELLE BIERMAN (HT Staff 16) to DALTON BALCONOFF (BS Staff 16) in Florida on July 8, 2021 Camp Marriage # 81 DAVE PECK (SWC Staff 10-current) to JENNY HARTMAN (SWC Staff 08-15) in Cripple Creek, CO, July 12, 2021 Camp Marriage #82 TESS COHEN (HT 03-06, 08; Staff 11-12) to Tom Hartnett in Jackson Hole, WY, August 28, 2021 From top left: Rick, Arlo & a shared sense of wonder; Bea, Kelly & Baby Hippo Teller, Halloween 2021; Alley and Willa at home; Dave Peck & Jenny Hartman, Camp Marriage #82; HT Celebrates Tess and Tom: Ashley Robins, Bea Muededonck, Sean Sudekum, Tess Cohen, Clara Troyer, Kelly Muededonck; Patrick and Erin enjoying their wedding day
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From top left: Maya Ovrutsky & Rob Bellon on a Brooklyn stoop; Hooray for Eddie & Erica!: Hannah Flink, Bea Muededonck, Erica Wilkins, Kelly Muededonck, Hilary LeBlanc, & Clara Troyer; Adrienne Devore & Sam Wakser coming down the aisle; Cousins! Bea Muededonck, Maddie Jurden & Kelly Muedonck; Andrew Johnson & Lisa Gawronski in Hendersonville, NC. EDITOR’S NOTE: via Teller Muededonck (pictured on opposite page in the hippo costume) “My moms really like camp and camp people. When they are not busy with me (and I am pretty busy...but very cute), they do work stuff and go to camp weddings. It’s kind-of their thing. I don’t mind, though, because I get to hang out with my grandparents, stay up late, and watch cartoons. It’s a win-win.” We definitely appreciate Kelly and Bea’s contributions to the Alum News!
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In 2016 the National Association of Geoscience Teachers presented Bud with the prestigious Neil Miner Teaching Award “in honor of his exceptional contributions to the stimulation of interest in the Earth sciences”. Bud was honored in October at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Portland. Dr. Herb Meyer, Paleontologist at the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument presented a tribute entitled “The 67-Year Legacy of Bud Wobus on the Florissant Quadrangle, Colorado”.
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raduation festivities at Williams College in May included the retirement of BUD WOBUS (BS 54, Staff 60-68, HTOEC 69, 79, COEC Board 1998-current) honoring 55 years as a professor of geoscience, former head of the department, teacher, mentor, and research supervisor. Bud was declared the Edna McConnell Clark Professor of Geology, Emeritus. A rock garden adjacent to the new science center at Williams was named in his honor. The garden features eleven large boulders and specimens from across the country -- including Pikes Peak Granite. (see diagram and description on the following page)
Bud’s geology career began in 1954 as a 13-year-old camper at Big Spring where he received an introduction to the Colorado mountains. During the early 60s he began a decadeslong association with SWC/COEC. He created a geology program at BS and HT, led mountaineering and rockhound adventures, created programs and displays at “the Depot” and the Interbarn, helped develop the Prospectors curriculum at HTOEC, led field excursions at TNP, and taught seminars for outdoor educators and camp directors at Stalking Education in the Wild. Bud was an original Board of Trustees member when COEC was founded in 1998 and was recently re-elected to a 4-year term. It has also been a family affair. Bud met his late wife, SHERRY WITCHER WOBUS (HT Staff 64-70, camp marriage #3) while co-leading mountain climbs in the early years at HT. Both of their sons, ERIK (BS 83-84, Staff 90-91) and CAM (BS 85-87, Staff 93, 95) and grandson ETHAN (BS 2019) attended Big Spring. Bud’s research and publishing include being the lead author of the Geologic Map of the Florissant 15-minute Quadrangle published in 1978 as well as an author on adjacent geologic quadrangles. These maps all provided data for the Geologic Map of Colorado helping to interpret and understand the detailed geologic history of central Colorado. He did much of his research and mapping while based at Big Spring.
Among the many accomplishments of his tenure are the creation of field-based research opportunities for students in the small liberal arts colleges in western Massachusetts, the co-founding of the Keck Geology Consortium with 18 member institutions across the country supporting undergraduate research and the establishment of travel-study experiences around the world for Williams alumni– including many trips to The Nature Place.
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His retirement from Williams is now giving him more time to complete work on his book, “The Big Flat, Colorado’s Subalpine Erosion Surface in the Southern Front Range. What’s Beneath, What’s Above, What Has Changed.” His book is due to be released in 2022.
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The Bud Wobus Rock Garden
“The Junior Counsellors of 1960” (clockwise from top left): Bill Wilkerson, Bud Wobus (counselor), John Wells, Terry Talbot & Bob Benish
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle & Donate
JOHN (BS Staff 06-09) and ALIDA OVRUTSKY(HT 95-02; Staff 06, 08-09) LEAVITT donated the classic RAV 4 (aka: The Ravioli) seen in this photo to Sanborn Western Camps/COEC before leaving Colorado to move to Maine. It is a serious upgrade over the fleet vehicle it replaced, also seen here. Thankyou, John and Alida!
We are also open to golf carts, electric trucks and other environmentally friendly vehicles...but this one to the left was fun, but not super functional for the Big Spring Garbage Man.
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If you have an old pick-up or SUV you would like to donate to a good cause, please let us know. It does not have to be in mint condition, but it should run. You can claim it on your taxes as a charitable donation and have the immense satisfaction of knowing that your vehicle has become a member of the long and fabled history of camp vehicles. You can even choose its camp name!
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n a beautiful spring day, a dedicated group of hardy alums and current staff and campers joined us to complete a variety of work projects to help us get ready for our summer season. Staining the Big Spring tent frames before flying the tents is always a big job and MATTHEW HUFFMAN (BS 85; Staff 89-93, 14-16), CHRISTOPHER BONILLA (BS 15-16, 18, 21), ALEX BONILLA (BS 18, 21), RENDLE FUSSELL (BS 86,88), CHRIS “BC” MILLER-McLEMORE (BS Staff 08-09; HTOEC Director 10-14) ULIZIO and CARRIE ELLSWORTH (HT 10-16; Staff 19, 21) joined Mark, PJ, and Kado to make huge progress on this task. They were covered with stain by the end of the day (we had warned them to wear old clothes). The second painting crew was much neater. SUSAN RISSMAN (HT Staff 8485), ROBYN RISSMAN (HT 85,87,89, 92-93; Staff 95), CARRIE FUSSELL (HT 85-86) Bonilla, and Jerre Fussell painted most of the outside doors at The Nature Place with Jane, Martie, and Lara. (To be honest, this crew may have been especially selected for their neatness ability.) Three crews were dedicated to picking up downed trees and branches and contributing to our wildfire mitigation efforts. They hauled truckload after truckload from areas around High Trails to the saw mill or our burn pile in Potts Meadow. These hard workers included: BOB LAYS (BS 65-70; Staff 71-78) and his wife, Susan Beall, ROB TAYLOR (BS Staff 75-78, 8384) and his friend, Cathy,
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SARAH BURNHAM (HT 10-16; Staff 19, 21), LIZA ROE (HT Staff 19, 21), HOLLY ARCHER (HT Staff 02,04, 07), CLAIRE KERCKHOFF (HT Staff 06-07) Mademann, WILL BRIGHT (91-96, Staff 99)-Frare, SCOTT STURGIS (BS 89-90), PIPER STURGIS (HT 21), RYAN McGOWAN (BS Staff 00-12), ASHLEY NORD (HT 93-97; Staff 04-12) McGOWAN, ELLA McGOWAN (HT 21) and Maia McGowan. David Fussell wielded his chainsaw to great effect and staff members Emily, Anne, Jessie, Jill, and Ariella kept the crews on track. We celebrated at the end of the day with a relaxing cookout at The Nature Place. We accomplished a huge amount and are incredibly grateful for the help of these alums and friends. We plan to host another Alum Work Day next spring so watch for the details if you would like to join us!
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e’re happy to share the exciting news that we will be breaking ground this Fall for a brand-new Health Center at Big Spring and we plan to have it completed by next summer! It will be located in the flat area in front of the Big Spring Barn where the Real Estate Office is currently located. We do understand that some of you Big Spring boys may have an emotional attachment to the REO and mourn its demise. But, let’s get real! It is really a pretty crummy building and it has to go in the name of progress. We do promise to carefully sift the debris for 1948 coins or forbidden objects you may have hidden under the floorboards in 1962.
over the years and the Big Spring Health Center, like the HT Health Center, will be modern and up-to-date so our nurses will have the resources they need to provide outstanding medical care for our campers and staff. In addition to the Health Center, the new building will include (with separate entrances) multiple bathrooms which the boys can use when they are running to the store, heading out for a ride, or eating in the Lodge. It will also house an all-purpose program and meeting room. Designed by architect and alum, camp parent, and COEC Trustee Dan Miller, the new building will blend right in with the western rustic ambiance at Big Spring.
As many of you know, we built a new Health Center at High Trails in 2013, and there has been a bit of jealousy among Big Spring nurses ever since. Expectations and best practices surrounding health care at camp have changed a lot
The Big Spring Health Center has been one of the projects promoted in our Sanborn Tomorrow Capital Campaign and it will be built with funds you generously donated to that campaign. We will update you on its progress throughout the winter and will hope that COVID-19 has receded enough by June, 2022, that we can again welcome parents, alums and friends into the camps so you can see it for yourselves!
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Had many all-camp activities outdoors, in cohorts & socially distanced
Summer 2021
Start We started off in masks and our whole seasonal staff was fully vaccinated
And camp felt like camp
We began expanding our cohorts after receiving multiple negative test results
Big Spring campers still played in the water (it rained a lot this summer) And built even stronger communities through cohort trips and living
We made LOTS of friends (both people & animals)
We kept all of the important, mission-based traditions
Our campers loved their camp experience in 2021.
We never ran out of s’mores, and we were never in a fireban (which was great for campfires!) From horseback riding through Aspen groves, ...and it ROCKED!
just as sweet as ever!
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We added new programs like bike-packing trips...
High Trails campers still sang at Vespers and cheered at Opening Campfire
...and kept all of the friendship and laughter. We tried out some new venues for skit nights
And learned new outdoor skills from outstanding, supportive staff members
Campers still climbed lots of mountains and explored our public lands
to canoeing at 11 Mile Reservoir,
to mountain biking for the first time,
And the JC’sand OB’s still went to the Great Sand Dunes for their special trips
to climbing a fifth 14,000 foot mountain,
we all created memories
and friendships that will last a lifetime. Summer 2021 was a little different...
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W are incredibly grateful to the following alums who continue to make generous donations honoring their ongoing pledges to the Sanborn Tomorrow Capital Campaign. Many, many of you have donated or fulfilled your pledges to the Capital Campaign. Thank-you.
DENALI CLUB $500,000--$999,999 Ken Wallace
KILIMANJARO CLUB $250,000--$499,999
John & Linda Ward O’Hara Family
MT. ELBERT CLUB $150,000--$249,999
The Allen Family Foundation In memory of Robert W. Allen The Cameron Family Foundation Roger and Lauren Cameron Mia Fisher & William Pollack In memory of Angela Fisher
MT. MASSIVE CLUB $100,000--$149,999 Anonymous
LA PLATA CLUB $50,000 – $99,999
Anonymous Dave and Cathy Gepson Burnham Barb Rowley,Taylor Middleton, Anna and Kate Middleton In honor of Jane Sanborn
MT. ANTERO CLUB $20,000 – $49,999
The Carney Family Charitable Foundation Chris and Colleen Carney Courtney Tinker and Jackie Millberger Hatfield In memory of Mark Millberger
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh O’Kane In honor of Jerry McLain Jim “Herc” Roth Barbara D. Schofield In memory of John B. Schofield Victoria and Frank Williams
QUANDARY PEAK CLUB $10,000 – $19,999 Steve and Katy Smith Abbott Landers and Mimi Carnal In honor of Boyd, Landers, and Mary Carnal Lisa Rudolph Cushman Family In memory of Sandy and Laura “The Fab Five” Julie Micou Cerf, Mary “Bunny” Porter. Lisa Schneck, Kathy Medlock Tuteur, Kathy Yanuck Wenger Jason and Jean Armour Lewis Betty and Jerry McLain In memory of Kristin McLain Doug and Kay Seessel Rawlings Jane McAtee Sanborn Bud Wobus In memory of Sherry Whitcher Wobus
MT. PRINCETON CLUB $5,000 – $9,999
Jake, Olivia, Noah & Zoe Colley Rob and Connie McWilliams Friesen Levi & Elizabeth Rundle Marable Matt and Ariella Randle Rogge In honor of Jane Sanborn Sandra and Denny Weber Harris and Virginia Malmo White In honor of Jane Sanborn
MT. BELFORD CLUB $2,500 – $4,999
Steve and Jana Bohnen Pat and Libby Hamilton Malone Nancy Shiffler In memory of Sandy and Laura Anne Shingler John & Nancy Shingler In honor of Anne Shingler
MT. OXFORD CLUB $1,000 – $2,499
Mike Adler Kitty Bliss, Mimi and Maggie James In honor of Alice Robinson Levy Bill and Amy Sawyer Daniher Virginia Gillespie Melanie Hancock Taylor and Martie Adams Jones Judy and Roger Proffitt Mark Rutberg Mark Shelton In memory of Patsy and John Shelton Jessie Spehar
PIKES PEAK CLUB $500--$999
Anonymous In memory of Sam Jenkins Peggy Seessel
ADDITIONAL DONOR Gary Missner
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e are also grateful for the following Annual Fund donations we have received between May 1, 2021 and October 31st, 2021.
PIKES PEAK $100,000 and above
Estate of William Comley
A BLUFF $10,000 – 99,999
Mary Lhevine in honor of Paul Lhevine Gary & Mary Bracken Swanson Renaissance Charitable Foundation
FISH CREEK $5,000 – 9,999
Colin & Sara Clark Mark & Elizabeth Dubinsky Daoust Chris & Mike McCarthy
LITTLE BLUE $2,000 – 4,999
2021 Big Spring & High Trails Summer Staff John & Emily Myrick Densmore Foster Family Private Foundation Helen Clay Frick Foundation Laura Jenney Roe John & Lolly Gepson Jeff Roberts
SUNDAY ROCKS $1,000 – 1,999
Nancy & Mark Foster Barbara Goetz In memory of Susan Goetz Beall and Dr. Dudley Goetz Hendricks Family Fund Janet P. Hendricks Mike & Carolyn Schiele Murray Jane McAtee Sanborn Maximus Stetich Tom Weed
HIGH TOR $500 – 999
Anonymous Janice DeMocker Reinhard “Shrimp” Goethert Chris & Suz Gepson Hagen Jeff & Tanna Shaw Hoopingarner Kimberly & Paul Loar
Forever Sanborn
Katie Pigott Lisa Schneck Jessie Spehar Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co. Foundation Family of Will and Henry Stupp
B BLUFF $250 – 499
Emily Burnham Elizabeth Rundle Marable Peter & Katie McKee Charlie & Muffy Rice Robyn Rissman Ariella Randle Rogge Kathy Ruekberg In memory of Joe Ruekberg Anne Shingler Bud Wobus In memory of Melinda Wells McKnight
WITCHER ROCKS
Anonymous (2) Amazon Smile Josiah Barron Ramirez Clara Battle Gabe Bennett Habron Botts Jamie Bruesch Sarah Burnham Finn Burns Delaney Cooper Eva Crossman Caroline Daniher Danny Denenberg Paul Dibble Madeleine Dietrich Callie Donaldson Elizabeth Eickman In memory of Charlie Parr Tom Elder Carrie Ellsworth Millie Eubanks Paul Fouts Sully Gill Abby Greenberg Emma Greenbeg Katie Hayes Angela Hendricks In memory of Peter Whiteley Leah Herring
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Ellie Hewell Jenna Howard Adam Hureau Chace Hutchings Lisa Johnston In memory of Susan Goetz Beall and Dr. Dudley Goetz Dale Jordan, III On behalf of Susan Davis Jordan Brenda Kane In memory of Susan Goetz Beall and Dr. Dudley Goetz Carly Liebich Alan Lovelidge Sam Marsh Tran Mawicke Annie McDevitt Susan McKnight In memory of Georgia Chandler, Melinda Wells McKnight and William Comley Aaron Mendez Jane & Jay Metcalf On behalf of Emily and Linnea Metcalf In memory of Bob Bucholz and Roger Sanborn Madison Newsom Tracey Michael Petrakis Ross Pohlman Jack Samuels Kelly Sheehan Jeff Sladewski Abby Smalley Justin Swanson Francesca Tashijian In memory of Peter Whiteley Judy Vaughan In memory of William Comley Daniela Watkins Jennifer White In memory of Susan Goetz Beall and Dr. Dudley Goetz Jack Whittle Mimi Lays Wright Brendan Zeien
everal contributors have chosen to make a gift through beneficiary designation in their wills, IRAs, 401k (or similar) plans or life insurance policies. If you have done so or desire to do so, please let us know so that we can make you a member of Forever Sanborn, a group of donors who have made COEC a part of their estate planning.
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“Singing together is an expression of feeling with a long history. One can imagine people humming and enjoying their songs around some ancient campfire before recorded time. Instrumental music and singing provide some of the best times at camp, where nature provides us a setting in which we feel kinship with each other and with all life.” —Laura Sanborn 1962
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unday Rocks is a place we come together in community with each other and with nature and each of us with a meaning of our own. Our voices joined, even if sometimes sung a little off pitch, traveling on the wind in our harmony around our one world. The path winding upward through the ponderosa pine and granite boulders looked familiar even after many years. At the top on the sloping hillside I found a place to sit looking to the Puma Hills, Wilkerson Pass, and high snowy peaks beyond while the breeze sang through the pines. The feeling of relationship felt familiar. A relationship to the mountains, grasses, the ant crawling on my boot, birds soaring over, the deer who owned the bones I passed, and the bear that must have passed this way marked by the scat on Horse Thief Pass. The creatures seen and unseen on this planet and objects and forces in the earth and skies found nexus with generations of human creatures singing, reciting, musing, and in silent meditation at Sunday Rocks. On the mountain top, the beauty in view kindled the beautiful memories of songs, instruments, quotes read from little white strips of paper, silences, Sandy’s mountainous voice and rosy cheeks framing his big smile. Edelweiss, My Knapsack on My Back, Blowin in the Wind, The Circle Game, and others were stuck in my head. Along with Sandy there was Phil Allen’s mandolin, Jan San’s and Annie Garretson’s guitar leading clear voices and gruff voices in harmony that was our own offering to the Cosmos. When is the last time you went to Sunday Rocks? The funny thing about Sunday Rocks is the harmony needn’t be on Sunday. Nor does going to Sunday Rocks need to be on rocks. Songs may change, new faces and wandering places offer voices or energy to nature around us and nature of
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our human spirit within. Sunday Rocks crosses space and years. Gatherings of people anywhere, generations past and generations to come have and will be offering joyful hearts and gathering energy from nature all around. Over time, Sunday Rocks has followed me. When traveling by foot, bicycle, or auto pausing to take in the energy of nature and send an offering of a song, a poem, or quiet breaths honors the nexus of ages and cosmos. At the top of Hoosier Pass by the sign announcing the Continental Divide at 11, 542 feet, we pull over to appreciate the place with breaths and a poem—and if it’s a rest break, to wonder on which side of the divide will the extra water find its flow to the oceans. Others that haven’t had the good fortune for time at camp embrace the ritual. On a river trip, expect the last morning to be a celebration of Sunday Rocks. The close-knit adventurers remark on the making of friends, what was learned, appreciated, and poetic recitation regales the gathering. “Some people call me the space cowboy—" was the benediction for a memorable Sunday Rocks on the Colorado River at the mouth of Dark Canyon. Each of us, with a meaning of our own, come together in community with nature and send our spirit on the winds around one world at Sunday Rocks.
“Oh, may I go a-wandering until the day I die, Oh, may I always laugh and sing beneath God’s clear blue sky.” —The Happy Wanderer, page 32,
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SOS Songs of Sanborn--
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reconnects & reunions
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Bryan, Eleanor, Katy and Riley Yahr, with Anne and Steve Abueva connected on a family trip to Colorado and toured High Trails last May. Proud parents & grandparents, Connie & Rob Friesen, with daughters Katie Reneker & Betsy McMichael and Big Spring camper/grandsons Dean McMichael, Henry Reneker, and Andy McMichael on Closing Day.
Kristin Foseid Robbins, Connie McWilliams Friesen, and Kathy Miller Krogh met up this summer in Denver for an “Old Camp Friends” reunion while Kathy was visiting her son in Colorado Springs. Megan Mueller Barry, Jane Sanborn and Heather Mueller Klonsinski reconnecting at The Nature Place in Florissant. Sanborn Family History was made on Sept. 25, 2021 with an ascent of Mt. Sherman...Patrick Perry’s last fourteener (he has climbed them all now)! The family camped at the Leavick Valley property and climbed with adopted uncle and COEC Board member, Jeff Roberts. How Patrick had never climbed Sherman is a mystery...
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ver the last year and a half, we have had to look for “silver linings.” Because we like stars, summer and sunshine--it is only fitting that many of our discovered “silver linings” are also words that begin with the letter “s” and are also exactly what kids need right now from the adults around them. Think Small: At camp, our living units and cabinsides are the hub of camper relationships. Campers typically branch out and connect with other like-minded campers on different trips and activities, but they always return “home” to those smaller groups. Beyond the cabinside/unit overnights, cabin/cabinside/tent/unit counselors aren’t traditionally assigned to do activities with just “their” campers during camp. This summer, that changed. The cohort model we employed in 2021 meant our living units spent most of the first 10 days of camp together, with campers in the living units doing trips and activities with their own staff members. Instead of being bored with having to spend time with the same people, our campers and staff members loved that deeper sense of community and connection. Go Slow: The smaller communities changed the pace of each day at camp. Except for the bells bringing us together for meals, the living unit cohort had the ability to set the schedule for the day based on how the group was feeling and what campers and staff wanted to do. There were hikes that became hammock and book reading experiences and games activities that became forest explorations. Because of the consistent time spent with their campers, staff members were better able to plan trips and activities for them. The slower pace was also a respite from the “must-do, must-do”, harried, fragmented, noisy and exceptionally uncertain
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world outside of camp. Provide Structure: Even though the pace was slower, making sure campers and staff had a framework and plan for each day continued to be important. An important addition to that normal camp structure was a new, nightly meeting called “Round-Up”. Each evening, the living unit would gather together and go through the following: • Shout-outs: gratitude and thank you’s to people inside and outside of the group, an opportunity to acknowledge and appreciate the big and little individual efforts made that positively impacted the community. • Ownerships: sometimes we make mistakes that hurt or have a negative impact our community; taking ownership for those mistakes or missteps allows us to take responsibility for our actions/behaviors, build community compassion, and allow everyone to move on. • Team Time: could be a fun game, could be a thoughtful question, could be a teambuilding activity...the sky is the limit (but bedtime is also a limit... so most evenings this was a reflection on the day) • Crystal Ball: What is happening in the future? What does the next day look like? What does the next week look like? Who has questions? How do we want this to look? Staff and campers both appreciated this structure in the evenings, and it also allowed the staff to get on the same page and be more strategic in their work and goals for individual campers and their efficacy as a team. Simplicity: Compared to the outside world, camp is a pretty simple place. You have a bed, you have a limited amount of personal stuff, you have set meal times, you have planned activity blocks, you have set bedtimes, and you 20
don’t have any technology to distract you. When you go backpacking, horsepacking, camping or climbing in the backcountry, you bring even less and have even more focus and purpose. The simple act of silently watching the sun rise or taking the time to watch a deer watching you or playing UNO for hours in a tent with your friends is why a day at camp feels like a year, but a week at camp feels like a day. Simplicity narrows our options, which eases the burden of decision-making and allows us just to be. Sense of Control: Technology, and social media specifically, provides an illusion of control. Kids (and adults) can turn on their phones and “connect” with other people, but the social currency of “likes” and “loves” and the exposure to cyberbullying, trolling and the nonstop consumption of images and information can be harmful to the development of authentic connections and confidence, especially for developing brains. Taking the time to build community and understand the pace and structure of camp in smaller groups this summer gave the campers and staff more of a sense of control of the whole camp experience. Because staff members had more autonomy and more responsibility when it came to their individual campers’ outcomes, the first two weeks of camp forced them to work together, to try new things, and to develop competence in outdoor, leadership and youth development skills faster than ever before. Out of that new-found competence came confidence. Similarly for the campers, the smaller community, evening round-ups and time together increased trust and provided the authentic, real-time, IRL (in real life) relationships kids need to feel like they know, understand and trust the people around them and themselves.
• Something to Believe In: Many camps this summer struggled to find staff. Even though good men are often hard to find (and tend to apply really late in the season), we had an exceptional--and robust--group of talented and committed staff members. In a normal summer, we believe in and ask a lot of our staff. During the 2021 summer, we asked even more--and what they accomplished was nothing short of amazing. Each and every one of them believed in and had committed to our mission:“To live together in the outdoors, building a sense of self, a sense of community, a sense of the earth and a sense of wonder through fun and adventure.” They also were deeply invested in the experience for themselves and for the campers. Everyone needed this time in the natural world, these authentic connections to others, this opportunity for personal growth and this space to regain possibility and curiosity. After losing our 2020 summer camp season, we all needed to believe we could stay healthy and let camp happen...and we did it... together. Somewhere to Belong: This belief in the experience helped create the vessel of the summer--and into it poured the campers from all over the country and world who really hungered for and ached for a consistent community where they could feel a sense of connection and belonging. We had campers and staff who had not been in a classroom with peers since March of 2020. We had campers and staff who had spent most of the pandemic with their immediate families. We had campers and staff who had lost their sense of direction and purpose and were dealing with anxiety resulting from the uncertainty of the unknown. Camp was a foundational and grounding experience for all of us. This year, it was both known and new in many ways, but it was the community we all needed.
Support: Camp staff are called “camp counselors” for a reason: they support, nurture and guide the growth and development of the campers. It is a hard, hard job. Amy Scott (LJLJ), our mental health specialist, led a staff training session called, “You Have All of the Tools” because, in most cases,
It was the community we all needed. we all do. The long and the short of it is this: each of us has the capacity to hold space for each other if we can acknowledge that we all have emotions and emotions are like the weather: always there and always changing. Many times, all we need is to be heard and the storm can pass through us. Counselors (both at camp and with credentials) provide support by being there and giving individuals permission to experience, acknowledge and grow beyond their emotions. People sometimes get stuck, but most of the time, people--and especially children-don’t need us to try and fix the situation. They need us to be there...and, at camp, we have the time and the space and the people to be here for kids and for each other. Security: The pandemic has exposed many inequities in our society. Housing, food, health, workplace and financial insecurities have added layers to the pandemic that are complicated and difficult to understand or quickly resolve. The overarching uncertainty and insecurity we are all feeling makes it difficult to know what we should do...individually, collectively, for our family, for our friends, for our communities, for our country. So everyone is trying everything. Or, in the words of a pithy bumper sticker (Alexander Hamilton did NOT actually say, or 21
sing, this), “If you stand for nothing, then you’ll fall for everything.” So we took a stand last summer and we required PCR tests, campers and staff consistently wore masks in their living units for the first few days of camp, we told counselors who weren’t vaccinated they wouldn’t be able to leave the property for time off, we encouraged campers to get vaccinated if they could, we tested unvaccinated campers weekly until our bubble was formed, counselors couldn’t go to concerts or sporting events or eat indoors during their time-off, our off-site support staff wore masks anytime they interacted with our staff or campers, our counselors wore masks in all public spaces all summer long...the list goes on and on. Yet the security didn’t come from all of the measures we put in place, it came from the trust we placed in our campers, our staff members, our camp families to follow the guidelines and to do the right thing individually so they could protect the experience for each other. And they did. Security is knowing that you can count on the people and resources around you to provide you with what you need to survive. Summer 2021 taught us that we can not only survive, but thrive. Kids have always needed a healthy dose of the “s” words to help them grow and “s”ucceed at home, in school, at camp and in life. Since the world of children is created by the world of adults, we should continue to be intentional in our creation, thoughtful in our consumption, and powerful in our protection of the children in our care.
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2021 Chips off the Old Block: the second, third & fourth generations in camp
Avery Allen, 11 Rachel and ROBERT “BOBBY” Reese Allen, 9 ALLEN (BS 90-92; Staff 2000) Wylie, TX Grandparents: Diane and JOHN ALLEN (BS 63-68; Staff 70-71) Tulsa, OK Kayang Armour, 9 MOLLY ARMOUR (HT 89-92, 97; Staff 01) Carbondale, CO Brook Bagwell, 7 Megan and CLINT BAGWELL (BS Staff 06-09) Ormond Beach, FL Jack Barber, 14 BRIAN BARBER (BS 86, 87-88) Oklahoma City, OK Brock Barrett, 17 Precia and GREG BARRETT (BS 80, 83) Oklahoma City, OK Jackmond Batchelor, 13 Margaret Reilly and TREY BATCHELOR (BS 75-76) Los Angeles, CA Gus Beatty, 10 Susan and LUKE BEATTY (BS 80-81; Staff 90) Denver, CO Case Bennett, 15 Angie and DEREK BENNETT (BS 82-84) Houston, TX Athena Bohnen, 12 Kaitlyn and PATRICK BOHNEN Artemis Bohnen, 9 (BS 97-07; Staff 08) Colorado Springs, CO Alex Bonilla, 13 Fernando and CARRE FUSSELL (HT Christopher Bonilla, 17 85-86; Staff 96) Bonilla Colorado Springs, CO Oliver Bradley, 7 Taylor and ALICE JACKSON (HT 97-98) Bradley Fort Worth, TX Aneesa Bretag, 10 NIKKI (SWC Staff 14-21) and DAVID (SWC Staff 15-16) BRETAG Florissant, CO Kaden Bright-Frare, 7 Todd and WILL BRIGHT (BS 91-96; Staff 99)-Frare Denver, CO Esther Brograve, 13 HARRIET HARGRAVE (HT Staff 89- 90, 93, 05) Portland, OR Abby Burnham, 17 Dave and CATHY GEPSON (HT 84- 86; Staff 88-91) Burnham Northbrook, IL Zach Callahan, 14 Jim and REBECCA KUCKER Sarah Callahan, 12 (HT 86-89) Callahan Lone Tree, CO Elizabeth Cameron, 9 Amy and SCOTT CAMERON (BS 85) Olathe, KS Grandparents: Pam and FRED CAMERON (d) (BS 59- 62; Staff 60’s) Kingston, WA Owen Casselman, 15 Aaron and MEGAN FOSTER (HT 87- 91; Staff 93-94) Casselman Highlands Ranch, CO Leo Chamberlain, 15 Ann and DAVID CHAMBERLAIN Max Chamberlain, 15 (BS 84-85) Burnsville, MN Mimi Chandler, 15 Vanessa and CHRISTOPHER CHANDLER (BS 86) Palm Beach Gardens, FL Teddy Chauner, 13 Ramona and ANDREW CHAUNER Molly Chauner, 11 (BS 89-90) Northbrook, IL
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Peyton Clay, 10 Jordan and KATIE McKEE (HT 96-97) Clay Wynnewood, PA Sawyer Copaken, 13 Ellen and JAMIE COPAKEN (BS 84- Vaughn Copaken, 7 86, 88; Staff 94) Mission Hills, KS Hope Coven, 16 Jonathan and ELLEN STEINBERG (HT 77-80) Coven New York, NY Silas Covington, 12 Grandfather: CHRIS COVINGTON (BS 68) Tulsa, OK William Crawford, 15 Annabelle Hester and KENNETH CRAWFORD (BS 76) Washington, DC Hannah Cyphers, 14 Scott and SARAH CHAUNER (HT 85, 87-88, 90) Cyphers Northbrook, IL Mary Katherine Daniher, 16 Bill and AMY SAWYER (HT 84-85; Staff 86, 88) Daniher Redwood City, CA Lucy Daoust, 11 Mark and ELIZABETH DUBINSKY Annie Daoust, 9 (HT 92-96; Staff 98) Daoust Phoebe Daoust, 8 Orinda, CA Sasha Denenberg, 14 Steve and TIPPI MAGID (HT 76-83; Solomon Denenberg, 9 Staff 86-89) Denenberg Omaha, NE Niko Dennis, 13 Tasshi Dennis and KATHY PERKINS (HT 80-84; Staff 90) Boulder, CO Henry Densmore, 10 John and EMILY MYRICK (HT 82-87; Staff 91) Densmore Whitefish Bay, WI Grandparents: Jay and SUSAN UPTEGROVE (HT Staff 64-65) Myrick, Wilmette, IL Kylie Diamond, 12 Jesse and ALEXIS BAIZER (HT 90 96) Diamond Lafayette, CO Greyson Dillman, 13 William Dillman and MELISSA TODD (HT 83-84) Toledo, OH Kaitlyn Dooley, 13 Lizzy and TOM DOOLEY (BS 92-94) Will Dooley, 12 St. Louis, MO Preston Dorris, 15 Grandparents: Sue and GEORGE David Dorris, 9 DORRIS III (BS 54-55) St. Louis, MO Jacob Down, 9 Jacob and CARRIE SMALLEY (HT Tommy Down, 7 89-97; Staff 98) Down Carbondale, CO Wheeler Ehrlich, 15 Stacy and JAMES EHRLICH (BS 77- 79) Austin, TX Gigi Euston, 7 Angie and GEOFF EUSTON (BS 82- 84) Chicago, IL Grandparents: Helen and GREG EUSTON SR (BS 55-57; Staff 59-60) Jacksonville, FL Jacob Farhy, 15 Mette Deleuran and JEFF FARHY (BS 81-83) Radnor, PA Abigail Feinstein, 16 Stefani Pashman and JEREMY FEINSTEIN (BS 85-87; Staff 88, 92) Pittsburg, PA Ava Ferrell, 15 Mike Ferrell and EMILY GORDON Deacon Ferrell, 11 (HT 93-95) Wynnewood, PA Edie Ferrell, 9 George Fitzpatrick, 13 CAROLINE BURKE (HT 88-90; Staff Trey Fitzpatrick, 17 94) Fitzpatrick San Mateo, CA
James Foster, 13 JED FOSTER (BS 86-89) Michael Foster, 13 Winnetka, IL Matthew Foster, 10 Beatrice Foster, 8 Abigail and MIKE FOSTER (BS 78- 80) Pittsburgh, PA Sophie Frankfurt, 14 Ali and WILL FRANKFURT (BS 82) Denver, CO Anden Garner, 11 Grandparents: Susan and LARRY VAN’T HUL (SWC Staff) Divide, CO Blake Garner, 11 Tyler and LAUREN DACHELET Emma Garner, 8 (HT 89-92) Garner Kenilworth, IL Jennie Gidal, 16 Eric Gidal and JACKIE BRIGGS ((HT 74-79) Iowa City, IA Charlie Goldcamp, 13 John and STEPHANIE CHAUNER Jack Goldcamp, 16 (HT 85) Goldcamp Northbrook, IL Kai Guimaraes, 10 Roberto and KEYA GILL LUI (HT 89- 91) Guimaraes Kapaa, HI Xander Harris, 10 Jesse and MEGAN McKEE (HT Staff 95) Harris Owasso, OK Catherine Clark Harrison, Alice Grey and COREY HARRISON (BS 91) Greenville, SC Maisie Hauth, 13 Jennifer and CHRIS HAUTH (BS Staff Frankie Hauth, 10 96-02) San Francisco, CA Jack Hayes, 15 LEE HAYES (BS 82-85) Kansas City, MO Martin Hazlehurst, 14 Rachel Katz and SAM HAZLEHURST Cora Hazlehurst, 10 (BS 87-90, 93) Waterville, ME Hayes Hellebusch, 14 Louis and MEREDITH SILVERBERG (HT 92-95) Hellebusch Glencoe, IL Lucas Hennings, 10 Christie Godwin and TODD HENNINGS (BS 79-84; Staff 88) Atlanta, GA Hudson Hensley, 12 Gabe and ADRIENNE ORR (HT 87-88) Hensley Austin, TX Ella Hollon, 16 Mark and DEANNA WOMACK (HT 76-77, 79) Hollon Mason, OH Avery Holmes, 10 Jared and SARA ANDERSON (HT 88-93; Staff 97-00) Holmes Denver, CO Grandparents: Ann and RICK ANDERSON (BS 58-64; Staff 66, 70) Omaha, NE Keijiro Hoshizaki, 9 Takayuki and NAOKO INOUE (HT 87, 89) Hoshizaki Concord, CA Grandparents: Kaoru and YOSHI INOUE (BS Staff 63) Fukuoka, Japan Emily Howard, 14 JENNIFER COPE (HT 90-91, 93-94) David Howard, 17 Howard Hockessin, DE Matthew Howard, 12 Grandmother: MARY LADD DIXON (HT 62) Cope Boca Raton, FL Alexis Hunt, 14 Sophie and BRIAN HUNT (BS 82-85; Henri Hunt, 12 Staff 90, 94) Austin, TX Ali Imaz, 14 Ignacio Imaz and SARAH HORTON (HT 80’s) Carlsbad, CA Grandfather: STEVE JONES (d) (BS 69-73) Madison Jones, 10 Marc and KARI LOVRO (HT Staff 98) Rowan Jones, 12 Jones Jonestown, TX
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Nella McKasson, 13 Jeff and SCHEHERA RANDLE (HT Keagan McKasson, 13 89-94; Staff 96-01) McKasson Mission Viejo, CA Grandparents: Steve and JAN CHANDLER (HT 64-65) Randle Wichita, KS Bianca McKee, 12 Luciana and BRADSHAW McKEE Camilla McKee, 10 (BS 82) Greenwich, CT Owen McMahon, 11 Michael and LEIGH WALD (HT 91- 95) McMahon Denver, CO Andy McMichael, 13 Malcolm and BETSY FRIESEN (HT Dean McMichael, 16 85, 87-88, 90: Staff 92-93, 96-97) McMichael Carbondale, CO Grandparents: ROB (BS 62; Staff 65-68) and CONNIE McWILLIAMS (HT Staff 66-68) FRIESEN Denver, CO Ella Mergner, 13 Ramon and HANNAH MILLS (HT 86-90) Robleto Gardena, CA Ethan Miller, 16 DAN (BS 80-87; Staff 88, 90) and Kelsey Miller, 14 ASHLEY MANSOUR (HT 87-88) Littleton, CO Charlie Miller, 16 Randy and MARY RITCHIE (HT Morgan Miller, 12 Staff 93) Miller Denver, CO Phoebe Miller, 13 George and KATY O’NEILL (HT 85) Miller Austin, TX Ramon Mireles, 9 Marina Perez and EDUARDO Santiago Mireles, 11 MIRELES (BS 90-91) Montserrat Mireles, 13 Shaker Heights, OH Sydney Monson, 15 ADDIE KILLACKEY (HT 84-86; Staff 94) Monson Flower Mound, TX Grandfather: JOHN KILLACKEY (d) (BS 61-63; Staff 64) Ben Mowrey, 14 HEIDI McCOTTER (HT 82-86; Staff 90) Denver, CO Chris Moyer, 17 Cristina and MICHAEL MOYER (BS 89-90) Blacksburg, VA Ruby Nolan, 9 Jamey and CASEY RENNINGER (HT Staff 03) Nolan Tampa, FL Patrick Olney, 9 Tambi and MARK OLNEY (BS 85-87) Brooke Olney, 7 Dallas, TX Charlie Olney, 7 Padgett Payne, 12 BILL (BS Staff 94, 96-97) and CHRISTA SHOEMAKER (HT Staff 97) PAYNE New Orleans, LA Lucas Perry, 9 Katie and PHIL PERRY (BS 88-94; Jacob Perry, 7 Staff 95-96, 99, 00, 03) Golden, CO Grandparents: REIN (Staff 76-78, 00-02) and JAN SANBORN (HT 62-68; Staff 76-02) VAN WEST Ridgway, CO Grandparents: Nancy and DAVID PERRY (BS 60-62; Staff 66-85) Montrose, CO Great-Grandparents: SANDY(d) and LAURA(d) SANBORN Harvey Plandowski, 9 Mark Plandowski and COURTNEY KYTE (d) (HT 91-95; Staff 01) Plandowski Chicago, IL Jo-Jo Popik, 16 Tabitha Popik and GEORGE ANSFIELD (BS 83-86) Centennial, CO
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Lillie Porter, 16 Renee Davis and JODIE PORTER Hogan Porter, 11 (HT 77-84; Staff 86) Oak Park, IL Clayton Rasch, 12 Grandparents: Kathy and RICH BUCHOLZ (BS 62, 64-66; Staff 71) St. Louis, MO Lena Rasch, 16 Jon and STACY REDMOND (HT 83- 84) Rasch Aurora, CO Madelyn Redmond, 15 Jennifer and HAYES REDMOND (BS 83-84) Parker, CO Henry Reneker, 11 Ben and KATIE FRIESEN (HT88-93: Staff 95, 97-98) Reneker Carmel Valley, CA Grandparents: ROB (BS 62; Staff 65-68) and CONNIE McWILLIAMS (HT Staff 66-68) FRIESEN Denver, CO Will Richter, 12 Anne and KURT RICHTER (BS 78- Charlotte Richter, 10 80) Washington, DC Cerys Rickard, 11 Luke and MEGAN SHELLMAN (HT 85-90; Staff 99) Rickard Durango, CO Carter Anderson Rissman, 13 John Anderson and STEVE RISSMAN (BS Staff 83-84) Broomfield, CO Karsten Rogge, 12 Matt and ARIELLA RANDLE ROGGE (HT 86-90; Staff 91-96, 01-current) Florissant, CO Grandparents: Steve and JAN CHANDLER (HT 64-65) Randle Wichita, KS Benjamin Rouse, 7 Meggin and JONATHAN ROUSE (BS Stella Rouse, 9 84-85, 87, 90-91) Denver, CO Beau Ryan, 10 Autumn and HAYDEN RYAN (BS 93-95) Tulsa, OK Leela Sankeu, 7 PORTIA OWENS (HT 96-03, 05) Denver, CO
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Brooks Tompkins, 9 Graves and COLLEEN DIXON (HT 93-94) Tompkins Brooklyn, CT James Treadwell, 17 Allan Treadwell and ALEXANDRA William Treadwell, 14 BAILLIERE (HT 80-84; Staff 90) Mill Valley, CA Max Tucker, 17 Leena Alam and COLIN TUCKER (BS 80, 82) Tulsa, OK Tate Tulp, 9 Chris and ASHLEY ALLEN (HT 93- 00) Tulp Denver, CO Grandparents: PHIL (BS 64-71; Staff 72, 77-78) and JULIE TATE (HT 69-72) ALLEN Tulsa, OK Lilia Turner, 14 Lyric and BEN TURNER (BS 86-89, 92; Staff 94) Denver, CO William Tutt, 14 Adeliz and BEN TUTT (BS 84-85) Tori Tutt, 15 Carolina, Puerto Rico Hollin Vanderveen, 14 Ted and HILARY DAVIS (HT 93-94) John Vanderveen, 12 Vanderveen Centennial, CO Vilgiate, Mia, 11 Nico and ASHLEY ZUZACK (HT 90) Vilgiate Santa Monica, CA Grandmother: JANET FRANZ (HT 62-65) Salida, CO Sebastian Villar, 15 Begona Teres and JUAN PABLO VILLAR (BS 91, 93) Puebla, Mexico Evan Warner, 13 MARA DUBLIN (HT 87, 89) FOSTER Winnetka, IL Gabriela White, 11 BRADLEY WHITE (BS 95) Deerfield, IL Leighton Wolens, 12 Jeoffrey and DEVYN POLLACK (HT 83-85) Wolens Houston, TX Kouichiro Yanase, 16 Yasutake and AKIKO INOUE (HT 87; Staff 89) Yanase Tokyo, Japan Grandparents: Kaoru and YOSHI INOUE (BS Staff 63) Fukuoka, Japan Kai Young, 15 Rob and RHAE REIKER (HT Staff 90-95) Young Moscow, ID Elliana Zeavy, 10 Neal and AMY TREES (HT 81-84; Staff 87) Zeavy Seattle, WA
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2021 Staff Chips off the Old Block: Jamie Bruesch CAROLINE SANBORN (HT 84-92; Staff 02-04) Bruesch Kona, HI; CHRIGL BRUESCH (Staff 02-04) Malix, Switzerland Grandparents: RICK SANBORN (BS 60’s; Staff 75-2002) Kona, HI; JANE SANBORN (Staff 67-current) Denver, CO Great-Grandparents: SANDY (d) and LAURA (d) SANBORN Paul Brull Chris and JEN SUNDGREN (HT 85, 87; Staff 89) Brull Plainville, KS Emily Burnham Dave and CATHY GEPSON (HT 84-86; Staff 88-91) Burnham Northbrook, IL Sarah Burnham Will Coleman Rachel and RANDY COLEMAN (BS 80-81) Plantation, FL Delaney Cooper ALLISON LANE (HT 82-83) Cooper San Rafael, CA Caroline Daniher Bill and AMY SAWYER (HT 84-85; Staff 86, 88) Daniher Redwood City, CA Danny Denenberg Steven and TIPPI MAGID (HT 76-83; Staff 86-89) Denenberg Omaha, NE Paul Dibble Tami and FRED DIBBLE (BS 63, 65) McLean, VA Simms Ehrlich Stacy and JAMES EHRLICH (BS 77-79) Austin, TX Carrie Ellsworth Beth and CHARLIE ELLSWORTH (BS 77-78) Denver, CO Annie Glenning Steve and CATHERINE STAHL (HT 79-80) Glenning Rochester, NY Katie Hayes Scott and CHARLOTTE SMITH (HT Staff 80) Hayes Atlanta, GA Adam Hureau Steve Hureau and JOAN WOODBURY (HT Staff 83-87) Ft. Collins, CO Liza Roe Dave and LAURA JENNEY (HT 79-83; Staff 88) Roe Bozeman, MT Ariella Randle Rogge Steve and JAN CHANDLER (HT 64-66) Randle Wichita, KS Delaney Simchuk ERIK SIMCHUK (BS Staff 89) Chico, CA Abigail Smalley NANCY SMALLEY (HT Staff 81-82) McLean, VA Justin Swanson Gary and MARY BRACKEN (HT 76-78, 81; Staff 85, 91) Swanson Honolulu, HI
Jamie Bruesch, Paul Dibble, Justin Swanson, Adam Hureau, Will Coleman, Paul Brull, & Danny Denenberg
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Katie Hayes, Delaney Cooper, Ariella Rogge, Emily Burnham, Liza Roe, Caroline Daniher, Delaney Simchuk, Sarah Burnham, Carrie Ellsworth & Annie Glenning
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SARAH BAUSCH (BS Nurse 75-76) BENSON sent this photo of The 5th Annual Sanborn Night at the Colorado Rockies on July 17, 2021, and requested that the picture be the next cover photo on the Alum News. We apologize, Sarah, that we couldn’t honor your request and we hope you will be pleased that it is here on the back page. (You’ll have to pay quite a bit more to get on the front page) It is a good-looking group!! Attendees included KEITH WILLIAMS (BS 64-67, 69; Staff 70-77), BEN NORTHCUTT (BS Staff 73-75), PAUL NELSON (BS Staff 75), MARK MUNGER (BS Staff 72, 75-76), RON MUNGER (BS Staff 7475), ANNE HEWSON (HT Staff 75) Keen, TERRY MCGRATH (HT Staff 73-75) Craig, Lynn and ACE MCCANN (BS Staff 72-73, 76, 80-81) and Sarah’s husband, BOB BENSON (BS
67-71; Staff 74, 74, 76)