AMC moves its headquarters

The Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) has officially moved into its new organizational headquarters at 10 City Square in Boston’s historic Charlestown neighborhood, positioning the outdoor recreation and conservation nonprofit to better support its staff, cultivate expanded community connections, and achieve its long-term growth and mission objectives.

Last year, after almost a century at its Beacon Hill headquarters, AMC sold its Joy Street buildings and subsequently purchased the City Square property, which has been undergoing renovations in preparation for the move.

Phone numbers and e-mail addresses remain the same, the new address is 10 City Square, Boston, MA 02129 .... more

 

Nature Conservancy adds Cove Mountain, first preserve in central PA along the Kittatinny Ridge.

At Cove Mountain, the Conservancy is managing the preserve to support native forest and wildlife, including migrating raptors and songbirds. The preserve is also open for public recreation via a series of restored former logging roads that have been transformed into two miles of hiking trails leading to scenic views of the Susquehanna River, surrounding ridges and the historic Rockville Bridge – a railroad bridge built in 1902 and the longest of its kind in the world. ... more

 

Joanie Schultz has been chosen as our Volunteer of the Month. After becoming a hike leader in 2016, Joanie began leading a popular series of introductory hikes at Peace Valley Park. Joanie has been a member of the DV Chapter Leader’s dinner committee and Nominating Committee, where she makes thoughtful contributions to the administrative needs of the DV Chapter. Any of you attending the DV Chapter Leader’s dinner in 2017 will surely remember her fun presentation on “Why I became a leader.”

Joanie is also known in some circles as “The Coffee Princess,” but you will have to ask her for more details about that. Some of the members who have benefited from this role may note this as her most important service!

Please join us in thanking Joanie for all of her service to AMC-DV.

The Chapter’s Volunteer of the Month program was initiated to recognize volunteers nominated by their peers. Chapter members can nominate volunteers by e-mail to recognition@amcdv.org.

The nomination should contain the nominee’s name, reason for the recognition, and name of the nominator. Each nominee name is entered into a random drawing for the Volunteer of the Month recognition. The monthly winners are entered into an annual drawing at the Annual Dinner for a grand prize of a weekend stay at an AMC facility. Nominees must be an AMC member, not a member of the current Executive Committee, and may serve in any volunteer capacity that benefits the Chapter mission in the Delaware Valley area. See the past Volunteers of the Month.