Category: Executive Committee
2024 Annual Dinner & Meeting
Sunday, November 3, Doylestown
5 PM to 9 PM at the Central Bucks Senior Center, 700 N Shady Retreat Road, Doylestown, PA
New caterer, great food! Dinner is $25 per person, and will be catered by Altomonte’s Catering. Featuring a variety of Italian style meat, pasta and vegetable dishes, plus salad and dessert!
- Social Hour 5 PM
- Cheese, chips, dips and veggies provided
- BYOB. Coffee, tea and lemonade provided
- Dinner at 6 PM
- We welcome desserts of your creation to share
- BYO plates, utensils, and cups to reduce waste (optional)
If you have food allergies and would like a detailed list of all menu ingredients, please email Annette Sheldon annettegabriele@verizon.net by October 19.
Dinner will be followed by:
- election of chapter officers for the upcoming year,
- recognitions for service including the two Appie Awards and the Trailworker award,
- recognition for 25 and 50-year members, and
- an introduction of our featured speaker, including a description of DV Ruby initiative.
New to AMC? Meet other members and learn about all the outdoor fun we’re having.
Advanced registration is required. Register and pay by major credit card or check in the link below.
Featured speaker is Becky Fullerton, AMC’s amazing archivist, presenting: Ruby Horwood, Trailblazer, and the Legacy of Women’s Leadership in the AMC. It will highlight Ruby, a DV Chapter Chair who became the first woman president of AMC, plus many other notable women from the club’s history.
Becky Fullerton delivered an informative and lively presentation on AMC history at the 2024 AMC Summit. You will find her talk compelling and enjoy speaking with her in person.
Volunteer Web Content Manager
This is an awesome volunteer opportunity for someone who would either like to learn new design/code skills or add another case study to their portfolio!
It is an exciting time to join us as a volunteer for the Delaware Valley Appalachian Mountain Club website. With your collaboration and help, we will be updating to a new design! A web design and user experience that is much better than the design we have today.
In addition to this you will be responsible for the ongoing blog posts and updates to copy/text, images and graphics across the website. You have a lot of opportunity to use your creative juices (within the branding guidelines of course) to make the website an awesome place for the community members.
Responsibilities:
- collaborate with current members and volunteers.
- update CSS and HTML as needed
- update graphics as needed
- follow branding guidelines
- implement updates the website upon requests
- collaborate on a new design of the website
- pay attention to the industry WordPress and in website design
- ask question and learn from peers
- communicate with the web team on any topics that need attention
Qualifications:
- Appalachian Mountain Club member
- Previous job experience trouble shooting or problem solving
- Previous experience working as a team
- Possesses a can do attitude
- Willingness to learn HTML and CSS if you are not familiar with it.
- Previous experience working in image editing
- Previous experience updating content within a Content Management System (CMS)
- Ability to receive constructive criticism
Great to Have:
- interest in the outdoors
- previous WordPress experience
- digital design skills
- Experience with branding guidelines
- previous experience with creating or editing in HTML, CSS.
- understanding of flex block and responsive design
- understanding web design standards and fundamentals
- Adobe CC experience
- Adobe CC experience
- user experience, web development, computer science, marketing, design or equivalent experience
- desire to learn and solve new problems
- collaborate with a team environment
If you are interested please send your information including a brief introduction to Raun Kercher raunkercher00@gmail.com. Thank you!
2022 Chapter Annual Meeting and Dinner
Celebrating DV Chapter’s 60th Anniversary
Saturday, November 5 from 5:00 to 9:00 PM
Central Bucks Senior Activity Center,
700 N. Shady Retreat Road, Doylestown, PA
Central Bucks Senior Activity Center,
700 N. Shady Retreat Road, Doylestown, PA
Featured presentation: Delaware Canal history, Susan Taylor
Susan Taylor, now retired, served for 30 years as Executive Director at the Friends of the Delaware Canal
5 PM happy hour, BYOB
6 PM dinner, all inclusive buffet
7 PM election of new officers for 2023
plus service and 25-50 year membership recognition
7:30 regional updates by Mark Zakutansky
7:45 Presentation on Delaware Canal history and views, Susan Taylor;
Cost is still just $25
payable by credit card or check at amcdv.org/dinnerpay.html
2023 Executive Committee Nominations
Chair
Karla Geissler
Vice Chair
George Cagle
Secretary
Susan Weida
Treasurer
Marty Mersky
Backpacking
Steve Campanelli
Bicycling
Terry Berntsen
Communication
Eric Pavlak
Conservation
Adrian Noble
DEI
Marcia Telthorster
Family Activities
Annette Sheldon
Hiking
Joe Nanfara
Leadership
Ron Phelps
Membership
Lisa Chou
Paddling
Eric Pavlak
Social
Annette Sheldon
Trails
Greg Bernet
20s & 30s
Anna Lise Almira
Announcements & Upcoming Events
2022 is AMC Delaware Valley Chapter’s 60th year anniversary.
Celebration during the Fall Fest on Saturday, September 24, 2022 at AMC Mohican Outdoor Center.
We are encouraging Leaders to lead the
New Hiking Chair
Welcome to Joe Nanfara, our new hiking chair. Joe was approved by the DV Executive Committee to fill the position made vacant by the previous chair’s resignation. Joe will serve the remainder of the current term which wends November 5, and has been nominated to serve as hiking chair for 2023.
Mark Your Calendar
Annual Dinner Meeting on Saturday, November 5, 2022
2021 Annual Meeting
This years annual members meeting took place on November 4th, 2021. Two AMC speakers provided updated information on our latest programs and activities. The election of 2022 Executive Committee took place. There were two annual awards presented including this years Appie Award and this years Golden Appie Award.
Lisa Kleiman burst onto the Delaware Valley Chapter scene in late 2020 as an active and engaged participant in the chapter’s first all virtual leader training. She quickly became certified as a hike leader with an early spring 2021 trek through Tyler Park.
Since then, she has led more than a dozen interesting and creative themed hikes in varied settings including urban, wildlife and nature preserves, and local parks. Lisa’s innovative approach to trip planning helps to promote AMC’s commitment to inclusion, making the outdoors accessible to everyone!
Lisa volunteered in 2021 to serve as the Chapter’s Publicity Chair, executing resourceful strategies to re-engage leaders and members as we emerged from pandemic restrictions for our activities.
AMC’s Delaware Valley Chapter is pleased to present Lisa with the 2021 Appie of the Year award in recognition of her energy and commitment to serving our members.
The Golden Appie is awarded to a chapter member who has provided extraordinary service to the chapter over many years. We are proud to announce that our recipient of the Golden Appie for 2021 is Susan Weida.
An AMC-DV member since 2009, Susan has been actively involved in chapter activities since joining. She is a consistent participant and leader in our recurring Wednesday hike series, in hikes and bike rides all over the area, and hikes in far flung places as well. Susan became a hike and bike leader in 2016 and has consistently led trips since then. She became more involved with the chapter when she served as data recorder of activities and participants, for which she was named Volunteer of the Month. Susan took on more responsibility when she became Chapter Vice Chair 2016-2018 and then Chapter Chair 2018-2020. She proved a very able leader guiding the chapter, and in this role, she also became a valuable member of the Chapters Committee for all AMC chapters. Her views are widely respected by the AMC staff in Boston. She presents her views to them in a way that is not confrontational, but still to the point, and therefore, gets her concerns heard by the powers that be.
Since retiring from the Chair position in 2020 she has still attended Executive Committee meetings this entire year in order to help the current Chair and Vice Chair. Upon the re-opening of activities after the Covid shutdown, Susan took it upon herself to organize and re-introduce our regular Wednesday hikes that are attended and valued by many.
Susan has helped our club in so many ways. She is a doer, not a talker. When something needs to be done, she doesn’t just talk about it, but gets up and DOES it. She is very welcoming and inclusive to all new participants as well as a positive presence to all, and a friend to many veteran participants. Thank you, Susan, for all you have done and continue to do!
2022 Executive Committee
View a list of the 2022 Executive Committee for the Appalachian Mountain Club, Delaware Valley Chapter.
Annual Meeting set for Thursday November 4, to be held online, 7 to 8 PM.
The election of next year’s Executive Committee will take place, and all DV chapter members may vote. The meeting is free, and in addition to the election, we will present our annual awards and provide information on our latest programs and activities.
You must register to attend.
2022 Executive Committee nominees
Chair, Karla Geissler
Vice Chair, Kathy Kelly-Borowski
Secretary, Midori Wakabayashi
Treasurer, Margaret McDonald
Backpacking, Steven Campanelli
Bicycling, Open
Communication, Eric Pavlak
Conservation, Adrian Noble
Diversity, Marcia Telthorster
Family Activities, Annette Sheldon
Hiking, Blase Hartman
Leadership, Ron Phelps
Membership, Lisa Chou
Paddling, Eric Pavlak
Social, Annette Sheldon
Trails, Greg Bernet
20s-30s Members, Katie Barok
If you wish to volunteer for one of the three open positions, contact nominations@amcdv.org.
Important Changes and Activity Dates
AMC’s brand new guideline starts on June 11, 2021!
(Paper waiver form and “Show-up and go” trips will be back!)
AMC’s Trailfest throughout the month of June.
Get dirty, Give back, Make new friends! (* No experience necessary)
Welcome New Activity Chairs:
Hiking: Blase Hartman
Backpacking: Steven Campanelli
Vaccinate, if you can!
Happy Outdoors!
Come Join the Planning!
Phase 3 starts on June 12, 2021! More activities, more people.
Leaders, let’s connect with each other and have some fun. Discussions and planning for our in-person leader social and much more. Expect prizes and raffles during the Zoom event. Save the Date – June 8 (Tue) 7:30 PM
Vaccinate, if you can!
Next EC Meeting on Zoom: June 1 (Tue) 7:00 PM Discussion Topic: Reopening All the members are welcome.
Reminder: National Trails Day 2021: June 5 (Sat).
–News from AMCDV Executive Committee (May 2021)