NOLS Alumni Service Award 2008

October 20, 2008

This past weekend in Lander, NOLS held its annual State of the School meeting and awards ceremony. It’s a time for us to look back at the successes and challenges of the past year, plan for the future, and recognize folks whose contributions have strengthened the school.

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Each year, NOLS recognizes an outstanding alumnus who has served the school in exemplary ways as NOLS pursues its mission teaching leadership, conservation, and outdoor skills. The winner of this year’s Alumni Service Award is Sarah Eustis (Alaska Sea Kayaking 2003). In 2005, Sarah stepped up to be chief stalwart and rabble-rouser for our NYC alumni group. She was a driving force in organizing record-setting reunions in 2006 and 2007.

Sarah also showcased her outdoor skills by recently organizing a 10-day bike trip for a group of non-outdoor students from the Bronx Lab School. Sarah organized this trip into a six-month learning adventure that taught her kids “teamwork, leadership, physical fitness and self-discovery”- that certainly sounds like taking the essence of the NOLS mission to a wider audience, in this case a group of urban kids who would have a hard time accessing a full NOLS course.

Sarah was in Lander over the snowy October 11 weekend to receive her award. Please join us in thanking her for her years of impressive and creative help making NOLS more accessible to people of all stripes in New York City. She recently relocated to Portland, Oregon, and we can only imagine that she’ll be getting alumni fired up out there, as well!

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Rich Brame

Rich Brame came to NOLS in the 80's as a Fall Semester in the Rockies student and worked his first NOLS course at Wind Cave National Park in 1984. Since then, he's worked varied NOLS trips and courses on five continents—with a few more on the way. Rich does some frontcountry shenanigans for NOLS, too. He's headed up NOLS' public policy, research, LNT, Yukon programs and most recently in the Alumni Relations Department.