‘Tis the Season for NOLS Reunions

November 29, 2005

Dsc03640During October and November, we’ve been on the road bringing NOLS Alumni Reunions to such far-flung locations as New York City, Chicago, and Washington, DC.

NOLS Reunions bring grads, families, friends and prospective students together to swap tales, catch up on the school and meet like-minded folks from the area. Reunions usually have great snacks (a requirement for NOLS people…), wonderful raffle prizes, and some sort of inspiring visual presentation by an accomplished NOLS expeditioner.

This fall, we’ve been lucky to have two-time NOLS grad Britton Keeshan present images and thoughts from his Seven Summits odyssey. In 2004, Britton was the youngest person to climb the highest points on each of the seven continents.

NOLS instructor Dave Anderson has also been presenting to recent reunions. He has a fantastic show on Slavomir Rawicz’ Long Walk in the early 1940’s. Dave and some other NOLS companions retraced much of Rawicz’ controversial 4,000 mile escape from the gulags.

Stay tuned to the NOLS Alumni website for more reunion details— we have events scheduled for Denver and Raleigh, NC with more on the way.

A NOLS Reunion might be coming to your community soon…

Rich Brame
NOLS Alumni Relations

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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.