Apex to Zenith - Issue 62 - Third Quarter 2003

  • 1 Cover: Photo of Charles Mound group hike; cable section of California's Mount Whitney
  • 2 John Mitchler and Dave Covill Note from Your Editors noting the successful Illinois Covention hosted by Joh, Mary Maurer and Nikki Hemphill and celebrating their fifth year of doing the newsletter.
  • 3-4 Jean Trousdale on "Jack's Final Wish" noting the youngest and oldest to attend (Jack's one year-old great granddaughter Haley Krontz in Missouri and Jim Sutton's 92-year-old mother in Wisconsin).
  • 5 Club Business with Will Mokszycki talking about the July  23-24, 2004, Convention in Puyallup, Washington and bylaws changes requiring 15 board members and reducing consecutive terms board members are permitted to stay reduced from three to two year terms
  • 6-7 Roger Rowlett Chairman's Corner Column o Jean Trousdale receiving the Vin Hoeman Award and Nikki Hemphill the Frank Ashley; Diane Winger on Volunteer opportunities.
  • 8 Craig Noland, "membership guy", on new club members.
  • 9 50 Completers John Mitchler and Jim Scott
  • 10-13 48 Completers Leo Barkman, Pat Bohan, Mark de Roo, Jim Gehres, James Moffat, Val Todd
  • 14 Fred Lobdell on County Highpoint Completions (Bob Packard with 1,032 is only 15 shy of one third mark); Jon Mann led the County Highpointers at the convention.
  • 15-18 Highpoint Updates - Glen Van Vliet is working on maintenance at Florida's highpoint, Illinois is closed except for the first weekends of the summer moths; the Sterler Farm now has a Granite marker; Chuck Bickes received his 2003 Frank Ashley Award from Stony Burke
  • 19-20 Roger Rowlett Interview with Donna and Merrill Sterler, owners of Hawkeye Point
  • 21-22 Roger Rowlett Interview with Jean and Wayne Wuebbels, owners of Charles Mound
  • 23-25 Jean Trousdale article on Illinois Convention
  • 26-28 Trip Reports and Color Photos
  • 29 Diane and Charlie Winger's new Sand Dunes guidebook
  • 30-31 Safety on Summits article by Rick Hartman
  • 32 Correspondence including an appear to use highpointers in email to improve filtering for spam; NOMAD's Seven Northeast Peaks in Seven Days Fundraiser for Trips for Kids
  • 33 Klimbin Kollaborator including Dalra Hueske for his book on the June 29, 1994, Apex Challenge to put people on highpoints; the errata notes Don Berens was the first person to complete the current list of state highpoints (Jack Longacre had visited Curwood and counted that as his completion -- Jack was to go to Arvon for the first convention).
  • 34 Items to Buy -- including Jack's property in Missouri and his kayak Motomo
  • 35 Mercantile Catalog
  • 36 Backpage - 50 Completers 123; Lower 48 - 219; Club Membership 2,594
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