Narragansett Chapter AMC gives Appie Award to Bonnie England
presented by Maria Earley a recipient in 2005.
Photo - Shannon Kelly
Narragansett Chapter AMC gives Appie Award to Bonnie England
presented by Maria Earley a recipient in 2005.
Photo - Shannon Kelly
The Appie of the Year Award is presented annually to that person who, in an outstanding manner, exemplifies the mission of the Appalachian Mountain Club. The recipient of this award receives an individual engraved plaque as a permanent memento and is also presented with a plaque with their name engraved, along with the names of the previous Appies. This plaque is retained for one year before it is passed on to the next Appie of the Year. The recipient of this years award is Bonnie England.
Bonnie has been a long time member of the AMC. During this time in addition to his/hers busy personal life, this person has made significant contribution to the AMC and has worn many hats. She has spent many hours painting blazes on our trails, doing other trail maintenance duties, as well as been a good cheerleader to the trails crew. She also has served the chapter as a Vice Chair and Chapter Chair. She is a person who loves the outdoors, love people, and loves animals and developed and implemented our popular "dog walks" as well as training dedicated dog walk leaders.
Ed Poyer Receives Chapter John Clark Award
from Robin Kuznitz our Membership Chair.
Photo - Michael Krabach
The John Clark Service Award is the Chapter's second highest honor. This award is given to the "unsung hero" of our chapter - someone who quietly goes about their business of contributing to the chapter. The recipient of this years award is Ed Poyer.
Presently Ed serves as leadership sub-chair, and ran a successful leader training this spring, he is also involved in MLS, and is the Northern hikes sub-chair, as he has been for many years. Although Ed is sometimes in the front line leading trips, a lot of his activities with the chapter are organizing and work behind the scenes.
Roy Benoit is presented Golden Appie Award
by Chris Shafer, Activity Chair.
Photo - Shannon Kelly
Over the years, some members have given their time and talent to the AMC, and to our Chapter, for such a long time that other yearly awards do not express the appreciation the Chapter has for these members. To show our appreciation, the Chapter has inaugurated our Golden Appie Award. This award is not a yearly award but a lifetime achievement award for service to the Narragansett Chapter. This years award goes to Roy Benoit.
Roy has been involved in the AMC for a long time. During many of the last years he has been involved up front in planning out difficult trail projects and gets out to assist on the execution of these projects, especially projects involving skilled work, since he has considerable design knowledge, carpenter skills, and ways to accomplish tasks.
This year we gave George Slinn a 50 year pin. He is flanked by our Chair and Vice Chair.
Photo - Shannon Kelly