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Who are these people?!?

The Wilderness Project is the product of much hard work and dedication on the part of the following fabulous people (and more)! Your individual trip leaders will be 3 students selected from this list below. Be warned: the enthusiasm of everyone involved is sure to rub off on you as you make your transition to Washington University!
Carl Craver
David Ullman
Eleanor Glass
Elliot Schiffer
Erik Bonnett
Gillian Galford
James Meldrum

Jeffrey Lancaster
Justin Barr
Kate Miller
Lisa Stern
Liz Fujii
Makella Craelius
Mandy Wiese

Natalia Minkel-Dumit
Nathalie Faure
Phil Valko
Sara Van Acker
Sarah Newman
Thom Sanger


Name: Carl Craver
Email:
ccraver@artsci.wustl.edu
Year: Assistant Professor
Major: Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": Backpacking
Medical Training: I will try to attend the first aid meetings
Favorite Quote: "The problem with artificial intelligence is that computers don't give a damn." John Haugland
Other Wash U Activities: writing
Favorite Trash Fiction: Carl Hiaasin
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Name: David Ullman

Email:
davidu@levee.wustl.edu
Year: Washington University 2002 Graduate, currently Environmental Studies Administrative Assistant
Major: Environmental Studies (Natural Science Track)
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": Mountains, or Backpacking for an activity
Medical Training: Wilderness First Responder (WFR)
Favorite Quote(s): "Yo soy El nino! For those of you who don't habla espanol, el nino is Spanish for.........the nino!" - Chris Farley
or the serious quote - "we do not own the land, we borrow it from our children" - Native American saying, source unknown
Other Wash U Activities: Frisbee, Swimming, Uncle Joes, Black Men White Men, 1in4, VERDE
Favorite Bands(a sampling): Taj Mahal, Pearl Jam, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Yonder Mountain String Band
Favorite knock-knock joke: Knock, Knock. (you say who's there, come on, say it). The dude. (now you say "The dude who") Ah, you just said "do do!" You're right, it's not really funny.
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Name: Eleanor Glass

Email:elglass@artsci.wustl.edu
Year: Class of 2005
Major: International Studies
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": Flowering Trees, Backpacking along Ridges, Horse-back Riding, Swimming Holes
Medical Training: RedCross First Aid and CPR certified
Favorite Quote: "A great rabbi was once asked, 'Rabbi, when you reach the gates of heaven, do you fear you will be asked why you were not more like Moses?' and the rabbi replied,'No, I fear I will be asked why I was not more like myself.'"
Other Wash U Activities: The Watch (Youth Emergency Shelter), Outing Club, Tossing Flisbees on the Frip Side
Nickname that I made up but I think it would be really funny if people actually called me: The Bomb Diggit-E
Favorite Music: DISPATCH! Wyclef, Manu Chau, Spearhead, Outkast, Rusted Root, Nelly, Carlos Santana, OAR, Guster, Widespread Panic, Southern Culture on the Skids, Sarah McLaghlan, Couting Crows, Usher, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, you name it I can love it....
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Name: Elliot Schiffer

Email:gyrohen@aol.com
Year: Junior
Majors: Economics and English
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": drinking out of a lake or stream
Medical Training: Wilderness First Aid (WFA)
Favorite Quote: "When you go out for a night patrol, fill your canteen to the top so the water won't make a sloshing sound and give you away. That's how your soul ought to be in your body, large and full and silent." -Yehuda Amichai
Other Wash U Activities: Peer Advising, Outing Club, Tutoring
Random Fact: I eat cheese in large quantities.
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Name: Erik Odell Bonnett

Email:erikb@architecture.wustl.edu
Year: Senior
Major: Architecture (Minor: Glassblowing)
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": The morning mist that hangs over alpine lakes, just after sun rise.
Medical Training: Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (WEMT)
Favorite Quote: "Not all who wander are lost"
Other Wash U Activities: OC Pres, Track and Field, Student Committee for Sustainabiltiy co-chair (working toward coursework in architectural sustainability)
Random Fact: I once had tree frog as a pet. It liked to sit in our jade tree. Until one day our cat ate it. The end...(unless you count the poopoo).
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Name: Gillian Galford

Email:glgalfor@artsci.wustl.edu
Year: Senior (Class of '04)
Major: Earth & Planetary Sciences and Environmental Studies (social track)
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": Waking up in time to see the sunrise
Medical Training: Wilderness First Responder (WFR)
Favorite Quote: "Courage is the willingness to be afraid/ Wisdom's when you realize how much is left to learn/ Wisdom won't absolve the doubt that calls when darkness falls/ but it will give you the courage to lift your head high/ look to the sky." - Heather Schoeck
Other Wash U Activities: Geodyssey, the Wash U Geology Club; Pathfinder Program in Environmental Sustainability; Danforth Butterfly Garden
Favorite Outdoor Spot: Cascade Head, a Nature Conservancy grassland preserve on the Oregon Coast
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Name: James Meldrum

Email: jrm2@cec.wustl.edu
Year: Junior
Major: Physics, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP)
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": night hikes, remote swimming holes/waterfalls, the mountain top experience
Medical Training: Red Cross First Aid and CPR, Outing Club Wilderness First Aid
Favorite Quote: "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Mahatma Gandhi
Other Wash U Activities: LAUNCH Preorientation Leader (2002), OC, Ultimate Frisbee IM, WGE ResCollege Hall Rep, WashOut!
Skill I devoted about 99% of my childhood learning to master: I can do backflips and handstands!
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Name: Jeffrey Lancaster

Email:
jrlancas@art.wustl.edu
Year: Senior (class of '04), but on the five-year plan (so '05, too)
Major: Chemistry and Sculpture, maybe Art History
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": feeling small - waking up in the middle of the night to pee out in the woods, looking up and seeing more stars than I could imagine there ever being.
Medical Training: CSI, ER, I've been to the emergency room a lot... Red Cross: CPR, First Aid, Lifeguard Certified
Favorite Quote: "An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, (...), is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded flight, the earth mutated - nearly - into air, and become, in the true sense, exalted." - Salman Rushdie
Other Wash U Activities: sheesh.... a lot of Student Union things, President of the Art School Council, some University Committees, Chemistry Academic Mentor, Moog Fellowship for Chemistry, a bunch of other stuff.
Music: Rusted Root, Counting Crows, John Mayer, Widespread Panic, Morcheeba, Jovanotti, Ben Folds, Talking Heads, Richard Shindell, Elliott Smith, David Gray, Clint Mansell, you know, depends on what I'm feeling at any given moment.
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Name: Justin Barr
Email:
jnbarr@artsci.wustl.edu
Graduation Year: 2006
Major: History
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": solitude
Medical Training: Dental X-Ray Technician
Favorite Quote:
"Even the best laid schemes o' mice an' men
gang aft' a-gely
lea' us not be grief and pain
for all promised joy" --R. Burns
Other Wash U Activities: Outing Club, Each One Teach One
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Name: Kate Miller

Email:khm1@cec.wustl.edu
Year: Class of '04
Major: Chemical Engineering (Applied Science), Environmental Studies (Social Science), Math...or that's the plan currently, we'll see what actually happens
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": Climbing buildings and trees, sleeping/waking according to the sun's schedule
Medical Training: WFA, Red Cross CPR + First Aid
Favorite Quote:
Other Wash U Activities: WUWU (Wash U Women's Ultimate), SafeZones (next year anyway), I'm a Pathfinder like Gillian, I ran this Daniel Quinn/Ishmael discussion group for awhile, various green organization stuff...
Favorite Superpowers: Currently it's a toss-up between the ability to morph my body at will and the ability to photosynthesize -- but I'm open to other ideas :)
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Name: Lisa Stern

Email:lstern@artsci.wustl.edu
Year: Senior
Majors: Psychology, Environmental Studies
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": Backpacking!
Medical Training: Wilderness First Aid (WFA)
Favorite Quote: "Learn strength from rocks and wisdom from pines; The wind can teach you many songs, the starlight can be your dreams, the rushing river your lullaby." -Dean Kwansy
Other Wash U Activities: Girl's Rugby Team
Other fun facts about me: southerner from Atlanta, Georgia, and I have a twin sister!
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Name: Liz Fujii

Email:eafujii@artsci.wustl.edu
Year: Junior
Major: Psychology (practically undecided, and prelaw with a couple minors)
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": spending a day in the ocean and rinsing off in a fresh water stream
Medical Training: WFA
Favorite Quote: "... the question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist we will be. Will we be extremist for hate or will we be extremist for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice--or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?" MLK, Letter from Birmingham Jail
Other Wash U Activities: Dance Marathon, Cultural Diversity Players, and stuff
Fave outdoor spot: Waikolu Valley, and the hike to it from Kalawao/Kalaupapa, Molokai, and all the air between the top of the rock and the ocean's surface at Waimea Bay
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Name: Makella Craelius

Email:
makellac@architecture.wustl.edu
Year: Junior
Major: Architecture (with an imaginary minor in Native American Studies)
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": Laying on moss - nature's carpet, soaking in the heat of the sun, hiding in trees, swimming across lakes, rolling down hills, canoeing, bicycling, skiing....Thinking about how nature is a better architect than I can ever be...and trying to take its advice.
Medical Training: EMT, WFA, Lifeguard, CPR-PR/AED
Favorite Quote: "If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?" - Hillel
Other Wash U Activities: Emergency Support Team (aka EST) - EST Education Committee Chair
Favorite Musical Artists (just a sampling): Guster, Modest Mouse, Live, Built to Spill, Alice in Chains, Veruca Salt, Dream Theater, Tegan and Sara, Josh Ritter, Talib Kweli, Al Green, Paul van Dyk, Deltron 3030, The Flaming Lips, Marvin Gaye, Mercury Rev
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Name: Mandy Wiese

Email:mandywiese@hotmail.com
Year: junior
Major: architecture!
Your favorite outdoor "thing": tree climbin'
Medical Training: First aid, CPR
Favorite Quote: just do it -nike
Other Wash U activities: architecture student council, green givens
Favorite Bands: i love debussy, the talking heads, and yonder mountain string band
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Name: Natalia Minkel-Dumit

Email:nminkeld@artsci.wustl.edu
Year: Class of 2004
Major: Environmental Studies (Social Science Track)
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": Beaches...Favorite Activities: Long walks on the beach (haha!...yes...laugh, it's quite humorous, but it's true!) bonfires on the beach, camping on the beach...you get the picture. I grew up on Lake Michigan.
Medical Training: Red Cross First Aid and CPR
Favorite Quote: It's not a specific quote, but my dad always reminds me that in life, we always have choices. We may not be able to choose our circumstances, but we always have a choice in our thoughts, feelings and actions towards those circumstances. Specific Quote that is somewhat related: "It's Mind Over Matter" -Coach Douglas, my high school swim coach.
Other Wash U Activities: Arts and Kids, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Outing Club
Fun fact: I'm a Cheesehead...And damn proud of it!
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Name: Nathalie Faure

Email:nsfaure@artsci.wustl.edu
Year: Junior
Major: Elementary Education and Environmental Engineering (social science track)
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": Sleeping out under the stars (that you can't see from home) and then letting the sunrise wake you as it breaks over the horizon.
Medical Training: Soon to be WFR
Favorite Quote: "Dare to climb to the top of that mountain. Then, dare to come down and tell of what you have found." --author unknown
Other Wash U Activities: Women's Lacrosse, Outing Club and alpine tower facilitator, Brookings Res College, Peer Advising, Field Hockey
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Name: Phil Valko

Email:pgvalko@artsci.wustl.edu
Year: Graduating May 2003
Major: Environmental Science and Biology
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": Tree silhouettes at dusk and dawn, snowboarding in narrowing gullies and through trees, road biking until I hallucinate, human-powered anything (ie, hiking, bicycling, climbing, swimming...), the smells of forests, skinny-dipping, watching the moon move against the static silhouettes of branches, wild flowers, animals that are able to eat me
Medical Training: Wilderness EMT-B (National Registry EMT-B with a wilderness supplement)
Favorite Quote: All is Will
Other Wash U Activities: jazz bands, independent bands, Green Action (www.restech.wustl.edu/~green), Committee on Environmental Quality (www.ceq.wustl.edu), tom-foolry, ropes course facilitator
Random Fact: I once overdosed on Sunny Delight
Favorite fake political movements: Re-unite Pangea (AKA Stop Plate Tectonics) and Genetic Drift Kills
Least Favorite appliance: Microwave
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Name: Sara Van Acker

Email:saravanacker@yahoo.com
Year:
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Favorite Outdoor "Thing":
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Favorite Quote:
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Name: Sarah Newman

Email:swnewman@artsci.wustl.edu
Year: Class of '05
Major: Philosophy
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": Sleeping outside under starry skies; the smell of trees, moist air, mist; warm sandy beaches...
Medical Training: Wilderness First Aid (WFA) and CPR
Favorite Quote: "Once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." --Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
Other Wash U Activities: Outing Club, Green Action, Amnesty International
Favorite Outdoor Spot: Jennie Lakes, Sequoia National Forest, California
Fun Fact: On warm and sunny days, my *favorite* thing to do is play in the Quad!
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Name: Thom Sanger

Email:
tsanger@biology.wustl.edu
Year: Grad
Major: Evolutionary Biology
Favorite Outdoor "Thing": Climb!!!
Medical Training: Past Wilderness First Responder (WFR)
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