McMaster Outdoor Club Exec Bios

2009-2010

 

Alec Lemaire

Name: Alec Lemaire
Alias:
Age: 

Hometown: Fort Erie, ON!
Role in Club: Co-President
Work: Outdoor Club during the school year and the Coast Guard Search and Rescue during the summers

Interests: Everything! But if i had make a list it would be something like cycling, backpacking, canoeing, reading, brewing, and sailing.  

Favorite trip: Grand Canyon, Rockies, Kentucky, Algonquin, Waterfall tour, 

Advocasies: It wasn't me! It was Caitlin!

 

Caitlin Allan

Name: Caitlin Allan
Alias:
Age: 21
Hometown: Aurora, ON
Role in Club: Co-President
Work: Student full-time (?)... part-time jobs include Outdoor Club & literature TA during the year, camp counsellor at Wanakita for summer
Interests: Canoeing, hiking, biking and reading in the sunshine
Favorite trip: Waterfalls of Hamilton hike and THE GRAND CANYON!
Advocasies: Go outside!

 

Adam Barton

Name: Adam Barton
Alias: Bartoa
Age: 21
Hometown: Martintown
Role in Club: Equipment coordinator (a.k.a Gear Guy)
Work: Student, Outdoor club, Making bathtubs in the summer
Interests: Canoeing, backpacking, playing guitar, hanging out with the
beautiful people that is the Outdoor Club!
Advocasies: "The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my
inspiration"- Claude Monet

 

Shannon Pole

Name: Shannon Pole
Age: 21
Hometown: Oakville
Role in Club: Special Events Coordinator
Work:
Student, Aquatics
Interests: Being outdoors!!!! Highland dancing, soccer, reading, existing
Favorite trip: Algonquin Beginners / Hamilton Waterfalls
Advocasies: Pre-dawn canoeing

 

Ilya Inozemtsev

Name: Ilya Inozemtsev
Alias: Il-ja
Age: 29 (imagine how much it is in dog years!)
Hometown: Almaty, Kazakhstan. Then Hamilton.
Role in Club: Web site, Movie Nights, Film Festivals and other odd jobs
Work: Software Engineer for a few years. Also, part-time Russian spy (working from home).
Interests: Canoe trips, Nature, Geology, Philosophy, Interesting conversations, Documentaries, Music, Odd-ball jokes
Favorite trip:
Bruce Peninsula in Ontario; Arizona in U.S.
Advocasies: Learn about Nature! It's fascinating! (The more you know about something, the more you'll tend to like and value it!)

 

Meredith Vezina

Name: Meredith Vezina
Alias:
Mer, Mamma Bear, etc. etc. 

Age: 21
Hometown:
Ottawa, On

Role in Club: Minion?
Work: Outdoor Club, Wilderness Tours Raft Guide (do these count as work?)

Interests: People who make me laugh.

Favorite trip: ... all. 
Advocasies: witty banter. 

 

Samantha Sharp

 

Name: Samantha Sharp
Alias:
Age:
Hometown:
Role in Club: Social coordinator
Work:
Interests:
Favorite trip:
Advocasies:

 

Natasha Turner

 

Name: Natasha Turner
Age: 19
Hometown: Ottawa, ON
Role in Club: Environmental Coordinator
Work: Student... Camp counsellor in the summer
Interests: canoeing, snow, geocaching, books, rugby, people, life!
Favorite trip:
Advocasies: Having fun, being jolly!

Stephanie Hewson

Name: Stephanie Hewson
Alias:
Age:
Hometown:
Role in Club: Local Event Coordinator
Work:
Interests:
Favorite trip:
Advocasies:

 

Dan Thompson

Name: Dan Thompson
Age: Younger than Moses
Hometown: Earth
Role in Club: Outdoor resources co-ordinator
Work: Graduate student in environtal sciences: research on wildfires in boreal peatlands
Interests: Canoeing, winter camping, cartography
Advocasies: Building "landscape literacy" in persons near and far

 

Mary Koziol

Name: Mary Koziol
Hometown: Ottawa
Role in Club: Creative Writing Coordinator (a.k.a. scribe)
Work: MSU President (2010)

Interests:
Favorite trip:
Advocasies:

 

Emily Nix

Name: Emily Nix
Hometown: Somewhere in UK
Role in Club: International Student Affairs Coordinator
Work:
Interests:
Favorite trip:
Advocasies:

 

Ken Piercey

Name: Ken Piercey
Age: 21
Hometown: Ottawa
Role in Club: Emergency Medical Training & Protocols Coordinator
Work: Nurse
Interests: Emergency medicine, kayaking, running

 

Andrew Lapchinsky

Name: Andrew Lapchinsky
Age: ???
Hometown: The Big Smoke a.k.a. Toronto
Role in Club: Promotional Coordinator / MOCassin editor/mastermind

Work: Engineering Student, Lifeguard, Knight of the Round Table

Interests: Hiking, Camping, Basketball, Soccer, Sports, Reading, Electronics

Advocasies:“Use what talents you possess, the woods would be silent if no birds sang except those that sang best” – Henry Van Dyke

 

 

 

 


2008-2009

 

maya

Name: Maya Lily March
Alias: Marchie, Lil, Maya Lil
Age: 29
Hometown: London, Ontario
Role in Club: Assistant Outdoor Recreation Coordinator
Work: See above
Interests: Mountains, Rivers, Desert, Canadian Arctic
Advocasies: Wilderness Conservation

 

yuval

Name: Yuval Brodsky
Alias: UV
Age: 20
Hometown: Kibbutz Gan-Shmuel, Israel
Role: Co-President
Interests: guitar, theatre, being an astronaut, soccer, ice cream
Favourite trips: Canoeing down unnamed rivers
Advocacies: If it can be thought, it can be done. So do It!

 

Laura

Name: Laura Schreiner
Age: 22
Hometown: Etobicoke, Ontario
Role in the Club: co-president, trip leader, sharer of anecdotes
Work: ??
Interests: local food, real mail, guitars by firelight, the smell of fall
Past trips: Grand Canyon, Wanakita, Winterlude, Algonquin Beginner, Temagami winter camping, Bark Lake winter extravaganza, Algonquin ORCA canoe tripping, Cootes Clean-Ups 2004-2007
And lots more!
Advocacies: GET OUTSIDE!

 

shannon

Name: Shannon Pole
Age: 20
Hometown: Oakville, Ontario
Role in the Club: Organizing and keeping track of the gear
Interests: Various outdoors pursuits, Dance, mainly Scottish highland and reading
Past Trips: Hiking in the Bruce Peninsula, and Algonquin Park

 

natalia

Name: Natalia Lecki
Alias: None
Age: 20
Hometown: Georgetown, Ontario
Role in the Club: Secretary
Work: Accounting Rep during the summer, nothing during the school year
Interests: hiking, camping, reading, botany, canoeing, drinking, baking, cooking, shoes
Past trips and events: Skiing trips, club socials
Advocacies: None so far

 

amy

Name: Amy Kenny
Age: 26
Hometown: Port Stanley by birth, The Hammer by choice
Role in the Club: Promotions coordinator, assistant trip leader
Work: Promotions coordinator, freelance writer, aspiring hotelier
Interests: Reading, writing, traveling, cycling, painting
Past trips and events: Cycle touring in BC, Yukon and Alaska, numerous day rides, hikes, canoe, camping and kayaking trips to Algonquin Park, Madawaska, Caledon Hills, BC, the Grand River, Lake Huron, Tobermory and various other locations in and around Ontario
Advocacies: Hamilton/Burlington SPCA, Escarpment Area Girl Guides , Raise the Hammer, H Mag

 

Caitlin

 

Name: Caitlin Allan
Age: 19
Hometown: Aurora, Ontario
Role in the Club: Leadership Co-Coordinator
Work: ALTITUDE and camp!
Past Trips: Grand Canyon, Algonquin, Temagami, Winter Weekend
Advocacies: Smiling

 

allec

 

Name: Alec Lemaire
Age: 21
Hometown: Fort Erie, Ontario
Role in the Club: Environmental Coordinator and trip leader
Work: Lifeguard/ instructor for Mac pool and ALTITUDE staff
Interests: Good people, wilderness, backpacking, canoeing, cycling, scuba, reading and micro-brews
Past trips: Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountains, West Coast Trail, North Coast Trail, Great Smokey Mountains, Bruce Trail, Algonquin, winter camping/paddling in Temagami and Kentucky Caving
Advocacies: Live simply

 

 

Name: Meg Casson
Age: 20
Hometown: Kingston, ON
Role in the Club: VP "Logistics" with Jen
Program: Arts and Science
Interests: Canoeing, whitewater paddling, hiking, rowing, running,
road biking, skiing
Past Trips: Bark Lake, Bruce Penn, local hikes!

 

 

Name: Tim Bourns
Age: 20
Hometown: Oakville [Nature]
Role in the club: General Merriment
Work: Wanapitei Trip Leader
Interests: Activism, fleece, tea
Advocacies: Anything with the prefix "eco"