Colorado filmmaker Roger C. Brown has made skiing, mountain climbing, kayaking and adventure films worldwide, from Antarctica to Africa to Alaska and Nepal. His works have won four Emmys and numerous film festival awards. He is best known for his ski films, with their mesmerizing razor-sharp, slow motion, which have set the gold standard for free-style skiing. Roger’s film in 1962 of then-unknown Vail, Colorado, helped Vail and the state develop into one of the world’s major winter sports centers. In recognition of his achievements Roger will be inducted into the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum Hall of Fame. (They should have done it years ago, Roger.)


For more than 35 years the Rev. Lawrence Selig has been leading biblical, archaeological and historical lecture study and church group tours to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan. Larry estimates that he has guided more than 700 people through the Holy Land. While he was in Israel last spring he received word that the son of one of the couples in Larry’s group had just completed the Boston Marathon and was two blocks away from the bombing. Larry says that many in Israel wonder whether it is safe to travel in the Unites States.


With his years of experience as a tropical botanist, Bob Mowbray is just the guy you’d want at your side in a trek through the rainforest. Although there’s no jungle in Washington, D.C. (except, perhaps, in Congress), Bob can still help guide you on visits to the U.S. Botanical Garden, where he volunteers as a docent several days a month. Look lively when he takes you past the carnivorous plants. He also uses his expertise as a board member for the Reston (Virginia) Association Environmental Advisory Committee.


We are saddened to hear of the deaths of David Gregg, D. Quig Porter and Dennis Sanidas and offer the sympathy of the class to their families and friends.


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—Bruce Sloane, 124 Hull School Road, Sperryville, VA 22740; (540) 987-8859; bsloane@wildblue.net