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Meet our Staff


Chris Duffy

Director of Outdoor Adventures

Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Certifications: AMGA SPI, Swiftwater Rescue Technician, WFR, BA
Interests:
Interesting things
Favorite Quote: "The key to staying on top of things is treat everything like it’s your first project, like it’s your first day like back when you was an intern. That’s how you try to treat things, just stay hungry." - Notorious BIG

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Brittany Graham

  Challenge Course Coordinator

Hometown: Frederick, MD
Certifications: WFR, CPR, Challenge Course
Interests:
Sailing, backpacking and anything else outside, people, cooking and good music
Favorite Quote:
"We are better than we know.  If we can be made to see it, then perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less." - Kurt Hahn

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Grace Andrews

Class: 2013
Major: Psychology
Hometown: Columbia, MD
Certifications: WFR, CPR/AED, First Aid, Lifeguard, PADI SCUBA
Interests: Caving, Canoeing, Backpacking, Kayaking, Triathlons, Snorkeling, Climbing (Trees and Rocks)
Favorite Quote: "Courage is grace under pressure."  - Ernest Hemingway

Brenda Beza

Class: 2015
Major: Biology
Hometown: Stratford, NJ
Certifications: WFR, Certified Nurse Assistant, Challenge Course
Interest: Backpacking, Climbing, Caving, Snowboarding, Paddling, Fishing, Sustainability, and Bubbles
Favorite Quote: "Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream."

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Charles Brothman

Class: 2014
Major: Business with Marketing Concentration
Hometown: York, PA    
Certifications: WFR, CPR, Challenge Course, River Safety and Rescue (Lvl 3)
Interests: Rock Climbing, Caving, Paddling, Soccer and slacklining.
Favorite Quote: “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - Andre Gide

Pat Decker

Class: 2013
Major: Psychology
Hometown: Minneapolis, MN  
Certifications: WFR, CPR, Swift Water Rescue, Wilderness Water Safety, Life Guard
Interests: Canoeing, Backpacking, Wilderness Therapy, Environmentalism.
Favorite Quote: "There is also, of course, one's internal mapless country - the pathless way. Towards this I navigate. It cannot be helped. It is the way of mind and spirit leading to the most intriguing, most powerful landscape of all." - John Henriksson

Danielle DiPeppe

Class: 2014
Major: Undeclared
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Certifications: WFR, CPR, Swift Water Rescue
Interests: Horseback Riding, Running, Caving, Rock Climbing, Paddling, Backpacking
Favorite Quote: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us." - Marianne Williamson

Chad Fogle

Class: 2013
Major: Undeclared
Hometown: Fairfield, PA
Certifications: EMT-B, Professional Rescuer CPR, WFR, Swift Water Rescue
Interests:
Backpacking, Caving, anything that deals with the outdoors, and saving lives
Favorite Quote: "Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live." - Morrie Schwartz

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Larry Hannon

Class: 2013
Major: Accounting
Hometown: Lexington, MA
Certifications: WFR, CPR, Swift Water Rescue
Interests: Backpacking, Skiing, Caving, Canoeing and Cookies
Favorite Quote: “The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it."  -Theodore Roosevelt

Logan Henry

Class: 2014
Major: French with Certification in Secondary Education
Hometown: Reading, PA   
Certifications: WFR, Challenge Course
Interests: Rock Climbing, Soccer, Snowboarding, Caving, and Canoeing
Favorite Quote: “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity” -John Muir

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Mary Kreke

Class: 2014
Major: History
Hometown: Frederick, MD
Certifications: WFR, CPR, Challenge Course
Interests: Rock Climbing, Hiking, Backpacking, Canoeing, Camping, Caving, Kayaking
Favorite Quote: "Never forget for a single moment that life belongs to those who are explorers" - Bhagwan Shree

Michael Neuman

Class: 2013
Major: Accounting and Business
Hometown: Catonsville, MD
Certifications: WFR, CPR, Swift Water Rescue
Interests: Rock Climbing, Whitewater Kayaking, Mountaineering
Favorite Quote: "I’m drawn to open country.  It’s where everything becomes clear, where the world makes the most sense.” - Jeff Johnson, 180 Degrees South

Katie Scott

Class: 2015
Hometown: Southold, NY
Certifications: WFR, CPR/AED, Lifeguard
Interests: Climbing, Caving, Canoeing, Rafting, Sailing, Snowboarding, Snoozing, Slacklining, and Walking Dogs
Favorite Quote: "Earth and Sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books." - John Lubbock

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Kyle Wakayama

Class: 2013
Major: Business
Hometown: Manoa Valley, HI   
Certifications: WFR, CPR, Swift Water Rescue
Interests: Rock Climbing, Kayaking, Skateboarding, Traveling
Favorite Quote: "Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves."  - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Bill Witkoski

Class: 2015
Major: Business
Hometown: Quakertown, PA
Certifications: WFR, CPR, Challenge Course
Interests: Caving, Fishing, Rock Climbing, Camping, Basketball and Volleyball
Favorite Quote: "Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Alvin Zepeda

Class: 2014
Major: French
Hometown: Washington, DC
Certifications: WFR, CPR, Challenge Course
Interest: Canoeing, Backpacking, Rock Climbing, Caving, Soccer, Track, Cross Country, Video Games, Road Biking, Sketching, Boxing and Billards
Favorite Quotes: "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender." -Tupac Shal

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