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President
Walt R.Borneman
walterborneman@mac.com
Walter R. Borneman is best-known in Colorado’s mountains as the co-author of
A Climbing Guide to Colorado’s Fourteeners, first published in 1978 and
in-print for twenty-five years. Borneman served as the first chairman of the
Colorado Fourteeners Initiative. He has a law degree from the University of Denver
and is the president of the Walter V. and Idun Y. Berry Foundation, which funds
post-doctoral fellowships in children’s health at Stanford University.
Borneman also has a master’s degree in American history and is the author of five
other books and numerous articles about mountains, railroads, and the American
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| most recently, Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land (HarperCollins, 2003) and 1812:
The War that Forged a Nation (HarperCollins, October, 2004). |
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Past President
Jerry Caplan
gcaplan@juno.com
Jerry joined the Colorado Mountain Club in 1966 and served as president in 1993. He has climbed all the fourteeners and has hiked and climbed in Europe, Asia, Africa and New Zealand, mostly with the CMC. In 1993, he was instrumental in organizing the drive to obtain the CMC headquarters in Golden. In 1996, Jerry was the first recipient of the Carl Blaurock Silver Piton Award. In the 1960's, Jerry formed the law firm of Caplan and Earnest. In his 25 |
| years of practice, he served as Boulder Municipal Judge, Boulder County Public Trustee, and Special Assistant Attorney General for Colorado. He was President of the Boulder County Bar Association, the Boulder County Bar Foundation, the National School Boards Association's Council of School Attorneys, and the Board of Trustees for the University of Northern Colorado. In the 1970's, he was on the Board of Trustees for the State Colleges of Colroado. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Bar Foundation. Currently, Jerry is on the Boulder County Planning Commission and the Board of Directors of the Rocky Mountain Nature Association. |
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Vice President
Susan Baker
susan_baker@agilent.com
Susan Baker is a lifetime member of the Colorado Mountain Club. She joined the CMC in 1979, and was appointed to the CMCF board of directors in 1993. Susan was CMC president in 1989 and 2000. She has served 19 years on the CMC board of directors and seven years on the CMC Executive Committee. She also served for four years as the chair of the CMC Conservation Committee. |
| She has been an instructor and trip leader in the Boulder Group and the Denver Basic Mountaineering School. She served Boulder's Mountaineering School director for one year, and Boulder's Group chairman for two years. An engineer by training, Susan works in business development for Agilent Technologies in Loveland. She is the former president of the International Amazona (parrot) Society and the Colorado State Delegate to the American Federation of Aviculture for three years. |
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Secretary
Sherry Richardson
sherry@richardsonreporting.com
I joined the CMC in 1988 after learning about the Club while trekking in Nepal. Being brand-new to the hiking/climbing world, I took many classes offered by the Denver Group. I've served in a variety of positions in my tenure, including Denver Group membership chair, BMS chair, Denver Group chair, and two stints as State president. The Club is a dominant part of my life, and I look forward to my service on the CMC Foundation board.In my business life, I own a small court-reporting firm in downtown Denver and work as a full-time, free-lance court reporter.
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Treasurer
Gary Mintz
gmintz@mho.net
I spent two summers in central British Columbia during my high school years in Connecticut and was hooked on the mountains. I went to college at the University of Denver and have enjoyed the Rockies for the past 40 plus years. Although I haven't hiked many of the fourteeners, I plan on doing a few each year for as long as I can. I am passionate about flyfishing and have been enjoying that |
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Tom Cope
thomas.cope@yahoo.com
Tom Cope has been a member of the Colorado Mountain Club since 1986, and the American Alpine Club since 1993. He also served on the board of directors of the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative from 1996 to 2002. Tom has climbed all the Colorado fourteeners, as well as Ranier, the Mexican volcanoes, Elbrus, Kilimanjaro, and mountains in British Columbia. He is Of Counsel with Holme, Roberts & Owen LLP, in Denver, Colorado, where |
| he practices natural resources, environmental, and public land law. From June 2002 to September 2003, he served as a rule of law liaison in Moldova with the ABA Rule of Law Initiative. Since then he has prepared assessments of the judiciary or legal profession in Albania, Armenia, Georgia, Macedonia, Moldova, and Tajikistan. He received a PhD in history from the University of Chicago in 2001, after taking a mere twenty years to complete his dissertation, and is presently researching a biography of Christopher Palles (chief baron of the Irish Court of Exchequer, 1874-1916). |
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Lena Cazeaux
greycastle@me.com
S. Lena Cazeaux, President of GreyCastle Associates, Inc., has worked in non-profit consulting and fundraising for nearly 20 years. Her responsibilities have ranged from the design of fundraising strategies, the establishment of new non-profits, tracking and database systems, grant writing techniques, corporate and foundation relations, annual funds, government proposals, |
| stewardship, volunteer management, publications, direct mail, to all other aspects of development. Lena served for ten years in universities, including Arizona State University, Washington State University, and the Colorado School of Mines, and then for the last ten years, with a wide range of non-profit organizations in Colorado and around the country. She presents workshops, board development sessions, and training seminars in grant writing and fundraising -- and thoroughly enjoys helping organizations reach their resource development goals.
Her educational background includes a bachelors degree from the University at Buffalo, New York, and a masters degree from New York University in Manhattan. Her training is in archaeology, geology, and environmental sociology. Lena has a keen interest in mountain environments in Colorado and has been affiliated with the CMC for five years -- both professionally and as a member. |
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Jim Gehres
jimgehres@yahoo.com
Climbing: 800 climbs of Colorado high peaks including all
fourteeners at least 12 times each, and the centennial peaks (top 100 points in Colorado).All U.S. state highpoints except Alaska, Grand Teton and Mount Moran, Aconcagua, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Matterhorn, Monte Rosa and Mont Blanc
Occupation: Retired I.R.S. Attorney
Memberships: Colorado Mountain Club - life member, Sierra Club - life member, American Alpine Club, Explorers Club, American Bar Association, Colorado Bar Association, American Institute of CPAs - |
life member, Colorado Society of CPAs, American Association of Attorney CPAs
Offices: Colorado Mountain Club Foundation - past-president, Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, treasurer and founding director since 1994 |
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David Hite
hitedavid@mac.com
A Colorado native, David joined the Colorado Mountain Club in 1984. He served on the Denver Council, and was Chair in 2002-03. David ended a three year term as Secretary to the State Board of Directors in 2009. He became a member of the CMC Foundation in 2008. Additional CMC involvement includes chairing the Press Advisory Committee, volunteering as a Club representative at the REI flagship store's Outdoor Recreation Information Center since 1998, and working on the Washburn Museum’s panel on mountains and the arts. Currently, David is gathering information for a publication celebrating the Club’s 100th anniversary. David is a member of the 21st Century Fund.
Before retirement, David served as the Colorado Legislative Council’s |
Deputy Director. He continues his interest in Colorado history and politics as an appointee by the Speaker of the House of Representatives to the State Capitol Advisory Committee.
A graduate of Colorado College, David also received an MPA from the University of Denver. |
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John Lacher
jlacher@earthlink.net
I grew up in Boulder, traipsing around the foothills and collecting more
woodticks than my dog. In 1953 I took the Rocky Mountain Rescue
climbing course, where we learned to catch a leader fall using the newly
developed dynamic belay and the (new technology) nylon climbing rope. I have been climbing here and there since. We returned to Denver in l971 where I practiced medicine at St Joes, Presbyterian, and St Lukes. I also maintained a clinical teaching
position at the medical school. Life was a bit busy and I really |
| couldn't find time to do anything with the CMC. When I retired ten years ago, I rejoined the CMC and have been active since with the cross country ski school, leading hikes and ski trips. I
served one year on the Denver Council. I climbed my first "fourteener" fifty years ago this coming summer, and really had no desire to do all of them. Some I climbed multiple times by multiple routes. I climbed also in Europe, the west coast and the Tetons. But, alas, I climbed all of them now except Culebra, so I thought I would enter the lottery and see if I can do that too. With good weather, good luck with the lottery, and if my legs hold up, who knows? I may climb them all over half a century. |
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Steve Bain
Steve joined the Colorado Mountain Club in 1976 and took Basic Mountaineering with the Denver Group. In addition to most of Colorado's fourteeners, he has climbed in the Alps, Andes and Himalayas. He served on the CMC Trails Committee, State Board and Executive Committee before he and his wife, Lisa, joined the U.S. Peace Corps in 1994 to work in the Czech Republic as advisors to the Czech Ministry of the Environment. Steve practices environmental and natural resources law with Welborn Sullivan Meck & Tooley in Denver and has been an adjunct professor of International Petroleum |
| Law at the University of Denver since 2005. He received a degree in history from Yale University and a law degree from Cornell Law School. He served on the board of Parent Pathways/Florence Crittenton Services in Denver from 1999 to 2006. |
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Accountant
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CMC Chief Executive Officer
Katie Blackett
KatieBlackett @ cmc.org
Katie Blackett comes to Colorado Mountain Club with over 9 years of financial and management experience, in both the for-profit and non-profit sector. Katie has many years of board experience having sat on the Campfire board, USATF Colorado, and BoldeReach. To keep her worldly knowledge up to date and her calendar as full as possible, she teaches Economics and Business at Front Range Community College. Katie holds an undergraduate degree from Villanova University where she attended on an athletic scholarship as well as an MBA. Katie has been a |
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professional runner for 8 years having run in the last two marathon Olympic Trials. She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband Matt Schneider and their adorable Golden Retriever Tollie. Katie is thrilled to be the CEO of CMC and hopes to continue strengthening the tremendous organization that CMC is. |
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