Three Mile Island Camp

Celebrating 125 Years

1900-2025

Lake Winnepesaukee

Meredith, NH

TMI Winter Community Gathering

Remote via Zoom 

Celebrating 125 years while building a culture of belonging for future generations

Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024

7:00PM-8:15PM

Agenda

7:00PM Welcome

7:05PM Three Mile Island: The Early Years - with Stroker Rogovin

7:25PM 125 years of botanical study on TMI - with Marge Holland

7:45PM. Breakout room discussions and conclusion

Panelist Bios

Stroker Rogovin 

I’ve been fortunate to enjoy the AMC as a member, volunteer, and staff. On the staff side, I’ve held a number of positions, including on the AMC’s hut system construction crew and storehouse crew, Pinkham Notch Camp crew, Trail Crew shelter caretaker, Three Mile Island Camp crew, AMC Club headquarters receptionist, and editor of an AMC guide to managing volunteers. In the years since, I’ve remained active as an AMC volunteer, serving on the Boston Conservation Committee, Outdoor Leadership Development Committee (focusing on risk management), and working closely with Three Mile Camp on volunteer management and facility maintenance. Another hat I wear is President of the OHA, the alumni association for hut system employees. For the past fourteen years I’ve served on the AMC’s Board of Advisors.

Marge Holland

Marge Holland joined the Appalachian Mountain Club in 1964, and served on the AMC TMI Camp crew in 1965, 66, and 67.  As a graduate student Marge and her major professor wrote several articles for the AMC Bulletin, which were later compiled into the AMC book entitled "Stone walls and sugar maples: an ecology for northeasterners."  In the early 1970s Marge served on the TMI Camp Committee and collaborated with Jay Maciejowski to prepare the Camp's Land Use Plan.  After this plan was adopted by the Camp Committee in 1973, Marge, Jay and Bill [Bat] Clapham developed the vegetation sampling scheme which was first used at TMI in 1978 to examine how well the Land Use Plan was working, and TMI vegetation has been sampled roughly every decade, and was sampled most recently in 2021.  

In the late 1970s Marge co-chaired the Berkshire Chapter Conservation Committee which led to her serving on the AMC's Conservation Committee and in the early 1980s she served as Councilor of Natural Resources on the AMC Council.  While on the Council, Marge was presented with three boxes of preserved plant specimens collected by AMCers in the early 1900s.  A complete list of those plants appears in Stroker Rogovin's book.   More recently from 2019-2023 Marge served again on the TMI Camp Committee, as well as on the TMI Advisory Board on Natural Resources with Jay and Bat.   Between the 1978 TMI vegetation sampling and the 2021 sampling, Marge has published six manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and given three poster presentations at scientific meetings about changes in the TMI vegetation.

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