Audrey Spafford Jung emerging from a cave adventure
Becky Duane and JJ Stupp getting ready to view the eclipse
Cindy Peters and Lotsie Holton with lemurs in Madagascar
L to R: Lotsie Holton, Ted Bakewell, Cindy Peters
In November our Chapter members and friends were absolutely wowed by the fascinating and entertaining talk given by Paleontologist Dr. Phil M
In November our Chapter members and friends were absolutely wowed by the fascinating and entertaining talk given by Paleontologist Dr. Phil M
Jessie Ternberg and Mabel Purkerson are joined by Lorie Karnath (past president of the Explorers Club) and Dickinson College students Zev Greenberg and Trevor Griesman at the May 2015 Frontiers of Molecular Sciences Symposia held at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Explorers Club St. Louis members visit the Solar Impulse
Rick Holton and Lotsie Hermann Holton on Everest.
Solar Impulse in its inflatable mobile hangar, Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, June 6, 2013.
Mark Alexander, Anne Doubilet, Benjamin Hulsey, and Julie Alexander at the Explorers Club Annual Dinner, March 2012, New York City.
Lotsie Hermann Holton and Rick Holton join Peggy Fossett (center) at the May 1, 2008 Memorial Service for Steve Fossett.
Interior of Graham Chapel at the Memorial Service and Celebration of the Life of Steve Fossett. Prominently displayed were the Explorers Club flag and a portrait of WU alum and Explorer Steve Fossett in Chicago.
Washington University Chancellor Mark Wrighton at the Memorial Service and Celebration of the Life of Steve Fossett
Mabel Purkerson and Jane Fisher at The Explorers Club Annual Dinner in New York City.
Cherri and Richard Briggs at an Explorers Club St. Louis meeting in December.
Mabel Purkerson wearing a traditional African headdress while at an Explorers Club St. Louis meeting.
Peter Diamandis, Chairman of the X-Prize competition.
Erik Lindbergh, Johnathon Conrad, Burt Rutan, Lotsie Holton, Peter Diamandis in the Mojave with SpaceShipOne.
Ann Busch, Adolphus Busch, Trudy Busch, Fred McLaren, and Avery Russell at Grants Farm.
Bob Hermann, Steve Fossett, and Lotsie Hermann Holton at Busch Stadium.
Audrey Jung, Jim Fowler and Audrey’s grandaughter at the St. Louis Zoo.
Marlin and Carol Perkins in Africa.
Sir Edmund Hillary and Lotsie Hermann Holton.
Cindy Peters and Lotsie Holton at a Borneo orangutan feeding station, 2014.
Lotsie Hermann Holton with endangered Kiwi, New Zealand, 2016.
Eliot Herman at Tufi Island, Papua New Guinea (November 2012).
Bob Haldiman (with orangutan) in Gunung Sibuantan, Sumatra, Indonesia, 1996.
Bob Haldiman atop MacKinnon Pass, 1154 meters above the valley floor, Milford Track, South Island, New Zealand, 1996.
Bob Haldiman passes the Arctic Circle on his motorcycle trip to the Arctic Ocean, 1995.
Leonard Sonnenschein with village women in Hyderabad, India, July 20, 2011. Sonnenschein was in Hyderabad observing rural farming for the Youth Voices in Conservation’s GreenLeaf Program, an initiative that addresses localized sustainability issues and provides a methodology for decreasing carbon footprints and increasing financial sustainabilities within each community.
Leonard Sonnenschein with rag pickers in Delhi, India, October 18, 2011 – another project that is part of the Youth Voices in Conservation’s GreenLeaf Program.
Leonard Sonnenschein in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India during a fisheries research trip on April 12, 2010. This trip formed the foundation of Sonnenshein’s book, Conservation of Fishes in Kerala, India.
Eleanor Bergquist, Cindy Peters & Amanda Peters at Everest Base Camp during the Cauldwell Xtreme Everest Medical Expedition in 2007.
Fiona and Randy Woods landing on a remote ridge in Colorado during the Snowmass Balloon Festival, September 2010. The Woods ran the race for many years, and returned to compete in 2010 for the first time in seventeen years.
Lotsie Holton flying in a microlight over Victoria Falls-Oct 2009.
Moai overlooking the ocean, Easter Island (Eliot Herman).
Moai head, Easter Island (Eliot Herman).
Total Solar Eclipse montage, July 11, 2010, Easter Island (Eliot Herman).
Cherri Briggs, Mabel Purkerson, Lotsie Holton, Cindy Peters in Zambia with local farmers, September 2009.
St. Louis Explorers Club members Mabel Purkerson and Ted Bakewell stand in front of a mud mosque in Mopti, Mali, during a February 2008 trip to the Rivers of West Africa and Timbuktu.
Dr. Steven Clift, Mabel Purkerson, Ted Bakewell, and Anna Clift pose with the Explorers Club flag during their February 2008 trip to West Africa and Timbuktu. The Clifts are Little Rock, Arkansas-based members of TEC.
Benjamin Hulsey and Jim Thompson at NASA’s Spaceward Bound Mojave 2007 project.
Jim Thompson in his balloon over a Mojave lava field.
Mabel Purkerson hiking in Switzerland.
Barry Moss (London Chapter Chair), Faanya Rose (Past NYC President), and Lotsie Hermann Holton (St. Louis Chapter Chair) on a trip to India.
Dr. Sherman Silber on his visit to the North Pole.
Dr. Sherman Silber on a fishing trip in Alaska.
Gig Gwin on the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa.
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