Edward ‘Moose’ Damp

Edward ‘Moose’ Damp was born July 21, 1921, in Pittsburgh, PA, and passed away on March 3, 2009 in Sarasota, FL. The second son of Albert and Elizabeth (O’Grady) Damp, he had two sisters and two brothers. Ed graduated from Peabody High School in Pittsburgh, PA in 1939 and soon after set off on adventure…

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Alan Rimm-Kaufman

Alan Rimm-Kaufman, died from leukemia on Saturday July 18, 2009 at age 41. He is survived by his wife, and two children. Alan worked for the AMC for 4 years, at Pinkham, Galehead, Camp Dodge and Trail Crew. Alan was born in 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Essie and Norman Kaufman. After growing up in…

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Carolyn “Cary” Girod

Carolyn “Cary” Girod, a 31-year-old Cambridge Mass resident and math teacher at Buckingham Browne & Nichols, died July 6, 2009 from injuries after being struck by a van while riding her bicycle down State Route 105 in Washington state. Prior to teaching at Buckingham Browne and Nichols, Girod taught mathematics and environmental science for two…

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Pete Harris

Henry “Pete” Harris, age 79 of Needham passed away on May 3, 2009 after a life long struggle with COPD, in his home in his sleep. He was employed by the US Postal service for thirty years and retired in 1992. Mr. Harris was born and raised in Winchester, MA and was a graduate of…

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Charles Henry Rowan

Charles Henry Rowan, of Boulder Colorado, passed away Saturday, April 18, 2009. Originaly from Fitchburh MA, he was 83. He is survived by his son, Mark Rowan, his daughter, Lori Hansen, both residing in Colorado, and three sisters. Chuck spent time in the White Mountains in the late 40s and then again in the early…

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William Ashbrook Jr

William S. Ashbrook Jr. ‘El Wacko’, 87, died March 31, 2009 at his retirement community in Denver. He was born in Philadelphia, PA, January 28,1922 and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University with degrees in English literature. He worked at Pinkham in 1939, Lonesome in 1940, Carter in 1941, and Zealand in…

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Brooke Halsey

M. Brooke Halsey died November 17, 2009 in Vermont at the age of 26. He worked at Madison hut in 2003. Halsey started college at Princeton in fall of 2000 and studied for a semester at the Center for Northern Studies in Vermont. He transferred to Harvard in the fall of 2004, finishing college in…

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