Therese Smith

Position: Co-President & Treasurer

Year of graduation: 2013

Major: Economics, with a minor in geography

Hometown: Houston, Texas

Favorite gear: My Merrell hiking shoes

Favorite Outing Club trips: Kennebec whitewater rafting, Mt. Monadnock hike.

Favorite club activities: Hiking, rock climbing, canoeing.

Favorite place: Brazos Bend State Park in Needville, TX.

Fun fact: I plan to visit every Texas state park (about 136 of ‘em) by the time I’m 30.

Always wanted to: Backpack in southeast Alaska.

Scared to: Get eaten by a bear.

Favorite quote: All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hannah Sonderby

Position: Co-President

Year of graduation: 2014

Major: Geography

Hometown: Long Valley, NJ

Favorite gear: Spandex

Favorite Outing Club trip: Acadia National Park

Favorite club activity: Volunteer work

Favorite procrastination tip: NPR.org or cleaning, or both!

Always wanted to: Tour/hike through Canada.

Scared to: Graduate?

Favorite quote: You can't fall off a mountain - Jack Kerouac
- They spend all day washing their hands with creamy soaps they secretly wanta eat in the bathroom. - Japhy Rider in "The Dharma Bums" by Jack Kerouac

Jill Silverberg

Position: Publicity Chair

Year of graduation: 2013

Major: Sociology with a minor in Education.

Hometown: Huntington, New York

Favorite Outing Club trip: Nature Connection Hike at Upton State Forest - the first hike I planned!!!

Favorite club activity: Earth Day clean-up at Crow Hill with the Greater Worcester Land Trust.

Favorite place on Clark's campus: Fourth floor of the Goddard Library, in front of the big window.

Favorite procrastination tip: www.cakewrecks.com

Favorite cupcake blog: Mine!

Always wanted to: Travel to Scotland.

Favorite quote: I wish the world was flat like the old days, then I could travel just by folding a map. No more airplanes, or speedtrains, or freeways. There'd be no distance that can hold us back. – Death Cab For Cutie

Helen Carpenter

Position: Secretary [Fall semester]

Year of graduation: 2013

Major: International Development & Social Change

Hometown: Medford, Massachusetts

Favorite gear: My winter running pants (my legs never get cold).

Favorite Outing Club trip: Ziplining in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Favorite place: South Hero Island, Vermont.

Favorite place on Clark's campus: Kneller Center pool.

Always wanted to: Hike the Appalachian Trail.

Scared to: Go caving/spelunking.

Favorite quote: I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - Henry David Thoreau

Mugsy Moose

Position: Mascot

Year of graduation: 2013

Major: Environmental Science

Hometown: Clark University; Worcester MA

Favorite Outing Club trip: Eagle Lake Wildlife Sanctuary; Holden MA

Favorite club activity: Being carried around in people's backpacks! Peering into tree holes!

Favorite place on Clark's campus: Yoga room in Dana Commons

Favorite procrastination tip: Eating tubs of Moose Tracks ice cream

Always wanted to: Visit FAO Schwartz (He heard the walls are lined with stuffed animals!)

Favorite quote: To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. - Jane Austen