You are wrong comparing a non-profit to a large company.
Point well taken Yuri. My experience is in health care where for profit companies in direct competition with non profits and are making it increasingly difficult for the traditional non profit hospitals (who emphasize quality of care over profits and pay outs to shareholders and CEO’s) to survive. First they took over non profit health insurance, now they are far along in taking over hospitals and medical practices.
I haven't bought anything from MEC in a few years, and some of my best ice/snow/cold weather gear is from MEC. I did wonder why their catalogs stopped coming a few years ago. They still have an online presence. I hope REI doesn't follow their example. A few years ago I visited one of REI's flagship stores on the West Coast (multi-story) and was overwhelmed by their wall of headlamps - hundreds of them. At that point I had to leave.
Yes they did. It was in the approximate location of Shapleigh Bunkhouse. It was torn down when the Highland Ctr was built.
Yes, the Shapleigh bunkhouse, as noted by Kevin Rooney. The original Shapleigh bunkhouse was built after the Crawford House burned down in 1977 and was torn down when the Highland Center opened in 2003. I believe that the AMC said that the old Shapleigh bunkhouse had fire code problems.
Thom - Was the Highland Center built under Andy's reign?
Yes, Andy Falender was AMC President from 1989 to 2012 and was a transformative leader. About everything described above in regards to the AMC other than the building of Mizpah hut was accomplished during Andy’s presidency. He has a Harvard MBA and led the New England Conservatory of Music before the AMC. He was succeeded at the AMC by John Judge in 2012. Andy is now a Senior Fellow at the Conservation Law Foundation. The Shapleigh bunkhouse snafu was my main complaint with his leadership.
Now you have an idea of what I speak of when I mention “antique infrastructure”. The upper hierarchy and it’s inner circle run the ship. Hardly makes one want to join what is supposed to be a “Club”. Unless you enjoy charades or possibly cloaks and daggers. Please counter if you wish in hopes that maybe change is on the way or already has.But don’t sugar coat it.
SubSig was an interesting place - perhaps it still is. Dickerman cabin is very close to The Notchland Inn, on the other side of the road. It burned down in the late 90s, but the club rebuilt it. The year before the fire, I was reading old log books in the cabin and came across an entry from John Griffen and Hugo Stadmuller dated April 3rd, 1965 - the night before they both died in an avalanche in Huntington Ravine. It really bothered me for some reason when that log book was lost to the fire. (After looking at the history linked above, it looks like that old log book must have been from the barn in Jackson that was shared with the MIT outing club until the cabin in the notch was built.)
What is your take on SJ? We have always given them donations. To me, the issue is how much of each donated dollar goes to helping the folks in need. I admit to not having looked at SJ’s track record though but have assumed they are a very large NP.
NP ?????
non-profit
thx
St Jude is highly rated by Charity Navigator, and its program vs expense ratio is good,
Thank you. Very insightful.
