Bill O’Brien, coordinator of ALDHA for 1997-99;
and past editor of the A.T. Companion.
• Frank Logue, a former ATC board member from Georgia
• Scott Beavers, ALDHA’s former treasurer in Vermont
• Jim Owen, ALDHA board member in Maryland
• Scott Wyatt, field editor for the Companion, from Virginia
• Larry Luxenberg, ALDHA member, from New City, New York
• Waldo Jaquith, web site master, from Virginia
• Al Sochard, past ALDHA treasurer and ATC board member, from New Hampshire
And Noel DeCavalcante, former coordinator of ALDHA, from Melbourne, Florida
Feb. 7, 1997 ... I would be remiss not to also mention a cat I inherited since creating this home page. You may think it odd (I do!) but this cat insists on being part of the operation whenever I sit down to work at the computer. At the sound of the clacking keyboard, he jumps up on the mouse pad, steps onto the wrist pad and burrows himself in my lap, forcing me to type over his head and body while he does his own version of typing, often called making bread, in my stomach. You might say he has been there every step of the way, so I've put him on the home page.
April 30, 2007 ... Flash forward 10 years. After being exposed to poisoned pet food in the early part of the year, my cat took ill and had to be put down. Hardest thing I ever had to do in my life. The weeks leading up to it were hell for me, and not too pleasant for him either, I imagine. Yes, he was 19 years old, but up until the poisoning, had literally never been sick a day in his life. At Christmas, I had written to someone that I suspected he would outlive us all. So with a heavy heart, I close this chapter of the history of this Web page. Adios, buddy.
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