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A.T. Museum Announces Date, Venue and M.C. For 2019 Hall of Fame Banquet

8/20/2018

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The Appalachian Trail Museum is pleased to announce that the 2019 Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame Banquet will be held on Saturday, May 4, 2019.  The 2019 venue will be the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, located at 950 Soldiers Drive, Carlisle, PA.  The evening will begin with a reception at 6 pm, with dinner to follow at 7 pm. 

​Complete information on tickets is available HERE.
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The M.C. for the 2019 Banquet will be Sandra “Sandi” Marra.
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Sandi Marra
Sandi has been Chair of the Board of Appalachian Trail Conservancy since 2013.  Sandi is a past president and honorary life member of Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, and has been an A.T. maintainer for more than 30 years. She has been on the ATC Board of Directors since October 2008, previously served six years on the Board of Managers, and had chaired the membership and development and strategic planning committees.  Sandi recently retired as chief operating officer of St. Coletta School of Greater Washington after a career in human resources and administration.

Larry Luxenberg, founder and President of the Museum said:  “We’re so happy that Sandi has agreed to be the M.C. of our Banquet.  Sandi and her husband Chris have been tremendous supporters of the Museum and Banquet since the very beginning.”

The 2019 Banquet will honor the 2019 Class of the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame.  The selection process will begin with nominations from the general public.  The Hall of Fame selection committee will then select the class early in 2019 and it will be announced in April.
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Jim Foster, Chair of the Hall of Fame selection committee, said: “We’re thrilled to partner with the Army Heritage and Education Center for our 2019 Banquet.  The USAHEC is a resource of contemporary and historical materials that honors Soldiers, past and present.  The 2019 Banquet will be special, because we’ll honor the 70th anniversary of Earl Shaffer’s first A.T. thru-hike.  Earl hiked the trail in 1948, after serving honorably in the U.S. Army during World War II.  Earl referred to his thru-hike as ‘Walking Off The War’”.
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Earl Shaffer, first A.T. thru-hiker, on Katahdin
Tickets to the 2019 Banquet will be available later in 2018.  Opportunities to sponsor the Banquet will also be available.  Check the Museum’s website www.atmuseum.org or email atmbanquet@gmail.com for more information.
1 Comment
R Rose Anderson
10/19/2018 04:04:27 pm

HI,
I am one that has had a desire to thru-hike the AT for many decades, but the demands of life and the timing in my life has not allowed me to focus that this lifelong goal of min until recently.

I have just returned from 2 weeks along the AT from VA to almost GA. I attended 5 days with Dr Warren Doyle at the ATI.

I am most interested in finding out if Dr Doyle is a nominee for the 2019 AT Hall of Fame? Politics aside, personality aside....I find it hard to believe that Dr Doyle has not, already, been inducted into the AT Hall of Fame.

What a wonderful thing to recognize and honor those legends of the AT before they have passed away. If thru-hiking the AT 18 times....along with all his other amazing accomplishments as a lover of the AT...doesn't make him worthy of an honored place in the AT Hall of Fame...well I don't know what would?

Please contact me and tell me that Dr Doyle is a nominee for the AT Hall of Fame for 2019. And....if he has possibly already turned down a place in the Hall of Fame....please tell me that, as well. Knowing his firey outlook on life....that would not surprise me, but I would think a person would be voted into the H of F....on their lifetime achievements and devotion to the betterment of the AT....if they wanted it or not.

Signed,
A lover of the AT and an honored student of Dr Warren Doyle

Rose Anderson

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