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Welcome Circumnavigators

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Nov 202011

Available in our members-only section

Welcome Circumnavigators

We hope you have enjoyed the latest issue of The Log, our venerable publication now in its 103^rd year. Members can visit The Log on this site under the members-only section.

To quote the first editor, “Immortal” J.D. Morrison: “The Log will come out just as often as we get enough good stuff to fill it.”

So, we need your help. The next issue is scheduled to come out this summer with a Sea & Sailing theme. Of course, any interesting topic will be considered for publication. Please send us your story ideas and we will work with you to get them published. We request that you do not send us finished pieces until we have been able to discuss them.

Also, we need feedback for our Scuttlebutt and All Over the Map features. Just drop us a line about your travels or personal news. We want to share this with our membership.

Keep up our mission to make the world a better place. Our wonderful Earth needs all the help it can get.

Luck to You!!

David A. Mink
Chair, Communications Committee

Tracy J. Sancilio
Executive Director

Cinco de Mayo with Circumnavigators

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May 022013

Circumnavigators Club members and guests enjoyed a delicious Mexican dinner at El Parador Café in New York City in celebration of Cinco de Mayo. Interesting travel stories were shared while enjoying a glass of Sangria.

: Cs. Christine Moss and Beverly Anderson

: Cs. Christine and Peter Mosse

: Cs. Anne Hughes and Lois Kahan

: C. Sue Murphy with guest Bonita Chapman

Circumnavigators Club Foundation Scholar News

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Apr 292013

Alex Bozzette with Circumnavigators flag

2011 Georgetown Scholar, Alex Bozzette, will be moving to Ecuador in May to serve as a site coordinator for a child vaccination pilot study. Alex’s coursework and research experiences on his topic, Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, have now led him to an opportunity in Tena, a small jungle city of 30,000 people at the mouth of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Information on his project can be found at www.almasanaproject.org. Alex is grateful to the Foundation for giving him the experience and insights which prepared him for this position.

Luck to you Alex!

Magellan Award Recipient, Bertrand Piccard, Launches Solar Impulse on May 1

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Apr 042013

1999 Magellan Award Recipient and Honorary Member
Bertrand Piccard Launches Solar Impulse on May 1!

Bertrand Piccard and his co-pilot, Brian Jones, were the first men to circumnavigate the globe non-stop in a hot air balloon (breaking three world records for distance, duration and time in the process). His latest work on developing renewable forms of energy and sustainable development will take its peak when his newest project of a planned flight in a solar-polar powered aeroplane “SOLAR-IMPULSE” launches on May 1 in San Francisco. Stopovers will be in Phoenix (Arizona), Dallas (Texas), Atlanta (Georgia) or St. Louis (Missouri) on its way to Washington D.C. and New York City.

At right, remembering the first piloted balloon flight around the world.

Learn more about Bernard Piccard here.

Learn more about Solar Impulse here.

Below, Bertrand Piccard Receiving the Magellan Award in 1999

Circumnavigators Club Annual Meeting

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Apr 012013

The Circumnavigators Club Annual Meeting will take place at
The Yale Club
on
Friday, May 31, 2013
at 12:00 noon.

Join us as we welcome guest speaker Joyce Chaplin, author of
Round About The Earth, Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

Round About The Earth, Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

Joyce E. Chaplin, a Harvard history professor who is also a marvelously engaging and witty writer, delivers the first popular, comprehensive account of the history of circumnavigation and how it has shaped the way we think about the Earth, the environment, and ourselves.

Prize-winning author of The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius and a frequent reviewer for The New York Times Book Review, Joyce Chaplin looks at the entire 500-year history of going around the world, from Magellan the Portuguese explorer to Magellan the GPS. She introduces us to brave, the crazy, and the inspired men and women who first took on the whole planet, whether by sail, steam, rail, bicycle, airplane, or spacecraft.

Along the way, she raises provocative questions and offers penetrating insights into this longest tradition of human activity done on a planetary scale, which elicited our oldest sense of planetary consciousness.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Luck to you!

See the Annual Meeting Announcement as a printer-friendly PDF here.

2012 Photo Contest Winners

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Jan 142013

Congratulations to all of the winners of the Circumnavigators Club Photo Contest! All proceeds from the contest go to the Foundation. Click on any of the photos to see a larger version, and to read the description.

: FIRST PLACE Elizabeth Manny, Architecture, Latin Quarter Sky, Paris

: Kenneth Linsner, Architecture, Steps - San Miguel Mexico

: Angela Addario, Architecture, Outside of Sana'a, N. Yemen

: Kenneth Linsner, Architecture, Snow Lodge - Lapland

: THIRD PLACE Angela Addario, Architecture, Arc de Triomphe, Paris

: Mark Hauptman, Architecture, Innsbruck Inns

: Mark Hauptman, Architecture, Bug's Eye

: SECOND PLACE Cynthia Bassett, Architecture, Monastary, Lake Sevan, Armenia

: Angela Addario, Landscape, The Indian Himalayas,

: Kenneth Linsner, Landscape, The Valais - Leukerbad Switzerland

: SECOND PLACE Diane Fishman, Landscape, Very Still Life- Cuba

: FIRST PLACE Cynthia Bassett, Landscape, YuanYang rice terraces, Yunnan Province, China

: Mark Hauptman, Landscape, Hawaiianer

: Angela Addario, Landscape, Karachi, Pakistan

: THIRD PLACE Mark Hauptman, Landscape, Kiwi Lake

: Elizabeth Manny, Landscape (Urban), Sidewalk Shadows; Paris

: FIRST PLACE Angela Addario, Flora & Fauna, NYC Central Park

: Angela Addario, Flora & Fauna, Outside of Sana'a, N. Yemen

: SECOND PLACE Steven Barnett, Flora & Fauna, Feeding Time in Antarctica

: THIRD PLACE Mark Hauptman, Flora and Fauna, Purple Power

: Mark Hauptman, Flora and Fauna, Garden Troll

: FIRST PLACE Steven Barnett, Human Interest, Wool Carder in San Juan Chamula

: Kenneth Linsner, Human Interest, Indio - San Miguel Mexico

: Virginia Foster, Human Interest, Lion lovers

: THIRD PLACE David Mink, Human Interest, China

: Mark Hauptman, Human Interest, Cuzco Parade

: Angela Addario, Human Interest, Kenya

: SECOND PLACE Angela Addario, Human Interest, The Souk, Sana'a, N. Yemen

: Mark Hauptman, Human Interest, Rural Life

: James H. Birch, Jr., Human Interest, Suez Canal, circa 1901

HERE ARE THE WINNERS:

Flora & Fauna

1. Angela Addario – “NYC Central Park”
2. Steven Barnett – “Feeding Time”
3. Mark Hauptman – “Purple Power”

Landscape

1. Cynthia Bassett – “Yuang Yang Rice Terraces”
2. Diane Fishman – “Landscape, Cuba”
3. Mark Hauptman – “Kiwi Lake”

Human Interest

1. Steven Barnett – “Wool Carder”
2. Angela Addario – “The Souk, Yemen”
3. David Mink – “Chinese Beach”

Architecture

1. Elizabeth Manny – “Latin Quarter Sky”
2. Cynthia Bassett – “Lake Sevan, Armenia”
3. Angela Addario – ” l’Arc de Triomphe, Night”

Spreading the word about the Club

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Jul 222012

Through friendship, to leave this world a little better than we found it.

As members of the Circumnavigators Club, many of us know others who travel extensively as well. Our friends — new and old — may value travel the way we do. But do we spread the word about The Circumnavigators Club? And, how do we do so? Member Josh Datko has blogged about The Club as a way of spreading the word. Read it here. Do you tell others about Circumnavigators? Drop us a line and let us know how you introduce others about us.