ANDY’S STORY

Andy lived by a simple
but powerful principle

Nothing is impossible

Childhood
Born in 1949, Andy grew up in New Haven, CT and, aged 14, became the state’s youngest Eagle Scout. He graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1971. It was at Dartmouth, and especially the Dartmouth Outing Club, where Andy added a love of climbing to his passion for the wilderness.

He joined the Dartmouth Outing club and, while still in college, took part in a number of climbing expeditions as well as emergency relief missions following natural disasters.

Expedition Leader
After graduating from Dartmouth, Andy was variously an expedition leader or teammate on several major peaks, a river guide in the US and Nepal, a timber management contractor/logger, an oilfield roughneck in Alaska and co-author of a book about one of his expeditions.

Business & Legal Career
After completing law school, Andy practiced law in the Office of the Attorney General, Washington State, joined the Federal Reserve of NY, co-founded Arcturus Motion Picture Company which specialized in mountaineering exploration and adventure before pursuing a business career in international agro-business. Over these years he led or participated in more than a dozen climbing expeditions in North and South America, Nepal, Tibet, China and India.

Back to Dartmouth
In 2004, Andy returned to Dartmouth, eager to mentor the next generation of young leaders as the Director of Outdoor Programs.

Alzheimer’s
Sadly, his tenure at Dartmouth was cut short in 2008 and in 2009 he was discovered to be suffering the effects of Younger Onset Alzheimer’s disease. Faced with a daunting challenge, he would ask “How can we overcome it,” rather than “Why me?”

Andy and his wife, Kathy, became extremely active in the Alzheimer’s community and, following his death, Kathy and Andy’s friends and Dartmouth classmates have continued this work in honoring and continuing Andy’s legacy.

In addition to AHLI, Andy’s other legacy projects include: