Meet Hulbert Directors & Staff
The leadership of The Aloha Foundation has roots in camping that are generations-deep. Each member of the team has an abiding connection with Aloha and a profound commitment to providing the best possible experience for all campers and counselors.
Hulbert Outdoor Center Directors
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Hulbert Outdoor Center Director, Andy Williams, has been with The Aloha Foundation since 1987 and has spent the last 32 years as a professional outdoor educator. He studied at the University of Massachusetts and Boston University. An avid lover of winter adventuring and back country travel, Andy is an expert in all things wilderness, including canoeing, skiing, mountain climbing, fishing, staying warm and dry in the out-of-doors, and cooking gourmet meals in the woods. He is a Registered Maine Guide and a Wilderness First Responder, and a member of the Association of Experiential Educators. He and his wife, Deb, have three grown children who have all worked at Hulbert Outdoor Center and have been campers at the Aloha Camps. |
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Mike Vecchiarelli, Assistant Director of the Hulbert Outdoor Center. Since his first camp job as an archery instructor and cabin counselor back in 1986, Mike has been devoted to the field of experiential education. He has held multiple positions from maintenance director, adventure programs specialist, cook, medic, teacher, director, and more. Designing his own degree at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, to reflect the variety of disciplines covered in a residential program, he has been able to apply this learning to each position. He considers his work a “lifestyle” rather than a job since it often provides him professional opportunities to do the things he loves like white-water kayaking, rock climbing, hiking, x-country skiing, and mountain biking. |
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Becky Proulx has been a member of the Hulbert staff since 1995 and became the Director of School Programs in 2002. Becky has the buoyant energy of someone who spends her days in the company of highly creative elementary and middle school students. She is a graduate of Colby College and is an expert in New Games. She is also an avid bird watcher, outdoorswoman, and reader of poetry, which she shares with everyone at The Aloha Foundation on a regular basis. |
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Mark Ceder, MS, embarks on his fourth summer as Director of Voyageurs in 2008. Before joining The Aloha Foundation, Mark worked in Student Life coordinating leadership development programs at two universities, while also instructing wilderness leadership courses for outdoor professionals. He received his undergraduate degree from Villanova University and Masters degree in Outdoor Recreation from Western Illinois University. After living all around the country, Mark and his wife, Margaret, have settled in the Upper Valley where they plan to raise their family. They have a two year-old son, Noah, and two labrador retrievers, Bailey and Kaia. |
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Deb Williams, Co-ordinator of Hulbert's Elderhostel programs and Director of Public Events & Partnerships, has worked for the Hulbert Outdoor Center since 1988. A graduate of SUNY at Cortland in Outdoor Recreation, she worked for the Massachusetts Audubon Society as a classroom natural history teacher and a sanctuary manager before coming to Vermont. She is a Wilderness First Responder, and an American Canoe Association certified instructor. Her passions include canoeing and snowshoeing in the wilderness of northern Quebec. She and Andy Williams, Hulbert's Director, have three children, Tressa, Lindsey and Justin, all of whom have grown up at the Hulbert Outdoor Center, have been campers at the Aloha Camps, and have worked for The Aloha Foundation as well. |
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If you've spent any time around Hulbert, you have surely talked or worked with Lynn Daly, Hulbert's Registrar. She's the "glue" that keeps us all together! A graduate of Boston University, Lynn came to Hulbert in 1990, "pre-computers", and has worked many years on developing an efficient registration system for the 7,000-plus folks we see each year. Lynn is the person with all the information anyone could need about our programs. Lynn's two children, Tate and Erin, both attended the Aloha Camps and worked at Hulbert over the years. |
Hulbert Outdoor Center Staff
Hulbert Voyageurs staff are caring and dedicated individuals with professional-level outdoor skills, as well as extensive group leadership and teaching experience. Safety is of the utmost importance during every Hulbert program. In addition to their experience, education, and extensive preparation, our staff members are certified as Wilderness First Responders or Emergency Medical Technicians, and instructors in their particular field.
Hulbert Outdoor Center School Program and Homeschool Staff bring a wide variety of experiences and educational backgrounds to the program. They are dedicated, caring, professional adults who all have college-level education and experience working with children. Many have additional experience and professional training in education, outdoor skills, and other relevant areas. All instructors strive to facilitate a positive and enriching learning environment.
Our Family Camp staff members are dedicated and committed people with a passion for fun and adventure. We draw our Family Camp staff from the Aloha Camps, our Voyageurs Wilderness Trip program, and our School Program. Most are college undergraduates or graduates, and many have advanced degrees. Staff members come from all across the country and from many nations, including South Africa, Ireland, Scotland, Russia, Japan, Holland, Germany, and Australia. All are instructors are certified in first aid and other emergency procedures.
Elderhostel staff and instructors are committed to the philosophy that learning is important at any stage of life. Professors from Dartmouth College, local experts in various fields, as well as talented individuals from our own staff make up the core of our Elderhostel educational team.