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Women Honor Julie & Lollie:
& Sassy in the Outdoors

Be Safe, Smart

 

BY BRENDA PORTER

ulie Williams and Lollie Winans

are the reasons that I am

involved in the Association for
Experiential Education (AEE)
Women’s Professional Group’s
“Women’s Outdoor Memorial
Gatherings 2005: Safe, Smart, and
Sassy” on Memorial Day weekend
this year. Begun in 1997, the event
commemorates the lives of two
young experiential educators who
were brutally murdered in 1996
while backpacking together on the

Appalachian Trail in the eastern U.S.

I feel blessed to have
known and worked with both Julie
and Lollie. I remember canoeing
with them the summer before they

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died. It was a beautiful sunny day on
the Minneapolis Chain of Lakes and
the three of us were opening a door
to the natural world for six women
and their young children who were
participants on a day—trip offered by
Woodswomen, Inc.
I remember Lollie’s

strength as she handily lifted 75-
pound canoes off the canoe trailer
and Julie’s easy rapport as we
planned our teaching strategy. The
three of us traded off teaching basic
safety and technical skills — how to
stay hydrated, how to balance while
getting in and out of the canoes, how
to hold the paddles and stroke them
to move the canoes where we wanted
to go. We even had miniature pad-
dles for the six-year-olds in the
group, and both Julie and Lollie

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excelled when teaching and playing
with the children. ’

My most vivid memory is
during our lunch break at Cedar
Lake. While I chatted with the
women, Julie and Lollie madecastles
of sand with the kids. For the past
nine years since their murders, I have
often visualized the two of them
there in the sunshine, laughing and
playing and just being great role
models in the out—of-doors.

Julie Williams, 24. from
Burlington, Vermont. and Lollie
Winans, 26, from Unity, Maine, were
skilled outdoors women -= generous,
caring women who made a differ-
ence to the people they encountered
during their all-too-short lives. Julie ’
had graduated summa cum laude in
Geology from Carleton College in