Cleveland Hiking Club

This series of interviews with members of the Cleveland Hiking Club, conducted in 2017, covers a number of topics relating to the history of the club, outdoor recreation and the natural environment, and members' recollections of hikes in the Cleveland Metroparks and Cuyahoga Valley National Park, as well as other parks and natural landscapes in Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky, and nationally and internationally. The Cleveland Hiking Club is one of the nation's oldest and largest organizations of its kind, dating to 1919 and now counting more than 1,000 members.

Credits

Administrator

  • Cleveland Hiking Club

Interviewees

  • Ken Howard
  • Jean Ruck
  • Paul Ruck
  • Wanda Gavriluk
  • Linda Heiden
  • John Heidenreich
  • Warren Davis
  • Clare Coulis
  • Rachel Abernethy
  • Jeff Lennartz
  • Jim Sprague
  • Gayle Zipay
  • Sylvia Banks
  • Dorothy Ipavec
  • Blanche Vanis
  • Gail Broughton
  • Patience Hoskins
  • Mary Baldwin
  • Jerry James
  • Ruth Crowl
  • Diane Soukup
  • Jane Hill
  • Carol Jarosz
  • Fred Jarosz
  • Cedric Plavney
  • Eloise Plavney
  • Kathy Wilmer
  • Dick Wiegandt
  • Darlene Wiegandt
  • Peter Geller
  • Bob Maruna
  • Joyce Maruna
  • Jeanette DeSimone
  • Sandy Paliga
  • Matilda Varga
  • John Gabrovsek
  • Rita Gabrovsek
  • Loretta Taggart
  • Earl Waltz
  • Shirley Pashall
  • Pat Spoth
  • Jim Spoth
  • Barb Appel
  • Mila Mandic
  • Don Hoffman
  • Roy Kress
  • Cecil Dobbins
  • Jeanne Henry
  • Ron Konieczynski
  • Mary Ann Warner
  • Robert Warner
  • Ruth Skuly
  • Leo Deininger
  • Norma Delp
  • Marcia Steffan
  • Carol Schiemann
  • Lee Schiemann
  • Marilyn Richards
  • David Richards
  • Chris Rettig
  • Dave Tobiasz
  • Denise Tobiasz
  • Sharon Horvath
  • Bob McLaughlin
  • Robert DiVincenzo
  • Katherine Malmquest
  • Bob Kimmelfield

Interviewers

  • Bob Trausch
  • Marianne Trausch
  • Ruth Skuly
  • Jane Hill
  • Matt Collings
  • Virginia Collings
  • Erin Bethea
  • Kathleen Crippen
  • Betsey Luce
  • Ellen Botnick