2007 Staff Profiles

Cabin Counselor: Julie Sgangerella

Julie Sgangarella is from Wollongong, which is 2 hours south of Sydney, Australia. During the year, Julie teaches adults about computers and computer networking in an institute called TAFE. On her days off she likes to spend time outdoors; especially at the beach where she is a volunteer lifeguard. Her hobbies include surfing, water skiing, jet skiing, mountain biking, competing in triatholons and any off road adventures such as hiking, camping , caving, canyoning, rock climbing, abseiling and adventure racing. One super-human power she would like to posess is the ability to see into the future to see if she will be doing traithlons and mountain biking when she's 60 years old!

Cabin Counselor: Brad Muller

Brad Muller is from Narrandera N.S.W. Australia. He enjoys waterskiing, snowskiing, mountain bike riding and playing squash. He is currently employed as a Quality Assurance Officer at a beef abattoir. One superhuman power he would like to possess would be the ability to move at the speed of light.

Cabin Counselor : Sabrina Littee

Sabrina Littee grew up in the bay area. She currently attends UCSB and is majoring in Biology. Upon graduation, Sabrina plans to attend UCSF and pursue a career in nursing. Sabrina's an avid soccer player and enjoys backpacking, rock climbing, surfing, kayaking, traveling, and going on spontaneous excursions. If she could have one superhuman power she would travel through time. Not only would she appear psychic, but just imagine how much cool stuff she could see!

Cabin Counselor: Cara Peterman

Cara is from the beautiful but cold state of Minnesota. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, she has been supervising a group home for the past year. Cara's hobbies include camping, baseball, swimming, photography and traveling. If she could have one superhuman power, she would want to be able to move things with her eyes, Matilda-style.

Cabin Counselor: Adam Ruhland

Adam Ruhland hails from mighty colonial America, Williamsburg Virginia! He is a senior at James Madison University studying video production and special education. When he isn't helping the elderly cross streets, and curing diseases, he likes to ride a bicycle, play music, and attend hip hop concerts. If Adam could have one super-human power it would be the abilty to increase the length of his index finger, so he would always be able to show that his team is #1 at sporting events.

Cabin Counselor: Alan Heaton

Alan is from across the pond in the UK. Alan loves to travel and experience
new cultures. He is about to become a mature student at Bangor University
studying a BA degree in Sustainable Development. We will all be thinking of
Alan at the Mt Camp Office, as he prepares to run the Everest Marathon on May 29th to raise money for his cause in Nepal www.starfishpromise.com.
Al is determined to help everyone around him have an enjoyable time during his 4rd summer at Mt Camp. As a child Alan would never be without a football and was forever getting told off for playing indoors, nothing has changed.

Cabin Counselor: Laura Zellerbach

Laura Zellerbach will be back on staff this summer, making this her eighth summer at Mountain Camp. Originally from San Francisco, she currently attends Barnard College in Manhattan, where she works at a toddler center and sings in an all-female a cappella group. If she could have one super power it would involve weather control. She hasn't quite figured out the specifics yet.

Cabin Counselor: Catherine Ruhland

Catherine Ruhland completed her undergraduate at James Madison University, and now lives in Washington, DC where she is a grad student at Marymount University. Her hobbies include swimming, sailing, sandals, shorts, suntans, sunscreens, sundecks, and the band Journey. If Catherine could have one super-human power it would be to control the temperature.

Cabin Counselor: Lucy Wehking

Lucy Wehking, she is from Saint Louis, Missouri. She attends Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She enjoys running, hanging out with her friends and family, biking, and listening to
music. Her favorite childhood memory is running around in the sprinkler in her back yard with all her neighborhood friends and eating Popsicles.

Cabin Counselor: Beth Lamb

Beth is originally from Rocky River, Ohio, but now she lives in San Francisco. She attended Ohio University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Specialized Studies. Before working at Mountain Camp, Beth worked as a project and marketing associate for an urban planning firm. Her hobbies include long boarding, backpacking, mountain biking, soccer, traveling, skiing, cooking, and music. As a child her favorite activities were climbing trees and building forts.

Cabin Counselor: Andy Rosenberger

Andy Rosenberger is from Ankeny, Iowa and attends the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. In his freetime he enjoys music (listening to, collecting, talking/thinking/arguing about),
playing/watching basketball, dogs, food (cooking, EATING, learning about), being outdoors (except during frigid Iowa winters) and of course friends and family. As a child his favorite activities were having a basketball near him at all times, as well as fancying himself the guitarist/drummer/singer of a rock band/orchestra/choir.

Cabin Counselor: Ellen Carey

Ellen Carey is from Virginia Beach, Virginia and she goes to school at the
University of Virginia. Ellen is a rising junior in the nursing school at UVa and she enjoys being outside, running, swimming, hiking, being with friends, and dancing. When she was little, she really loved singing while pretending to be Sleeping Beauty.

Cabin Counselor: Casey Gates

Casey Gates is originally from Orange County, California and is now working toward her BFA in Acting at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She spends most of her time in the theatre and art studios but also loves to be outdoors playing in the sun, swimming, and practicing yoga. As a child you could find Casey playing dress-up, dancing, or eating corn dogs.

Cabin Counselor: Morgan Pellerin

Morgan Pellerin is from Chazy Lake, New York, a rustic mountain town near Lake Placid, New York, which was home of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics. He goes to nearby Plattsburgh State University and is a history education major. During the school year, Morgan also is a tutor for elementary school children. Some of his hobbies include hiking, biking, swimming, sailing, reading, and running. He is currently training for the Vermont Marathon. As a child, Morgan’s favorite childhood activity was skiing every weekend at Whiteface Mountain, near Lake Placid. If Morgan could have any superpower, he would like to be able to run at supersonic speeds.

Cabin Counselor: Jenny Wickett

Jenny Wickett is from Encinitas California. She is currently finishing her first year at UC Santa Cruz where she is majoring in archaeology. In between classes she enjoys anything that has to do with gymnastics, history, nature, reading, and Latin America. As a kid, one of her favorite activities was going swimming after gymnastics practice during the summer.

Cabin Counselor: Kaitlin Riley

Kaitlin Riley is an English major at Indiana University from Indianapolis, Indiana. In her spare time, she likes to read, write, watch all kinds of movies, and listen to all kinds of music. She likes to run, ride her bike, and be outside. When she was younger she used to eat raw hotdogs and cheese sandwiches on an almost daily basis and make up dances to Paula Abdul's album "Forever Your Girl."

Cabin Counselor: Thomas Gerlach

Thomas Gerlach is originally from Columbus, Ohio and grew up in a small suburb five minutes from downtown. He attends Ohio University where he's earning a degree in English Literature. His hobbies include but are not limited to running, reading and writing, listening to music, cart-wheeling, somersaulting, back-flipping, and most things that make one dizzy. His favorite childhood activities were falling down stairs and pretending to be Spider-Man.

Cabin Counselor: Kaiya Batsel-Alfresco

Kaiya is from Oakland California. She attends Santa Barbara City College, where she is majoring is psychology, and works at Peet's coffee and tea. Kaiya enjoys music, dancing, making art and being in the wilderness with friends. As a child Kaiya liked to dress up in silly costumes and play outside in the garden.

Cabin Counselor: Andy Ley

Andy Ley is from Lansing, Michigan where he just completed his second year at the home of Sparty, Michigan State University. Andy is pursuing his degree in Elementary Education, but still finds time to travel, hike and fish, sail, play sports and of course go to Dave Matthews Band concerts. Andy’s favorite childhood activity was and still is, eating superman ice cream “Up North”, as those Michiganders’ call it.

Cabin Counselor: Kevin Anglin

Kevin Anglin hails from the small town of Winchester, Massachusetts, he is currently staying afloat at St Michael’s College in Vermont. It will be a coming of age story when he heads west for the summer, small town boy, big mountain camp, Kevin would like to think a young Richard Gere would play the lead. When he is not studying as a budding political science major he enjoys playing the drums and participating in every intramural sport that the college offers, as it is his only way of reliving the glory days. Kevin misses the days when he would walk around in nothing but a diaper as it was socially acceptable at that age, and not so much now that he is in college, not that it has stopped him.

Cabin Counselor: Kyle Breuning

Kyle Breuning was born and raised in the Bay Area, California. He is currently living in Boulder, Colorado, attending the University of Colorado. He is studying Mechanical Engineering but in his off time he loves to juggle, ski, hike, and play the guitar. During his childhood, Kyle's favorite activity was to fingerpaint.

Cabin Counselor: Chelsea Scott

Chelsea Scott is from the golf capital of Pinehurst, North Carolina. She just completed her second year at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she studies Apparel Design. This is Chelsea's second summer as a camp counselor, but it will be her first at Mountain Camp. In her spare time, Chelsea likes to sew, kayak, see plays, visit pet shops, play at the park, and devise fake movie plots with her friends. As a
child, Chelsea insisted on wearing a tutu for an entire year and made Wizard of Oz spoof movies with her friends and family.

Cabin Counselor: Christopher Bastian

Chris is from Albany, California. He is finishing his second year at UCLA. Some of his favorite things to do are play the bass, toss around the Frisbee, and eat pasta. As a kid, Chris liked to pretend he was Jerry Rice and make diving catches on his parents’ bed.

Cabin Counselor: Stephanie Warner

Stefanie Warner is from Toms River, NJ.(the coolest state ever!) She graduated from James Madison University in 2002, served in AmeriCorps*NCCC for 2 years, and is now in her last stretch of graduate school at Stockton College getting her Masters of Science in Occupational Therapy. Some hobbies she enjoys are sailing, sandals, summertime, sleepovers, sisters, and sundaes - yummy! If she could have a super human power she would make a transporter - this way she could transport herself to do maximum fun stuff all the time with out wasting time getting there.

Cabin Counselor: Ashley Crates

Ashley Crates was born in Phx Az, but attended high school in a small
suburb in Barrington, IL. She now attends Northern Arizona University, majoring in Elementary Education. When she's not attending classes or being a nanny she enjoys being outdoors, playing volleyball, swimming, hanging with friends, dancing, going to concerts, and just having fun. Her favorite activity as a kid was just running around her neighborhood playing with all of her friends in their Tree Fort.

Cabin Counselor: Kirsten Craven

Kristen Craven lives in Upwey which is 40 minutes east of Melbourne,
Australia. She graduated from Deakin University with a Physical Education degree. She would like to be a Math teacher, or maybe PE teacher. She loves to play Volleyball, read, and hang out with her friends in her time off. Whenever she can, she loves to look at the sky and watch the clouds. Her favorite color is the rainbow!

Cabin Counselor: Alison Wilcox

Alison Wilcox was born in Kentfield, California, where she lived with her parents and younger sister, Holly, until 2004 when they moved to Sausalito. Alison currently attends Washington University in St. Louis (more commonly known as WashU) where she is studying visual art, with hopes of one day illustrating children’s books. She loves to dance and has taken ballet for most of her life. She also loves to hang out with her friends and when the weather is nice to be outside and enjoy the sun. Her favorite child activity would probably be having “sleepovers” with Holly in their tree fort.

Cabin Counselor: Katie Merritt

Katie Merritt grew up in northern Minnesota and is currently studying to be an elementary school teacher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. When she’s not writing papers or designing lesson plans, she loves to travel to new places, read good books, ride her bike on nice days, and cook. As a child, Katie really liked to build enormous snow forts and then try to have sleepovers in them, but it was always too cold to actually sleep.

Cabin Counselor: Megan Ravenscraft

Megan is from Baltimore, Maryland. She recently completed her freshman year at the University of Montana, where she majors in wilderness studies. Megan’s hobbies include running every now and then, spending time outside, listening to music, hiking, reading inspirational books, and backpacking whenever she has the time. Megan’s favorite childhood activity was digging huge mud holes to swim in.

Cabin Counselor: Ashley Grabill

Ashley Grabill is from Dayton, OH. She recently graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City where she studied Advertising and Public Relations for the fashion industry. While in New York, Ashley interned for Jane magazine where she assisted on photo shoots and booked models. In her free time, Ashley enjoys anything outdoors (kayaking, hiking, fishing, camping), creative writing and experiencing anything described as the “world’s best”. As a child she loved going to the swimming pool and playing various forms of tag (especially the frozen kind). If she could choose any superpower, Ashley thinks it would be cool to be able to shoot spaghetti from her fingertips and laser beams from her eyes.

Cabin Counselor: Phoebe Richman

Phoebe Richman, originally from Petaluma, CA, is a soon-to-be sophomore at Tufts University. She loves to watch movies, read, talk, and play outside. In preschool, she wanted to grow up to be a fairy queen princess with a lovely crown, wings, and dress; and to this day she hopes to achieve that goal.

Cabin Counselor: Michael McKinnon

Mike originally hails from Chicago, IL where as a kid he passionately cheered on the local Bears, Bulls and Bratwurst. His love for the latter was so deep that it often kept him from waiting patiently for the brats to cook, and he was know to eat them raw! Since then Mike has graduated to California rolls of sushi to satisfy his taste for raw food. Accordingly, he has set down redwood roots up and down the California coastline and now proudly calls himself a California kid. A surfer, fisherman and avid bird watcher ('cause as he'll tell you, "if you want to know where the fish are, watch the birds"), Mike's love for the outdoors may only be surpassed by the soft spot he has in his heart for watermelon jolly ranchers. A graduate from Santa Barbara City College, Mike has relocated to San Francisco where he'll return in the fall to pursue a degree in nursing, perhaps to teach others about the detriments of eating raw hot dogs.

Cabin Counselor: Rachel Lindenberg

Rachel is from Silver Spring, Maryland. Her hobbies include basketball, guitar, hiking, mountain biking, and reading on her hammock. She is currently teaching Special Needs Kindergarten in Reading, Pennsylvania and loves every minute of it! Rachel's favorite childhood activities were climbing trees and going on hikes.