Explorers celebrate anniversary
Contributed by Heathwood Hall Episcopal School

Photo courtesy of Heathwood Hall Episcopal School Katie McInnis of Heathwood Hall Episcopal School paddles her kayak to help Heathwood win the Young Explorers Challenge.

Heathwood Upper School students Frances Ellerbe, Katie McInnis, Christine Parham, and Eric Reeves won the Young Explorers Challenge event held October 27 at the Columbia Canal and the SC State Museum. The Young Explorers Challenge is a team competition that includes a kayak relay race, a land race featuring homemade chariots, and a quiz competition inside the museum. The Heathwood team finished ahead of A.C. Flora High School, Dreher, and Hammond. Each team member received a winners' medal. The first-place trophy was presented at the gala banquet.

The competition and the gala at the Columbia Marriott commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Piedmont Chapter of The Explorers Club. Founded in 1904, The Explorers Club is an international multidisciplinary professional society dedicated to the advancement of field research and the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore. The Club's members have been responsible for an illustrious series of famous firsts to the North Pole, first to the South Pole, first to the summit of Mount Everest, first to the deepest point in the ocean, and first to the surface of the moon. Today, members hail from more than 60 countries and include astronauts, archaeologists, anthropologists, mountaineers, and polar explorers.

Photo courtesy of Heathwood Hall Episcopal School Heathwood Upper School students Katie McInnis, Frances Ellerbe, Eric Reeves, and Christine Parham are the winning team of the Young Explorers Challenge.

Photo by Mimi M. Maddock Dr. Ken Kelly honors the African tribesmen he has met during his archaeological studies at the Explorer's Greater Piedmont Chapter gala at the Marriott Hotel October 27, 2006.