In his application for membership, he explained in response to a question about “expeditions directed, accompanied, or financed in whole or in part”:
“Hunting and photographic trips through New Brunswick, Wyoming, a moving picture trip to the Brazeau country, Alberta, Canada, for scientific purposes, pictures of animals and the surrounding country taken. These trips were a period of 8 weeks each…I have shot all the big game animals of this country and have tramped (?) many a mile over the wilderness trail…Pack trail trips appeal to me on account of companionship and old friends, together with my cameras, make life worth while [sic] in those days.” (Punctuation added for clarity.) ((IMG_3504.jpg and IMG_3500.jpg)
McAleenan In Memoriam https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3430270&seq=385
Letters arguing for Brooks’ reinstatement into the Club after his membership lapse during his service in World War I.
Austin, McAleenan’s eldest son’s application to the club and accompanying letter of support from Frothingham and Brooks. In the applications, Austin lists his qualifying expeditions as a “Pack train trip through northern Wyoming (1914),” “Fishing and canoe trip in New Bruinswick (1916)” and “Crossed Grand Canyon with pack train and hunted in northern Arizona (1917),” adventures he went on with his father, who captured them in privately published diaries that, like The Explorer, he printed a short run of to share with friends. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3430271&seq=66&q1=mcaleenan
“Dr. Harlow Brooks, formerly a member of the Explorers Club, who resigned in 1917 when he entered the service, desires to resume his membership. Under the circumstances, I presume that a second initiation fee will be waived. Dr. Brooks served overseas as Major in the United States Army with great distinction, having recently been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. He is the kind of man we want in the Club.” (IMG_3487) -A Letter from H. Morton Merriman to George W. Pinder, Explorers Club Secretary.
About the Explorers Club
CLAUDE “”The club’s members have racked up an extraordinary list of firsts — Robert Peary and Matthew Henson “discovered” the North Pole in 1909, Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole in 1911, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay summited Everest in 1953, and Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960 — and its mission remains “to explore by all means possible.””
The Explorers Club was founded in New York City in 1904 by journalist and explorer Henry Collins Walsh, who invited a group of men to form an organization for the purpose of promoting exploration, particularly promoting scientific exploration and field study (CITATION).
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