The Worcester Section and several of its members have made generous donations to help fund the new shelter at Stratton Pond. Laurel and Erik Tobiason, builders of Wintturi and Stony Brook Shelter is on the AT, will build the new shelter just off the Stratton Pond Trail. It is due to be completed in September 1999. [LTN Fall 1999]

Stratton Pond Memories – I have been notified by members of the Worcester Section, GMC that a new Stratton Pond area shelter is being proposed as a replacement for the old Willis Ross one and that a suggestion-has been made that it be named after my deceased husband, Robert Humes. Bob, a past president of GMC, an end-to-ender in 1957, and an active trail maintainer for over thirty years until his death in 1991, would feel honored. I wish to aid in the establishment of the much-needed shelter to that much used area by the enclosed contribution. … signed Anne Humes, Pennsylvania, At-Large. [LTN Fall 1999]