To: Mick Womersley; Faculty; Students; Staff
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Subject: SAR callout report, Sunday 4/19
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Dear CommUnity:
The Unity College SAR team returned safely to campus this afternoon after assisting the Maine Warden's Service to look for a man missing in the woods north of Greenville since Monday.
The elderly gentleman they were looking for was, unhappily, found dead after several hours and miles of searching. It will however, be some small comfort to his family that he has been found.
We fielded 11 personnel. This is a very good response for a weekend call out. All students performed well under the leadership of their own officers (without any faculty or staff supervision), on an arduous operation, at short notice, and a long way from campus.
I hope you agree with me that they are a credit to the college.
Sincerely,
Mick
Mick Womersley, PhD
Associate Professor
Unity College
www.unity.edu/facultypages/womersley/windweb.htm
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www.unity.edu/sustainability
From: Mick Womersley Sent: Sun 4/19/2009 6:33 AM
To: Faculty; Students; Staff
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Subject: SAR callout, Sunday 4/19
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Dear CommUnity:
The Unity College Search and Rescue Team was called out by the MASAR duty officer and the Maine Wardens Service to assist in a search for a missing elderly gentleman in the lands north of Greenville and east of Moosehead Lake.
The following students responded in the SAR truck and college van # 5. It is likely they will be away all of today, Sunday April 19th.
Kate Aucoin
Jake Uurutia
Mike Champagne
Laura Walker
Erin Shoppmeyer
Allison O'Connor
Scott Rollins
Paul Mason
Mel Renell
Casey Jaroche
Justin Starr
Mike Church
Mike Curran
Team officer Jake Uuratia is in charge.
Further updates will send out as soon as we have any news.
Mick
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Brooklin call-out, Sept 28th, 2008
Unity College SAR team was alerted by the MASAR duty officer at 3am Sunday morning to assist the Maine Warden's Service in the search for a missing 80 year old female in Brooklin, Maine.
Five college personnel responded. Public Safety officer Chris Miville provided assistance with vehicles, etc. The missing woman was found at first light by authorities. The team returned to UC by 9.20 am.
Although our numbers were low, we did perform our mission of getting to the Search HQ with sufficient trained, fit personnel and equipment, ready to assist the authorities with a search or a rescue.
A brief news report is available at http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=93462&catid=2
Students that are members of the team are reminded that we are on call 24/7, even late on weekend nights. Please update your call out information with the team officers, including cell phone numbers, residence hall and off-campus phone numbers, and the building and number of your actual room so that officers of the team can find you when needed.
Team members responding were:
E. Buuck
A. Durgin
R. Burd
A Eldridge
M. Womersley
Mick Womersley, PhD
Associate Professor of Human Ecology
Director of Sustainability
Unity College
www.unity.edu/facultypages/womersley
www.unity.edu/sustainability
www.ucsustainability.blogspot.com
Five college personnel responded. Public Safety officer Chris Miville provided assistance with vehicles, etc. The missing woman was found at first light by authorities. The team returned to UC by 9.20 am.
Although our numbers were low, we did perform our mission of getting to the Search HQ with sufficient trained, fit personnel and equipment, ready to assist the authorities with a search or a rescue.
A brief news report is available at http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=93462&catid=2
Students that are members of the team are reminded that we are on call 24/7, even late on weekend nights. Please update your call out information with the team officers, including cell phone numbers, residence hall and off-campus phone numbers, and the building and number of your actual room so that officers of the team can find you when needed.
Team members responding were:
E. Buuck
A. Durgin
R. Burd
A Eldridge
M. Womersley
Mick Womersley, PhD
Associate Professor of Human Ecology
Director of Sustainability
Unity College
www.unity.edu/facultypages/womersley
www.unity.edu/sustainability
www.ucsustainability.blogspot.com
Friday, December 7, 2007
Archived posts: note to readers
The call out reports are archived below. They are not in the correct chronological order. Use the menu at the right to skip to a specific incident. My records go back to 2000, when I first became faculty mentor to the SAR team, but my computer has changed a number of times since then, and my older computers are not as easily compatible with this one. New reports will be posted in order of the most recent call-out.
Mick
Mick
Palermo Search, Saturday Nov 21st, 2005
The Unity College SAR Team was alerted by MASAR and the Maine Wardens Service at 5.07 am Saturday morning to respond to a search for a missing woman and two small children in the Palermo area. The semester not yet having started, only one person was available to respond.
Assistance was given to the Warden's Service in dispatching search crews and organizing volunteers at the search headquarters.
The missing woman was found on Saturday morning having left the children unattended for some time. The children were later found and taken to hospital.
A newspaper account is available at
http://www.bangordailynews.com/news/templates/?a=127590
Mick Womersley, PhD
Interim Provost
Unity College
207 948 3131 ext 297
www.unity.edu
www.unity.edu/facultypages/womersley
Assistance was given to the Warden's Service in dispatching search crews and organizing volunteers at the search headquarters.
The missing woman was found on Saturday morning having left the children unattended for some time. The children were later found and taken to hospital.
A newspaper account is available at
http://www.bangordailynews.com/news/templates/?a=127590
Mick Womersley, PhD
Interim Provost
Unity College
207 948 3131 ext 297
www.unity.edu
www.unity.edu/facultypages/womersley
Bridgewater Search, Nov 11th, 2005
Colleagues:
The Unity College SAR Team was called out at 4.45 pm Thursday evening by the MASAR duty officer to assist the Maine Warden's Service in a search for a hunter missing since Monday near Bridgewater, Maine in Aroostook County. They responded very early this morning, driving up to be there in time to begin operations at first light. Please consider excusing the team members from your Friday classes for this important public service work. SAR Team members on call out should still be held responsible for academic assignments, any leniency is at the discretion of the individual professor.
The following team members are responding, a total of 21 troops:
Jeff Hunter (Chief)
Meghan Bursey
Tomm Duum
Patrick Robinson
Robert Curier
Erin Beloin
Rachele Adamaein
Craig Oster
Michael Leslie-Dodge
Chad Johnson
Andrew Michael
Peter Knipper
Michael Logan
Andrew Brady
Gemma Vanderheld
Greg Gallagher
Charlie Alves
Jeff Ruckert
Matt Cowen
Jake Mertlister
Amanda Dube
Mick Womersley, PhD
Interim Provost
Unity College
207 948 3131 ext 297
www.unity.edu
www.unity.edu/facultypages/womersley
The Unity College SAR Team was called out at 4.45 pm Thursday evening by the MASAR duty officer to assist the Maine Warden's Service in a search for a hunter missing since Monday near Bridgewater, Maine in Aroostook County. They responded very early this morning, driving up to be there in time to begin operations at first light. Please consider excusing the team members from your Friday classes for this important public service work. SAR Team members on call out should still be held responsible for academic assignments, any leniency is at the discretion of the individual professor.
The following team members are responding, a total of 21 troops:
Jeff Hunter (Chief)
Meghan Bursey
Tomm Duum
Patrick Robinson
Robert Curier
Erin Beloin
Rachele Adamaein
Craig Oster
Michael Leslie-Dodge
Chad Johnson
Andrew Michael
Peter Knipper
Michael Logan
Andrew Brady
Gemma Vanderheld
Greg Gallagher
Charlie Alves
Jeff Ruckert
Matt Cowen
Jake Mertlister
Amanda Dube
Mick Womersley, PhD
Interim Provost
Unity College
207 948 3131 ext 297
www.unity.edu
www.unity.edu/facultypages/womersley
South Portland Search, Monday Oct 17, 2005
Colleagues,
The Unity College SAR team received an alert yesterday evening from the Maine Warden's Service and MASAR duty officer for an SAR call-out to South Portland for a suburban search for a missing 25 year old female. The team responded with 25 students in one college van and a number of student vehicles. A newspaper account detailing the reasons for the search is available at http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/051018missing.shtml
This is the largest team we have fielded in my five years of advising this activity here at the college and matches the best performance of any team I have been involved in in my twenty years of SAR. The list of students responding is at the end of this message.
The Unity College SAR team's mission is to provide emergency SAR services in the form of trained, led, equiped and disciplined personnel to the State of Maine and the Maine Warden's Service. This mssion is in line with the college's mission of preparing effective leaders and responsible citizens through active learning. Students are not excused from classes for call-outs and are responsible for assignments, but as Faculty Advisor to the team, I ask faculty members to exercise their good judgement and appropriate leniency in this respect. (They may not be learning what you had in mind, but they are learning.)
Over the weekend, Saturday October 15th, at 4.30 am, the team received an alert from the Maine Wardens Service and MASAR duty officer to proceed with available personnel to Carratunk for a search for two missing females, each 60 years old, missing overnight during the storm and floods, in the area of Pleasant Pond. The team responded with 15 members including one faculty member. On arrival at the search HQ the missing women were found safe by the Warden's service having spent the night in the woods. The team returned to base with no incident. This was also a good response. In getting the trained, equipped, led, disciplined personnel to the incident ready to work, we also fulfilled our mission.
The list of students responding to today's call-out is as follows:
Jeff Hunter (SAR Chief)
Gemma Vanderheld
Jeff Ruckert
Matt Gorevan
Dan Hillier
Richard Russ
Chad Johnston
Alex Johnston
Meghan Fenton
Greg Gallagher
Robert Curler
Andrew LeClerc
Patrick Robinson
Mike Dodge
Meghan Bursey
Tom Duym
Andrew Durgin
Ryan Dinsmore
Jeff Stebbins
Justin Blouin
Craig Oster
Joseph Markey
Andrew Michael
Andrew Brady
Rusty Cook
Mick Womersley, Ph.D.,
Interim Provost
Associate Professor of Human Ecology
Unity College,
90 Quaker Hill Road
Unity, Maine, 04988
207 948 3131 ext 297
www.unity.edu/facultypages/womersley/default.htm
www.unity.edu/sustainability
http://www.unity.edu/facultypages/womersley/usar.htm
The Unity College SAR team received an alert yesterday evening from the Maine Warden's Service and MASAR duty officer for an SAR call-out to South Portland for a suburban search for a missing 25 year old female. The team responded with 25 students in one college van and a number of student vehicles. A newspaper account detailing the reasons for the search is available at http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/051018missing.shtml
This is the largest team we have fielded in my five years of advising this activity here at the college and matches the best performance of any team I have been involved in in my twenty years of SAR. The list of students responding is at the end of this message.
The Unity College SAR team's mission is to provide emergency SAR services in the form of trained, led, equiped and disciplined personnel to the State of Maine and the Maine Warden's Service. This mssion is in line with the college's mission of preparing effective leaders and responsible citizens through active learning. Students are not excused from classes for call-outs and are responsible for assignments, but as Faculty Advisor to the team, I ask faculty members to exercise their good judgement and appropriate leniency in this respect. (They may not be learning what you had in mind, but they are learning.)
Over the weekend, Saturday October 15th, at 4.30 am, the team received an alert from the Maine Wardens Service and MASAR duty officer to proceed with available personnel to Carratunk for a search for two missing females, each 60 years old, missing overnight during the storm and floods, in the area of Pleasant Pond. The team responded with 15 members including one faculty member. On arrival at the search HQ the missing women were found safe by the Warden's service having spent the night in the woods. The team returned to base with no incident. This was also a good response. In getting the trained, equipped, led, disciplined personnel to the incident ready to work, we also fulfilled our mission.
The list of students responding to today's call-out is as follows:
Jeff Hunter (SAR Chief)
Gemma Vanderheld
Jeff Ruckert
Matt Gorevan
Dan Hillier
Richard Russ
Chad Johnston
Alex Johnston
Meghan Fenton
Greg Gallagher
Robert Curler
Andrew LeClerc
Patrick Robinson
Mike Dodge
Meghan Bursey
Tom Duym
Andrew Durgin
Ryan Dinsmore
Jeff Stebbins
Justin Blouin
Craig Oster
Joseph Markey
Andrew Michael
Andrew Brady
Rusty Cook
Mick Womersley, Ph.D.,
Interim Provost
Associate Professor of Human Ecology
Unity College,
90 Quaker Hill Road
Unity, Maine, 04988
207 948 3131 ext 297
www.unity.edu/facultypages/womersley/default.htm
www.unity.edu/sustainability
http://www.unity.edu/facultypages/womersley/usar.htm
Hollis Search, November 10th 2006
Dear students and colleagues:
The Unity College Search and Rescue Team was alerted by MASAR and the Maine
Warden's Service at 5.30 pm Thursday to assist in the search for a missing
teenage girl in Hollis, Maine.
The following eleven students responded early this morning:
Evan Franklin (Chief)
Meg Bursey (Captain)
William Calkins
Andy Brady
Wayne Vetre
Ryan Rochelle
Toby Wright
Michael Curran
Bradford J. Hyde
Justin Chonko
Peter Knipper
No further information is available at this time, but I will as always
provide a report as soon as one is available.
SAR assistance is an important statewide service provided by the students of
Unity College, and an important part of many careers in PRE, CLE, AEL, AT,
and so on. Please consider excusing these students from your classes for the
very hard work they will likely do today.
Mick
The Unity College Search and Rescue Team was alerted by MASAR and the Maine
Warden's Service at 5.30 pm Thursday to assist in the search for a missing
teenage girl in Hollis, Maine.
The following eleven students responded early this morning:
Evan Franklin (Chief)
Meg Bursey (Captain)
William Calkins
Andy Brady
Wayne Vetre
Ryan Rochelle
Toby Wright
Michael Curran
Bradford J. Hyde
Justin Chonko
Peter Knipper
No further information is available at this time, but I will as always
provide a report as soon as one is available.
SAR assistance is an important statewide service provided by the students of
Unity College, and an important part of many careers in PRE, CLE, AEL, AT,
and so on. Please consider excusing these students from your classes for the
very hard work they will likely do today.
Mick
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