Advisory Committee and Treasurer
Advisors to the Steering Committee:
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Karen Springhorn Gage has lived on Upper Saranac Lake for 20 years with her husband Jack and their two children. She is retired from a financial and broadcasting career. She has been a life-long advocate for environmental and historic preservation and has volunteered on projects with the National Seashore/National Parks Service, the National Register of Historic Places, Colonial Williamsburg and had early involvement in watershed conservancy.
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Nancy S. Howard and husband Norman moved to the Adirondacks in 1994 to manage the Wawbeek Resort & Restaurant on Upper Saranac Lake. Nancy is a founding trustee of The Wild Center and serves on the boards of the Tupper Lake Chamber of Commerce (president 1997-2003); the Clinton, Essex, and Franklin Counties Library System; and the Adirondack Economic Development Council. A member of the Essex County Adirondack Garden Club, she presently serves as Conservation Representative for the New York State Garden Clubs of America. Nancy graduated from Mary Washington University with BA in Psychology and Elementary Education.
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Kerry Marsh is a lifelong Adirondack camper and now summer resident. He and his wife, Pat, now live on Upper Saranac Lake in Santa Clara, where they are active members of the USLA and other community groups. Kerry is the senior partner of Marsh, Wassermann & Associates, LLP, a well-known and respected law and government relations firm in Albany.
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Sue Riggins first visited Lake Placid as six-year-old Susan Schneider. After the 1980 Olympics, she spent ten years as ORDA's Treasurer as Susan Ness. She has a summer house on Lake Placid and is a volunteer focusing on water quality with a number of community organizations. She is current president of the Lake Placid Shore Owners' Association. Her family has owned a camp on the lake for 45 years.
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Mark Wilson, a lifelong summer resident of Lake Placid, currently serves as vice president of the Shore Owners' Association and secretary of the Placid Lake Foundation. He has monitored water quality on Lake Placid for New York's CSLAP program since 1997. He and his wife maintain a primary home in the Village of Saranac Lake, where he creates editorial cartoons and art for publications across New York State.
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Ross Whaley—Ross lives on
Our Treasurer:
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Phil Wolff, raised on a farm in Western New York, made his first visit to Saranac Lake in 1928 and fell in love with the mountains and lakes. After graduating from Cornell in 1938 with a degree in landscape architecture, he married Elsie, his college sweetheart. They operated several landscape and nursery businesses in the Saranac Lake area for many years and raised three children (David Wolff, above, is their middle child). Phil helped reorganize the Saranac Lake Chamber of Commerce and revive the Winter Carnival following the Depression. He served on the North Elba Planning Board and Town Board and was a Town Justice for 16 years. He was Chief of Staff of the 1980 Winter Olympics and founder and past president of the Olympic Museum in Lake Placid. Phil is a 46er and has canoed most of the lakes and streams of the Adirondacks.