Nancy McGee
English Language Arts Facilitator
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Grand Prairie ISD
It is official. I have been named as a Fellow in the Explorers Club.
I am humbled to be mentioned in the same company as leaders like Sir Edmund Hillary,
Ernest Shackleton, and John Glenn. As a Fellow, I am also eligible to take the famed
Explorers Club flag on one of my expeditions.
Explorers Club Fellowship is the highest tier of explorers and reserved for those who have
distinguished themselves by directly contributing to scientific knowledge in the field of
geographical exploration or allied sciences. Such accomplishments usually are evidenced
by scientific publications documenting fieldwork or explorations.
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. Since its inception in 1904, the Club has served as a meeting point and unifying
force for explorers and scientists worldwide.
For more than a century, members of the Club have traversed the earth, the seas, the
skies, and even the moon, on expeditions of exploration. First to the North Pole, first to
the South Pole, first to the summit of Mount Everest, first to the deepest point in the ocean,
first to the surface of the moon – all accomplished by our members.
North Pole - 1909 - Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and Ootah.
South Pole - 1911 - Roald Amundsen
Summit of Mount Everest, World’s Highest Peak - 1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and
Tenzing Norgay
Marianas Trench, Greatest Ocean Depth - 1960 - Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh
Surface of the Moon - 1969 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins
For more information about the Explorers Club, click this link:
http://www.explorers.org/index.php/about/about_the_club