Alumni Honor Earnest "Tap" Tapley
CA's first outdoor educator, Mountain Rescue Leader and the man who built the Colorado Outward Bound School with the help of CA boys, Tap Tapley, was honored at the Senior Wish Gala. Present were 1967 alumni, Jim "Chico" Frasche and Jack Leebron.
Jim Frasche ’67
Tap was honored by Wish of A Lifetime, also known as The Senior Wish Foundation, which works with our elders to help them to make their as yet unachieved dreams come true. A few months ago, when I asked Tap what his greatest wish was, he said he’d really like a good steak. Upon further probing, it turned out that what he and his wife, Anita, wanted more than anything in the world was to publish Tap’s biography. All of us know that would be a great story, that it would be fun to read, and that it would be an important story to hand on to others, especially the young people we know, most of who don't know a bowline from a trap line.
The dream to write and publish Tap’s biography is now being realized, and with the help of Senior Wish, it is to be published in the early fall 2014, with a release, party and on-line sales beginning 4 weeks later.
Tap was also be honored at the Wish of A Lifetime Annual Gala in Denver on Saturday, June 7, 2014. That's next Saturday. The gala supported this really great organization, and helps them to do these wonderful things for what is left of our Greatest Generation.
To make a contribution to help defray the cost of publishing Tap’s biography, you may contribute at least $200 and you will receive a signed biography.
I don’t know anybody who doesn’t look back on his time with Tap with anything less than a sense of awe for the man, and a sense of thankfulness for that time well spent. Tap has pretty much dedicated his life to sharing all of nature and the great outdoors with anyone who would come along for the adventure. I hope you will take this opportunity to make a contribution, however great or small, to make this old man’s dream come true.
Jim Frasche ’67
Tap was honored by Wish of A Lifetime, also known as The Senior Wish Foundation, which works with our elders to help them to make their as yet unachieved dreams come true. A few months ago, when I asked Tap what his greatest wish was, he said he’d really like a good steak. Upon further probing, it turned out that what he and his wife, Anita, wanted more than anything in the world was to publish Tap’s biography. All of us know that would be a great story, that it would be fun to read, and that it would be an important story to hand on to others, especially the young people we know, most of who don't know a bowline from a trap line.
The dream to write and publish Tap’s biography is now being realized, and with the help of Senior Wish, it is to be published in the early fall 2014, with a release, party and on-line sales beginning 4 weeks later.
Tap was also be honored at the Wish of A Lifetime Annual Gala in Denver on Saturday, June 7, 2014. That's next Saturday. The gala supported this really great organization, and helps them to do these wonderful things for what is left of our Greatest Generation.
To make a contribution to help defray the cost of publishing Tap’s biography, you may contribute at least $200 and you will receive a signed biography.
I don’t know anybody who doesn’t look back on his time with Tap with anything less than a sense of awe for the man, and a sense of thankfulness for that time well spent. Tap has pretty much dedicated his life to sharing all of nature and the great outdoors with anyone who would come along for the adventure. I hope you will take this opportunity to make a contribution, however great or small, to make this old man’s dream come true.
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