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Press Release

ADK Adds Staff, Communications Director   

The Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) has hired veteran journalist Paul Ertelt as its Communications Director and filled other crucial staff positions, ADK Executive Director Neil F. Woodworth announced today.

“ADK has taken the lead in protecting New York’s wild places through advocacy, education and the promotion of responsible recreation, but the group’s staff and volunteers don’t always get the recognition they deserve,’’ Woodworth said. “Paul’s background in the media, as well as his familiarity with the Adirondacks and environmental issues, will be a great help in turning that around.”

ADK also recently hired Deborah Zack as Development and Membership Director and John J. Kettlewell as Publications and Marketing Director. Both are former ADK employees

Ertelt worked as a reporter for The Associated Press, The Post-Star of Glens Falls, the Watertown Daily Times and Ottaway News Service. He is a former president of the NYS Legislative Correspondents Association and was the 2000 recipient of the Walter T. Brown Award for outstanding state government reporting. He also worked as a press officer for the Governor’s Office of Regulatory Reform and the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon.

Zack, who was with ADK from 1997 to 2000, has worked for non-profit organizations for more than 25 years. She served as development director and consultant for several Adirondack-based organizations, including the Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks, Double H Hole in the Woods Ranch and the Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks. Zack holds a bachelor’s degree in Women’s Health and a master’s degree in Public Health.

After a two-year hiatus sailing in the Caribbean with his family, Kettlewell has returned to ADK to take charge of the production and sale of books, maps and Adirondac magazine. Kettlewell worked for ADK previously as Publications Director. He has also worked as an editor for Boating Industry International, the McGraw-Hill Cos., Thomas Reed Publications and the Better Boating Association. He has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.

The Adirondack Mountain Club, founded in 1922, is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to protecting the New York State Forest Preserve and other wild lands and waters through conservation and advocacy, environmental education and responsible recreation.