Women Outdoors members voted for Kathleen Long, one of the co-regional contacts for the Mid-Atlantic Region, to receive the 2024 Jan Brown Memorial Scholarship Award. Presented at the 2024 Annual National Gathering, the award memorializes one of the Founding Mothers of Women Outdoors, our beloved Jan Brown.

Jan was an historian and office manager whose contributions to Women Outdoors were vast: Jan tracked our organization's history and publications as well as kept a comprehensive annotated bibliography of books  written by and about women's voyages and adventures.

As a world traveler who visited far-flung lands, Jan regaled us all with her marvelous photos and stories. In 2019, our 40th year, Women Outdoors established the Jan Brown Memorial Scholarship Award to pay tribute to Jan's countless contributions and her inspiring life.

NOTE: The complete bibliography (169 pp) and the condensed version (40 pp) as well as an index (4 pp) to both bibliographies are available as PDFs to members of Women Outdoors. Login to your account and navigate to Resources and then click on Members Only from the drop-down menu.

The following is the entry on The Gathering page of WomenOutdoors.org.

Kathleen Long  Presented September 7, 2024

Awarded in honor of Kathleen's numerous contributions to Women Outdoors. In addition to serving on the board, Kathleen helped to develop our current website during its infancy, supporting the creation of the overall design and functionality, as well as organizing our files and creating our Women Outdoors Policy Handbook. To this day Kathleen continues to support our online presence, monitoring our Info@WomenOutdoors.org email.

In 2009, Kathleen started a new region, Mid-Atlantic, serving as Regional Contact. Working with her Co-RC Becky Foreman, they actively promote our organization, expanding the Mid-Atlantic Region by over 150% in the last 2 years alone.

Women Outdoors would not be where it is today without the invaluable contributions of Kathleen Long!