My hat is off to Bill Torode who has worked and volunteered for decades,
yes decades, for the NSS office, doing whatever is necessary including
taking care of the library. He continues to do that on a volunteer basis,
daily...5 or 6 days a week as far as I can see, and we have been down there
a lot lately. Most cavers already know some of the work and caving record of
Bill Torode. I would call it dedication to the NSS. Torode has lived across
the street from the present, (old), NSS office all of these years. He is
head of the Shelter Cave Preserve, a cave with a room the size of three
football fields, which is under the present office on Pulaski Pike in north
Huntsville. There are now three official caves that meet the Alabama cave
survey definition of a cave on the "new" 94 acre NSS property. Guess who had
a hand in the discovery and survey of those three caves. Yes, Torode. He
discovered, surveyed and mapped two of the three in 2008 and was directly
responsible for the discovery of the third cave only two weeks ago. The new
cave is an 8 minute walk from the new NSS Headquarters. A 4th cave on the
property is 20 ft. short of meeting the AL cave definition, but I would call
it a cave, at least a FRO, for the record only.
But, what you may not know is the new NSS librarians will be volunteers Paul
and Trish Spiliotis. Yes, Spiliotis. Greek, a real name! Spi-li-o-tis. I
flip whenever I hear that name. I have met them and they are very active
supporting the NSS by serving on this year's convention staff, working on
the campground several days a week and by doing volunteer work on the new HQ
building mainly by doing painting. When the construction in the new library
is complete I know they,
Torode and others will go 100% in moving the NSS library to the new and much
larger space. Trish is a RN and works with heart patients. Paul and Trish
live in Huntsville.
Preston in Western KY
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