Keep us posted! You can send life updates to Joe Briggs in the Camp Nebagamon office (briggs@campnebagamon.com) or directly to Keylog editor Brad Herzog (brad@bradherzog.com).
1940-1960s
Ray Liebau and the rest of Logger 7 in 1958
Pat Harr (Maryville, MO/Shell Knob, MO) practices sports medicine and is team doctor at Northwest Missouri State University, where he also serves as chairman of the university’s Board of Regents… Rick Abeles (Chicago/Santa Fe, NM) is president of the Santa Fe Community College Foundation in New Mexico. He also founded the Santa Fe Children’s Museum… Jack Ablin (Chicago) is the chief investment officer at BMO Wealth Management… Bob Lenobel (St. Louis/Cincinnati) is in his 37th year of practicing radiology with Professional Radiology, Inc. in Cincinnati… After a career on the faculty of music at the University of Mississippi, Ray Liebau (Melbourne, FL/Malvern, AR) attended a reunion of the “Oxford Singers,” who sang his compositions and honored him for contributions to the group’s success… Doug Hertz (Atlanta) is president and CEO of United Distributors, Inc., a beverage distribution business, and has been named chairman of the Board of Tulane University. He also is the founder of Camp Twin Lakes, a facility for chronically ill and special needs children that serves nearly 9,000 kids and adults annually.
1970s-1980s
Ed Felsenthal (Memphis/New Jersey) is the Digital Director of Time Inc.’s News and Lifestyle groups. In this role, he leads digital content and growth across a more than a dozen brands, including Time, Money, Health, Southern Living, Travel & Leisure and Food & Wine. He is also the Editor of Time Digital and was co-founder of The Daily Beast… Jay Sternberg (Baton Rouge, LA/Washington, D.C.) is the Senior Director of Marketing and Brand Operation at Homefront, a veterans advocacy group… Alan Halpern (Tulsa/Boulder, CO) is the new executive director at Congregation Har HaShem in Boulder, Colorado, while his wife Julie Milsten Halpern (Tulsa/Boulder) has started work as manager of internal communications for the Surgical Innovations Team at Medtronic in Boulder… Jon Desenberg (Detroit/Washington, D.C.) works for mitre.org, a federally funded research outfit that studies cyber security… Peter Orner (Chicago/San Francisco) is the author of Am I Alone Here? A memoir which was recently selected as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award… Dan Gingiss (Chicago) has written a book called Winning at Social Customer Care: How Top Brands Create Engaging Experiences on Social Media… The latest picture book from Brad Herzog (Chicago/Pacific Grove, CA) is Murphy’s Ticket: The Goofy Beginning and Glorious End of the Chicago Cubs Billy Goat Curse… Jim Feldman (Glencoe, IL/Madison, WI) is the Director of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin…
Jamie Davis, 1978
Mark Rosenblum (Omaha/Twin Cities) is a captain in the Golden Valley (Minnesota) Fire Department, president of the Minnesota State Fire Department Association, and a Cobra Benefits Business Analyst at Willis Towers Watson… Tom Arenberg (Birmingham, AL) teaches journalism at the universities of Alabama and Alabama-Birmingham… Dan Kopman (St. Louis) is the new CEO of Heavy Seas Beer in Baltimore… Jamie Davis (Glencoe, IL/Bryn Mawr, PA) is CEO of USA Volleyball, overseeing the development of branding, marketing, ecommerce and sponsorship opportunities to support the junior, high performance and national team programs, as well as the 40 Regional Volleyball Associations.
1990s-2000s
Rob Wile, Emily Jodock, and Jaime Hensel, 2005
Daniel Blumberg (Highland Park, IL/Madison, WI) participated in the national championships as a member of the University of Wisconsin cycling team… Emily Jodock (Northwood, ND/Denver) is the office manager for the Colorado Lawyers Committee in Denver, CO. She recently married Jason Yale (Omaha, Denver)… Jamie Lau (Bedfordshire, U.K.) is head coach at a private gym in London, helping people with their health and fitness goals… As Student Services Coordinator in the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Michael Goldberg (Bloomfield Hills, MI/Ann Arbor, MI) manages the undergraduate and graduate curriculum of the program, including undergraduate academic advising, recruitment of students within the university and around the U.S., development of internships and study abroad opportunities, and alumni relations… James Bleshman (Brooklyn) teaches at the Brooklyn International High School… Rick Spero (Washington, D.C.) earned his PhD in biophysics and is now founding a biophysics company… Dale Glasspiegel (Connecticut/Washington, D.C.) teaches pre-calculus at Wilson High School in Washington D.C… Tristan McCormick (Minneapolis/New York City) works for Newsela.com, a news and literacy startup described as “the best way for students to master nonfiction in any subject.”… Scott Lenobel (Cincinnati/Columbus) is an assistant professor and a musculoskeletal radiologist at The Ohio State University School of Medicine in Columbus.
We are sad to report the deaths of the following alumni:
Bill Collinger (St. Louis 39-45)
Julian Edison (St. Louis 39-46)
John Field (St. Paul/San Francisco 40-43)
Joe Mendelsohn (Cincinnati 43-46)
Donnie Goldblum (St. Louis 45-55)
Richard Harris (St. Paul, MN/Naples/FL 46-53)
Dick Meyerhardt (St. Louis 46-57)
Chuck Long (Atlanta/Richmond, VA 49-61)
Sabah Al-Jadooa (Baghdad-Amman, Jordan 51-54)
Bendt Rorsted (Viborg, Demark 52-55, 57)
Jim Drey (St. Louis/Akron 59-66)
Bill Arndt (St. Louis 66-67)
John Saltzstein (Milwaukee/Los Angeles, 69-74, 76-79)
Our Productive Alumni:
Evy and David Freed (Chicago/Los Angeles 82-85) – Everly
Deborah and Doug Gordon (Glencoe, IL/Washington, D.C. 91-93, 95-98) – Ethan
Erin and Scott Lenobel (Cincinnati/Columbus, OH 91-96, 98-99) – Henry
Dana Lenobel and Andy Lenobel (Cincinnati/Cleveland 94-97) – Harrison
Jackelyn and Zach Silverman (Bellaire, TX 95-00) – Gavin