Compiled by Adam Fornear
The excitement is building for the beginning of camp! This week, we have a small community arriving to being setting up camp and putting in the docks. By June 12th, there will be 130 staff on the property preparing for the arrival of 200-or-so campers just a week later. The camp population will explode to north of 300 people! And among those 300 people, there are many common goals shared with each other for the summer — put on, and experience, the best summer of our lives! Of course, we all come to camp with our own goals in mind as well: try new things, or learn new skills, or meet new people… Camp Nebagamon is this wonderful place to try out new activities, ones that catch your eye and make you say to yourself… hey, I’d like to try that. Our program affords you the opportunity to chase that curiosity.
I personally love to let my curiosity guide my experiences in life. When I was back in college at the University of Minnesota Duluth, I was active within the college’s recreational sports program. Every aspect of the rec sports department caught my eye… intramural soccer, climbing, whitewater canoeing/kayaking, sea kayaking, birding, Telemark skiing and many other activities. It was all there for the taking and take I did. Being a volunteer for the UMD Outdoor Program had some great perks, like having a key to the boat barn down on Park Point. Don’t tell my mother, but from time to time we would show up a lil late to class after a great session of surfing kayaks on Lake Superior. I’m feeling a little nostalgic, as this summer is the 42nd year of the UMD Outdoor Program, and with camp starting, it’s hard to ignore the parallels. In my time there, I caught the spirit of adventure, and when I first came to Nebagamon, I found a place to help foster that spirit in the next generation. I found so much in common between Nebagamon and UMD — the outdoors, great people, and an infinite list of experiences to keep that curiosity fulfilled!
I’ve been soaking up the spring air this past month, riding bikes, fishing on Lake Superior and roaming the backroads of Douglas County on motorcycles. It’s such a gorgeous time of year up here, and I can’t wait to bring 200 campers up north in the 54849. Get ready for a great summer of chasing those curiosities and taking in all of the adventure of Camp Nebagamon.
Even though The Arrowhead is going into hibernation for the next three months, please keep on sending any news of the camp family. Thank you for your contributions, and I look forward to sharing updates with you after the summer. And for those of you arriving here in the next few days and weeks… See you soon!
WHERE ARE THEY NOW: Gus Peters (Raleigh, NC ’10-’15,’17) graduated as a Second Lieutenant with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO.
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE RECENT ENGAGEMENTS go to Matt Myer (St. Louis/Denver ’06-’11,’13- ‘16) and Caroline Brown (Denver).
WEDDING CONGRATULATIONS go to Joey Laskin (Los Angeles ’00-’06,’08-‘10) and Rachel Niku Laskin (Los Angeles), and to Josh Weinberg (Chicago ’04-’09,’11-‘13) and Nika Arzoumanian (Chicago)
IN THE BIBS AND DIAPERS DEPARTMENT: It’s a boy, Henry Wayne, for Michael Kaplan (L.A./D.C. ’01-’05,’07-‘08) and Elizabeth Kaplan (D.C.). It’s a boy, Jack Fox, for Michael Cohen (Atlanta ’05-’07,’10) and Emily Cohen (Atlanta).
BAR MITZVAH CONGRATULATIONS: go to Avi Maidenberg (San Francisco)