Look at this crew! We’re very excited about the 2023 staff we’ve assembled, so take a look see at the fine folks leading our campers this summer below!
At the helm for 2023 are our returning directors, back for their 20th season, it’s Stephanie Hanson and Adam Kaplan (surprise surprise!). We’ve got a full suite of village directors to boot — returning as Swamper Push is David Sachs, as Axeman Push is Matthew Wilhelm, and as Lumberjack Push is Noah Stein. The team is rounded out with first time village director Ric Best in the Logger village and with 5th Push, returning administrator Larry Held.
We have a great variety of new and returning cabin staff for 2023. This summer, Senior Counselors include Jason Shacter, Joey Rivkin, Eric Portillo, Ethan Pittham, Noah Billingsley, Tommy Bellaire, Ben Hanson-Kaplan, John Bellaire, Rafail Panagiotidis, Joe Rothschild, Jordan Carlin, Josh Hanson-Kaplan, Ben Shacter, Tyler Gray, Charlie Davis, Jesse Herzog, Ethan Edgar, Solomon Wexler, Benjamin Dammeyer, Andrew Guest, Harry Bartlett, Aron Dudas, Patrick Baggaley, Calum McGinn, and Joel Matthew. Junior Counselors include Nelson Mendels, Michael Cohen, Nick Fleisher, Jacob Laytin, Aidan Capes, Josh Marcus, Adam Eberhard, Haze Nobel, Ben Hackney, Nathan Starhill, Anthony Gutierrez, Sebastian Alderman, Ben Polonsky Asher Friedman, Milo Peterson, Jack Krupnick, Ocean Wang, Andrew Condrell, Emmitt Gerstein, Jacob Lutsky, Jonah Rontal, Max Kennedy, Griffin Scissors, Jasper Braunschweiger, and Sam More.
Leading our Trip Program are Trip Director Jason Yale and returning Assistant Trip Director Jonah Domsky. Packing out trips this summer is returning Quartermaster Jon Star. Wilderness Trip Leaders this summer include Isaac Schiff-Lewin, Salma Schwartzman, Billy Galpern, Jesse Chan, Trent Flegel, Henry Burns, Louisa Goltry, Ben Kessler, Tenille Flegel, Jaden Beltsman, Kam Denney, Adil Najar, Sam Brandstad-Phillips, and Megan Raths. And Bill Hensel, Ron Gaare, Amy Mack, John Fawcett, Hugh Broder and Gordon Schreiber will drive trips for us this summer.
Full time Associate Director Louis Levin will be Program Director this summer, and there’s a bunch of returning and new Specialists helping execute a great program. Leading our waterfront are Waterfront Directors Mary Trezise and Isaac Murray-Stark. Staying on the waterfront, Amelie Sadler is back to lead our sailing program, and Theresa Nevins returns as our waterskiing instructor. The Craft Shop is being helmed once again by Sean Kennedy, and both Craft Shop Specialists Nora Starhill and Ellie Friedman will be back to help with all of your tie-dye and watercolor needs. Whipping up new recipes in M.O.C.A. is Laila Maidenberg. Rose Mendelsohn is back at camp leading the Nature Lore program. Wyatt Logan and Hermine Charrier will be on-belay as our Climbing Wall Specialists. Troika Brodsky will head the C.N.O.C. program this year, and returning to the project area he started is Nate Mendelsohn as our Music specialist. Arvind Sharma will be our camp photographer, as well as the head of darkroom photography. Simon Topf takes on a new role as our Rangemaster, and Brad Herzog will be a specialist at-large this summer.
Returning to run our office and operations is full time Associate Director Joe Briggs. He’ll be joined in the office Josie Hanson-Kaplan, Adena Rosenbloom, Annalise Humphrey, Maddie Scharff, and Emily Yale, and Allen Bennett is back for another year as town driver. Our Caretaking team is being led once again by Andy Mack, with year round caretaker Joe Crain, and seasonal caretakers Jair Torres Ponce and Joseph Garabed. Returning as Big House Housekeeper is Xiemena Nava Cervantes. And Amber Burvall is returning to lead our infirmary, with nurse’s assistants Lindsey Fleith and Linnea Lindell.
Leading our kitchen this summer is Jay Scott, and he’s joined by our two cooks, Cody Keys and Sam Roach. They’ve got an all star team of kitchen staff working with them, with returners Alex Fuller, Ruben Perez Angel, Sofia Reyes, Noe Alvarez, Alejandra Rodriguez Jimenez, Marco Torres, Camila Sanchez Garcia, Paula Sanchez Garcia, Alexa Madrid, Erika Cante Ortega, Arley Gutierrez, Alejandro Rodriguez Jimenez, Emilio Tlatelpa Reyes, and Karla Cortes Hernandez.
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