Camp Family News

Keep us posted! You can send life updates to Louis Levin in the Camp Nebagamon office (louis@campnebagamon.com) or directly to Keylog editor Brad Herzog (brad@bradherzog.com).

Paul Chutkow (Highland Park, IL/Napa, CA 58-62, 64-66) is the president of Val de Grace Books, a small publishing house that he founded in 2005. A former foreign correspondent for the Associated Press and regular contributor to The New York Times, he has authored several books. His light-hearted memoir Zelda, the Queen of Paris received a Benjamin Franklin Award in 2018… Scott Silberstein (77, 79 Evanston, IL) was honored in January as the first recipient of the Chicago Dance History Project’s Maurice Seymour Award for Vision and Service. Scott is the producer and co-founder (with Matt Hoffman) of HMS Media, an Emmy Award-winning multimedia company that creates broadcast, online, and mobile content for theatre and dance companies in Chicago and nationally…

1975

Dan Feldman (St. Louis, Bethesda, MD 80-81, 83-85) has joined the Biden Administration as Chief of Staff and Counselor to John Kerry, who has been tapped as the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate… Jen Daskal (Washington D.C. 91-92, 96, 99) has been named Deputy General Counsel (Cyber and Technology) at the Department of Homeland Security… Jeff Rosenberg (Shaker Heights, OH/Los Angeles 92-97, 99) is a filmmaker who has worked on television shows such as Veep, The Good Place, and The League. He has written and directed a feature film called We Broke Up, just released on demand. It’s about a couple breaking up right before her sister’s wedding and pretending to still be together to not ruin the fun. The wedding takes place at her old summer camp, and there is an extended sequence of games lovingly referred to as… Paul Bunyan Day! Check out the trailer here.

2016

Michael Kaplan (Evanston/Los Angeles 01-05, 07-08) is an investigative producer for CBS News… Evan Dorfman (Chicago/Brooklyn 99-04) and Ben Cronin (Chicago/Brooklyn 04, 06-12) of the band Gilligan Moss released a new single, Slow Down, and a debut album. You can watch the music video hereCharles Meyer (New York City 06-11, 12) has also released new songs on streaming platforms. You can listen to “Love” and “Strongman” hereChelsea Tom (Hawaii/Los Angeles 13) is a pediatric oncology nurse at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital.

1953

Our productive alumni:

Jeff Schram (Boston/Lutz Florida 97-02, 04-06) and Natalie Mandel – Weston

Jessa DeGroote (Austin, TX/New Jersey 10) and Joshua Bernstein – Mara

Ryan Glasspiegel (Simsbury, CT/Chicago 96-02, 04-07, 09) and Karla Bright – Effie

Danny Cohen (Washington, D.C./Los Angeles 95-01, 03-07, 10-11) and Emily Towers – Margaret

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We are sad to report the following deaths:

Chuck Cohen (St. Louis 34-37, 39, 42)

Michael Cohen (St. Louis/Duluth, MN 46-54, 56)

Henry “Bunky” Harris (Cincinnati 48-55)

David Rosenblatt (Hopkins, MN 51-57)

Ted Koplar (St. Louis 53-57)

Victor Cohen (St. Louis 67-68)