Keep us posted! You can send life updates to Louis Levin in the Camp Nebagamon office ([email protected]) or directly to Keylog editor Brad Herzog ([email protected]).
The impact of the late Nardie Stein (St. Louis/Minneapolis/Lake Nebagamon 55-90) was celebrated in the May-June issue of Camping Magazine, the publication of the American Camp Association. The column, “Raise the Canopy,” was written by his daughter Jessie Stein Diamond (St. Louis/Philadelphia 79-82, 86-87). You can read it here.
Legendary 96-year-old composer John Kander (Kansas City/New York City 37-44, 48) is still at it. His 16th musical, “New York, New York,” is currently on Broadway at the St. James Theatre. For this one, he collaborated with a lyricist who has found, well, some success: Lin-Manuel Miranda. “What really kind of dazzles me when we work together,” John told Stephen Colbert, “is we’re separated by not just two generations, but by three! Yet the actual process of writing and working is almost absurdly easy.” Bud Schram (Needham, MA, 54-59, 61-69) serves on the Needham, MA Human Rights Committee and is involved with the Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters program of Greater Boston… David Gibbs (Wellesley, MA, 63-67, 69-71) designs leadership programs for the Jewish Volunteer Services.
He Went That Way, a feature film executive produced by Hugh Broder (Detroit/New York City 66-69, 74-75, 16-19) tells the true tale of a 19-year-old serial killer hitching a ride with a celebrity chimpanzee handler in 1964. It was recently accepted into the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Andy Mack (Washington, DC, 73-78, 80) was profiled on Voice of America for his company Agromovil (you can watch the profile here)… David Garfinkel (St. Louis 75-78, 82-83) is producing the upcoming Broadway ballet Sugar Hill: The Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker… Jon Desenberg (Arlington, VA, 78-82) is the Principle Business Strategy Analyst at MITRE corporation.
Andy Cohen (St. Louis/New York City 78-83) has joined the likes of Chuck Berry and Maya Angelou as an inductee into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. His Hall of Fame plaque reads: “St. Louis native Andy Cohen, best known as the host and executive producer of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Bravo TV’s live late night talk show, also executive produced The Real Housewives franchise, and hosted its reunion specials. In his many years running programming at Bravo, he oversaw smash reality hits like Project Runway and Top Chef, for which he won an Emmy. He and CNN’s Anderson Cooper co-hosted the network’s highly-rated New Year’s Eve shows and toured the country together. Andy Cohen created two SiriusXM radio channels, and his sense of humor and refreshingly authentic personality vaulted his multiple books onto the bestseller list.”
Jay Sternberg (Bethesda, MD, 82-86, 89-90, 95) is the Senior Director of Marketing for the Global Campus of the University of Maryland… Greg Minisman (Boulder, CO 84-86, 89-91, 03) is a life science researcher with Google… Peter Orner (Highland Park, IL/Norwich, VT, 87-88, 90, 92, 97, 01, 04, 10) has published a new book, Still No Word From You: Notes in the Margin, which was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay… Birch’s on the Lake Brewhouse & Supperclub, owned by Brewmaster Brennan Greene (Long Lake, MN, 93-98, 00-05), won two awards at the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild’s Brewers Cup Competition, including best Hazy IPA in Minnesota… Meanwhile, Ben Edmunds (Birmingham, MI/Portland, OR 93-97, 99-04, 07-08), brewmaster at Breakside Brewery in Portland, received the Brewers Association’s Russell Schehrer Award for Innovation in Craft Brewing at the 2023 Craft Brewers Conference… Andrew Schram (Chicago, 94-99) is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago… Ben Kersten (Los Angeles, 03-09, 10-12) is working toward a graduate degree in Art History at UCLA… Danny Hensel (Chicago/Washington, DC, 06-11) is a producer for National Public Radio’s program Weekend Edition… Brayden Levy (Walnut Creek, CA/San Francisco 06-11, 13) is an engineer with Garmin…Teddy Shapira (Chicago/Washington, DC 06-12, 14-17) is a law student at George Washington University.
Eli Fromm (Kansas City/New Haven, CT 06-10, 12-15, 17-19) is finishing his PhD in mathematics… Walter Fromm (Kansas City/Minneapolis, 06-12, 14-15, 17, 19) is managing volunteers for Take Action Minnesota… Adam Hirschhorn (Los Angeles/Washington, DC 08-13, 15, 17) is working for Capital One in Washington, D.C… Charlie Fromm (Kansas City/Boston 09-15, 17-21) is earning his teaching license from Harvard University in mathematics… Danny Sickle (Chicago/New York City, 09-15, 17) is working for Barron International, a hospitality investment bank… Simon L’Tainen (Philadelphia, New York City 10-16, 18, 21) is working for Forget Me Not, a Manhattan restaurant… Luke Herzog (Pacific Grove, CA/Amherst, MA 11-16, 19) wrote a one-act play about the death penalty, Pulling the Switch, which won the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
Births in the camp family:
Bailey Aro Hutchence (Duluth, 08-10, 12) and Joe Hutchence (Preston, UK/Duluth, 07-12) – Leo
Haley Haavik (Houston, 10-12) and Brittany Haavik – Atticus and Booker
Maria Flores Alonso (Puebla, Mexico 22-22) – Marifer
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We are sad to report the deaths of the following alumni:
Lou Heyman (St. Louis 38-44)
Bob Rosenfeld (St. Louis 43-45)
Michael Wiese (Cornwall, U.K. 58-61)
Harry Glasspiegel (Milwaukee/Chicago 60-67)
Mike Brody (Louisville 65-69, 77-79)